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Contrary to the professional arena where the league provides scorekeepers and statisticians, amateur social softball leagues around the Chicago-land area do not officially keep and track game data - such as statistics. It is up to the individual teams to capture and record their own statistics, then update their fans either through their website or blog. This has therefore led a lot of teams to not record game statistics at all, settling instead for just the basic Win/Loss data that is provided by the social leagues. It is safe to say that there lacks the opportunity to easily capture and present detailed statistics for such amateur teams.
It is because of this gap that Sportycus is being created. It will solve the problem of amateur softball teams not being able to capture game data while at the game and present more than just Win/Loss statistics to their fans.
Sportycus is a game data hosting platform that has been designed with amateur softball teams in mind. At its core is a proprietary statistic engine that hosts game data and enables teams to record, analyze, and present their team statistics on their own website or blog. Three features differentiate this platform from the many competitors in this space.
- An easy to use mobile application that enables live game data capture while at the game. This therefore allows teams to provide almost real-time game casts to fans who are unable to be at the game.
- A robust set of data mining tools that allow teams to do really interesting data analysis. For instance, an amateur team will be able to know what player has the most runs within a certain park during a particular season or teams will be to compare their data against other teams around the city.
- A plug-in architecture that enables teams to present team and individual statistics on their own website, blog, or even social media pages such as Facebook Fan pages.
Amateur sports are already social in nature, teams share photos and stories, now they can share statistics too thanks to Sportycus!
