Sports Scoring SystemBy

William Ainsworth, Eleanor Fogarty, Richard Holt,

Sophie Hoyle & Abigail Winstanley

Our App is called The Sports Scoring System. It is aimed towards sport fanatics who are generally aged 6 or over. The app allows you to learn how to play and referee/umpire a variety of sports (e.g. football, Netball, hockey, basketball, tennis etc...) as well as time them. Our app can be used during school hours in PE lessons, after school and work for sports clubs, sports fixtures/matches and at refereeing and umpiring courses. We came up with this idea as we established there wasn’t a more modern and easy way to score sports fixtures. We also recognised that people were unfamiliar with rules in some sports, during PE lessons at school and that the explanations given didn’t always help properly. Our app is a way to solve the issues we noticed, easily.

Solving Problems

All the time people find themselves in the position where

they cannot participate in a sports game with their friends as

they don’t know the rules. If they learn the very basics then

the group often encounter another problem;

• who’s keeping track of the score?

• what’s the score?

Etc. Our group thinks that our app solves both of these

problems.

How can sports people easily & accurately keep track of their

scores, learn all the rules of games including how to referee

the matches?

Our app will be able to teach people how to play and umpire/referee different sports. But, the main feature of our app is scoring system. We are aware that you are able to record the score of matches with a pen and paper and you can time matches with a stopwatch/timer but we believe our app will provide an easier way to do this. The sports and umpiring/refereeing rules is another one of our features. We are aware that you are able to look up sports rules but our up will provide our clients with an easier way to find rules and explanations on how to play and referee different sports. We are hoping to make this possible with written rules as well as the proposed idea of videos to help the teaching process. Despite the fact you can look these rules up on the internet, we think our app wouldn’t require any internet access to work and the app will either cost a small fee for all users, or will be free! This makes our app a cheaper way to learn how to play and referee sports, than attending clubs and courses. In terms of the problem surrounding our app, we have seen first-hand the difficulty people have learning rules for sports and the unmodern way people record sports scores during a match. Our app is an all in one, easy, cheap and safe way to fix these issues.

My team, Firing Ideas, is developing sports scoring system an app

to help people who play or want to improve at sports quickly and

easily learn the rules and keep track of the score throughout the

game with the rules and scoring system on our app.

User profiles

People who use our app would probably play sport or want to learn to play sport or referee sport.

One person who uses our app might want to learn new sport. They can easily use the rules help on our app to quickly and easily learn the rules of

the sport they choose. They can also use the timer and sports scoring system when playing games.

Another person who might use our app is a referee. They could use it to easily keep track of the score. They can also use the timer so that they

don’t need o0ne separate from the app.

App’s Core Feature

The main feature of the app would be the scoring system that

allows you to record and save your sport matches as well as

keeping track of the game without having to use a pen and

paper. This is the main feature although another feature, the

rules, is equally as important because our app fills two

separate problems: learning the game and recording it.

User Stories

A variety of people could use the app including a referee who

wants to record the game without using a pen and paper.

Also just a group of friends having a kick about could use the

app to keep track of who is winning. But a big use for the app

could be the tournament maker for the tournament organisers so that the tournament is a lot easier to track.

Flow of the app

Main Menu Pick Your Sport Choose which feature of the app you want to use

(Scoring system)

Link to the first menu.

List of Sport.You can select the necessary sport

You then go through to your selected sports page. You can select either the sports rules, refereeing rules or the sports scoring system.

You are then taken through to the specific scoring system for that sport. You put the team name and number of players into the app.

You put the names of the players into the app.

You can score and time the match and also click on the players list, to see the names of the players.

You can see the list of players and click on specific players.

You can give players fouls/ punishments.

These are visible on the players list.

FeasibilityWe have learnt that some features of complicated apps would take a

long time to program or make so that we had to be careful when picking which app is easiest to make. We even had to eliminate an idea

because it would require too much information from other sources.We think that our app is relatively easy to make as it doesn’t require much information from other sources, other than the instructions on

how to play the sports. The app will require some complex programming so that the main feature (that allows you to record

matches) works. The app will also need to allow the user to save pre-sets of matches that they can access later. Altogether we think that the

app would be very possible to make within a couple of months.

Business CaseThe target audience for our app is very broad so that there is a lot of

range for what people are going to use the app. It is likely that the audience does have a disposable income.

We might be able to partner up with another sports related company as we have a very similar audience and they could advertise on our

app instead. Either way it would be beneficial for both of us.The app may be a small help to keep people active by promoting self-

organised sports, but it would only make a small impact so we probably wont get sponsored.

We will probably use somebody else pays as it is a good opportunity for another company to advertise on our app.

Marketing1. W could set up a Sports Scoring System FaceBook page to spread the word of our app

to people across the globe. This is free and easy way to advertise our app and spread the word of what is does. We can also put a video advertisement on the FaceBookpage for no cost and many people will see it. We can also upload relevant pictures and messages. By opening this FaceBook page, we can communicate with possible users in a social and simple way.

2. If our app was to be successful, we could create a website. This website would perhaps cost a small fee every month but with a successful app you could easily pay this fee. On the website we can post video and images of our app to give people a great insight to what we do. We can spread the word of what our app does and how good it is. We can communicate with many potential users.

3. We would also use word of mouth. With the help of our other marketing strategy's, we hope that people will begin to tell others about our app. This is a free way to get the message of our app around.