CriciWiki: websites for cricket clubs
I've finally completed my opus: CriciWiki. Basically, it lets cricket clubs build and manage their own club website. Club members can easily enter club details, players and match results. Players can check out their stats, compare batting averages and gaze lovingly at their best bowling figures.
The site began over a year ago when I first started playing club cricket. The captain asked if I could set up a website for the club. I took some photos of our players in action. One picture had our opener in an almost identical position to that famous photo of Victor Trumper. Thus the inspiration for the sepia toned design:
As I put the site together, I thought how cool it would be if club members could login and enter match results. In other words, set it up so I didn't have to do all the work. So I created an admin system for entering players, matches, batting and bowling figures. Once the data was in there, it was simple enough to create a page calculating player stats. Not surprisingly, comparing batting and bowling averages to see who was top of the pecking order was what everyone was most interested in. When you get down to it, every cricketer is at heart a stats whore.
Note - the Cavs stats page shows I did achieve my goal for the season - a batting average higher than my bowling average... barely!
From there, I just had to extend the admin so any club could set up and maintain their own website. Well, not that simple, it took me a year (mostly dithering) to nut out all the issues. Plus begging my wife to create a killer web design. Finally, all the pieces fell together and CriciWiki is born!
Now I need beta-testers. Anyone who signs up as a beta-tester by March 31 will get one free year for your club website. All you have to do is:
- Sign up (it takes about a minute).
- Play around with the system - add some pages, enter some matches.
- Contact me with any feedback on features to add or changes to make.
That's it. I'm keen to test drive the system under a range of different club setups. So if you're a member of a cricket club and would like a website for your club, sign up (it only takes a minute to set up your site). Look forward to your feedback!
| Posted by JC on Sat 14 Mar |  38 comments |
Posted by Hewy on 2009-03-17 13:01:42
Plus I've used resultsvault - if the current mycricket version is anything like it, the system is a nightmare to use. I'm designing Criciwiki to be as easy to use as possible and hopefully, eventually, with much cooler features.
Posted by JC on 2009-03-17 16:21:01
One question I always wondered was how resultsvault just suddenly turned up on the scene and most clubs were forced to use it. Some major players behind it?
Anyway, best of luck with criciwiki.
Posted by Hewy on 2009-03-17 17:11:38
Posted by Shyam on 2009-04-12 02:00:32
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