Sunday, May 25, 2008

New feature: Color Scorecard

One thing that everybody enjoys is playing with colors. And no matter how dirty it gets, it always brings pleasure.

Here we were playing with colors for our popular scorecard and finally it came up well today.



I will try to help you look around in this newly painted scorecard.


  • The whole match is one accordion with two panes for each of the innings.

  • You can click on the inning headers (with team names) to see the inning details.

  • On the left side of the inning details is the list of batsmen and bowlers with their short statistics in the bracket against their names.

  • On the right hand side is the ball-by-by run details for all the 20 overs allotted for an inning. The numbers 1 to 20 at the beginning for each row indicates the over number while those on the extreme right, the boxed numbers indicate total runs scored off that particular over.

  • Positioning the mouse over the batsman name will display his full name in a tool-tip (see snapshot above - Ricky Ponting) and at the same time highlight all the balls he has faced in that inning. The same behavior applies for bowlers, too. We are working further to display more details in the mouse-over tool-tip e.g. how the batsman got out, how many boundaries he hit etc.

  • Similarly you can position the mouse on one of the ball on right and see the bowler and batsman for it getting highlighted from the list on left. Now, isn't that fun?

  • Each wicket is shown by underlined Capital Red letter 'W'.

  • Other abbreviations used are: lowercase 'w' for WIDE; lowercase 'n' for 'NO BALL' and lowercase 'b' for 'BYES'. The bold numbers indicate boundaries scored by the batsmen.

  • Yea, and finally those light orange bars!! The higher the runs scored off an over, the bigger the bar. So, how do you like that idea of combining numbers with figures in the same place for quicker understanding?



That's it for now! We will keep you updated as we go on adding cool features to this website for you.

Cheers!

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