New feature: Scoreboard and Beautiful Numbers

We introduced our most awaited feature a few days back. We were so busy with the development that we couldn't even blog about it. Here is how it looks like:

Beautiful numbers

Numbers are quite boring if presented in plain text or even in a tabular form like some cricket websites do. The idea behind our score card is to prettify the numbers and make them look good. I mean compare that with the one below:

Which one looks better?

At on outset the the score card has 2 windows, one for each inning. The name of batting side appears as the title of the window. You can click on any title to open its scoreboard. Each window has slots for all 20 overs of the inning. Every ball in the over is plotted in its respective over. It also shows how many runs were scored off each ball. If some one is out on that ball, a big red 'W' is shown. On the left hand side all the batsman in that inning are displayed on their batting order of appearance. Below them is the list of all bowlers who has bowled at least one ball.

Some numbers are highlighted in the screen shot above. That's because I have moved my mouse over Rahul Dravid. When I do that the scorecard highlights all the runs scored by that batsman. It visually shows you how many runs were scored off each ball he has faced, which ball of the over and inning was it. Isn't it good? Or how about knowing who played a particular ball and who was the bowler when I mouse over 38th ball of the inning?

This applies to bowlers as well. For example when I mouse over Gony, it shows me all the overs he has bowled, how many runs were scored off each ball, total runs scored off each over and also what were the over numbers.

All the wicket taking deliveries are shown with a red 'W'. Just mouse over on top of it and it shows you who was the bowler of that delivery and who got out off that ball.

At the far right of each over, there is a total. It shows how many runs were scored off that over. There is a color coding for that number. Gray indicates total runs scored were less than 5. Blue means less than 9 runs and red is more than 9.

On a negative side there are few bugs as well. For example in some places the over total is not right. We'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Please bare with us for this inaccuracy.

We are still trying to improve this score board and build upon our 'Beautiful Numbers' philosophy. Stay tuned for more!

Let us know what you think of this feature. You have any other idea for the score card? Please let us know. We'll do our best to make the score card truly revolutionary if its not already!

Update 1: Erroneous over totals are fixed now. Along with the over totals there was another error. The no-balls weren't getting displayed properly in the scoreboard. Even that's fixed now.