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!

New feature: Match home

Now that we have score boards for all the completed matches, there is a match home for all the matches as well. This displays our beautiful score card along with some statistics about the match and also the details about man of the match.

Navigation
There are 2 ways we can navigate to this place. The first one is from fixtures link at the top. Just mouse over that link and it slides down all the fixtures. Then mouse over any team or the day in the calendar and choose which score card you want to see and then click on it.

The second way is to click on any team and it opens up the team home. On the right hand side we have a list of all fixtures. All completed matches are striked out along with a link to their score cards. When you click on it, it takes you to its match home.

Features
This match home is still a bare minimum one. It could have a lot more details like:

• More details about the 'Man of the match' performance
  
• Highest scorer (Orange Cap)
  
• Highest wicket taker (Purple Cap)
  
• Number of sixes and fours hit in that match
• A bar chart of overs with total runs scored off it
• etc..
  

We are working on all these features at the moment. In the meantime if you think we can display some information, please let us know.

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.

New features: Team standings, personalization, updated team logos

We have added a new feature today. There is a new little box (we call them portlets) for team standings. It displays the points table. It's sorted by points. So the leader is always at the top.

This change also appears in your 'My Team' window as seen below.


We have also added few personalization features. When a user logs in or sets his home team, some parts of the site will be personalized. At the moment the personalization is restricted to highlighting your team in the list of other teams. For example, see the following screen shots.




We have also updated the team logos. Now we have better quality logo's for all teams.

That's all for today. Let us know what you think. We are working hard to improve the site. We'll publish as and when we complete them. Stay tuned.