Which app do team managers use to manage their sports teams?
teamstar — for team managers
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Registration
Signing up is easy.
Only the manager needs to register.
The players just need their phones.
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Player Setup
Bulk import your players and then add them to a season.
You can add players again and again to seasons
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Manage Selection
Create and manage events easily
Text out attendance requests
Handle all costs
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Cost Management
Monitor all your season costs here
Add payments from players
Send them out a balance sheet with your payment details
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Player Payments
Keep track of player fees and club donations.
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Points & Medals
Tally player points, like a Brownlow in your pocket!
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Player Attendance
Your players don’t need an app or a login. When you select your team, just send out the invites and they will get a personalised link to click.
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Match Day Voting
At the match either pass your phone around or text all the players their voting slip.
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Player Voting
Each player has a personalised voting page. They just vote and they are done! You can see who has yet to vote.
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Managing Match Costs
You can send each player a request for payment, with your payment details and an itemised list
Why teamstar?
After watching the captain of my team juggling the weekly management, I foolishly offered to help.
There were 3 things I eventually took over…
Attendance or selection
Match payments
Best player voting
Attendance
Attendance in my sport has traditionally been managed by Teamo, Teamer and spreadsheets and email. There are many more platforms out there.
Teamer is begrudgingly used by people who can’t find anything better. Their voting is not up to scratch.
Teamo is far better in functionality, and I managed to get my team to respond properly to it after 3 years. However, it is more club focused, has many things I don’t need and the 2 things I need, it doesn’t have.
Match Payments
This was the thing that really frustrated me.
At the end of the match, people would be required to chip in 10 or 20 bucks to pay for the umpire.
Usually, the manager would forget to include ground fees here.
A third of your team would mysteriously disappear at this point and the balance would be worn by the remainder.
What ended up happening was some poor souls paying over half a grand for match payments and some very little.
Voting
After watching my team use blank pieces of paper when I first got there, then just add up all the slips at the end of the year, I vowed to build something that was vaguely statistically appropriate.
After my attempt at using Survey Monkey to email the votes was laughed down one season, I reverted to developing the mother of all spreadsheets that pre-printed voting slips after I had got the attendance from Teamo.
These were cut up and handed out and then entered back into the spreadsheet.
The Spreadsheet would add and rank each player’s votes for the match and each rank would contribute to their medal count. This made it fair compared to pooling all votes together.
After getting tired of the spreadsheet and Teamo together, we built teamstar.
After getting tired of the spreadsheet shuffle, we built TeamStar.
TeamStar timeline
Will Have
Add to Calendar
WhatsApp integration
Add to Home Screen action
Might Have
Stats – goals, cards
Rotation Module – this will probably be in a coaching app.
Card payments for players via Stripe
Multiple Teams per manager
Choice of voting systems
Coaches only voting
Won’t Have
App for player
Player logins
Chat
Video
Club stuff
Future plans
Future things in development include…
Squad Selection tool
– for state teams and performance programsMatch Rotation tool (Coaching App)
Fixturing management and integration with TeamStar
Umpiring gig platform