The Sports Scoring System app allows users to learn the rules of various sports, time matches, and track scores. The app aims to provide an easy-to-use scoring system and rules explanations for sports enthusiasts aged 6 and older. It addresses common problems like not knowing the rules or how to keep score during games. The main feature allows recording and saving match scores and stats without pen and paper. Marketing strategies include a Facebook page, potential website, and word of mouth to spread awareness of the app's abilities.

1. Sports Scoring System
By
William Ainsworth, Eleanor Fogarty, Richard Holt,
Sophie Hoyle & Abigail Winstanley

2. Our App is called The Sports Scoring System. It is aimed towards sport
fanatics who are generally aged 6 or over. The app allows you to learn
how to play and referee/umpire a variety of sports (e.g.
football, Netball, hockey, basketball, tennis etc...) as well as time
them. Our app can be used during school hours in PE lessons, after
school and work for sports clubs, sports fixtures/matches and at
refereeing and umpiring courses. We came up with this idea as we
established there wasn’t a more modern and easy way to score sports
fixtures. We also recognised that people were unfamiliar with rules in
some sports, during PE lessons at school and that the explanations
given didn’t always help properly. Our app is a way to solve the issues
we noticed, easily.

3. Solving Problems
All the time people find themselves in the position where
they cannot participate in a sports game with their friends as
they don’t know the rules. If they learn the very basics then
the group often encounter another problem;
• who’s keeping track of the score?
• what’s the score?
Etc. Our group thinks that our app solves both of these
problems.

4. How can sports people easily & accurately keep track of their
scores, learn all the rules of games including how to referee
the matches?

5. Our app will be able to teach people how to play and umpire/referee different
sports. But, the main feature of our app is scoring system. We are aware that you are
able to record the score of matches with a pen and paper and you can time matches
with a stopwatch/timer but we believe our app will provide an easier way to do this.
The sports and umpiring/refereeing rules is another one of our features. We are
aware that you are able to look up sports rules but our up will provide our clients
with an easier way to find rules and explanations on how to play and referee
different sports. We are hoping to make this possible with written rules as well as
the proposed idea of videos to help the teaching process. Despite the fact you can
look these rules up on the internet, we think our app wouldn’t require any internet
access to work and the app will either cost a small fee for all users, or will be free!
This makes our app a cheaper way to learn how to play and referee sports, than
attending clubs and courses.
In terms of the problem surrounding our app, we have seen first-hand the difficulty
people have learning rules for sports and the unmodern way people record sports
scores during a match. Our app is an all in one, easy, cheap and safe way to fix these
issues.

6. My team, Firing Ideas, is developing sports scoring system an app
to help people who play or want to improve at sports quickly and
easily learn the rules and keep track of the score throughout the
game with the rules and scoring system on our app.

7. User profiles
People who use our app would probably play sport or want to learn to play
sport or referee sport.
One person who uses our app might want to learn new sport. They can
easily use the rules help on our app to quickly and easily learn the rules of
the sport they choose. They can also use the timer and sports scoring
system when playing games.
Another person who might use our app is a referee. They could use it to
easily keep track of the score. They can also use the timer so that they
don’t need o0ne separate from the app.

10. App’s Core Feature
The main feature of the app would be the scoring system that
allows you to record and save your sport matches as well as
keeping track of the game without having to use a pen and
paper. This is the main feature although another feature, the
rules, is equally as important because our app fills two
separate problems: learning the game and recording it.
User Stories
A variety of people could use the app including a referee who
wants to record the game without using a pen and paper.
Also just a group of friends having a kick about could use the
app to keep track of who is winning. But a big use for the app
could be the tournament maker for the tournament
organisers so that the tournament is a lot easier to track.

11. Flow of the app
Main Menu Pick Your Sport Choose which feature of
the app you want to use
(Scoring system)

12. Link to the first menu.
List of Sport.
You can select the necessary sport
You then go through to your
selected sports page. You can
select either the sports rules,
refereeing rules or the sports
scoring system.

13. You are then taken through to the
specific scoring system for that
sport. You put the team name and
number of players into the app.
You put the names of the
players into the app.
You can score and time the
match and also click on the
players list, to see the names
of the players.

14. You can see the list of players and
click on specific players.
You can give players fouls/
punishments.
These are visible on the players
list.

15. Feasibility
We have learnt that some features of complicated apps would take a
long time to program or make so that we had to be careful when
picking which app is easiest to make. We even had to eliminate an idea
because it would require too much information from other sources.
We think that our app is relatively easy to make as it doesn’t require
much information from other sources, other than the instructions on
how to play the sports. The app will require some complex
programming so that the main feature (that allows you to record
matches) works. The app will also need to allow the user to save pre-
sets of matches that they can access later. Altogether we think that the
app would be very possible to make within a couple of months.

16. Business Case
The target audience for our app is very broad so that there is a lot of
range for what people are going to use the app. It is likely that the
audience does have a disposable income.
We might be able to partner up with another sports related company
as we have a very similar audience and they could advertise on our
app instead. Either way it would be beneficial for both of us.
The app may be a small help to keep people active by promoting self-
organised sports, but it would only make a small impact so we
probably wont get sponsored.
We will probably use somebody else pays as it is a good opportunity
for another company to advertise on our app.

17. Marketing
1. W could set up a Sports Scoring System FaceBook page to spread the word of our app
to people across the globe. This is free and easy way to advertise our app and spread
the word of what is does. We can also put a video advertisement on the FaceBook
page for no cost and many people will see it. We can also upload relevant pictures and
messages. By opening this FaceBook page, we can communicate with possible users in
a social and simple way.
2. If our app was to be successful, we could create a website. This website would perhaps
cost a small fee every month but with a successful app you could easily pay this fee. On
the website we can post video and images of our app to give people a great insight to
what we do. We can spread the word of what our app does and how good it is. We can
communicate with many potential users.
3. We would also use word of mouth. With the help of our other marketing strategy's, we
hope that people will begin to tell others about our app. This is a free way to get the
message of our app around.