Generating Reports from your Site

We've had a few questions from users wanting to generate end of season reports for their sites. Others have emailed in asking about taking copies of their data before they archive as a record of the season.

Well, since the start of Web Teams in 1999, we've always had the concept of generating printer friendly reports. These are simple views of your data that are fine for either printing or copying and pasting straight into Microsoft Word to format as you wish.

Just follow the steps below...

1. Click on the "printed report" link


2. Select the data you want


3. Either send to the printer or copy and paste to a word processor

Fantasy Stats - You either love them or hate them

When we did our customer satisfaction survey you told us you loved the fantasy stats. Some of you also, however, told us you hated them.

What do you like least about Web Teams?

• Give the option to lose the fantasy stats on setting up for the new season - its not good when teams are youth players - okay for older ones and mens teams - really dont like this bit of site and its not optional
• GIVE A CHOICE ON ADDING FANTASY STATS"
• remove fantasy stats as it puts some players down"
• THE FANTASY STATS DOES CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH PLAYERS AND PARENTS ALIKE. IS THERE ANYWAY THIS CAN BE GIVEN AS A CHOICE OF UPDATING IF WANTED ?

What do you like most about Web Teams?

• Everything really but the lads love the 'fantasy points' section
• fantasy stats and all automated from entering the league results
• Fantasy Stats and automatic generated table and stats
• Excellent website - generally very easy to use. It has made our team much more cohesive - and the fantasy stats have really motivated the players. Keep up the good work!
• Fantasy stats and the ability to print specific reports
• I really like the majority of the site, how it shows all stats n fantasy stats aswell.
• I like the automatic update of player stats and the lads love the fantasy stats, it bring a new dimension to Sunday mornings.
• The kids love the fantasy stats and are always trying to get points. I belive this has improved the togetherness at the team and makes it a bit more fun for the team.
• The fantasy points as we have a medal for the "most fantasy points" at the end of the season.
• Fantasy Stats..... There is a trophy for the leader at the end of the season

So what we've done is made it nice and easy for you to opt out of the fantasy stats.

Fantasy stats will be ON by default - but from your site admin area you can click to disable them as shown in the screenshots below and they'll be hidden...


Fig 1 - Click to disable the stats



Fig 2. The stats are hidden from visitors



...and if you change your mind - you can always toggle them on again.

22.31 - time for a cup of tea and a marmite sandwich...

Common End of Season Questions

At the end of each season we get a number of common questions asked:

1. What happens to my site at the end of the season?
You can archive your site from the current football season and then set up your new site for the up and coming season. See the blog post below for details:
- http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-archive-your-site.html

2. My team name is changing, can I change my website?
You can change your team name but not your website URL. This is unique to your team.

So if your team is changing from "The Red Bull FC" to "The Queen Vic FC" then you can change the name during the set up process. But you can not change webteams.co.uk/redbull to webteams.co.uk/queenvic.

The two work-arounds here are:
A. Get a top level domain name to mask the Web Teams URL - see the blog post:
- http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-proper-domain-name.html
or
B. Sign up for a new site from scratch

3. I don't know the names of the teams in my league for next season, can I still set up my site?
If you are unsure of the exact teams in your league next year - don't worry. Enter the team names you know and enter "Team 1", "Team 2", "Team 3" for those you don't. You can tweak these before the first game of the season.
Note: The same applies for players in your team - you can add "Player 1", "Player 2", etc...

4. Can I remove players who have left the club?
You can do this after you have archived and when you are setting up your site for next season.

5. My club wants more than one Web Teams site next year, can I have a club site?
Yes, see the blog post below for details:
- http://webteams.blogspot.com/2008/07/get-club-page.html

Customer Survey 08/09 - Results

Thanks to all who took part in our end of season survey. This brief report details what you like about Web Teams and what enhancements you'd like to see made to the service.

A. What you like about Web Teams

Our previous post on the survey gave some of the comments you made on what you like best about Web Teams:
- What you like best about Web Teams

The chart below confirms that it is the quality of the statistics (league table, player stats, goal scorer stats) that you get after entering your match data.


Fig 1. How important are the automatically generated site statistics such as league table, player and team stats

The best way to get users is through existing user recommendations. The chart below show how likely you are to recommend Web Teams to friends.


Fig 2. How likely are you to recommend Web Teams to a friend

An average mark here of 9.3 is just incredible. This relates to a Net Promoter (marketing speak :)) score of over 80 and we really, really appreciate this!

B. What Web Teams enhancements you want

The following requests were made by at least three or more users.

1. More characters should be allowed for news items and match reports
   18 May 09 - Done - News item length increased from 2,000 characters to 3,000 and match report length increased from 6,000 to 8,000.
   
   
2. The league table should have a simple view by default – the advanced home and away view should appear on request
   18 May 09 - Done
   
   
3. The fantasy stats should have an “opt out” checkbox for those teams who don't want them
   18 June 09 - Done
   
   
4. Players who have left the club should be less prominently displayed on the site
   
   
5. It should be possible to add details and pictures of the manager, chairman, physio, tea lady and associate these club members with new items
   
   
6. The goal descriptions should have some new and varied content
   
   
7. It should be easier to move site links up and down
   18 May 09 - Done

We'll try our best to implement all of these improvements for the start of next season!

Thanks once again to everyone who took the time to provide their feedback

Customer Survey 08/09 - Initial Results

The Customer Survey 08/09 is now closed. Almost 20% of site administrators took the time to respond which is an amazing return for any email survey - so thank you!

We'll spend a few weeks reviewing what you have said and post a full report to our blog. But in the meantime, here is a quick list of answers you provided to the question "What do you like best about Web Teams?"

• The automatic stat updates, when I only have to enter the results and each game report! its quality, well done!
  
  
• No adverts. feels like it's 100% your site
  
  
• Easy to use, an update can take around 5 mins but gets all tables, stats updates, layout looks professional and if site is well run can put many other websites to shame.
  
  
• I think everything is excellent especially for the price but would say that the general user interface is the best thing about the service.
  
  
• Excellent website - generally very easy to use. It has made our team much more cohesive - and the fantasy stats have really motivated the players. Keep up the good work!
  
  
• Speed. I also use [other football website's name removed] to administer our 20 team club site. It is too slow on a weekend and keeps crashing. Your works brilliantly all the time.
  
  
• I like the speed of the site and the ability to look at how other teams around us are doing. I would recommend the site to anyone.
  
  
• The simple way to update the website! Takes a matter of minutes to update the whole thing, which is brilliant.
  
  
• I like the automatic update of player stats and the lads love the fantasy stats, it bring a new dimension to Sunday mornings.
  
  
• Everything, the service is superb, it only takes a few minutes to in-put league results and tables are updated in a flash. I always actively promote webteams sites as a super idea and everything is done for you which makes it more than value for money.
  
  
• Automatically generated stats and league tables. Also the site is very easy to use (myself being the administrator for the team) I find it an excellently developed site for its practical use.
  
  
• The Stats for each player is excellent, particularly like the pie chart features. all in all I think the website is excellent value for money and it’s so easy having all the averages and stats and league table automatically worked out.
  

Interestingly the Fantasy Stats featured just as highly in your answers to what you least liked!!! So like Marmite, some people love it - some people hate it.

What do you like least?
THE FANTASY STATS DOES CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH PLAYERS AND PARENTS ALIKE. IS THERE ANYWAY THIS CAN BE GIVEN AS A CHOICE OF UPDATING IF WANTED ?

We promise, we'll make this an optional feature next year. :)

Stay tuned for our full results!

Another Fund Raising Case Study

Currently a lot of clubs are reporting difficulty in finding sponsorship money.

Mark Russell manager of Penyffordd Panthers U13s from the Clwyd League contacted Web Teams to comment on how well his club had done financially this year from EasyFundRaising.co.uk.

[Sept 2008 - Original fundraising Web Teams blog post]

Mark emailed Web Teams...

Just to let you know the easy fund-raising site we use has helped us earn £120 so far this season.

This is encouraging and shows that it can work. Here are the recent spends (screenshot below), as you can see holidays and insurance boost the total. This is the area we tend to promote. I've realised the LOVE FILM trial pays £8 per person and currently trying to get people registered. Without the big spends we'd probably be looking at £40 which is still ok.

If we could get over £150 by the end of the season this will help replace any kit or training equipment we need as I guess in the current climate it's going to be harder for clubs like ours to find local sponsorship which we have always relied on in the past for new Home & away kit's.

Therefore the more the parents and families of players can do to help generate funds the better position we will be in.



As for the team we've done well this season. If we win the remaining two matches Saturday & Tuesday we will either finish 2nd or be in a play-off for 2nd place. Potentially we could still win the league as the current leaders have three games left (including a trip to our home ground) but only need a single point to clinch the title (Hawarden Rangers). We have been the only team to beat them this season in the league (last week 1-0 away) and also the only team to beat them x2 last year in the league, when they won it.

Only lost 3 games and one draw one but you can only afford to drop 6 points in our league to stay in contention.

This shows that the £15 charge for Web Teams can be easily pulled back through your website throughout the season. In fact in this case ten times over!

Pennyford Panthers are an under 13s team with a strong website that has encouraged parents and fans to support the club. An occasional news item and a link to the EasyFundRaising site seems to have done the job:
Pennyford Panthers News Item



If anyone else has any good or bad experiences with EasyFundRaising.co.uk - please leave your comments below for the benefit of other teams.

Crouchy - Pull out the Rope!

What must be the funniest football moment on TV since Ali G interviewing the Beckhams.

James Corden pokes fun at England's Peter Crouch for Comic Relief...

Crouchy. When I look at you, everything tells me that you should be rubbish at football. And yet you're brilliant. You know why? Because of this: The Robot, yeah? Where's it gone? You were hitting them right, left, centre, all over the park, when that was there. I know what's happened.

You’ve started to fear The Robot.

You’ve got to let The Robot fear you.

I’m talking like staple, tray service, swivel, can, open, drinkety-drink drink, yeah? What about some of these, a few turns in there. If you score a hat-trick, pull out the rope, pull out the rope, yeah?

Please take part in our Customer Survey

We are now running our customer survey. If you have two minutes spare, please answer the 7 or 8 questions for us to help make our site better.

To take the survey, (1) log on to your website and then (2) follow the link at the top of the page.



From our survey results at the end of last season we made a number of improvements. These were detailed at the time at the link below.

The summary of results from our 2007/08 survey

Many thanks to all of our Web Teams users - your feedback, as always, is really appreciated

More Fund Raising Ideas

One or two of you using the EasyFundRaising service have emailed in to say you have just received a cheque for cash you made in the fourth quarter last year. One team actually made over £100 which is pretty good for a three month period.

One idea for those using this service is their "Free Funds" section.

This basically is a list of merchants who'll pay your club money for simply requesting a brochure, siging up for a free trial, completing a survey etc... For not even spending money.

For more information visit EasyFundRaising and click the "Free Funds" tab at the top of the page.

• http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

For previous WebTeams blog posts on this subject see below:

• Make your website earn you money
• Fund raising case study

UEFA Badges Quiz

There is a good little football quiz doing the rounds by email at the moment.

How many out of 100 badges from European clubs do you know?

Click the hyperlink or the screenshot below to download the quiz. Maybe worth printing out for the dressing room/club house/coach to an away game!

Download UEFA Badges Quiz



Any similar quizes - please email them in to us.