Gloucestershire County Cricket League
Web-based result reporting, using the Play-Cricket system

Contents

Stage One: Setting up individual access and club sites. Setting up administrator rights. Setting up League teams

Stage Two: At the start of the season – getting linked to the league.

Seeing fixtures and results at any time.

The guide for entering results, players and scorecards is now on a separate web page

Feed-back - if you have any comments on these guide notes, please e-mail the web site administrator. We want to ensure they are accurate and as helpful as needed

Stage One: Setting up individual access and club sites. Setting up administrator rights. Setting up League teams

Stage 1.1

Those in your club who are going to enter results etc. need to register themselves with Play-Cricket.

• Go to www.play-cricket.com
• Left Click on the box labelled “Register”, or where it says “click here” to register.
• Fill in your name and choose a sign-in name and a password.
• You do not need to fill in all the details asked for – only items marked “*” in the form.
• There is nothing to stop others in your club using this sign in name and password – this might make it simpler for your club.

Registration is free. N.B. The sign-in name and password relate to any and all Play-Cricket web pages, not to a specific club or league. See below on how to link your name with a club.

Stage 1.2

Your club must have a Play-Cricket website.

• Go to www.play-cricket.com. Sign in.
• scroll down the page to the section labelled “Clubs” and then left click on the line “Activate your club or league on Play-Cricket”.
• Follow directions. You will be led through a check to see if your club already has a site. If it does, you should go to the club site and see who is or was was the administrator and work out with him or her what to do.
• Otherwise fill in details for your club. It then takes a day or so to get an acknowledgement from Play-Cricket that the site has been set up. You will be the administrator, if you were the one to request a new site.

The basic web site, sufficient for you to meet County League requirements for entering results, is free. Play-Cricket gets income by charging you for extra snazzy facilities, such as keeping statistics for you. As you, or your administrator, customises your club site, you can select these options if you want them.

Your club web site will have a name (set by Play-Cricket) something like: http://clubname.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp
You and others can go to that directly, or by using the search boxes from the main Play-Cricket website. Suggest you bookmark or make your club web site one of your “favourites”.

Stage 1.3

Those in your club who are going to enter results etc. need to be on-line members of the club site and have admin rights on it.

• To become an on-line member:
  • Go to your club’s Play-Cricket web site.
  • Sign in with your name and password from stage 1.1.
  • Scroll down to the box “Apply to become an on-line member of the Club” and click on it.
  • Fill in the details requested.
• The administrator for your club site then needs to accept you as a member and can grant various kinds of admin rights to you via “club members” page, and from that the “member database” page, before you can report results etc.

Stage 1.4

Each of your County league teams must exist on your club web site.

• Go to your club's Play-Cricket web site. Sign in and then become admin (click on admin box).
• Click on “Teams”, and then edit the list shown, or click on “add new team”.

The County League administrator needs to know which team is which, so usually, if you have more than one, if you can, call them 1st XI and 2nd XI to make it obvious. When you can’t use those names, please can you tell the County League web site administrator (see below) which names are the teams in the County League.

Stage Two: At the start of the season – getting linked to the league.

Stage 2.1

Each County League team must be linked to the appropriate County League Division

• Sign on and become admin for your club’s Play-Cricket site.
• Select the “teams” page.
• For each team, click on the underlined word “leagues”.
• Then click on “Add team to league”.
• A search box comes up. Use the word ‘Gloucestershire’ as keyword for the search. You will see numerous entries with various names. However only one will be in bold with the title “Gloucestershire County Cricket League”. Click on the word “pick” to select that. You will then see the Divisions displayed. “Pick” the correct one for your team.
• Repeat this for your other side(s) in the GCCL.

The County League site administrator now has to accept your selection. Once that is done you should see all your county league fixtures, whether administrator or not, by clicking on “fixtures” sections and setting date / team range.

You might see fixtures duplicated. This can happen if another club enters its own fixtures and connects them with you. Once the system is adopted by all this shouldn’t happen, but in the first year or so could be a problem. If you see duplicates, try to work out which one is the ‘official’ fixture received from the GCCL site, and delete unofficial ones – if you see fixtures when signed in as admin you see a red “X” for deletions.

Seeing Fixtures and Results

At any time, you, or anyone, can see your fixtures and results, whether signed in or not, whether admin or not. You are offered search facilities to look for a particular date range or team. Click on the "fixtures" or "results" tabs at the top of your club's Play-Cricket web page.

Play-Cricket only shows dates in the future as fixtures. Past fixtures are only displayed under “Results” (whether the result has been filled in or not).

You can only alter fixtures and enter or alter results if you signed in with administrator rights.

4/9/06. Web site administrator andyrxxx at blueyonder dot co dot uk