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Reading how it went

What the analysis of a match shows, what it will not show, and how to fill in what was skipped.

Updated 24 October 20262 min readDownload as PDF

What you are looking at

When a match ends, How it went shows what was recorded about it, at a size you can read on a phone.

How it went: a court with a dot for where each rally ended, winners in green and errors in red; below it, a column for each of the four players with winners, errors and where the winners landed.
How it went, for a sample match with invented players.
  • The court. Each dot is where a rally ended. A winner lands in the other side's half. An error is in the net or out.
  • A column per player. Pick up to four. Picking two puts them side by side, so you compare them rather than merge them.
  • Winners and errors, and the errors split into into the net, out, and faults.
  • Where the winners landed: deep, mid-court or kitchen.
  • The shots each player hit, when they were named.

At the foot, the match by team: rallies won, the longest run, and how often each side held serve.

The foot of How it went: shots by player, and the match by team with rallies won, longest run and held serve.
Shots, and the match by team.

It says how much it knows

At the top it says how many rallies there were and how much of them was named: "21 rallies · 100% named". A column for a player appears only when enough was recorded to name them. Without that, you see the two teams.

Every match also says how it was recorded, on the end-of-match card and on the scoresheet:

The match complete card: the result, Send match, Scoresheet, Next match, and How it went with the line Scored live, with who and how.
Scored live, with who and how.
What it saysWhat you get
Scored live, with who and howEverything above
Scored live, with placementThe court and the team view; players need who and how
Scored live, score onlyThe score and the team view. There is no heat map, because no place was recorded
Typed up after playThe score and the result. Nothing is said about runs or momentum, because the order things were entered is not the order they were played
Too few rallies to tellNothing is claimed yet

This is on purpose. A heat map drawn from taps that were counting a score off paper would show where a finger went, not where a ball did.

Fill in what was skipped

Press Scoresheet, then Review.

Review: point by point, 21 of 21, the court with where the last rally ended, who ended it and whether it was forced, and how much of the match was captured.
Review, one point at a time.

You step through the points one at a time, and for each you see where, who and how it was recorded. Change who and Change forced fix a point without touching a score. The foot says what share of the match has each: where, who and how.

Nobody is waiting in Review, so it is where the detail skipped in the five seconds after a rally can be added.

Keep it

The scoresheet holds the point-by-point record, with Send match, CSV and Print.

The scoresheet: the players, the match details with the capture line, the games, and the point by point table.
The scoresheet.
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