July 30, 2008

Imagine being a player… and knowing what’s going on!

Filed under: Management, Social Networking, Sports — The Commish @ 11:31 am

You’ve played in adult leagues before.  Someone asked you to join their team, or maybe you found a league and signed up as ‘Individual’ hoping to get placed on a decent squad.  Once it got going, you had to hunt down your coach with emails and text messages each week trying to figure out when your next game was, and where it was to be played.  You waited months for your Captain to deposit that check you gave him and just prayed it wouldn’t clear right when the rent check went through.  Maybe you had fun, got to play a few minutes, maybe scored a touchdown or two, perhaps hit the game-winning three pointer in Week 5, but you were missing out.  You didn’t know it, couldn’t have, but the reality is your experience could have been exponentially better.  “How can you say that, you don’t even know me?” you ask.  Well here’s how:

Pre-Season:

Ok, so you’re a player without a team but you want to compete in the upcoming season.  You could just show up on Day One and hope somebody picks you up.  Or you could submit your name to the league and let the ‘gods of flag football fate’ throw you on a roster.

Or, with Sports4E you create a profile online, showing a picture, details of your physique, leagues/teams you’ve previously played for, stats from seasons prior, and the type of team you are looking for.  Then, Coaches come looking for you.  They want a Adrian Peterson prototype, you happen to be 6’1” and 220lbs, perfect.  They need a shooter, and your stats list 42% on 3-pointers, Bingo.

Mid-Season:

Ok, now let’s suppose you are on a team with people you know, it’s no accident, you planned on gettin’ in there and winning the championship all along.  With Sports4E your Road to the Final can be so much easier, and more exciting at that.  With new features, you can access information that was nearly impossible before now.  *Here’s a few scenarios.

Standings

  • “So who’s in first this year?”
  • “I don’t know, but those Charleston Chuggers beat us pretty good, wouldn’t be surprised if they’re undefeated.”
  • “You’d think, but I heard The Dunkers beat them by 20.”
  • “What?  Seriously?  Didn’t we beat The Dunkers?  Wasn’t that the overtime game we had?”
  • “No.  Overtime was against Coffee Break.  We suck.  Shoulda never gone to overtime against a team named Coffee Break.”

Nobody knows the standings.  It’s all postulation and conjecture.  Everybody has their own mental standings, and generally they are all wrong. With Sports4E, you can receive standing updates from your league or club so everyone is on the same page.

Stats:

  • “So how’d you play last week?”
  • “Pretty good, pretty good.  I mean I wasn’t keeping track, ya know, but I was feelin’ it.  Hit like 7 threes.  Dropped 43 points on ‘em.”
  • “43?  Wow, that’s interesting.  I read on Sports4E that you had 6 points.  I mean, if you were gonna score like Ben Wallace you could have at least pulled down some boards.  I mean, 4?  C’mon.  You’re 250 pounds, show us something.”

With a new stats feature you can keep track of statistics for your friends, teammates, archrivals, and of course, yourself. You can also receive stats with levels of certification from your coach, league, fans, or third-party software. Players and fans can verify your stats to raise your legitimacy online.

Smack Talk

And finally, why not use the internet for ultimate evil and sports pleasure: trash-talking.  With Sports4E you can go up to that first place nemesis and give them the verbal beat down before the big showdown Thursday night.  Then you can talk about the pending effects of your comments to your boys like you were anchoring Pardon the Interruption:

“George from George’s Plumbing said that Team Touchdown better watch out Tuesday or he just might score 9 times against their sieve-like defense.  What do you think?  Over or Under: 9 touchdowns Tuesday?”

Get scouted, sign up, pay your fee, sign your waiver, keep track of game times and locations, follow the standings, analyze up-to-date stats, and dish out your best trash-talk you can muster, all in one place, Sports4E.  Transform that adult league experience into the real-deal, the closest thing to being in the pros you’ll ever see.

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