How scoring works

🏏 Cricket — ball by ball

Cricket is the one sport where a single tap cannot describe what happened: four runs off the bat, four byes and four runs run are three different things. So the scorer asks a short, fixed set of questions for every ball. The defaults describe an ordinary dot ball, which means most deliveries are one tap on Submit.

1. 1
   Delivery

   Five choices, grouped by whether the ball counts:

   Choice	Counts as a ball	Runs go to
   Off the bat	Yes	the batter
   Bye	Yes	extras — byes
   Leg bye	Yes	extras — leg byes
   Wide	No — re-bowled	extras, plus 1 penalty
   No ball	No — re-bowled	see step 1b, plus 1 penalty

2. 1b
   No ball only — was it off the bat?

   If the batter hit it, the runs are the batter's: a no ball hit for four is four to the batter and one no-ball extra — five to the team. If they did not, the runs are byes off a no ball and all of it is extras. This is the one thing the app cannot work out for itself, which is why it asks.

3. 2
   Runs on this ball

   0 to 6, or type a number for overthrows. Enter only the runs actually scored — the one-run penalty for a wide or a no ball is added for you, and the panel says so.

4. 3
   Did it reach the fence?

   Only asked when it can matter: off the bat, for 4 or 6. Picking 4 or 6 assumes a boundary because that is nearly always what happened. Choose No, ran 4 for four runs the batters actually ran — they still count as runs, but not as a four in the batting card.

5. 4
   Wicket

   No by default. Say yes and you are offered only the dismissals that are possible off that delivery:

   • Off the bat, bye, leg bye — bowled, caught, LBW, run out, stumped, hit wicket.
   • Wide — run out, stumped, hit wicket.
   • No ball — run out only.

   A run out also asks which batter was out; the runs on the ball still count. Caught, stumped and run out take the fielder's name so the scorecard reads c Kumar b Ali.

What the app works out for you

• Wides and no balls add one run and are re-bowled — they never use up a ball of the over.
• Byes and leg byes are legal balls: they count towards the over and the batter's balls faced, but not their runs.
• The bowler is charged for wides and no balls, never for byes or leg byes.
• Odd runs rotate the strike, and the strike changes again at the end of an over.
• A run out is not credited to the bowler.
• Fall of wickets, partnerships, strike rate, economy and maidens all come from the ball log.
• The innings ends when the side is all out, the overs run out, or the target is passed.
• Turf leagues: a wicket costs penalty runs and the batter stays in, and there is no all-out.

Every batting card reconciles: all batters' runs plus byes, leg byes, wides and no balls equals the team total. If it does not, something was entered wrong — tell us and we will fix it.

🎾 Tennis

• Points run 0 → 15 → 30 → 40 → game. At 40–40 it is deuce: you must win by two points (advantage, then game).
• A set is the first to six games with a two-game lead.
• At 6–6 your league decides: a seven-point tiebreak (win by two), or an advantage set played on until someone leads by two games.
• A match is best of three or best of five sets, set by the organizer.
• League points: win in straight sets 14, win in three 12. The loser earns up to 8, scaled by games won.
• Doubles is scored the same way — the pair is the “player”.

🏓 Pickleball, Badminton & Ping-pong

• Pickleball: games to 11, win by 2, best of 3.
• Badminton: games to 21, win by 2, best of 3.
• Ping-pong: games to 11, win by 2, best of 5.
• A game only ends once someone has the required lead — 10–10 keeps going.
• The match ends when a side wins more than half the games.
• Your organizer can change points-to-win, win-by and best-of for the league.

🏐 Volleyball

• Sets to 25, win by 2. Best of 5 by default.
• A deciding fifth set is played to 15, win by 2.
• Per-player points are optional. The team score is what counts; player points are extra detail.

⚽ Soccer

• Goals only — tap the scoring team.
• Periods run first half → half time → second half → full time.
• Per-player goals are optional and never change the team total.

🏀 Basketball

• Enter each basket as 1, 2 or 3 points.
• Quarters (default) or halves, with the minutes your organizer set. Anything past the fourth quarter shows as OT.
• Per-player points are optional.

⚾ Baseball

• Seven or nine innings, each with a top and a bottom half.
• Runs, hits and errors per team; balls, strikes, outs and bases for the current at-bat.
• Per-player runs are optional.