Peter A wrote:
We’re a single team club, and plan to have an intra-club game. If I enter ‘Surrey Cryptics’ as both the home and away teams, and enter the entire scorecard, can you see any problems? Especially, will the statistics reflect both innings against our single team?
We held a similar game some years ago, and I used the ‘old’ software by creating two new opponents (Cryptics North and Cryptics South), and entered the scorebook data twice, with Surrey Cryptics playing each of the ‘new’ teams. This worked as far as statistics were concerned (although it meant we had an ‘extra’ match that season). But it was messy to do, and would be more complicated in the on-line system, because I’d need to mess about putting players into teams, and then putting them back when we play our next opponents.
I suspect you will find it much easier to do this with the online system.
Here is what I recommend:
Use the same team. Set the match up as the same (existing) team for both the home team and the away team.
(optional) Create a new division for these intra-club games. This will allow you to filter-out these matches if you choose to.
You should be able to populate the batting side and the bowling side with the same players.
You will only need to enter the scorecard once.
Give it a go and let me know how you get on with it.
And by the way - just on your comment "I’d need to mess about putting players into teams, and then putting them back when we play our next opponents" - note that players can play for multiple teams at the same time. Not that you will need to create dummy teams, but if you did then you don't need to put them into a team and then put them back out. You can just leave them there. The only purpose of a "team" is to provide a pre-populated batting lineup for the scorecard entry.
Mark - thanks for the guidance, and the additional information.