Topic: Teamer App or similar for availability (Read 7863 times)

Jimbo · « **on:** October 26, 2021, 01:35:26 PM »

For the 2022 season my club is looking into using Teamer or a similar app to manage availability. We've found the administrative burden has been a significant issue for captains, especially with a couple of our skippers working very time consuming jobs, so the hunt is on for tools to reduce this workload.

I've looked at a few options and Teamer seems promising but just wondered if anyone had advice on how to make it work for several teams running at a single club.

We don't have individual squads for each side so it doesn't make much sense to allocate individuals to one "team" within the app and we're also keen to avoid players deciding to be available for one side and not another.

Has anyone found a way using Teamer or another app to collect availability into a single pool and then allocate people to their team for that weekend via the app?

Cheers.

Neon Cricket · « **Reply #1 on:** October 26, 2021, 01:42:03 PM »

Spond - it's bloody brilliant. Can accept payments through it as well as availability/events etc. It's all free apart from the usual card fees on payments too!

Devondumpling00 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 26, 2021, 01:49:19 PM »

Second Spond

19reading87 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 26, 2021, 01:54:29 PM »

Another for Spond here

Jimbo · « **Reply #4 on:** October 26, 2021, 01:59:45 PM »

Does Spond give you the facility to pool availability across the whole club then allocate individuals to teams after?

Similarly, does it have a function to notify people they haven't been selected?

Cheers for the recommendations so far!

Neon Cricket · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2021, 02:21:59 PM »

Availability across the whole club yes - we then just issue the team sheets via Spond (can upload pictures etc) so everyone can see which team they're playing in/whether they've been selected.

Not sure anything actually exists to be able to assign players to a specific team within an app...

Devondumpling00 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 26, 2021, 02:35:39 PM »

Quote from: Jimbo on October 26, 2021, 01:59:45 PM

Does Spond give you the facility to pool availability across the whole club then allocate individuals to teams after?

Similarly, does it have a function to notify people they haven't been selected?

Cheers for the recommendations so far!

I�m no expert, but I�ve not discovered these features yet.

Usually a team will be selected from those who have used Spond to confirm their availability and posted like a Facebook post on the app once the teams have been chosen. Maybe we�re in the dark ages regarding utilising the app completely 😂

velvetsky01 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2021, 02:47:49 PM »

Quote from: Neon Cricket on October 26, 2021, 01:42:03 PM

Spond - it's bloody brilliant. Can accept payments through it as well as availability/events etc. It's all free apart from the usual card fees on payments too!

Having started to use this with @Neon Cricket for net sessions - I can concur it�s very very good

jimmy23 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 26, 2021, 02:59:05 PM »

My club use the Heja app.

Players confirm/reject their availability for scheduled dates and are then picked into the relevant side from there.

Jimbo · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2021, 03:10:25 PM »

Thanks all.

Sounds like for our purposes we may be as well using our current system of Google Forms and just finding a better way of contacting everyone with the link to the form. Payments wise - we already use Square readers on match day to take card payment quickly and easily so not sure that would improve things.

Again, all the feedback and advice is much appreciated.

six and out · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2021, 03:21:30 PM »

I am interested to know, the guys that are at clubs that use the app (whichever it may be)..... do you find that more players give their availability? Or give it earlier? Etc...

As far as I can tell you are just relying on the same players to give their availability just in a different format, so if they were poor at doing it before, they will still be poor at doing it? If players don't give their availability on the app for example, the captain is still chasing the same players as before without the app.

Devondumpling00 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2021, 05:23:25 PM »

Quote from: six and out on October 26, 2021, 03:21:30 PM

I am interested to know, the guys that are at clubs that use the app (whichever it may be)..... do you find that more players give their availability? Or give it earlier? Etc...

As far as I can tell you are just relying on the same players to give their availability just in a different format, so if they were poor at doing it before, they will still be poor at doing it? If players don't give their availability on the app for example, the captain is still chasing the same players as before without the app.

For us it just means that captains don�t have to chase people to ask for their availability. You�re able to schedule automated availability announcements e.g �Devon League Fixture Saturday May 8th� and then if people decline or more appropriately, do not respond, then they are considered unavailable

Neon Cricket · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2021, 07:21:57 AM »

Quote from: six and out on October 26, 2021, 03:21:30 PM

I am interested to know, the guys that are at clubs that use the app (whichever it may be)..... do you find that more players give their availability? Or give it earlier? Etc...

As far as I can tell you are just relying on the same players to give their availability just in a different format, so if they were poor at doing it before, they will still be poor at doing it? If players don't give their availability on the app for example, the captain is still chasing the same players as before without the app.

We find responses are miles higher with very little chasing for the captains - you can send push notifications to the users mobile reminding them to respond for those that forget first time around. Being on an app and it taking literally 10 seconds to reply has definitely improved things from when we used to use an online form.

suraj · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2021, 07:46:31 AM »

Big fan of teamer. Putting club members into various categories (Player, Follower, Admin, Coach etc) with that you can auto push players into the squad. I've got multiple teams setup under my club. League team gets weekly availability mails to accept or decline. There's the training team too which is basically everyone. Team sheets etc are not needed as then who didnt play is pushed off the squad for the scheduled matches so you end up with 12-13 players in the squad for those matches.
Quick edit: People don't even have to use the app to accept or decline match/event invites. They can do this using the embedded buttons in the e-mails.

richthekeeper · « **Reply #14 on:** November 02, 2021, 09:38:32 PM »

Why does nobody just use play cricket for this? It works perfectly fine for us

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