Cricket fans aren’t only fans of the sport. Most Cricket fans only support a single team or even a single player. This is why including team and player data is essential for your application. As a fan, I want to know who plays for my club and how they are doing.

2. Fixtures

To add matches to their calendar, fans need to know when their team plays. They want to go to the stadium or watch the game on television. However, those people still need your application after knowing when the matches occur. Let’s find out why!

3. Team rankings

I am going to my team’s match, and now I want to know where my team is ranked in the league. So, I need team rankings for that. That way, I can compare my team with the opposing team to get a feel of how the match will play out. Fans are always interested in knowing which teams are the best. Therefore, they will check the ICC rankings, or in the future your rankings.

Het bericht 7 things your Cricket application needs verscheen eerst op Sportmonks.

We will now give you the examples we have seen from our userbase. You may have another idea and are unsure if Sportmonks API will work with it. You can send us an email at support@sportmonks.com

1. Livescore App

Yes, a livescore application is very popular among sports fans. They always want to know who is playing, which team is more likely to win the match (based on odds or statistics) and which team or player scores.

Do you dream about the idea of creating the best livescore application in the world? We have created another whitepaper which shows you exactly what you need to include and how to do this with our API. We created a guide called ’how-to build a livescore page’.

2. Fantasy game

This idea is fantastic. Fantasy games are very popular among football fans. Being able to create a winning team or predict the best XI is the perfect way to engage your users. To create a fantasy game, you will need player statistics and ratings, among other things.

For this idea, we built a guide ‘how-to build a fantasy game‘.

 3. Odds Portal

Betting is hot. People like to earn money by betting on their favourite sports. Sports betting is something most fans have done at least once in their lives. Many fans are going a step further. They want to compare the odds of different bookmakers to create their ultimate bet.

For this idea, we’ve created two guides: ‘how-to build an odds portal‘ and ‘how-to build a match page with odds‘.

4. Predictions

Another excellent idea is to predict the future based on data and science. People are always looking for ways to beat the bookmakers. The previous idea is ideal for combining with predictions. You can build an application to make predictions of the big leagues and matches like the Premier League, Champions League, and World Cup.

The Prediction API includes over 900 leagues.

We have created the guide ‘how-to-use the predictions API’ to help you get started.

 5. Statistics

The concept of displaying statistics in your application is excellent. Sports fans and data freaks always look into these statistics to discuss who’s better (Messi or  Ronaldo). Even professional football clubs discuss players’ statistics to decide who to bring to their club. They require more than just statistics. However, it shows that professionals even use this idea.

We created a guide on ‘how-to build a team page with season stats and squads‘.  There are more things to create with statistics. Like pages with league stats, match stats, and player stats, among others.

6. Bonus idea

Obviously, there are more business opportunities to be found in sports data. As you may guess, we cannot list everything. We have over 20,000 customers, all of whom have their own ideas. If your idea is not included in our list, this doesn’t mean you can’t make your idea happen with our sports API. Let’s take a look at one more example of a business idea one of our customers had.

ScorePlay invented a way to help professional football clubs organise all their content by using our Sports APIs and face recognition. Let’s see the idea of Xavier, CEO of ScorePlay and find out why he is using Sportmonks’ API.

“Our objective is to revolutionise how clubs use their media. Currently, they don’t have the tech infrastructure to capitalise on the gold mine of content they have at their disposal. ScorePlay helps clubs to organise their media to monetise it ultimately. Our AI relies on player mugshots (for facial recognition) and names  (for jersey recognition) to identify them on pictures” If you are interested in reading more about their business idea, check out our Casestudy.

That’s it!

Everything you could use reliable sports data. We hope we inspired you to start building on your dream application.

Still not sure if your idea is possible? Why don’t you contact us so that we can discuss the possibilities? Fill in the contact form or send an email to support@sportmonks.com.

Het bericht 5 ways to use sport data verscheen eerst op Sportmonks.

If you’re reading this, you’re already on our brand new Sportmonks website! Our new website has a more contemporary style, which better fits our current goals and vision.

Apart from having improved the look and feel of our website, we also have made changes that are relevant to all our customers. In this blog, we will inform you what the changes mean for you.

Before, we discuss the new changes. Note that as an existing customer with an existing subscription, you won’t have to do anything. Your current active subscription remains as is, with the same price you were paying before. . Read more below.

Changes to plans

The most important change is that we have decided to reform our paid plans. If you choose to change your current plan to one of our new plans.

Football

Euro plan
The Euro Plan has been changed as you look to the league coverage. A few extra leagues have been added, but also a few leagues have been removed. Check the table below.

World Plan
As you can see, the World plan has been significantly expanded with 50 more football leagues. The new list of World Plan Leagues can be found on our World Plan page.

Enterprise Plan

We also renamed the Pro plan to the Enterprise plan. Moreover, the Enterprise plan will be geared towards entrepreneurs looking to create professional sports business projects. An added feature of the Enterprise plan is that Sportmonks will be tuning the Enterprise plan to the needs of the customer. We’ll look together at what you’re creating and offer advice for the plan that best fits your project.

Note that for Cricket the plans will be the same, with the exception of the Pro plan being renamed to Enterprise plan.

There are no changes in our Formula One plans.

Add-ons

Moving onto the add-ons. Some of you may already have requested more API calls or made use of our Prediction API.

In 2021 you’ll have the option of manually editing your active subscription to include add-ons. For example, you have the Euro Plan Standard, but you would like to have extra API calls and the Prediction API. You no longer have to contact us, but can simply do this yourself in My Sportmonks.

Later in the year, we also hope to offer webhooks as our third add-on.

My Sportmonks

We have created a new environment for you to manage your plans, API calls, etc. This new environment has been given the name: My Sportmonks.
We migrated your old Sportmonks credentials, so you can simply log into the new environment with your old username and password.

My Sportmonks will have the same style as our website’s and will be much easier to navigate. New HUD, intuitive UI, and a slick design will help you create your dream application more easily.

The end goal of My Sportmonks is to provide you with the all tools and features you need to get started. My Sportmonks is live now, but still in its most basic form. Over the next months, we’ll be actively working on improving My Sportmonks as well as add new features.

Working with teams in My Sportmonks

Another neat feature with My Sportmonks is that your dev team is now able to work in teams, without having to share sensitive information such as your payment details. Here is a list of features for working with teams:

• You’re able to add people and assign them different roles, such as admin, editor, etc. to your team.
• Admins are able to add and remove other people. They also have the jurisdiction to alter their payment information, invoices, subscriptions, etc.
• Both admins and editors can create API tokens for their team. Meaning that each developer will be able to use their own API token, instead of having to ask other people for their tokens. Usage of these tokens works cumulatively for the
• Admins are able to delete API tokens. For instance, you can have production and development tokens. If the development of your application has finished, you can simply delete the individual development tokens and continue to use the production tokens. This way, you’ll never have to reveal your production tokens to other people.
• You’re able to create your own team. Our system generates for every user.
• You can be in multiple teams.

An example of how you can work with the team feature:

The director of a company utilizes the Sportmonks API to create a football app. He selects a project manager to do this and makes him admin of the team on My Sportmonks

The project manager can now add his developers to the team.

One of the developers forgot to copy his API token. Luckily for him, he can simply delete and create a new token.

During development, the project manager realizes they need to upscale to a more extensive data plan. He only has to inform the director of this decision and can simply choose to upgrade their current plan on My Sportmonks.

It’s as easy as that.

FAQ

Q: Will anything change for me if I opt to not do anything?

A: No, nothing will change. Your subscription will remain as is. Only if you choose to change your plan subscription, will the new prices apply to you.

Q: Can I continue to use my API token(s)?

A: Yes, you can continue using your tokens as before. You can also create tokens for your teams now.

Q: Do I have to pay more for my current plan in the new situation?

A: No, your plan and price will remain as is. Your subscription will remain as is. Only if you choose to change your plan subscription, will the new prices apply to you.

That’s all for this blog post. We hope we have sufficiently clarified our changes. If you have any questions, shoot us a message at support@sportmonks.com.

Het bericht Changes for our customers verscheen eerst op Sportmonks.

At Sportmonks, we aim to deliver high-quality sports data to our customers, and we try to reach this goal by working our butts off every day.

Customer feedback is vital to us. Since our Cricket API release, we’ve had multiple complaints about the Cricket API’s learning curve being too high.

Well, we listened to your feedback and have therefore decided to rebuild it!

We proudly present to you our Cricket API version 2.0.

Cricket API 2.0 was built on the same engine as our Soccer API 2.0, which has over 15,000 customers worldwide.

We aimed to retain as much flexibility as possible, so you still have the option of adding includes to load data like line-ups, runs, scoreboards, and comments in a single request.

What did change is that the responses are now more streamlined than ever, meaning that custom codes are no longer required to link relationships and include data. The Cricket API does this automatically and presents you with well-formatted responses.

Of course, this isn’t the only improvement. We have also added:
-More Cricket leagues
-More player careers statistics on a per season basis
-Ranking of men and women for TEST, ODI, and T20I (New feature)

See our rewritten Cricket documentation page for more in-depth information about all the changes.

For more information about the fields and their meaning, please head to our Cricket API reference guide.

Het bericht Improved Cricket API V2.0 verscheen eerst op Sportmonks.