Club app to replace pegboard

[Squirrel1971]

Just curious how clubs are mixing up games on their club nights? Are you using an app? It seems a lot of clubs are struggling getting a good balance between fair games, good rotation and fairness of playing order. At my club (Club MK, Milton Keynes), we have been using ePegboard software (www.epegboard.com) for managing our club nights for many years, alleviating many of these issues and supporting a host of features:

Game picking based on waiting time, balanced games and mixing up players
* Support for pegboard traditions by limiting selections to first player then rest from next N
* Preparing next game - players can manually fill some slots and auto-fill the rest
* ELO rating system to track player skill levels
* Session leaderboard showing who is performing best on the night
* Audio announcements to same shouting out games
* Payment tracking
* Partnership analysis - useful for picking league teams
* Various analytic reports

Its fast, easy to use and runs on a windows laptop / tablet.

 

[Bieffe]

A very useful application.

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[Glady619]

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Badminton Peg System App - App Store

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[afeltham]

Fair rotation is genuinely one of those club night headaches that never fully goes away, especially when you've got a wide mix of abilities and different numbers showing up each week. The traditional pegboard works well enough when you've got a regular crowd, but the moment someone new walks in or a few regulars don't show, the whole balance can fall apart quickly.

A few things that tend to help regardless of what system you're using: tracking not just who's waiting but who they've already played with that session, factoring in rough ability bands so you're not repeatedly throwing beginners in against the club's top players, and making sure quieter members aren't consistently getting bumped by the more assertive ones who always seem to find their name near the top.

Digital tools have made a real difference for a lot of clubs here. Once you move away from physical pegs, you can automate a lot of that mental juggling the court organiser usually has to do in their head while simultaneously answering questions about shuttles.

It sounds like ePegboard is doing some interesting things in this space - always good to see solutions built specifically for badminton clubs rather than adapted from generic sports software. If anyone's exploring options, ShuttleOps (https://www.shuttleops.com/) is another one worth a look - it handles session rotation and court management and seems well-suited to club nights with variable attendance.

What's the typical turnout at your club nights? That often shapes which approach works best.

 

[Squirrel1971]

Around 25 most weeks at Club MK, on 4 courts. That number sits fairly well for either pegboard-style picking or auto-rotation. Below 20 and you get the same six people on every game; above 32 and someone is always sitting out two in a row no matter what algorithm you throw at it.

The "who's played with whom this session" tracking you mentioned is the one I'd argue is highest-value once the basics are in place. Court allocation by ability gets most of the attention, but partnership variety is what keeps the social side healthy week-on-week. Players will tolerate the occasional uneven game. They will not tolerate playing with the same partner four times in two hours.

Cheers for the ShuttleOps pointer, hadn't come across that one.