What is MobyScore ?
Part of a suite of cricketing applications comprising MobyScore, an electronic
scorecard for club scorers, MobyLive, a live scores feed for cricket lovers
and MobyHowsThat, a game to while away dull moments at county championship matches
waiting for the pigeons to leave the pitch..
What will MobyCricket run on ?
MobyCricket will run on most modern Java-enabled phones and Windows mobile PDAs. You should use the phone checking facility
on this site which, once it has verified the compatibility of your phone or device,
will give you the option to continue on to install MobyCricket if you want to. If you have a new
device which you would like to see supported, please contact us
and and we will take a look and see if it is feasible.
Why use MobyScore ?
Traditional cricket scoring is complex and there are fewer and fewer people
around who are prepared to learn how to fill in three different columns in a
scorecard at once, not to mention how easy it is to getting one of these wrong
and have to backtrack at the end of the match and try and remedy this. In addition
to this, the Internet age has brought us cricket websites such as
Play-Cricket.com
where club fixtures and player statistics can be stored and analysed. The manual
process of transferring scores to such a website is tedious at best and error-prone
at worst.
MobyScore dispatches this problem at a stroke. Squads can be set up and edited
on the phone and matches can be scored and stored (with Autosave, the matches
can be saved at the end of each over) with confidence. Matches can be paused
and resumed at any point and at any point, including after the match, the scoring
for any ball can be changed with the consequent updates to other match statistics.
During the match, all innings' batting and bowling cards can be viewed (and
changed) down to the level of individual balls faced and bowled.
The phone will give visual and vibrate alarm warnings when the scorer needs to be alerted
to events such as the end of an over and bowlers exceeding their overs quota - this makes MobyScore ideal
for the umpire who also has to score.
Once a match is complete, it can be reviewed for correctness and any ball modified.
Subject to the memory capacity of your phone or PDA, multiple matches can be
stored, reloaded and modified if necessary.
Subsequent matches can be set up with default squads selections based on the
previous match saved to speed up setup next time.
Ok, I am using MobyScore at my club. What can I do with the matches once I've
finished ?
At any point, or after the match, the match can be sent over the internet to
the MobyScore servers which will format a beautifully laid out image according
to the size you have requested (see this example below), and email it to any or all
of the addresses you specified when you sent it. This means that if you have
a suitable phone, you can receive this image back as an email attachment and
print it to a portable printer, send it to the opposition, media or anywhere
else you choose. Our customers use this to produce photo-quality scorecards
at the match for signature by the opposition.
On our website users can define quality and other settings for the image
production such as quality (which affect the size of the image, important to
match to the capabilities of your particular phone) and aspect (portrait or
landscape).
Integration with Play-Cricket.com is now available, so that scorecards
can be uploaded to that website and fixtures and squads downloaded to help set
up the match more quickly.
Does MobyScore support all forms of cricket ?
MobyScore supports the 2000 Cricket Code, including batting and bowling penalty
runs, and the use of substitutes. The latest version also supports Pairs
cricket (all formats can be supported by allowing the user to specify the match
rules) which is widely used in the UK for youth leagues.
How much does MobyScore cost ?
MobyScore phone software is FREE ! There is a modest annual charge of £20 for unlimited use of the internet services described
above after an initial one month free trial period.
The cost of connecting over the Internet from your mobile to send up scores
depends on your mobile network provider and tariff you have. A scorecard for a 2
innings 40 over a side match is about 30K bytes for example. This might be
accommodated in your existing data allowance (if you have one) in which case
there is no extra network charge. Once the
match is uploaded to our server it can be used to generate a scorecard (see
below) or be forwarded onto
Play-Cricket.com. These are simple requests with very little data and do
not require the match to be sent up again - so the cost of these is fractions of
a penny. Therefore, MobyScore makes light use of your phone's internet
connection and there is no permanent Internet connection between MobyScore and
the Internet (i.e. no connection is needed when scoring a match).
Is there a user guide ?
Click here for a premiminary verison (in Adobe PDF format).
What does the scorecard look like ?
Customisation of scorecard is to be added that will allow club sponsorship
information to be displayed, as well as alternative colours and layout options. A example
of the current scorecard is shown below (reduced in quality to fit available width):
Further information
Please contact us in Somerset, UK