Looking for a way to create a Live leaderboard for an outing

[erock9174]

I golfed in an outing last week that featured carts with GPS that had a live leaderboard.  Basically each group entered their score and it kept track of everybody.   Very nice to know where you stack up with the field...if you are behind, ahead or tied, etc.

This got me to thinking.  I run a small outing (about 12-20 guys) each year and the only way we know each other's scores is to text message them during the round.

Pretty much everybody has a data phone of some sort and I thought, it would be cool if there was an ap or some program where everybody could enter their score each hole and it would post to a leaderboard.

Does anybody know if there is anything out there like this?

The only thing I could think of was to create an Excel sheet with the group names, but that would require everybody to constantly open up the spreadsheet on their phone, update it and keep emailing it out to everybody which would be a pain.

Or to maybe post the spreadsheet to a website for updating.  This way there would be only 1 version out there of it.

Any help is appreciated.

[JCoop]

I just googled up some apps for that. "golf apps" is your friend.

[zeg]

If I were doing this, I'd just set up a web page to do this.  It would require some organization and moderate technical know-how (more or less, depending on how elegant you want making updates to be---the harder they are to make, the easier it is to set the page up).

[erock9174]

I'm striking out with the Golf Aps online.  Everything I see is either a GPS or just a Score Tracker where you can email the card after a round.

I want something where multiple teams could enter on one card and be able to access it real-time.

We thought about setting up a webpage.  Maybe even buying a cheap cloud service, but for one outing a year I hate to pay alot of money for a site.  I thought there had to be a free ap out there that would handle this.

I think there are some for the iphone but most of our players including myself have Android based phones.  So we need an ap compatible with both.

[rebby]

If I were doing this, I'd just set up a web page to do this.  It would require some organization and moderate technical know-how (more or less, depending on how elegant you want making updates to be---the harder they are to make, the easier it is to set the page up).

That's how I'd do it as well. Depending on how feature rich you want this development would be quick as well. Basic LAMP server on a home internet connection would be plenty to run it too.

[erock9174]

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Basic LAMP server on a home internet connection would be plenty to run it too.

now you are speaking Japanese, lol

2 of my buddies work in IT, I might have to see if they can help me out.

[zeg]

Originally Posted by erock9174

We thought about setting up a webpage.  Maybe even buying a cheap cloud service, but for one outing a year I hate to pay alot of money for a site.  I thought there had to be a free ap out there that would handle this.

Shouldn't be expensive to run a site for a weekend.  You won't need much power.  I have a virtual server that could probably handle it several times over and it's only about $30 a month so that'd be all you'd need (some have a set up fee, but this didn't, at least when I signed up).  It'd just be a matter of gettnig the web server, web page, and a method for updating the scores set up.

[JCoop]

It'd be really easy to code up a mySql data base for the back end to track scores and performance over time. I'd do that if somebody else wants to write the web page (I hate writing html!).

[x129]

Both google (appengine) and amazon(ec) will host a site like this for free.

Originally Posted by zeg

Shouldn't be expensive to run a site for a weekend.  You won't need much power.  I have a virtual server that could probably handle it several times over and it's only about $30 a month so that'd be all you'd need (some have a set up fee, but this didn't, at least when I signed up).  It'd just be a matter of gettnig the web server, web page, and a method for updating the scores set up.

[Dabbler]

Check out www.leaderboardnow.com I think it's exactly what you are looking for.

[Ben]

Man, I played in a tournament last year and we were given hand held components that was just what you're looking for. We had access to scoring, long drive, closest to the pin. Everything. It was really cool. I'll see if I can track down the name. I don't remember if you can rent the system for the event, or if you had to buy the thing outright though...

At a quick glance that leaderboardnow thing looks pretty cool.

[erock9174]

Originally Posted by Dabbler

Check out www.leaderboardnow.com I think it's exactly what you are looking for.

My buddy tipped me off to this site last night; I agree, should be perfect.

Whats cool is there is no download, you basically email them (its in beta form still) and they send you a link and everything is hosted on their website.

You put in each players email and then submit then and the site sends each person an email with a link to the tournament page.

One the tournament page, there are 2 tabls, One to input your score by hole and then the leaderboard which accumulates everybody.

Also it works with all phones which is the problem with most aps (either iphone or droid based and not both).

I am playing Saturday so we setup a mock tournament and plan to track our round.

I will post back with a review of how it worked.

[Kyle Baker]

Old thread, but use excel to track the scores and tableau to do the dashboardings. I setup a LAMP server, but this ended up taking me less time than a site.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/kyle6167#!/vizhome/ShootersShootout/ShootersDashboard