toepoke

Organise soccer matches with your friends, without the faff!

5.0•2 reviews•

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Organise soccer matches with your friends, without the faff!

5.0•2 reviews•

4 followers

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Ever tried to get a load of people to meet at the same place, at the same time, every week for a game of soccer? Sounds simple doesn't it, but it's not! toepoke aims to solve one problem - take away the admin and let you get back to just turning up and enjoying your game.

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I've been using this site to organise my weekly game for over 13 years now, in which time the game has grown from a core 10 people playing 5aSide to a squad of only 100 players signing up for 7aSide. Keeping track of that many people's details and availability is only possible with a site like this. Setting up your game schedules, including time and venue, is simple and allows for easy repeating to keep the momentum going week after week.

It's also interactive for regular users, allowing them to track their goals across games as well as rating their fellow players. The latter is great for helping to select teams for the games. You can also be part of multiple squads so you can organise your Monday night game but sign up for that other game on a Thursday too. You can delegate organisational elements, such as selecting teams, to trusted users which is a welcome function for the overworked organiser.

What needs improvement

Aside from maybe a UI refresh, there's only a handful of things I can think of to improve the site as it stands:

• Ability to add additional data for players such as favoured positions and strengths (and weaknesses?)
• Ability to track additional stats for the players, such as assists (as well as goals)
• Along with the above maybe a feature to help select teams based on the stats held by the site
• Maybe a simpler way to invite/add players to the squads; email invites can sometimes get lost in spam
• Collection of payments for games would really help to round out the organisation process

vs Alternatives

At the time of signing up there weren't many other options available, aside from the weekly (and lengthy) email chain; even WhatsApp was in its infancy then. And once we got started using, there was no need to move away from it. It does exactly what we need it to.

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8 views2mo ago

Thanks for taking the time out to add a review Stuart 😊

Capturing assists
Adding the ability to add new players using a simple QR code for in person invites
Selecting teams using the player ratings is a difficult one. In my experience there's either someone who doesn't have any ratings, or have inflated ratings from friends, making it difficult to automate. I do have some ideas in this area:
- Captains to pick each side
- Opening up team picking to everyone who's playing
Payments have been on the radar for a long time. It's quite difficult to find a supplier that supports consumer to consumer (c2c) transactions at a reasonable cost. PayPal for instance ends up being 50p for a £10 payment. Whilst 50p isn't a huge amount of money these days, as a percentage of the payment it's quite high. Bopp seems favourite so far.

I've added public links where appropriate. The rest are on the internal backlog.

Thanks again @stuart_whitaker

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