We are excited to announce the below features will be released in Play HQ UAT environment on Friday 18th March 2022 and production on Monday 21st March 2022.
All sports | |
Feature | Description |
“Get Active Kids Vouchers” Victoria
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The 'sports voucher' program is designed to increase the number of children playing organised sport by reducing cost as a barrier to participation. The Victorian Government provides vouchers to participants which can then be used at checkout via PlayHQ and is deducted from their fees. Organisations will be able to report on these transactions to claim reimbursement. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins | Participants |
New Organisation Selector
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We’re constantly looking for ways to make the PlayHQ experience more efficient. Changing from an organisational filter to search is an example of that, increasing the speed of locating organisations. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins |
Adding Fixture Upload Help Text |
Adding text has been added to the fixture upload explanation to ensure clearer communication. The fixture settings have been relocated to under the ‘more’ dropdown menu. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins |
Unsubscribe Wording Update |
Text change within the unsubscribe email. Applicable to: Participants |
AFL ONLY | |
Feature | Description |
Emergency Players
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Players are named as emergencies for a game to cover any late changes to players named in the lineup for a game. When selecting a lineup prior to a game, team selectors can now add "emergency" players, who can take the place of any player in the "lineup" if someone is unavailable to play due to illness or injury. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins | Participants |
Transfer/Permit Player Search Using Non-Alpha Characters
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Season permit organisational search as well as season permit limit exclusions search now allows administrators to search using non-alpha characters. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins |
Cricket ONLY | |
Feature | Description |
Fall Of Wicket
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A wicket falls and the team score is recorded into PlayHQ at point of dismissal. Although it mightn’t seem like much, at the end of an innings we’re all guilty of scanning through the fall of wicket column to analyse a team's batting performance. This is now possible on PlayHQ. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins |
Net Run Rate Calculation
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Cricket e-scoring now calculates a teams run rate, this will also feed into team score projection. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins |
Cricket Live Scoring on PlayHQ Public Portal |
Live scoring for Cricket has now been enabled on PlayHQ’s public portal allowing participants, parents and other spectators to follow games in real time on playhq.com Applicable to: Club and Association Admins | Participants |
Batting/Bowling Limits + Syncing Wicket/Extra Data |
Administrators can add a limit to balls faced or runs made by batsman, and overs bowled by bowlers, more so applicable for junior cricket. Applicable to: Club and Association Admins |
Unable To Exit Event Log On Mobile Device |
Administrators can now exit the event log without any hassle. |
E Scoring Performance Improvements |
Event log now reads from key intervals during the match rather than every ball/event. This was affecting performance especially in longer formats. |
Scoring Buttons Now Pinned |
Previous to this enhancement, scoring buttons were at times lost off the screen. Now buttons are pinned to the bottom of the device. |