[ruswick]

The idea is novel, but it's a solution to a trivial problem. Most companies probably don't pay any significant amount of thought to sports standings. Fewer still would take the time out of their day to contend with some sort of system to keep track everything, much less pay for such a system.

It seems like a complex solution to a negligible issue.

EDIT: More so than the price, the work involved in implementing a system like this is probably the biggest deterrent. Games are a casual thing, and most people will be unwilling to tabulate and record everything after playing.

[nathanhoad]

It's certainly not for everyone but it's like the 37signals guys always say: scratch an itch. This has been an itch for a few places I've worked at so I figured I'd make something. Thanks for the feedback though :)

[prawn]

A $15/mo itch though?

We play a lot of office table tennis and even have occasional tournaments with online stats, a trophy, live tweeting, etc. We're looking at rolling our own leaderboard that calculates a running champion (rather than event-based champ) and I'd have considered a once-off fee to use this, but closed the tab at $15/mo. And that's even knowing it would probably take one of us a few hours of stuffing around to build something.

Hope that feedback is useful.

[nathanhoad]

Yeah pricing is hard. All Athletable trials are 45 days at the moment so I figure I've got a few weeks of pricing tests to work it out.

Cheers for the feedback.

[pserwylo]

It's been an itch at our work for the past five years, at least for me anyway (Table Tennis is our game of choice).

Unfortunately, this is not the type of thing the boss would be willing to pay for. He'd more likely just get us to build a module for our product to do it - in the vein of our "Pizza Friday" pizza ordering module (Tallies up all of the half-and-half orders, shows a history of orders in the "fat graph" and most importantly, prevents people ordering unless they've done their timesheets for the last two months).

However, I hope it works out, because it looks like a nice piece of software.

[nathanhoad]

Thanks for the feedback.

If you never get around to building the module (I was toying around with the leaderboard/stats app idea for a few years too :-P) then you are always welcome to join Athletable :)

[mayneack]

In my group that would use it (a college fraternity), we'd definitely be up for putting in the effort for this (lots of utility derived from trash talking, etc). I cannot imagine, however, that we'd pay $15/month for it.

A related website http://athleague.com/ (runs our school's IM sports) has options to purchase team paraphernalia or related things through their websites. As a college student, I can't say I know much about how that would be monetized in an office setting.

[nathanhoad]

Cheers for the comments. While Athletable is more targeted at companies it would be cool to try and find a way for it to work for schools as well. Can you shoot me an email at nathan [at] nathanhoad [dot] net so we can have a chat.