3 Competitions

• 3.1 Logging League Play & Tournaments
• 3.2 Managing Sessions

3.1 Logging League Play & Tournaments

Logging League Play & Tournaments

Competitions are at the heart of Spectre Stats. Every time you bowl in a league night, a tournament, or a practice session you want to keep on record, you log it as a competition. Over time, your competition history becomes a detailed picture of how your game is developing — across different venues, conditions, and formats.

🏆 Leagues vs. Tournaments vs. Practice

Spectre Stats organizes your bowling into three main competition types. Choosing the right type when you log a session keeps your history clean and makes your stats easier to compare later.

Type	Best Used For	Examples
🏆 League	Organized weekly or seasonal competition at a regular house	Thursday night league, sport shot league, mixed league
🎳 Tournament	Single-event competitions, often at unfamiliar venues or on challenging patterns	Regional tournaments, scratch events, handicap tournaments
📊 Practice	Deliberate practice sessions you want to track separately from competition	Open bowling, spare practice, oil pattern work

⚠️ Verify: Confirm the exact competition types available in the app and whether additional types exist (e.g. "Doubles", "Team", "Baker format").

📋 How Competitions Are Structured

Understanding how Spectre Stats organizes competition data makes logging faster and your history more useful.

• A Competition is the overall event — for example, your Thursday Night League for the 2024–25 season, or a specific regional tournament.
• A Session is a single night or round within that competition — for example, one Thursday night of league play, or one squad of a tournament.
• Each session contains your game scores, ball selection, and any notes you want to record about conditions or performance.

This structure means you can track a full league season as one competition, with each week logged as its own session — making it easy to review trends across the season rather than game by game.

⚠️ Verify: Confirm the exact terminology used in the app for these concepts (e.g. "Competition" vs. "Event" vs. "Series", "Session" vs. "Round") and whether the hierarchy matches this description.

➕ Creating a New Competition

1. From the home screen, tap or click Competitions in the navigation.
2. Tap or click New Competition or the + button.
3. Enter the competition details:
   • Name — e.g. Thursday Night League 2024–25 or Regional Scratch Tournament
   • Type — League, Tournament, or Practice
   • Bowling Center — where the competition takes place
   • Start Date — the first session or event date
   • Format — e.g. handicap, scratch, match play
4. Tap or click Save to create the competition.

Once created, your competition appears in your Competitions list and is ready for you to log sessions against it.

⚠️ Verify: Confirm the exact fields available when creating a competition, which are required vs. optional, and whether additional fields exist (e.g. number of games per session, team name, oil pattern).

🎳 Logging a Session

A session is a single night or round of bowling within a competition. Here's how to log one:

1. Open the competition you want to log against from your Competitions list.
2. Tap or click Add Session or the + button.
3. Enter the session details:
   • Date — defaults to today
   • Scores — enter your game scores for the session
   • Ball Used — select from your arsenal
   • Lane Pair — the lanes you bowled on
   • Oil Pattern — if known
   • Notes — anything worth remembering about conditions, adjustments, or results
4. Tap or click Save Session.

⚠️ Verify: Confirm the exact session entry fields, whether shot-by-shot or frame-by-frame entry is supported in addition to game score entry, and whether multiple balls can be logged within a single session.

🏆 Tournament-Specific Tips

Tournaments often involve multiple squads, challenging oil patterns, and unfamiliar venues. A few things worth noting when logging tournament play:

• ✅ Create a new competition for each tournament event — this keeps tournament results separate from your league history
• ✅ Log each squad or block as its own session within the tournament competition
• ✅ Record the oil pattern if you know it — this is especially valuable for matching ball performance to pattern data over time
• ✅ Use the Notes field to capture anything unusual — carry-down, lane transition, equipment changes mid-block

📊 Viewing Your Competition History

All of your logged competitions are stored in your Competitions list, organized by type and date. Tapping into any competition shows you a session-by-session breakdown with scores, averages, and any notes you recorded.

• ✅ Filter by competition type — League, Tournament, or Practice
• ✅ See your average score per competition and across your full history
• ✅ Review which balls you used and on which patterns across all sessions

⚠️ Verify: Confirm the filtering, sorting, and summary options available in the Competitions list view, and whether Pro subscribers have access to additional history or export options.

✏️ Editing or Deleting a Session

1. Open the competition containing the session you want to change.
2. Tap or click the session to open it.
3. Tap or click Edit to update any details, or Delete to remove the session entirely.
4. Confirm your changes.

Note: Deleting a session permanently removes it from your competition history. This action cannot be undone.

Related Sections

• Shot & Performance Tracking
• Managing Your Sessions
• Arsenal Management
• Performance Charts

Tip: The more consistently you log sessions — including ball selection, lane pair, and a quick note about conditions — the more useful your competition history becomes. Even a single sentence in the Notes field can jog your memory months later when you return to the same venue.

3.2 Managing Sessions

Managing Sessions

Sessions are the individual records that build up your competition history over time. Once you've logged a session, Spectre Stats gives you tools to review it in detail, make corrections, add notes after the fact, and keep your competition records organized. This page covers everything you can do with a session after it's been created.

📋 Viewing a Session

1. From the home screen, tap or click Competitions in the navigation.
2. Select the competition the session belongs to.
3. Tap or click the session from the list to open it.

The session detail view shows everything you logged at the time, including:

• ✅ Game scores and session total
• ✅ Session average and how it compares to your overall average
• ✅ Ball or balls used during the session
• ✅ Lane pair and bowling center
• ✅ Oil pattern (if recorded)
• ✅ Date and any notes you added

⚠️ Verify: Confirm the exact fields shown in the session detail view and whether shot-by-shot or frame-by-frame data is displayed here if it was entered during logging.

✏️ Editing a Session

Made a mistake or want to add details you didn't capture at the time? You can edit any session after it's been saved.

1. Open the session you want to edit.
2. Tap or click Edit.
3. Update any fields — scores, ball selection, notes, lane pair, oil pattern, or date.
4. Tap or click Save to confirm your changes.

⚠️ Verify: Confirm whether all fields are editable after saving, or whether certain fields (e.g. competition type or date) are locked once a session has been logged.

📝 Adding or Updating Notes

The Notes field is one of the most useful parts of a session record — it's where you capture context that the numbers alone can't tell you. You can add or update notes at any time, even long after the session took place.

• ✅ What the lanes were doing — hooking early, burning up in the back, heavy oil carrydown
• ✅ Equipment adjustments you made mid-session — surface changes, switching balls, moving your feet
• ✅ Anything unusual about the conditions or venue
• ✅ How you felt physically — a detail worth tracking if you're managing fatigue or injury

1. Open the session and tap or click Edit.
2. Tap or click the Notes field and type your notes.
3. Tap or click Save.

🔄 Moving a Session to a Different Competition

If you accidentally logged a session against the wrong competition, you may be able to move it without having to delete and re-enter it.

1. Open the session you want to move.
2. Tap or click Edit.
3. Tap or click the Competition field and select the correct competition from your list.
4. Tap or click Save.

⚠️ Verify: Confirm whether sessions can be reassigned to a different competition from within the edit screen, or whether this requires deleting and re-logging the session.

🗑️ Deleting a Session

If you need to remove a session entirely — for example, if it was logged in error — you can delete it from the session detail view.

1. Open the session you want to delete.
2. Tap or click Delete Session or the trash icon.
3. Confirm the deletion when prompted.

Note: Deleting a session permanently removes it from your competition history and cannot be undone. Your overall averages and performance charts will update automatically to reflect the change.

📊 Session Summary Stats

Within each competition, Spectre Stats calculates running stats across all your logged sessions so you can see your performance at a glance without opening each one individually.

• ✅ Session count — total number of sessions logged for this competition
• ✅ Competition average — your average score across all sessions in this competition
• ✅ High game — your best single game within this competition
• ✅ High series — your best series within this competition
• ✅ Trend — whether your average is trending up, down, or holding steady

⚠️ Verify: Confirm which summary stats are displayed at the competition level, and whether additional stats (e.g. strike rate, spare conversion rate) are available for Pro subscribers.

🔍 Filtering and Sorting Sessions

If a competition has many sessions logged — as a full league season will — you can filter and sort the session list to find what you're looking for quickly.

• ✅ Sort by date — newest or oldest first
• ✅ Sort by score — highest or lowest
• ✅ Filter by ball used
• ✅ Filter by lane pair or bowling center

⚠️ Verify: Confirm the available filter and sort options within the session list view, and whether search functionality is available.

❄️ Archiving a Competition

When a league season ends or a tournament is over, you can archive the competition to keep your active list clean without losing any of your historical data. Archived competitions remain fully accessible — they're just moved out of your main view.

1. Go to your Competitions list.
2. Tap or hold (mobile) or right-click (web) on the competition you want to archive.
3. Select Archive.
4. To view archived competitions, tap or click Show Archived or filter by Archived.

⚠️ Verify: Confirm whether an archive feature exists, the exact interaction to trigger it on mobile vs. web, and whether archived competitions still contribute to overall performance stats and charts.

Related Sections

• Logging League Play & Tournaments
• Shot & Performance Tracking
• Performance Charts
• Arsenal Management

Tip: Get into the habit of adding a quick note immediately after each session while the details are still fresh — even two or three sentences about lane conditions and how your ball was reacting can make your competition history dramatically more useful when you return to the same venue next season.