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.

⚠️ 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.