# 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.