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Apps What's the Score, Bro?: An all-in-one-view app for soccer moms/dads, coaches, referees and anyone who loves soccer (football)
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Version 2.1 is out!
This is the first major leap in versioning since the two appeared before the dot. The new version not only brings cosmetic improvements, but also a completely new timer with flexible additional time. The impetus for this came directly from the German Football Association (DFB) and DFB Schiri GmbH - thank you very much for that! ❤️
This is in accordance with the official rules: Playing time is not stopped, but an additional time is added if there were longer interruptions during the game due to treatment or goal celebrations.
This flexible form of additional time is now also available with What's the Score, Bro?
When regular time comes to an end, a haptic alarm is triggered and the additional time starts with a timer that counts up. The color of the timer changes to red and a distinctive "+" symbol is added to the half-time indicator to prevent confusion.
As before, the indicator for the interruption time can be found as a red number below the timer. New: If the additional time reaches the exact - not rounded - level of the stoppage time, the indicator turns green and another haptic alarm is triggered.
Now you can blow the whistle.
To do justice to this, the match report now also shows the additional minute for each event in additional time.
Do you have any further suggestions or requests for improvement? Then drop a comment.
I'm happy if you like What's the Score, Bro? Especially if you leave me a rating in the App Store. 😍
This is the first major leap in versioning since the two appeared before the dot. The new version not only brings cosmetic improvements, but also a completely new timer with flexible additional time. The impetus for this came directly from the German Football Association (DFB) and DFB Schiri GmbH - thank you very much for that! ❤️
New: The timer continues to run during breaks
As before, you can pause the timer during breaks. However, the timer now continues to run while the stoppage time is measured in the background.
This is in accordance with the official rules: Playing time is not stopped, but an additional time is added if there were longer interruptions during the game due to treatment or goal celebrations.
This flexible form of additional time is now also available with What's the Score, Bro?
When regular time comes to an end, a haptic alarm is triggered and the additional time starts with a timer that counts up. The color of the timer changes to red and a distinctive "+" symbol is added to the half-time indicator to prevent confusion.
As before, the indicator for the interruption time can be found as a red number below the timer. New: If the additional time reaches the exact - not rounded - level of the stoppage time, the indicator turns green and another haptic alarm is triggered.
Now you can blow the whistle.
New: Additional match minute also in the match report
Who doesn't remember the 1999 Champions League final between FC Bayern Munich and Manchester United? The game was decided by two goals in additional time. Since then, not only have many more goals been scored in additional time, but cautions have also been given and players have been sent off, not to mention tactical substitutions. What's more, it feels like additional time is getting longer and longer.To do justice to this, the match report now also shows the additional minute for each event in additional time.
Do you have any further suggestions or requests for improvement? Then drop a comment.
I'm happy if you like What's the Score, Bro? Especially if you leave me a rating in the App Store. 😍
Version 2.1.2 is out now!
Hopefully you will never or only rarely need these new referee functions: You can now suspend or abandon matches completely. The suggestion came from Ole from Wiesbaden - many thanks for that!
Suspension of play
You can access this option via the action buttons. Scroll all the way down. It doesn't matter whether you select the home or away team.
If you suspend the game, the game timer is paused and a yellow timer on the main screen shows you how long the suspension has lasted. You can resume the game at any time.
If the match is resumed, you will find an entry in the match report about the duration of the suspension. You can add as many suspensions as you like and a separate report will be generated for each one. But hopefully this will never be the case.
Abandonment of the match
It's the horror of every soccer / football referee: the game or the conditions get so ugly that nothing works anymore. I hope this never happens to you. If it does, you can end the game immediately in the app. You will find the option below the game interruption. This intermediate step prevents you from accidentally triggering the function.
You can also end a game while a suspension is already in progress. In this case, only the abandonment of the game is recorded.
Soccer / football matches with penalty shoot-outs, but without extra time
It's time for indoor tournaments again! It is customary to play many matches in close succession. In the knockout round, extra time is therefore often dispensed with and a decision is made directly via a penalty shoot-out. This is now also possible in What's the Score, Bro?
Useful: At the end of a regular game, only the score and timer are reset, the remaining settings are retained. This is particularly useful in tournaments.
The reset function has also been adapted accordingly. You can now choose whether you only want to reset the score and timer or all settings.
New visualization of yellow-red cards
I have revised the display of the cards. This affects both the match notes and the match report. Previously, yellow-red cards were displayed as red, now they are clearly different.
Temporary dismissals are now paused during an interruption relevant to additional time.
Do you have any further suggestions or requests for improvement? Then drop a comment.
I'm happy if you like What's the Score, Bro? Especially if you leave me a rating in the App Store. 😍
A happy New Year 202.4 to you all. 🥳
With this update, you're kicking it into high gear: Record goals, cautions, temporary dismissals, or substitutions in less than three seconds. Pen and paper can now stay permanently in your pocket, because the latest version of What's the Score, Bro? is based on the current IFAB rules for the 2023/24 season and thinks along with you:
More than ever, What's the Score, Bro? supports you in avoiding errors, drastically reducing note-taking time, and allowing you to focus entirely on the game.
I'm happy if you like What's the Score, Bro? Especially if you leave me a rating in the App Store. 🙏
Version 2.4 – From now on, no entry takes longer than 3 seconds
29. January 2024With this update, you're kicking it into high gear: Record goals, cautions, temporary dismissals, or substitutions in less than three seconds. Pen and paper can now stay permanently in your pocket, because the latest version of What's the Score, Bro? is based on the current IFAB rules for the 2023/24 season and thinks along with you:
- Before kickoff, you can input the rosters of both teams in just a few seconds. Incorrect entries due to duplicates or invalid player numbers are automatically detected, not accepted, and you'll receive a prompt. Transferring rosters to the Apple Watch is done in seconds, faster than inputting them on an iPhone.
- Before the start of the game or at the beginning of extra time, tap twice on the score display of the respective team that has the kickoff. At halftime, the app now shows you who will be kicking off next.
- For each game event, you now simply select the corresponding team and then tap on the jersey of the relevant player or – in the case of a group substitution – several players. You can do this in under three seconds.
- Field players are displayed with a fully colored jersey, substitute players, and those with a time penalty are outlined in color.
- For the first time, you can now caution and send off the coach as well. They will be displayed with their own jersey and a "C" in the roster overview and automatically created for each team.
- The app follows the official IFAB rules for the 2023/24 season regarding cautions, sending-offs, and temporary dismissals. A second yellow card is automatically converted into a red card. Players who receive two temporary dismissals in the same game are excluded from the game after the second dismissal and can be replaced by a substitute player. A player who commits an offense warranting a caution or sending off during their temporary dismissal is permanently excluded from the game and cannot be replaced or substituted.
- The new "Notebook" section is now much clearer: disciplinary actions and substitutions are now displayed separately from each other. Players substituted multiple times are now only shown once. The first temporary dismissal is represented by the familiar white-red stopwatch symbol, while the second temporary dismissal is represented by a yellow-red version.
- In the settings, you can now specify whether multiple substitutions are allowed or not. With the latter option, once substituted players cannot be substituted again and are marked in the overview with a small padlock.
- The app's design has once again been revamped and now appears uniform and professional in user guidance. After a game event, the view now automatically returns to the main screen.
More than ever, What's the Score, Bro? supports you in avoiding errors, drastically reducing note-taking time, and allowing you to focus entirely on the game.
I'm happy if you like What's the Score, Bro? Especially if you leave me a rating in the App Store. 🙏
Great to see this being actively developed. I left a review when I first started using the app last year. I just left another rating. While the app is now a lot more complex for my simple needs, it still does everything that o need (keeping score of my nephews games) easily enough. I’m not a soccer ref, but could see this as an all in one solution if I were. Recommend it to anyone on the fence.
=== Update v2.4.1 ===
You can now also enter player numbers using the iPhone keyboard or your voice.
You can now also enter player numbers using the iPhone keyboard or your voice.
Thanks for the how to video. While I won't use 90% of the features, it was great to see how it worked. I did see a few things that I wasn't aware of. All in all, a pretty great app.
=== Update v2.4.21 ===
Greetings from Frankfurt, these three improvements are suggestions that came from you, the users. Thank you very much for that!
Greetings from Frankfurt, these three improvements are suggestions that came from you, the users. Thank you very much for that!
- When defining the teams' rosters, in addition to the coach, three team officials are now automatically included, whom you can caution and send off. They are marked as A1, A2, and A3.
- Before the penalty shootout, you can now mark the team that takes the first penalty with a double tap. Subsequently, the team that is next to shoot will always be highlighted.
- If you pause the game, for example, for a goal celebration or treatment, your Apple Watch will now vibrate every five seconds to remind you to resume play.
- *** Update 2.4.21 *** I quickly added this: The "sound design" of the vibration alarm for halftime, reaching stoppage time, and the end of the game has been optimized. Also new: When you end halftime or the game, the alarm stops as well.
Version 3.0 for iPhone and Appe Watch is now available as a free beta.
You are welcome to test it, the number of testers is initially limited to 25. Follow the link to install the apps: https://testflight.apple.com/join/yeXNILqkWhat's new:
- iPhone app
- Fitness Tracking
- Location Tracking
- Dashboard with lots of data
Over the past six months, I’ve been working on the big sister of my referee Watch app. Today, October 3rd, Version 3 is finally available for the iPhone in the App Store. Here are the new features:
Fitness Tracking: With the Watch app, you can now also record fitness data during a game. Distance, speed, heart rate, performance, and calorie consumption are tracked for every minute of the game and visually presented in the iPhone app. For all performance data, there’s a trend analysis that compares your data with the average of the last ten recorded games.
Motion Analysis: You can now also track your running routes during halftime. For goals and disciplinary actions, the location is recorded when entered. Sprints are saved separately with details about length, duration, and speed. The data is plotted on an interactive map using Apple Maps. When you tap on a marker for a goal scorer, a yellow circle with a 20-meter radius appears around the player. This helps referees assess their positioning during goal situations.
Weather Data: Weather conditions are logged for each game.
Dashboard: The dashboard collects a wealth of information about all aspects of football games. Examples include the total distance covered in all games, the game with the highest speed achieved, or the lowest recorded temperature. Of course, you’ll also find all information on issued cards, goals, and extra time.
Match Report: The match report feed, which was well-received on the Watch app, has been incorporated into the iPhone app, allowing you to scroll through all game events in a clear and organized way.
Game Rating: A new feature in the Watch app allows you to rate your experience as a referee using three emojis: 😀😐☹️. This rating is also integrated into the dashboard, giving you an overview of how many games were rated positively, neutrally, or negatively.
Settings via iPhone: You can now create games on the iPhone and transfer them to the Apple Watch. This feature has been requested by many referees, and I sincerely hope it meets your expectations.
Attached are some screenshots. I hope you give the app a try.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/wie-stehts-brudi/id6449088307
Fitness Tracking: With the Watch app, you can now also record fitness data during a game. Distance, speed, heart rate, performance, and calorie consumption are tracked for every minute of the game and visually presented in the iPhone app. For all performance data, there’s a trend analysis that compares your data with the average of the last ten recorded games.
Motion Analysis: You can now also track your running routes during halftime. For goals and disciplinary actions, the location is recorded when entered. Sprints are saved separately with details about length, duration, and speed. The data is plotted on an interactive map using Apple Maps. When you tap on a marker for a goal scorer, a yellow circle with a 20-meter radius appears around the player. This helps referees assess their positioning during goal situations.
Weather Data: Weather conditions are logged for each game.
Dashboard: The dashboard collects a wealth of information about all aspects of football games. Examples include the total distance covered in all games, the game with the highest speed achieved, or the lowest recorded temperature. Of course, you’ll also find all information on issued cards, goals, and extra time.
Match Report: The match report feed, which was well-received on the Watch app, has been incorporated into the iPhone app, allowing you to scroll through all game events in a clear and organized way.
Game Rating: A new feature in the Watch app allows you to rate your experience as a referee using three emojis: 😀😐☹️. This rating is also integrated into the dashboard, giving you an overview of how many games were rated positively, neutrally, or negatively.
Settings via iPhone: You can now create games on the iPhone and transfer them to the Apple Watch. This feature has been requested by many referees, and I sincerely hope it meets your expectations.
Attached are some screenshots. I hope you give the app a try.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/wie-stehts-brudi/id6449088307
Sorry, I misunderstood you. No, you can’t adjust the length of the breaks between periods. Is that a feature you’d like to see?
Yes. To delete a game, tap on the menu in the top right corner of the game view, then select “Delete game”.
Please excuse my late response. The notification ended up in the spam folder. If it’s still relevant: You can change the permissions on the iPhone under Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services.
This will automatically be applied to the Watch.
This will automatically be applied to the Watch.
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Just mentioning that this is a pretty great app, if you're in the market for something like this. It's grown well beyond what I use it for, but the developer is responsive & actually incorporated a couple of my ideas into earlier versions of the app.
Aside from purchasing the app, I have no affiliation with the developer, but am happy with it & wanted to give it a mention.