Adding Non-Team or Non-Traditional Scores
Golf and other sports where the lower score wins:
You can adjust a sport to show the low score as the winner in the Sports editor.
- Go to Sports Scores -> Sports (Game Scheduler -> Sports for sites with the Site Booster).
- Click on the sport you'd like to edit from the list or add a new sport on the left side of this area.
- Adjust the Winner Determination dropdown to Low Score Wins.
- Click the Update button.
Volleyball:
The sports tools are only built for a single score for each team, so we recommend using the score of how many games were won (3-1).
If you want all the scores to display, you’d need to add them all into the Our Score box along with an L or a W at the end. For example, you could add “25-24, 25-18, 25-20, 15-7 W” in the box.
Example:
Saturday, December 15
Volleyball
Stanford 3 - Nebraska 2
or
Saturday, December 15
Volleyball
Stanford 3 - Nebraska 2 (28-26, 22-25, 25-16, 15-25, 15-12)
In the second example, the results from individual sets would be placed after the “2” in the Opponent’s Score field. They fit best there because they don’t break up the connection between the 3-2 final score. Stylistically, because Stanford won, always type their score first in the set-by-set results even when it’s lower (28-26, 22-25, etc.).
Tennis, cross country, golf, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling yield, perhaps, the most challenging subset of results to condense into sports scores, but they are all team sports. So, despite the myriad of individual times, results, placings and scores, each of them typically end up in an easy-to-use final team score. Take this team tennis match, for example:
Friday, December 5
Boys Tennis
Effingham 7 - Charleston 5
A team tennis match, or dual, counts one point for a team per individual win, which is how Effingham wins 7-5. Utilize the same setup for any of the other team sports in this group that participate in dual matches, and then write about the individual results in a news story. When there are more than two teams competing, like at a meet or tournament, you need to decide how many of the results you want to show.
Cheerleading and dance competition results can be displayed the same way.
Friday, December 5
Competitive Cheer
Joliet 88.91 (5th) - Frankfort 91.59 (1st)
It helps to know how each sport works, too. Each one in this group typically has final point totals awarded to teams in any event. If you don’t understand it, ask the coach. In the postseason, though, athletes competing in these sports can extend their seasons beyond the end of the team’s run by way of their individual performances. That’s where it gets tricky. Given the way Sports Scores are setup, the individual athlete you want to display results for may best serve as your “Opponent.”
Saturday, December 7
Track & Field
Mount Zion 1st Place - Josie Held 12’ 6” (Pole Vault)
In this example, “1st Place” is your score, Josie is the “Opponent” and “12’ 6” (Pole Vault)” is the complete Opponent’s Score. This won’t work every time, though, and it won’t work well for the results of multiple individuals all at once. So, you may try utilizing a different SNO tool altogether: the Marquee that can be set to show announcements, such as:
Naomi Osaka defeats Sabrina Andreescu in three sets (5-7, 6-3, 6-4)