What the courts got used for
History sits beside Set up on the Courts screen. It answers what a committee asks every year: are the courts busy, when are they busy, and what is being played on them. It opens on the last thirty days, and the row along the top moves it to this month, last month or the last twelve months.
The figures across the top are the bookings, the court hours, how many different members booked, how much of the bookable time went, and how many courts were given back. The percentage is against what members could have booked, so the hours you are shut and the courts you took out for club night are not counted against you. Under it the same range is broken up five ways. By day of the week, by time of day, by court, by what the court was for, and who booked most. The quiet Tuesday is usually the point.
Then every booking in the range, newest first, grouped under its day: the time, the court, who booked it, and what it was for. It starts with the most recent five days and Show more days works back through the rest, which keeps a year of diary readable. The figures at the top do not move while you do that. They are about the whole range, and reading further down it has not changed what your courts were used for. The filters are the other thing, and they DO move both. A filter is a different question rather than a different page, and "Court 1 in the evenings" is one tap on each. Pick a court and every percentage is about that court, measured against the hours that one court was there to be booked. So a busy court at a quiet club reads as a busy court.
Download it as a spreadsheet and you get one row per booking, ready for the committee papers. There is no phone number and no email address in it. Cancellations carry when they came back and who gave them back. So "booked it and dropped it an hour before" is something you can count rather than something somebody says in the bar.
Whoever runs the club sees it, and so do the secretary, treasurer and committee. It is not on the sheet everybody reads: who booked what all year is the club's business rather than the noticeboard's.