Stats sits in the Club tab beside Money. Nothing on it can be changed and nothing on it is a job. It is what happened, across years, counted from your own register and your own subscriptions. Nobody is named anywhere on it.
The row of years at the top moves every figure below it. Pressing one costs nothing and asks nothing: your whole history came down in one go when you opened the screen.
What it answers
- The club over the years. Members at the end of each year, and who joined and who left. It reaches back before your first subscription year on here, worked out from the joining dates on your register. Those columns are hatched so you can tell them from the counted ones.
- Who stays. How many came back the next year. Then what happened to the ones who did not, as three separate numbers, because they are three different things. They told you; they were sent a subscription and never took it up; or they simply never answered. The last of those is usually the biggest and the only one a phone call fixes. Under it, the same question split by the year people joined: read a row across and you can see when an intake settles.
- Who plays. How many of your members were in a box, on a ladder, in a tournament or at a social night, and how many matches got played. Then the one worth reading twice: how many came back, split by whether they played anything at all.
- Who the members are. Ages and gender. Every one of these says how many members it was counted over, because your register only knows what somebody has typed into it.
- The money. Charged, collected and still out, year by year, and how long each way of paying actually took to arrive.
- Who found us. How many of this year's new members came through the joining link on your own website, and how many somebody at the club typed in.
Your first year
While you are in your first membership year the screen counts in months rather than years, because a bar chart with one bar is a number drawn slowly. Members at the end of each month since you started, how many joined in each, how many played, and the subscriptions coming in as a running total. The month you are standing in is only as far as it has got, and the screen says so. When your second membership year opens it turns into the year by year report on its own, and there is nothing to switch.
If you kept a membership list before you came here and it has the date each member joined, bring it in under Members. The years behind you appear as well, as far back as twelve.
Where the numbers stop
Some blocks say nothing until there is something to say. Rather than sitting there empty they move to a card at the foot of the screen that names them and says which month they arrive. These are questions about more than one year, and nothing anybody does makes them come sooner. How many came back needs two membership years. Coming back split by whether they played needs a year that has ended, and it needs at least ten members on each side. A percentage of four people would move twenty-five points when one of them renews, and that is not worth reading out.
Ages and gender need ten members with the detail on file before they are drawn at all, for the same reason. Your register only knows what somebody has typed into it, and a split of five people gets read out as a fact about the club.
Download on any block gives you a spreadsheet of it, which is what the committee papers get written from. No names, no phone numbers, no addresses: everything on this screen is a count.
Whoever runs the club sees it, and so do the secretary, treasurer and committee. It is the club's own record rather than anything on the noticeboard.