Your box leagues, without the hour a month

About five minutes. All it takes to begin is the club’s name and an email, with no card and no password. The first time you sign in it walks you through the whole thing on practice data and then clears that out, so the only real thing you type is how many boxes the round has and who is in each of them. Then you paste one link into the club chat and the scores start coming to the table instead of to you.

No, and nothing here reports to it on your behalf. SquashLevels is a national rating built from matches across every club that sends them in. The ladder here is your club’s own: everybody starts on 1200, it moves from the first match, and it is there to give your members somebody to play. If your club reports to SquashLevels, carry on. What has changed is that you are not typing the round out a second time to do it. Every confirmed result saves as a spreadsheet, a tab for each box and one for the ladder, a row a match, with the date, both names, the game scores and whether it was a walkover, a retirement or unfinished. The file carries player names rather than SquashLevels accounts, so whoever uploads still matches people up at that end.

When a round closes you press one button and next month’s boxes are built from the standings. Top two up and bottom two down to start with, and both numbers are settings. You can move somebody by hand before you go live, which is what you will want the month somebody comes back from injury.

No. Each box has its own roster, so four in one and six in another is normal, and the fixtures for each are generated from the names in it. A player joining mid-round goes into a box and gets their fixtures immediately.

A group of its own in the same round. Call the group Racketball and that is what your members see. It is played to the round’s format, which works because most clubs score it exactly as they score squash: best of three or five games to 11. It promotes and relegates within itself like any other group. If your club scores racketball differently from squash, that is a second league rather than a second group, and it is billed separately.

Neither. They tap the link in the club’s group chat, tap their name, and they are in. It works on whatever phone they already have, and there is no password to reset for the member who plays one round a year.

Tap Leagues is the one squash clubs meet most: it is free, it has iOS and Android apps, and there is more in it than there is in Clayside, including thirteen sports and a challenge ladder. The difference is what it asks of your members, which is an account each.

A junior in a box is their name and their scores, and that is the record. They are never asked for an email, a phone number or a date of birth, and they never make an account. On a club plan the register keeps what the club already holds on paper, behind its own permission, and a junior never signs in with an address of their own. Safeguarding, written down.

One box of up to 15 players is free, for as long as you want it: the live table, and the players putting their own scores in. After that every paid plan runs the same thing: as many boxes and seasons as you like, 8 club ladders, the championships, promotion and relegation, and career records. What you pay is set by how many members your club has. It starts at £120 a year or £12 a month, for a club of up to 125. Every paid plan carries a sponsor line on the league page, which is the one item here a club can turn straight back into money. See what is in each. The case for your committee. How the sponsor line works.