verDecide the shape of the season
Settle these before anyone asks, and write them down where every captain can read them.
- How many teams, and how many games. A single round robin of n teams is n × (n − 1) ÷ 2 matches: 8 teams play 28 matches over 7 rounds. Twelve or more teams usually split into groups or divisions.
- The format. Overs a side and the most any bowler may bowl (in a 20-over game, 4 each), or The Hundred.
- Points. For a win, a tie, a no result and a loss, and whether a big win earns a bonus.
- Tie-breaks. The order to separate teams level on points: most wins, net run rate, head to head, run difference.
- Playing conditions. Players a side, powerplay, free hit after a no-ball, super over for a tie, the ball.
- Umpires. Neutral umpires, or each team takes a turn on umpiring duty.
- What happens when it rains, or a side cannot raise a team: a no result, a reduced game worked out with DLS, or a forfeit.
Tip. Fees are simplest collected the way your club already does it. Keep the season’s bylaws next to the points and playing conditions, so a dispute has something to go back to.
Set it up in ThisOver
- Create the league. Go to Leagues, open My Leagues and tap Create league. Give it a name and add your grounds; the season fills itself in.
- Points and the first series. Set the points system and name your first series. A setup checklist then walks you through series, teams, invites and fixtures, and remembers where you stopped.
- Add the teams, one at a time or as a whole list: one team per line, pasted straight from your notes.
- Invite the players with one registration link in the team chat. Players sign up themselves and pick their team.
- Generate the fixtures: round robin, group stages and knockout playoffs. They land under Today, Upcoming and Past, and a single match can be added with its teams, date, time and venue.
Running a league is part of the organiser plan, with a 7-day free trial and no card. Box cricket leagues are free.
Get the players in
Share the registration link from Manage league. Players open it, sign in, confirm their name and pick their team, and you approve them in Registrations and approvals with one tap. Team admins only see their own team.
Open a team to set its captain, vice-captain and keeper and build the roster from registered players. A player can be added by hand too, with a name, a position and an optional email.
Points, tie-breaks and rules for each series
In Series and Admin, each series can have its own rules: points for a win, a tie, a no result and a loss, a bonus point for a big win (1.5 times the loser’s runs), and your tie-break order. Overs or The Hundred are applied to every match in the series, and the scorer cannot give a bowler more overs than it allows.
The league’s bylaws sit on the same Rules page, in your own words. Points taken off a team show on the table with an asterisk and the reason.
Umpires
Each competitive league keeps an umpire panel. Umpires sign in, pick the team they umpire for and their level, and an admin approves them. Name two umpires on a fixture, or put a team on umpiring duty: ThisOver shares the duty out, never to one of the two sides or a team playing that day, fewest duties first, and shows you the plan before it is saved.
After the match each captain rates each umpire from 1 to 5, and umpires can file a match report that only the league’s admins read.
Match day
- Who scores. Give someone scoring access in Manage league, with Grant access: search for them, pick the role and save. A scorer can score the league’s matches without any admin rights, and an umpire named on a fixture can score that match.
- Before the toss. Availability votes tell a captain who is free before the side is picked; tallies show who has voted, by name.
- Scoring. Tap Start scoring on the fixture card: confirm the match, tick both elevens, set the overs, toss and pick the openers and bowler. Every ball is one tap, offline if the ground has no signal. How to score a match.
- Rain. Actions, then Force stop, works out the DLS par score. Call it a no result, or end it by DLS, and that result goes to the table.
After each match
The points table updates the moment a match finishes, and every finished match gets a report, a full scorecard, a PDF and a Player of the Match.
In a competitive league both captains confirm the scorecard, or dispute it, within 48 hours. A dispute goes to the league and series admins with the reason. A corrected scorecard recalculates the table and every statistic, so nobody types a figure in by hand.
Through the season, and the end of it
- Forfeits. Record a walkover as a win and a loss, with no runs, overs or player stats.
- Rosters. Lock team rosters once the season is under way.
- On the web. List the league on thisover.com and its table, fixtures and scorecards are public, with no account needed to read them.
- The awards. Batting, bowling, fielding, rankings and the season awards, Orange and Purple Caps included, are worked out from the scorecards.
Questions
How many matches is a round robin?
n × (n − 1) ÷ 2 for n teams playing each other once: 6 teams play 15 matches, 8 teams play 28, 10 teams play 45. Double it if they play home and away.
Do players have to pay to use ThisOver?
No. Players, scorers, umpires and captains never pay. One organiser plan covers the league, from $10 a month or $100 a year, after a 7-day trial with no card; the three plans differ only in YouTube lives a month (20, 100 or 200). Box cricket leagues need no plan.
Can I bring last season across from another platform?
Yes. In Manage league, Import past matches reads the scorecard PDFs of the matches you have already played and builds the teams, players and results from them. Import at least three and your first season is free. See Switching to ThisOver.
Can people follow the league without the app?
Yes. List the league on thisover.com and anyone can read the table, fixtures and scorecards in a browser, without an account.
What is net run rate?
Runs scored per over minus runs conceded per over, across the season. A side bowled out is counted as having faced its full quota of overs. How it is worked out.
