Recaps and your history

When a club night finishes, ePegboard turns it into a recap. There are two: a personal one that is yours, and one for the whole night that you can share with the people you played with.

Your personal recap

Your personal recap is your own night, written up: your games, how you did, and how your rating moved. It is claim-gated, so you get to it once you have claimed your spot and it is tied to your account. Your latest night, with its rating change, opens straight into this recap.

The shareable club-night recap

There is also a recap of the whole club night - the night as a whole, not just your part in it. Send it to the people you played with, or anyone who wants to see how the night went.

Anyone who has the link sees the full recap. They do not need to be a member of the club or to sign in. That means they see everyone’s names, results and ratings for the night, and the awards. The recap carries no contact details - no email addresses or phone numbers. It is also kept out of search engines, so nobody comes across it by searching. The only way to it is a link somebody shares.

If your club shows history and head-to-heads, the recap also lists the night’s games, for everyone who opens it. You can open any player to see how their night went game by game, with the game list filtered down to them - handy for reliving a particular match-up. Club members also see each game’s Par and why the picker chose it. (Your own games are always yours to see.)

Connecting from a recap

If you open a recap for a club you are not connected to, it offers Connect to your club. That takes you to your Clubs list, asking you to sign in or create an account first if you have not. To finish connecting you need the club’s join code, which your club gives out. See Joining your club with a code.

Passing it on

At the foot of the recap there are two ways to hand it over, and every viewer gets them - you do not have to be an organiser.

• Share opens your phone’s own share sheet, so the recap goes straight into WhatsApp or wherever your club talks. It only shows up on a device that has a share sheet, so on most desktops you will see Copy link instead.
• Copy link puts the link on your clipboard.

Whatever you send is the plain link to the night. If you got to the recap through a club’s own link, or you had the game list filtered to one player, none of that travels with it. Somebody outside the club who opens it gets the full recap, the same as a member, apart from Par and the reasons for each pick.

The standings table

The recap lists everyone who played, ratings included, in the order your club ranks on - by win rate or by rating change. The first three columns read left to right as played, record, rate.

• # - where they finished in that order.
• Name - at clubs that show history and head-to-heads, tap anywhere on the row to filter the game list to that player’s games. If you are signed in as a member of the club, tapping the name itself opens their profile.
• Games - how many games they finished.
• Record - their record for the night: wins, losses and any draws, such as 5W 3L 1D.
• Win % - wins as a share of the games in their record.
• Rating change - how far their rating moved over the night.
• Results - one square per game, W, L or D, in the order the games were played. The record tells you the total; the squares tell you the run.
• Initial and Final - their rating at the start and the end of the night.

Drawn and stopped games

A normal game has a winner, so the score card won’t save a level score. If a game stops early and you enter a score short of game-over, ePegboard asks you to confirm it and offers Record as stopped.

An organiser can also correct a game that already has a score. Open it on the Completed Games tab, tap Edit, enter the score and tick Game was stopped. A game recorded as stopped can be level. Drawn games can also appear in a club’s imported history.

A draw has its own place in the record, as in 5W 3L 1D, and shows as a D square. It counts in Win % as a game that wasn’t won. For your rating, a draw is exactly half: a drawn game against a stronger pair can still nudge your rating up. See How a rating change is calculated.

A stopped game shows a small s and a dashed edge on its square. If it was stopped with under 10 points played, it shows as N: it isn’t rated and stays outside the record, though it still counts in Games.

Awards of the night

The club-night recap hands out up to six awards, with the headline one on a gold card at the top - the crown at clubs that rank on win rate, Biggest Improver at clubs that rank on rating change. Everyone who opens the link sees them, member or not. Each award is only given if somebody earns it, so a quiet night might show two or three rather than six.

• King / Queen / Champion of the Court - the best win rate of the night, among the players who played enough of it to qualify. The title follows the winner. This one is not simply the player at the top of the table - see below.
• Biggest Improver - the biggest rating gain on the night. It needs a gain of at least a full rating point, so on a night where nobody moves much it is not given.
• Biggest Upset - the biggest winning margin in a game the underdogs won. A game only counts as an upset if the two winners’ average rating was at least 50 below the two they beat. The card shows the score alongside what the score was expected to be.
• Giant Killers - the biggest rating gap anyone overturned, from that same set of upsets. It ranks on how far below you were rather than on how well you won, so it usually lands on a different game from Biggest Upset, and sometimes on the same one.
• Longest Winning Streak - the longest run of wins in a row, minimum three. If two players tie on length, it goes to whoever did it in fewer games.
• Perfect Night - won every game they played, minimum three games. More than one player can share it.

Why the crown is not always on the top row

The standings table is in whatever order your club has picked. The crown is worked out separately, and it goes to the best win rate among the players who played enough of the night to qualify. Usually that is the player at the top of the table. Sometimes it is somebody further down, and that is not a mistake.

To be in the running for the crown you need both of these:

• At least 3 finished games.
• More than half the finished games the busiest player played. Not half - more than half.

Both are meant to be checkable in your head at the side of a court. If the busiest player there finished 9 games, you need 5. If they finished 8, you still need 5: half of 8 is 4, and 4 is not more than half. That last case is the point of the rule - somebody who arrives for an hour, wins four out of four and leaves has not won a night that other people played twice as much of.

If nobody clears both bars, there is no crown that night.

The card says what it was won on: Top win rate: 75% wins.

And when somebody finished the night on a better win rate but did not qualify, the card says so - “2 players finished on a higher win rate but hadn’t played enough games” - with a link back to this page. It only appears when it applies, so most nights it is not there at all. It never names anyone: if you are wondering whether it means you, check your own finished games against the busiest player’s.

How your nights build into a history

Each night you have played keeps its own recap, and they build up in two places:

• Your recent nights, across clubs. Your Me home carries a run-through of your recent nights at every club you play at - tap one to open that night.
• A club’s full history. Open a club from your Clubs list and its Sessions list shows every night. Filter it to My to see just the nights you played; each row opens that night’s recap.

For the rating side of it - your current rating, games played and win rate at each club - see Your rating and stats.