Ive made this request in the past and I can see others have as well. When are we going to get match play and skins scorecard capabilities? This would be a great feature to have on the app to go along with the other basic functions. There have been a lot of features added that are not as necessary as this. This seems like it would be a rather simple add. Thanks!
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I agree, i cant see that being such a big thing to develop, but an important thing for everyday players that paying quite a lot. It is almost a dealbreaker for a so dominant app.
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I couldn’t agree more! Match play is something my group of friends do all the time, we’ll run tournaments and so on throughout the year and it would be nice to see it added!
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Hey all, thanks for adding your feedback here. While this isn’t something that is currently on the near-term roadmap, it could be in the future. I would love to hear more about your vision for this. Currently for match play rounds, do you simply score like normal and then add up who won the holes at the end? What do you imagine match play in the app would look like?
When I was looking for March play rules a while back, I came across this link, which is your blog from some years back.
How Does Disc Golf Match Play Work? | Release Point - The UDisc Blog
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It provides graphics that someone within udisc created. So I think someone has spent some time on developing it already. I still don’t see how this isnt on your short term outlook for development.
Anyways, we currently mark birdie for winner of the hole and par for a push. It works but it could be better, like a true match play score card for instance…
Ideally it would provide the scoring as indicated in the graphics in the link provided. It would also automatically tell you that player 1 defeated player 2 on hole 13 because he is up by 6. Just two thoughts that come to mind right away.
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I personally would like to see it track the score of the player along with the match play score. There is an app I use for ball golf called 18 birdies where it keeps you normal score but also updates the match play (it also allows other game modes like skins). I would love to see something like that for UDisc, that way when we play we can see our total score if we are playing out our rounds, along with match play standings.
At the moment my friends and I keep track of it mentally but when there’s a lot of back forth it gets confusing. I know what has been used for the presidents cup in the past on UDisc live would be perfect in the app!
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This seems like a really ideal experience to be able to keep track of score vs par & match play strokes. Curious how often you use this type of scoring - is it mostly for personal rounds or in league?
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It is mainly personal, I have played a couple Dynamic Disc match play events. My friends and I run match play frequently and will even put together tournaments in our group (we’ll get anyone where from 4-12 playing in it).
It has been something that I have tried to integrate in local leagues and from time to time we will shake things up and play but not often. My hope is that a feature like this would encourage people to play more match play rounds. It’s definitely a different battle when blow up holes don’t mean the same in a traditional scoring round.
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FWIW, I nearly always play skins when I play disc golf. It’s a very common golf wagering game. I would LOVE to see that included. Maybe keep the ‘real’ score for posterity, but show who is up by how much and how much the next hole is worth after each hole.
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The usual match play semantics. You get a point if you win the hole. It shows you the score “All-square”, “Up by N”, etc. with X holes left to play. Tells you when the match is over because one player can’t catch up, The usual match play stuff.
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This website above is the simplest approach to matchplay scoring, with all relevant information. Who won? Whats the score beginning the next hole.? (John up 1) And eventually when is the match over. (Youre up more holes than are left) (John won 3 & 2)
Score keeping isnt necessary as a significant number of match play holes are never finished.
I feel this is a growing part of the sport. We have starting a league in Eastern NC this year and planning on adding more teams up the coast next year and into SC. Up north its been going on for over a decade with significantly more teams and players.
Thanks for listening.
Hey John, glad you’re enjoying the match play website! Also great to hear that it is getting used outside of the Northeast. Any feedback, suggestions, or feature requests are very much welcomed. Drop me a line jay@tcmatchplay.net
Can you please give us an update on how the match play feature is going? Is it in the pipeline? Would be nice to have for the upcoming season
Hi Christoffer, thanks for reaching out here! Match play scoring isn’t yet in the near-term development plans, but feedback like this helps our team to gauge interest which is part of how we prioritize future projects. Could you share a bit more about what you mean by the upcoming season? Do you run or participate in a match play league, or are you more interested in match play scoring for your casual rounds?
Seems like something that would be easy to develop. We’ve been asking for years now. A lot of things are being added to udisc, which is great, but this would be better than a lot of the recent additions. There are a lot of team challenge leagues that incorporate match play scoring. My league, which I run the udisc aspect of, runs match play tournaments several times a year. It would seem that it would get a lot more use opposed to some of the gimmicky things that have been added otherwise. I’m not the only one asking!
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Couldnt agree more. It seems like an relatively easy thing to add. We dont use it for league but i would like to use it when playing with friends. I have no idea why they take so long time to incorporate it… we are paying relatively much money for the app, which is an fantastic app, but its annoying that such a basic scoring option isnt available…
Using other apps for match play make the value for udisc less, since one want everything at one place.
No we dont play leagues with that format. Its just for casual, and thats a thing i am afraid to say because i am afraid that you down prioritize it because of that. My feeling is that you prioritize latge things that has to do with leagues and such, and i get it, one change that can add many users is better. But match play and skins is such a basic format so it wouldnt be that hard to add.
We are some real hard core udisc fans out here that has wished for this to be implemented for a long time… please let us casual players have it soon…