Setting Up Custom Stats

Setting Up Custom Stats

📸 Screenshot: Settings > Manage Preferences — Custom Stats
Admin > Settings > Manage Preferences — Configure tracked statistics

While XSYTE includes pre-built statistics for many sports, you can create custom stats to track anything specific to your league or competition format.

Why Custom Stats?

Custom stats let you track metrics that are unique to your league. For example:

• A recreational hockey league that tracks sportsmanship ratings
• A fitness league tracking personal bests or improvement scores
• A judging-based competition (cheerleading, dance, gymnastics) with custom scoring categories
• A beer league tracking fun stats like best celebration or hardest shot

Creating a Custom Stat

1. Navigate to Admin > Settings > Statistics (or your sport configuration area)
2. Click Add Custom Stat
3. Configure the stat:
   • Name: Display name (e.g. Sportsmanship Rating)
   • Short Name: Abbreviated version for tables (e.g. SPR)
   • Data Type: Number, decimal, percentage, or text
   • Category: Which stat group it belongs to (offensive, defensive, custom)
   • Applies To: Players, teams, or both
4. Click Save

Using Custom Stats with Judging

For judging-based competitions, custom stats are especially powerful:

1. Create stat categories for each judging criteria (e.g. Technique, Creativity, Presentation)
2. Set the data type to decimal or number for scores
3. Judges enter scores per category after each performance
4. XSYTE calculates totals and rankings automatically

This works well for sports like cheerleading, dance, gymnastics, figure skating, and any competition format using subjective scoring.

Custom Stat Calculations

Custom stats can be:

• Manually entered: Someone types in the value for each game
• Aggregated: Automatically summed, averaged, or counted across games
• Per-game or per-season: Tracked at the individual game level and rolled up to season totals

Displaying Custom Stats

Custom stats appear in the same places as built-in stats:

• Game box scores and summaries
• Player profiles and career stats
• Leaderboards (you can create leaderboards sorted by any custom stat)
• Team stat summaries

Best Practices

• Keep stat names short for clean display in tables
• Use consistent data types across similar stats
• Document what each custom stat means so scorekeepers enter data consistently
• Start with a small number of custom stats and add more as needed
• Test your custom stats with a practice game before the season starts