I was originally going to do a full run-down of NextGame, and some of the cool new stuff I’ve included in the latest update, in a single post… but it started getting lengthy, so I’ve decided to split it into several small parts focusing on specific sections of the site.
Right now NextGame has schedules for more than 700 teams, covering a variety of sports all around the world. The teams index (screenshot below) is organised by ‘league’ so you can hopefully find the team you’re looking for nice and fast. And if by chance the team you’re looking for isn’t listed let us know and we’ll look into what we can do to get it added.
From these listings you can get to the individual team pages (screenshot below) with full schedules for completed and forthcoming games, and in some cases stats. The stats/scores a bit of a bonus feature, I’m not maintaining them for all leagues, and they do occasionally get a little out of date because of the time it takes to keep them up-to-date, but they also aren’t site’s focus (well, not at the moment) NextGame is all about what is happening next, be it tonight, tomorrow or next week.
Each team has their own ‘pretty’ URL so you don’t need to worry about remembering some weird randomly generated id, eg:
- http://nextga.me/team/boston-celtics
- http://nextga.me/team/new-england-patriots
- http://nextga.me/team/sydney-swans
When you sign up (which you should, because it’s quick, easy and FREE) you can also pick you’re favourite teams to ‘follow’. It’s as easy as clicking the ‘Follow’ buttons which you’ll see next to team names on the team index and individual team page pages. Then whenever you login you’ll see all the games your teams are playing right up-front without needing to go digging around numerous pages, or searching through a long list. Super easy. You can also manage the teams you follow from the ‘My Teams’ page (screenshot below). Also be sure to check out the quick video I put together demonstrating the neat way in which you can follow teams directly from this page (or even better, sign-up and try it for yourself).
My Teams Demonstration video.
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