Description

To understand how potential users would interact with our app and which features they actually care about, we ran a short online survey using Google Forms with hopes of targeting amateur and semi-competitive team-sport players in our extended network.

We collected 12 responses as of Nov 10th 2025. The sample is small and convenience-based, but it gives us an early signal about:

• How valuable people think a sports manager app could be for them
• Which features feel “must have” vs “nice to have”
• How messaging, statistics, and update feeds should behave in practice
• What would make people drop the app immediately

The survey mixed multiple-choice, 1–5 Likert scales, and a few open-ended questions, so we could combine light quant analysis with concrete design ideas and concerns.

a. Designing Experiments

Objectives

When designing this survey, we focused on four aspects:

1. Which demgroaphic is the participant part of?

   • Age range
   • Level of involvement in team sports
   • Whether they actively follow sports news

2. Is the core concept valuable?

   • “On a scale of 1–5, how much would a career-management app help you?”

3. Which features should we prioritize?

   • Messaging
   • Casual game finder
   • Personal & team statistics
   • Finding teams / leagues to join
   • Finding teams / leagues to follow
   • Automated schedule
   • Feed of updates

4. How should key features behave?

   • What “ideal” messaging looks like
   • What users want in the update feed
   • Which statistics actually matter by sport
   • What would convince them to use the app (or uninstall it)

Survey structure

The form was split into five sections:

1. Consent

   • Explicit consent question

2. Demographic with Sports

   • Age range
   • Context of team sports (casual vs registered, leagues or not)
   • Do they actively follow sports news?
   • Overall perceived usefulness of a sports manager app (1–5)
   • Prior use of sports manager apps (if any)

3. Feature Importance (1–5 scale)

   • Messaging
   • Casual game finder
   • Personal career stats
   • Team-finding and league-finding (join & follow)
   • Automated scheduling
   • Team statistics
   • Feed of updates

4. Feature Breakdown

   • What stats they’d want tracked (by sport)
   • Preferred messaging experience (pre-defined options)
   • What matters most in messaging (UI, expression, information, or all)
   • What they want most from an update feed
   • What they’d hope most from the app overall
   • What would turn them off

5. Open Questions

   • What they’d hope most from the app overall
   • What would turn them off

b. Conduct Experiments

Recruitment & Sample

• Participants finding: convenience sampling, formed shared within our personal circles targetting team sports individual.
• Total responses: 12
• Age distribution:

• App usefulness rating:

Sports engagement

• Everyone in the sample plays or has played team sports in some organized way, and mostly everyone keeps up with sports news:

• This tells us the current sample leans toward actively engaged fans/players, which is exactly what we want our sample to look like.

Feature Ranking

• This is the results for the average ranking each feature received:

Feature Specifications

• Messaging Prefrences:

• Requested stats per sports:

FOOTBALL (SOCCER)	VOLLEYBALL	BASKETBALL
Goals	Kills	Points
Assists	Blocks	Rebounds
Expected Goals	Aces	Assists
Chances Created	Errors	Blocks
Passing Accuracy	Successful Serves	Steals
Possession Percentage	Serve Receive Efficiency	Field Goal Percentage
Turnovers	Digs	Free Throw Percentage
One-on-One Wins	Sets	Field Goals Made and Attempted
Discipline (Cards and Fouls)	Bumps	Turnovers
Shot Types (Headers, Left or Right Foot, Bicycle Kicks, etc.)

• Counts of most important features in feed.

Open Questions

• These are the outputs of the open questions

What users hope most out of a Sports Manager app	What would turn them off the most
Replacement and scheduling management	Paywalls behind essential features
Detailed and insightful team and player statistics	Nothing specific (generally satisfied)
Ability to find and join casual games	Poor performance or lag
Easier discovery of teams without prior contacts or video clips	Low user base or lack of active players
Tools for casual users to organize matches or leagues	Turning into a generic sports news app
Coach-verified player statistics (not user-editable)	Lack of community engagement or utility
Simple scheduling with fast access and minimal clicks	Overly complicated navigation or too many pages

c. Result Analysis

The average usefulness rating of the app concept was 3.9/*, showing that the app has a potential market.

Feature Importance:
Messaging features , team/personal statis, and finding spaces to join ranked the highest with all scoring an average above 4, while following and updates features were rated least important. In the middle we could find the scheduling features and game finder. Showing us that overall the users are more attracted to the more social aspect this app could bring over the automation.

Messaging Behavior:
Most participants prefered full flexibility to create their own group chats, and 58% also indicated that they wanted the messaging feature to implment UI responsiveness, expression options, and information sharing, to ensure usage, showing that most people might be turned off by a messaging component not on the level of alternatives

Update Feed:
League standings (91.7%) and scores (83.3%) dominated user preferences. Only half of respondents valued player/admin posts, and highlights were mentioned once, showing the feed should focus on information, not social posts.

Statistical Interests:
Football players focused on goals, assists, and advanced analytics (xG, passing accuracy). Volleyball players listed execution-based stats like kills and serves, while basketball respondents preferred traditional box scores. Across all sports, tracking progress and performance accuracy were key desires.

d. Interpretation

The survey data helps understand a clear picture of what early users value most: while automation of regular process is appreciated (scheduling, game finder, update feeds) the real meat is indeed in the social and competitive space the app can provide users in order to have a page for their sports career. Participants consistently responded better to usability and practicality features over more entertainment or novel features, prioritizing an app that acts as utility platform for active players.

Sample Analysis

Our sample is primarely made up of young, active athletes who play in casual or semi-organized settings. A big chunk of our target demographic but definetly not enough of a variation to apply our findings on a broader scale. However what we can take away from this, is that a high level of polish will be required to win an audiance already so immersed in the digital space.

Core Objective

The participants respond best to this app as a space for team coordination and personal tracking, a tool for communication, scheduling, and performance insight. With an average usefulness rating of 3.9 and no negative responses, the concept clearly resonates with the sample base, especially if executed well.

Feature Prioritization

Based on the rankings and open responses:

• High priority:

  • Viable Messaing
  • Team and personal stats
  • Automated scheduling and replacement management
  • Team/league joining features

• Medium priority:

  • Casual game finder
  • Feed of updates

• Low priority:

  • “Follow” functionality for teams/leagues

Feature Design

• Messaging: Must be as fluid and reliable as existing platforms, users might not use it if its laggy or cluttered. Giving group creation flexibility seems essential.
• Feed: Should primarily display standings, scores, and schedules not social chatter like linkdin.
• Statistics: Each sport needs its own set of stats, a good start is looking at what participants mentioned.
• Accessibility: Emphasize fast navigation and clear UI pathways, “Too many clicks” was cited as a top frustration.

Risks

The highlighted risks derived from responses are:

• Particiapnts strongly dislike essential features behind a paywall.
• The app must launch with enough users or teams to feel “alive.”
• A bloated or hard-to-navigate design would discourage casual users.

Strategic Insight

The results confirm that our best opportunity lies in creating an efficient coordination ecosystem not a social app or content feed. By solving scheduling, communication, stat tracking, the app can become a key tool for teams and leagues.