mcruic Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 I'll be attempting to bring back the ScotScores amateur football scores and ranking next month - the site imploded on 26th May near end of last season due to complete lack of time/motivation, but I decided I wanted to resurrect it. I had a few issues getting the last few results from a few of the 2022/23 leagues (particularly the Saturday Morning AFA and the West of Scotland U21 League), and so a number of results will be missing for those leagues, unless anybody else has kept a record. In fact, that kind of shows why the site was set up in the first place - some leagues just delete their previous season's record when the new season starts. I've just finished collecting all results for this season up to and including today, and have just to collect the results for 5 summer leagues for 2023 (Orkney, Shetland, North West Sutherland, Uist & Barra, West Highland) - hoping to get that done later tonight, and then I will work on checking all the renamed/folded/new teams for 2023/24 that need to be removed/go into the ranking. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfha Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 46 minutes ago, mcruic said: some leagues just delete their previous season's record when the new season starts. That has been a bugbear of mine for a good few years, why do these sites go to the bother of recording all the results to scrub them all come August instead of archiving them? Another thing that irks me are league sites that don't bother finalising the season's results and leave the fixtures and tables unfinished. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcruic Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 (edited) 57 minutes ago, sfha said: That has been a bugbear of mine for a good few years, why do these sites go to the bother of recording all the results to scrub them all come August instead of archiving them? Another thing that irks me are league sites that don't bother finalising the season's results and leave the fixtures and tables unfinished. Ah yes, this second point also... I asked the SMAFA on Facebook, and the response was basically "nah mate, they've been deleted". But surely there is a fixture secretary or someone else who keeps a record - not necessarily on the website? Nowadays all the tools are there to help us keep records, but still it seems record keeping has gotten worse in some cases. Another thing that irks me is the Scottish Amateur FA - they have links to the national and district cups on their website, but for the last few years haven't bothered with the South of Scotland or the Highland Amateur Cup results, so these sections are empty. They also regularly get team names/leagues wrong - for example this year they have St. Mungo (Saturday Morning) playing twice in the 1st round of the West of Scotland Cup, as well as having Southside White Cart playing instead of Southside United (Southside White Cart was a different club and is now part of Weir Recreation and they no longer use this name). Edited September 30, 2023 by mcruic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcruic Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 And the amateur rankings and results are back, with 655 teams! https://scotscores.theroonba.com/clubrank/clubrankam.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcruic Posted October 11, 2023 Author Share Posted October 11, 2023 (edited) Saint Andrews United have indeed been the biggest climbers since the start of the year, with Livingston United being the worst fallers. Top 20 climbers: 232 Saint Andrews United 187 Harthill Royal 164 Scone Thistle 150 Bellshill Athletic 149 Buchanhaven Hearts 146 Lugar Boswell Thistle 137 Peterhead 134 Arniston Rangers 126 Huntly 125 Dundee North End 124 Rossvale 121 Nithsdale Wanderers 121 East Kilbride 109 Ashfield 109 Girvan 107 Gartcairn 107 Hutchison Vale 107 Dundee Saint James 103 Nairn County 102 Deveronside Worst 20 fallers: -257 Livingston United -208 Cruden Bay -176 Kello Rovers -159 Saint Cuthbert Wanderers -154 Hill of Beath Hawthorn -152 Arbroath Victoria -150 Forfar West End -150 Saint Duthus -147 Cambuslang Rangers -146 Penicuik Athletic -145 Tweedmouth Rangers -137 Edinburgh City -133 Crossgates Primrose -126 Cove Rangers -124 Royal Albert -120 Thurso -119 Saltcoats Victoria -117 Mid Annandale -117 Queen's Park -110 Newtongrange Star Edited October 11, 2023 by mcruic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeswideopen15 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Really enjoy looking at these updates every Sunday. Some amount of work and man hours must go into it. Keep up the good work 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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