Why We Built Majestic Stats
I was 19 years old when I launched Majestic Hoops. I was young, naive, and just wanted to run a decent basketball league, because every adult league in the area was TERRIBLE. Games played on sidecourts, scoring done on old flip scoreboards, the game clock running on some spectator's phone half the time. That's what pushed me to start my own. Being an adult doesn't mean your competitive athletic career is over, and it definitely doesn't mean you should be stuck in leagues that don't care about their players. When I launched Majestic Hoops, I promised myself I'd maintain the same quality of play I'd want as a player myself, from the facilities, to the officials, to the organization, to the stat keeping and tracking.
Our first season, we kept stats on paper and pencil then we would just send a picture out to all the players. The following season, which was a whole year later, we started using a third party site that allowed us to take stats during the game and would be uploaded automatically to the site after the game was completed. We used this third party software for 2 years until our league grew to more than 20 teams and the site became too slow to keep up with the increase. The frontend of the site was extremely outdated and slow, and the backend wasn't much better, the backend UI was horrible. The process of creating the schedule, adding team rosters, and customizing the site was clunky and slow. So, we built something better.
We began the process of building a new site that was more interactive, visually pleasing, and simpler to use than the previous site. Feature by feature, we started to build out Majestic Stats. We started with building a frontend UI that players would enjoy looking at and playing with. I have heard from multiple players how they'll sit on the site for hours looking through all the stats. The most important feature we implemented was that the site reflects the stats LIVE, instead of needing to wait for the game to end to see the outcome, you're able to view game score and stats as they occur, giving players, fans, or spectators the feel as if it were an NBA game. On top of improving the frontend UI, the backend admin panel is the biggest upgrade that the normal player does not see. As a commissioner who has over 60 teams in the league, the improved admin panel has been a major help in maintaining my organization and the quality of the league. I am finding it easier now to manage 60 teams on Majestic Stats than it was to manage 20 teams on the other site we used to use.
At first, we built Majestic Stats just for the Majestic Hoops basketball league, but we saw the potential and the need for other leagues to use our platform. Too many commissioners are still using paper and pencil or extremely outdated systems to maintain their schedule and stats. A lot of leagues don't even keep stats for their players. Every commissioner that cares about their league should invest in a system where players can easily view their schedule, standings, and stats. Most commissioners haven't upgraded simply because they don't know a better option exists. That is why we created the ability for people to use the Majestic Stats infrastructure to launch their own site for their league. Now, any league can have a professional website with LIVE stat tracking and automatic uploading.
The days of commissioners manually uploading the schedule and scores to their outdated sites is over. The time of players needing constant captain communication to know of any changes in the league is over. Any league owner who wants to run a quality operation and give their players the experience they deserve now has a platform built specifically for them. Adult leagues around the country finally have access to a comprehensive league management platform that improves the quality of the league for players and makes life easier for administrators.
We built Majestic Stats to make rec leagues better, every athlete at any age deserves a quality league to participate in.
