How it works

Ray has set up a new club on www.scoreresults.co.uk.
He wants to keep scores for the games that he organises for the rest of the Brighton and Hove Petanque Club.
Because he is quite a busy chap, he asks Tony and Anne to join the club then makes them "admin users".
This means that Ray, Tony or Anne can all enter and edit results on the website.

Geoff and Trish are members of the Brighton and Hove Petanque Club.
They create accounts for themselves at www.scoreresults.co.uk and can log in and view tournament results, player profiles, and can access their own personal results histories through the site. They take part in the tournaments organised by Ray and the others, but don't put their own results onto the website. They send their results to the admin users, who check that the results are correct and enter them onto the site. By keeping the number of people who can enter results down to a minimum, possible sources of mistakes are kep to a minimum too.

Anne sets up a tournament and invites players to take part. She is able to do this because she is an admin user for the club.
Ray, Dave, Tony, Dianne and Max are all entered into the tournament. Although the club consists of a lot of members, not all club members have to take part in all tournaments. Whenever a tournament is set up, you can select which club members are taking part, and whether the tournament is played as a league as a or knockout tournament.
Also, members can take part in tournaments as individuals, or the admin user can create teams and put players into teams.

Max and Ray form one team to take part in the tournament.
Tony, Dianne and Dave form another team to take part in Anne's tournament.
The teams play against each other (and any other teams that may have been set up to take part in the tournament) and the results are recorded against each team, rather than against each team member. In this example, the result would take the form:

The Dynamic Duo 13 - The Terrible Trio 10

When viewing the history of results for this tournament, you can click on each team name to view a summary of how well (or badly) that team performed. In the team summary is a list of all players that make up the team. You can click on each team member to see how they are performing across all tournaments, and in all the different teams that player is involved with.
This means that individual player records can be kept seperately to their team histories.

When logged in to the website, you can create your own clubs and invite others to join.
As a club owner you can "promote" club members to "admin" status.
As a club admin user, you can create tournaments for others to take part in. As a tournament administrator, you can enter, amend and delete results from your tournament(s).

As a club member you can allow or bar other club members from contacting you through the website. You may wish other club members to send you emails with tournament results (if you're an admin user) or just to arrange to play the games that make up your tournament/leagues.

You can use "widgets" to display your league table or show your player profile and history of results on your own website or blog, using a few lines of simple-to-use copy-and-paste code.