Reading cricket patterns through ball-by-ball data. For players, parents, supporters, coaches, clubs, and states.
Selection is a comparison puzzle. Most committees solve it the same way — a spreadsheet that nobody keeps current. PlayStats watchlists keep themselves.
Nick · 4 September 2026 · 4 min read
A watchlist looks like a list of names. Underneath it is the object the whole app is built around — and from this season it decides what your Home page shows you first.
Nick · 3 September 2026 · 4 min read
A big month of building: a redesign of live matches, a Home built on match day data, match pages that show where the game was won, or lost. And much more…
PlayStats · 31 August 2026 · 8 min read
Every day this pre-season we're gifting free PlayStats subscriptions to players and clubs across Australia. No entry form, no competition — here's how it works.
PlayStats · 24 August 2026 · 4 min read
Bangladesh out-partnered Australia in Darwin. Partnerships are how an innings actually gets built — and how PlayStats reads one, stand by stand.
Nick · 18 August 2026 · 3 min read
One collapse is weather. Ten is a shape — the same phase, the same wicket band, the same passage of play. Team-level reading tells you which one you've got.
PlayStats · 17 August 2026 · 3 min read
Every club cricketer has one bowler they can't get away from, and no evidence for it beyond a feeling. The head-to-head is already in the record — it just has to be read.
PlayStats · 17 August 2026 · 3 min read
Two grounds, one car, and a text at six o'clock that says "got 30". What a cricket parent can actually follow when the record keeps itself up to date.
PlayStats · 17 August 2026 · 2 min read
A scorecard records what happened. The patterns across every ball you've faced tell you why.
PlayStats · 17 August 2026 · 2 min read
Batting average treats every innings the same. It isn't — batting position changes your impact, and so does format and entry point.
PlayStats · 16 August 2026 · 2 min read