Leaderboard Golf

Challenge

When Riley Pratt wanted to develop an app that makes it easy for users to play on-course games, settle wagers, and share golf experiences with friends, he began looking for a New York-based software development company that could help develop his cross-platform application, Leaderboard.

After setting their sights on JetRockets, Leaderboard reached out to acquire more support for their backend development needs.

After Leaderboard approached JetRockets with clear expectations of what needed to be done, our team got to work on implementing:

• Golf specific conditions for the application. This would allow users to update their game results in real time without loss of data due to potentially unstable internet connections
• Intricate game mechanics. This would introduce new features to users such as wager systems, route-valuations and the possibility to change or reset old results, among many features.
• External API for statistics processing. This would allow users to calculate and process tricky calculations such as player handicap.

Solution

First, we built a ‘batch update’ system, where all playing holes are updated simultaneously after each stroke and add timestamps to update the live score. With this implementation, play data is updated in real time, and prevents long distances in-game routes from interfering with score calculations.

We also separated actual play data updates on all holes from calculating final scores for holes played, with cumulative score updates for each completed hole. This allowed for a transparent scoring system with the possibility of tracking scores for each hole, changing game history, and flexibility in changing the playing route (hole order).

Finally, we developed a database to enable the application to store all of the statistics for each game and each player in order to ensure summary data is obtained according to the different filters. This enables users to have an accessible system of accounting and storage of statistics.

Results

Today, the Leaderboard Golf application operates seamlessly for users looking to play a round of golf while simultaneously being able to track their performance, manage bets, interact with other users, and even keep tags on their growing golf circle. And by increasing the speed and agility of their mobile app development efforts with JetRockets, Leaderboard was able to launch on schedule!