Community sport — work in progress
A club site built on real numbers.
Melbourne Punters CC is a hard-tennis-ball T10 side in Melbourne. Twelve pages, thirteen players, and every statistic pulled from the club's own match record — nothing invented.
The brief
A community cricket club with three seasons behind it, a squad of thirteen and a following that lived entirely on Instagram. Everything a prospective player or sponsor might want to know — who plays, what the record is, how to get involved — was buried in a feed or on a third-party scoring app. The club needed one place that answered all of it.
What we built
A twelve-page static site with no build step and no framework: squad, competitions, results, statistics, news, gallery, joining, sponsorship, contact and policies. Every figure on the site is read from a single content file, so the club can update the whole thing by editing one list of players — no CMS to learn and nothing to redeploy.
Real data, or none
The first pass used placeholder players and invented statistics. That got thrown out. The finished site reads from the club's actual match record: thirteen players with their real batting, bowling and fielding figures, a fifty-three-match win-loss record, and every result with its competition, ground and margin. Where a number genuinely does not exist, the site prints a dash rather than a zero — the club's own record is more interesting than anything that could have been made up for it.
The design idea
The club is called Punters, so the visual language borrows from the bookmaker's form guide and the old manual scoreboard: slat textures, saddlecloth cap numbers, and tabular figures throughout. The signature device is the boundary line on each player card — a single bar split by that player's real fours-to-sixes ratio. It exists because it says something true about ten-over tennis-ball cricket: three players in this squad have hit more sixes than fours.
Where it stands
The site is complete and working — you can click through every page. Still to come before it goes to a public domain: player photographs, the club's contact details and subscription fees, and a committee review of the policy pages. It is shown here as an in-progress build rather than a finished launch.