Recently the BearDev development team has made the number of important releases.

JoomSport 6.0.1 compatible with Joomla4 

We are really glad to announce we have released JoomSport 6.0.1 (stable) that is compatible with Joomla4. It is of the most waited release by many of our Joomla! CMS based customers. Please contact us via official channels if you are active subscriber and would like to add it to your members area.

JoomSport 5.2.9 for WordPress compatible with PHP8

We have delivered the minor release with number of fixes for PHP8. Please update your product to the latest version.

JoomSport 5.7 for Joomla compatible with PHP8

We have also delivered the update with number of fixes for PHP8 for those clients who keep going with Joomla 3.x and want to upgrade their servers to latest supported PHP version . 

JoomSport Achievements 1.5.2 for WordPress compatible with PHP8

For those who has the sports connected with moto or athletic and use our JoomSport Achievements plugin we have issued the new release compatible with PHP8.

Development roadmap. Statorium API.

Our team is focused on Sports data delivery at the moment. We invest a lot of efforts improving our Statorium football API service.

• In the nearest future (planned April) we are intended to add the multilingual support for our football API. That means you will be able to have the team names translated into different languages. The feature will be available to our Premium level data subscribers.
• Getting ready for the transfer window period. We plan to introduce the new data layer adding information about the football transfers. The new data layer will be available to our premium level data subscribers.
• The biggest venture we plan soon is to have the new sports added to our API. If you are interested to have the Hockey, Tennis, Basketball popular competitions data added to your site or mobile App, please contact us to find out the details.

As always we will be glad to hear your suggestions and feedback about our products and services. Contact us via official channels.

Best regards, the BearDev sports software development team.

We are glad to announce the release of JoomSport 5.7. It delivers the compatibility with PHP 8.x. 

We suggest to update it on all production Joomla 3.x environments.

JoomSport 5.2.6. brings online the single but important vulnerability bug fix.

Please update the plugin to the latest or request this from our support team.

We suggest to avoid using outdated releases on production environment.

We have delivered some new hot features for our WordPress based plugin!

The new Live Scores shortcode

To improve the experience of our Statorium football API clients we designed the new live scores shortcode. The matches are grouped by leagues. Results are updated without the page reload!

Fully redesigned team moderating

We have designed completely new team moderators approach. It is done via new [jsModerator] shortcode that you can place on your site pages and let moderators do their actions without accessing the admin area.

You can also now connect the responsible team moderators to manage their selected teams. Green light for eSports teams using our plugin.

Permissions settings are very simple.

Time ticker for Statorium

We are preparing for FIFA World Cup. So you will soon see more features connected to our Statorium football data service.

This time we have delivered the time ticker. It allows the customers who use our Statorium service to show the live match minute in different blocks and also on match page.

New icons, New stats on team page, Ability to order matchdays.

We have also added number of other improvements and features. You can order matchdays within one season if you filter view by season and add all items on one matchday page.

You can see the new stats (starting lineups, minutes played) on team page. The icons for stats were also updated.

The new release allows you to configure the match page title the way you like. So it improves your SEO as well.

Some other minor changes and bug fixes were added. You can access the full log.

Will be glad to hear your suggestions and feedback. Welcome to contact us!

JoomSport 5.3.6. delivers the single but very important bug fix.

Old matches can be deleted after specific matchday operations set resulting the data loss.

We suggest to avoid using outdated releases on production environment.

The Dutch like to participate football predictions. Why is it so popular? It is sometimes said that the Netherlands has 17 million national coaches. They say every Dutch thinks he knows who should be drafted in the Dutch national team and which position scheme should be played. And it is precisely the feeling, that you can prove you are the expert and can predict the matches better than anyone else during the European Championship or World Cup. That makes prediction games so popular.

Intikkertje is the one of the most popular football prediction website in Netherlands. The Dutch company uses the JoomSport, Statorium data set and JoomSport predictions to power up their football contest games. 

Football prediction competitions

Intikkertje organizes several different football prediction competitions, such as a World Cup prediction, Eredivisie predictions and a Champions League predictions. People register on site and can play the football predictions contest for free.

The last time, during the 2018 World Cup, there were more than 100,000 people participated prediction game. As a player you have to predict the scores of upcoming matches. The better you predict the outcome, the more points you earn, finally receiving higher position in ranking.

Private leagues to play with friends

The fun thing is that you can also create your own private league. You add the private league name and then you can invite your friends, family and colleagues to play together. This creates a private competition and separate ranking table. So you can see what position you and your friends have.

Private leagues are often being created with colleagues. Often everyone bets a certain amount, for example 10 euros. This creates their own prize pool that is divided among the winners of the private league.

Prizes

If you predict well and appear in the top of the general ranking, you have a chance to win great prizes. For example, Intikkertje has given away beautiful football trips to FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in the past. You can also win video  game consoles, your favorite team t-shirt and other prizes.

Intikkertje and bookmakers

The Intikkertje players like to predict football matches. Of course a large part of these people also bet the real money on football. They visit official registered bookmakers to do so. Intikkertje provides a lot of information and tips available on match pages about betting at bookmaker odds. You can also read reviews about online casino's here.

Intikkertje Joomsport

Football fun site Intikkertje.com has been using JoomSport, Statorium data and prediction software for more than three years now. This includes the live scores. So participants can monitor the match stats live. Furthermore, the website offers the full match statistics, player information and rankings of the various football competitions.

We are glad to announce the release of the new JoomSport version.

Here is the list of improvements delivered:

Automatic game stages - divide your match events!

Allows you to divide player events automatically into periods / halves / etc. It also allows you to have the separate proper section for penalty shootout. Here is how it looks like for incredible EURO 2020 match on our Statorium.com

The new Live Scores module

To improve the experience of those who uses our Statorium football API service we designed the new live scores module. The matches are grouped by leagues. The good thing about the module is that current match time, current live scores are updated without page reload!

Significant speed improvements for selected pages

We have improved the speed of the many pages due to big optimization done on database queries level. The tool tips were optionally removed for some pages that contain matches.

The new major features set for predictions

Those clients who has our advanced package can benefit from major features delivered for predictions:

- The new module "My predictions" 

- The new functionality "private leagues" so you can allow your users to invite their friends to compete

- The place ticker to know how predictor place is changed after each round

Mostly we already have those features in our WordPress product. We expect the new cool changes delivered to the predictions add-on soon again.

The new Roster module

It allows you to have the roster cards of selected team published in separate module just in any place where you need it.

Some other minor changes were applied to the code. Enjoy the update! Keep in touch with us.

This week we have published the new 2.1.1 release for prediction plugin. It delivers two new features.

Joker match

Once enabled in plugin settings users can select one match inside each round to be Joker. Points for such selected match will be doubled.

Bonus points

Users can earn extra bonus points for guessing correct score for at least one team.

I have configured the points in my example league as follows: Exact guess = 10, Winner & Score difference = 5, Winner side = 2, Bonus for correct gals guess = 1

So finally points system works with the following rules and cases:

 Please contact us if you have any questions. We will be glad to support you!

It is incredibly mixed feeling. To release the big update for the product that is installed only on ~200 sites and new development never pays off. At the same time we know that it is used by one of the most recognized predictions sites on national level in some countries. We want to make people who use this product happy with the change delivered. This is the primary reason we created this update.

So, what was changed:

Private leagues shortcode. (pro version)

Private leagues approach is totally rethought. All the management is done without the access to admin now. Via shortcode. It is possible to generate the link so you can share it with your friends. They will be able to join your private prediction league automatically after they log in. Сlean, accurate, mobile-wise, user friendly.

New private leagues create UI allows you to copy the users who participated in other private prediction league you manage. So if you have your friends predicting national level competition each year this feature will allow you to avoid inviting same users every time. 

We want to bring special thanks to Stefan from https://intikkertje.nl who inspired us for this development.

My points widget

Now you can add My Points widget to inform your users about current prediction stats on any site page. League on the fly option allows showing the stats for league that you browse. (widget defines the league automatically).

Major usability issues

We paid a lot of attention to product usability this time. We introduced login url option so you can configure what link shall be displayed for unregistered site visitors. Same option is available for private league button (pro version). Navigation between the rounds is improved. Your own user is highlighted on leaderboard even if you have it out of the first page. Prediction league column has been added to the round list.

Finally, we want to remind that our Prediction leagues WordPress plugin is deeply integrated with Statorium data service. You can have the public league stats delivered automatically to your site. Сoncentrate on playing predictions rather than managing league stats!

Download the free version from WordPress.org marketplace or contact us so we update your pro version and configure it for you. Enjoy!

We have delivered to our download area the hotfix for Joomla based JoomSport.

There were three issues fixed:

- fixtures analytics for knockouts

- fixtures analytics for single players

- 1054 unknown column '$team2_id' error once saving mathcdays