New Soccer League gets $25m Series A funding round

The Baller League just raised $25m in series A funding. All to attract a newer/younger audience to football.

🏎️ F1 is also very busy expanding their offering to attract a new generation of fans.

What about tennis? Sure, there's the Ultimate Tennis Showdown but this seems to be a one-off.

UTS aims to appeal to a younger, more engaged new generation of fans to grow its fanbase community – Patrick Mouratoglou

The 'why' post on the UTS site is a big insight that more innovators need to adopt in the tennis space.

Thoughts?

Delete, Leave and Multi-Admin

3 big new features are being releasing this week.

1. Ability to LEAVE a group (without asking the ADMIN ie self-service)

2. DELETE a group (ADMINS can do this)

3. Assign other people to ADMIN role.

   • This opens up a whole new world of editing your groups without 1 person to manage the entire phone number list.

Additionally, DMP will have it's very first SWIPE RIGHT user experience. Swipe right to DELETE or LEAVE a group.

More details and screen grabs are coming soon.

We hope to be pushing to the app stores today or tomorrow. (Jan 27th)

Coming version release notes

A list of the things available in the coming release.

1. Calendar

   • Hide/show older entries. By default entries are hidden if in the past. There is a toggle at the top of the calendar entry screen to view older entries when desired.

   • Direct calendar scroll when lineup is available and visible.

   • Edits to pull-downs for UX improvement.

   • General UX cleanup of sticky headers and colors/fonts.

2. Lineups

   • All 3 racquet sports, select "LEAGUE MATCH"

   • Creation

   • Edits

   • Hidden/Visible (to caps only)

   • Show Rating

   • Show Availability

   • Roles (captain, co-captain, temp captain, non-playing captain)

3. Back Arrow

   • Made larger tap area for Android Phones. Was discovered that the area to tap was very small 😭

4. Availability Auto-Save

   • No more having to hit the SAVE button.

5. Version Blocker

   • When a user has an old version of DMP, forced to upgrade. Deep link to app-store is shown to user.

6. Group Admin

   • 1-1 chatting with group members is now listed as a pull-down area.

   • Convert group to a 'team' and enable team management features.