MatchMetric estimates performance ratings for USTA NorCal league players from public match results, updated nightly — plus captain tools that take the busywork out of running a team. It's free during beta, and your feedback decides what gets built next.
Start here — the 10-minute tour
- Search yourself. Check your performance rating, level meter, and bump outlook. Scroll your match log — every opponent and partner shows their rating at the time you played.
- Claim your profile (email magic link) to get your dashboard: rating trend, bump watch, rivals, a season goal, and a nightly email when your rating moves.
- Test us on a rivalry you already know the answer to. Run a head-to-head or the matchup predictor on a pairing where you know who wins. Did we get it right?
- Poke your history. Season wrapped and the what-if calculator ("what if I'd won that third set?") — both linked from your profile.
- Look up your team and flight. Standings, flight insights, movers.
- Captains: set up Co-Captain — your team's private hub, free during launch. Try the Availability board (In/Maybe/Out per match, season grid), Lineups (ranked by win probability, with opponent scouting), and the Practice planner. Start from My Teams or your team's page.
If your phone is where you'll mostly use MatchMetric, take the tour there.
The feedback we want
1. The sniff test — does your rating look right to you?
First-impression trust is our hard bar. You watched these matches — the model only saw the scores. You know who was hurt, who carried, and who got lucky.
- Does your rating match how you've actually been playing?
- Any match that moved you too much, too little, or the wrong direction? Name it — date, opponent, score.
- Any teammate or rival whose number is clearly off? Who, and why?
- Does the bump outlook match your gut for yourself and your roster?
Specific beats vibes. "My June 14 win over a 4.0 barely moved me" we can chase down. "Seems off" we can't. A great note looks like:
Marta R. shows 3.8 — nobody who's played her believes that. Here's her profile: [link].
2. Your captain week — what should we automate?
Nobody can answer "what should we automate?" cold, so walk through an actual week instead. Pick whichever apply and add a sentence each — partial answers welcome.
Before match day
- Chasing availability — how many texts before you know who's in for Saturday? Who are the two people who never reply?
- Building the lineup — spreadsheet? Napkin? How do you juggle strength order, who's played with whom, and who's due a singles start?
- Texting assignments — the night before: line, partner, start time, location — copy-pasted to each player?
Match day
- The sub scramble — someone drops Friday at 9pm. What happens next?
- Last-minute adjustments — do you reshuffle the lineup based on how your players are feeling, or once you see who the other team actually brought?
Between matches
- Makeups and scheduling — rainouts, court reservations, reschedules.
- Practice — how do you decide who pairs with whom?
Season-long
- Watching bump risk before playoffs, playoff scenarios, next season's roster.
- Sharing duties — if you have a co-captain or delegate, what do you hand off, and what can't you?
Then the three questions that matter:
- Which 15 minutes of that do you dread most?
- Which one would you pay to never do again?
- What still lives in a spreadsheet or the group chat because no tool does it?
If Co-Captain doesn't do it yet, that's exactly what we want to hear.
3. Mobile
Most players will only ever see MatchMetric on a phone, often courtside. Anything cramped, mis-tapped, slow, or unreadable on mobile — tell us, even if it's small.
4. Would you come back?
- What would make you check MatchMetric weekly during the season?
- What's missing that would make you tell your team about it?
- Anything we should cut? Less is a feature too.
What you can skip
Bug reports. Our monitoring already tells us when something breaks, errors out, or crawls — writing it up is effort you don't need to spend. The one thing no dashboard can see is confusion: if you had to stop and figure out what a number or a word meant, that's worth a sentence.
How to send feedback
Small notes are fine. Five one-line emails beat one you never send.
The honest fine print
Estimated ratings — not official USTA. Updated nightly from public league results. MatchMetric is free during beta, and the estimates will sometimes be wrong — when one looks wrong to you, that's not noise, that's the most valuable feedback there is. Tell us. Claiming a profile means accepting the Beta Agreement — the short version: these are estimates, not something to bet on or plan around.