Let us take a look at some other innovative methods that help you stand out of the box and help you reach the fanbase from a different angle.

Apps For Community Generated Info And News

The world of cricket is filled with intriguing facts statistics which always comes to the attention of some experienced fan or the other. While there are several applications. (examples: Cricbuzz, Cricket exchange, Cricstar Live Line) which deliver effective news and build up information, the info in present in these apps comes from registered sports bloggers and journalists.

“Cricket applications on the other hand are capable of turning every knowledgeable cricket individual into a potential influencer who in turn can create a for or against pool of audience.”

The other great advantage of such a feature is that they are more healthy in terms of the betting apps as it is not a betting concept in the first place. Such an application shall be designed to help promote and increase build up for the event in the very basic way and can be designed solely for the purpose of giving the audience the ability to be a promoter.

Whatever may be the outcome, the point is that mobile phones are the easiest and the only effective medium to make it happen.

Engagement Factors: Cricket Fans love to exercise and test theories and such a platform can help aggregate the entire lot with a more strategic oriented approach rather than riskier investments. Such platforms are perfect for hosting ticket sales if the desired volume of potential audience is reached.

Predictors and Analytics Applications

Team owners and coaches help identify strength zones and weakness points using valuable statistics which helps players improve their performances. But more advanced statistics and patterns judged from these statistics always comes to the advantage of fans who like to test predictions amongst their fellow fans.

Keeping in mind the potential for the above application, users would love to have a statistics based functionality that helps them derive crucial analytics revolving around the game. It is pretty easy for any application to maintain and record data which is properly organized following which it becomes possible to pull out any intriguing fact.

Engagement Factors: Team coaches use this extensively to identify weak points for any player. While APIs from ICC and BCCI would be expensive, players like ESPN and crickbuzz are there to help provide it at affordable costs. Plus there isn’t any app of this kind and the first-of-its kind-factor is a go in this case.

Source: CNBC

Game Applications

There is no limit to the kind of creativity technology permits when it comes to conceptualizing a game application for cricket. Equipped with the best concepts for graphics, sound and gameplay, game app developers have come up with numerous applications that have captivated the attention of cricket fans from all across the globe.

While the usual concepts of simulating the game play might seem a little too monotonous but there are plenty of variations still left to explore. Considering the numbers the simulator aspect bring into the picture, it should be noted that manager simulator game (Football Manager 19, Out of the Park Baseball) is a format which hasn’t been implemented for cricket yet. Following the trend of IPL, cricket lovers now have an idea of how the system works and would love to exercise their skills in a similar simulator.

“It isn’t ambitious at all to expect a Clash of Clans style simulator where players build/maintain teams and contest them into competition with the teams of other players”

Engagement Factors: Creativity is the Limit

Applications For Skilled Betting

While sports betting is not permitted in the India, betting is the side sport that something like cricket always preaches and is allowed in other cricket playing nations. It can be accessed from the success of applications like Dream11 which has communicated the passion for skilled betting in India. It’s wrong to put fantasy sport apps in the same category as a simple game applications for the simple reason that a fantasy sport app derives benefit from the real cricketing events. This is what makes it most advantageous as your application gets to share an audience volume from the popularity of the event.

It might seem challenging to start a fantasy app from scratch considering the stance of an reclusive dominator like Dream 11 but from the perspective of a top sports app development company there are still a lot of flaws and improvements which can implemented. This is for the convenience for both cricket fans and application owners.

Also, we should considering the kind of lucrative reward systems which is crucial when establishing solid community of followers delivering engagement.

Engagement Factors: People love Dream11. People have grown bored of Dream11. People are still hooked to Dream11 because it’s the only one amongst its kind (Halaplay, myteam11, fantasypower 11 are nothing new). Paves the way for incorporating various rewards through eCommerce gamification or other strategies.

Potential Reasons To Get The Gears Rolling?

Abundance of Events:

IPL hasn’t just enlarged its wide audience base but encouraged other cricket buffs to implement the format for other cricketing geographics as well. 2019 itself has almost 4 months dedicated to the biggest tournaments (world T20 and ICC Cricket World Cup) along with another four months of high octane T20 leagues like Big Bash and IPL. While the ICC tournaments are not annual but the presence of such private leagues helps you conduct your business till the bigger events come into the picture.

Easy To Avail Development Resources:

Except for a few concepts as mentioned above, all the success factors of the applications are attributed to the sport governed marketing strategy. All that kept aside, the development capabilities are not of the league of a blockchain, AI, AR-VR, IoT etc. Traditional development schemes with the kind of experience level you get in today’s date help you avail some quick and efficient strategies for development.

Organized Development Strategies:

Development services should let you organize your cricketing business plan with the most calculated efforts. There is not limit to the number of functionalities you can incorporate within your application but with some smart sustainability techniques and proper agile implementations, you can avail each and every business potential bit of your application step by step. This lets you conduct your business in organized segments with each bit creating the next step of the ladder in terms of increased audiences.

Clubbed with the latest cross platform development methods, applications can be made authentic to the best in terms of looks and technicality when it comes to an Android or an iOS. This helps you save time and helps accomplish both the iOS and Android demographic simultaneously without compromising any of their individual attributes.

Conclusion:

As one of the top mobile application development company, we at BrainMobi have undertaken several successful endeavors to bring every complex idea into life. Our experiences with sports and games have led us come across various strategies that help optimize your business schedules with our development processes. If you have the idea for a sports app or simply sense value in this domain, then reach out to us at sales@brainmobi.com.

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This depends on how influential the sport is with respect to the trends and choices of the audience but nevertheless the performance of domestic leagues like IPL and Big Bash totally indicates the level of influence. Several independent leagues of smaller scale are starting to emerge from other cricketing nations from all across the globe and these are the perfect signs to implement a sports mobile application dedicated to cricket.

Types of Cricket related apps

Score and Updates

Unlike Football, Basketball, Badminton and almost every other sport on the face of this earth, Cricket is one of the few which comprises of individual events. Football is something which can only be experienced live and owing to the short duration of the game it is fairly easy. Cricket is highly infamous for its long duration but nevertheless there is a constant progress. People don’t always need to watch it live. In order to stay connected a simple update of each ball does the trick for almost every cricket fan who runs doesn’t have time indulge in their favourite cricketing event.

Score updates application or the so called live line feature is a huge hit amongst professionals. For this reason “score update “ applications beat streaming applications because at times it is not possible to stream but by all means it is possible to commit a seconds attention to know a moment of thrill within the game. Some notable apps in this segment are Cricket Line Guru and Cricdaddy which are live on google play for your testing.

“According to preliminary figures, while the total viewership of IPL grew by 40 per cent from around 500 million last year, online viewership more than doubled this year. Streaming the matches live, rather than after a five-minute time lag as Star did last year, must also have worked to its advantage. Interestingly, even TV viewership saw a huge spike of 25 per cent from 400 million last year, probably owing to Star’s aggressive expansion in the south with regional feeds.” (source: business standard)

Live Streaming Applications

With the frequency of cricket events happening all over the globe, cricket enthusiasts and aspirants are always surrounded with their favourite athletes in action. A live streaming application dedicated solely to cricket is a treat which lets them watch the event from every location at any point of time.

In today’s date cricket is not just about national events but domestic and private leagues which deliver the same or higher quotient of entertainment. Fans belonging to one nation are always hooked to a rockstar team belonging to any other nation which preaches a unique style. Streaming applications make it a easy source for such kind of fans to come across such events and this eventually adds to the success factor of the particular league.

Basic cost and time estimation for a basic app:

Betting and Engagement Type Applications

Compared to any other sport, cricket delivers the highest number of odds within a game and fans absolutely love to test their prediction abilities in that respect. Generally, testing your predictive skills amongst a pool can be termed as one definition of sport. Cricket gives the best chances to exhibit this side skill and is a fairly popular trend amongst its fans and followers.

Mobile Applications are the best way to club such fans together. While legal rules of cricketing nations might differ, the overall sport of claiming a prediction can be brought to life in several ways. Dream 11 is one good example of a skilled betting application in the area of Fantasy sports. Other Indian Startups like Zomato too have sketched a brilliant marketing strategy which gives players lucrative rewards in return to their predicting skills. There are still lots of avenues open in this segment and various creative ways to address it.

“I believe that IPL XI has proved to be an inflection point for mobile as a platform becoming mainstream. The viewership numbers on Hotstar are a testimony that digital can be scaled like a mass media platform television,” said Ajit Mohan, chief executive, Hotstar. (source: livemint)

News, Information and Statistics

Since prediction skill is already a huge side sport within the game, it is evident that the sport is filled with statistics, patterns and other subtle pieces of information which every cricketing enthusiast loves to come across. Besides utilizing your knowledge towards predicting, individuals are blessed with the talent of promoting and attracting audience towards a particular cricketing event. This way mobile applications help increase publicity and reach for an event and this eventually ends up promoting it to the next level.

In comparison to the above mentioned apps, this is the easiest to develop provided you have the cricketing brains to sketch the appropriate look and feel that creates the appropriate factors of influence.

Conclusion:

We having the requisite experience with respect to the domain of sports and entertainment and we have extensive experience developing strategies with respect to all aspects of technicalities that surround this genre of mobile applications. We aim to bring the best implementations for sustainability, scalability and robustness for your application. These incorporate the latest methodologies for development which can help you achieve the best standards of quality for any sort of requirement. If you have the idea for a sports based mobile or web application, feel free to write to us at sales@brainmobi.com.

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