Play Activity Partner Checklist

Owned by Jonathan Cohen
Last updated: Sept 27, 2022
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Overview

The following is a list of preliminary questions for potential 3rd party partners for play history contribution. Note that choice of API or File-Based approach dictates what features are available.

Players

USTA categorizes players by age group due to the requirement that a parent must manage the accounts and particularly the communication for children under 13.

Play

  • Does system support ties?

Method

USTA offers two methods of delivering and receiving data.

  • API

    • Can call a REST API?

      • Receive push notifications?

    • Display USTA terms of use

    • Accept player consent to USTA Terms of use

    • SSO

      • Do you have your own login procedures?

      • Integrate with USTA SSO?

      • Can log in with email/mobile?

      • Federate

        • Facebook

        • Apple

        • Google

        • Other

  • File-Based

    • Can create csv file

      • Players

      • Play activity data?

Data Categories

USTA accepts many categories of data shared by 3rd party partners.

  • Player data

    • US Only or International?

    • Existing USTA customers

    • Non-USTA customer

  • Play activity

    • Leagues

    • Tournaments/Competitive play

    • Social

    • Other

  • Court bookings

    • How many facilities?

  • Tennis Lessons

  • Other

How Much Data

In order to provide capacity for contribution and comingling of data, USTA needs guesstimates of current and future activity.

  • How many players under management?

    • Projected

  • How many events

    • Projected

Frequency of Updates

In order to maintain a performant and responsive environment, USTA needs to know whether contributions will be scheduled (as per USTA standards) or ad-hoc.

  • How frequently is data updated

  • How frequently can you contribute to USTA

USTA Data

USTA can provide range of information about players, ratings and rankings.

  • Profile

    • Do you wish to receive player profiles?

      • How frequently

        • Push

        • Periodic

  • WTN

    • Periodic

  • Rankings

    • Periodic