introPLAY in Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated recently featured an article that discusses introPLAY! The article, called “Get off the Couch: Five Ways to get Your Sport on this Summer,” mentions introPLAY as an online service that helps college students motivate to exercise over the summer break when friends are no longer together on campus.

introPLAY is perfect for college students because everybody wants to get back to campus with bragging rights from the summer workout competition. When you form an introLEAGUE, you know exactly which of your friends is staying active and which are taking it easy. If the slackers are on your team, it’s your job to get them to work out more to help out your team.

Of course introPLAY is a great sports community for college students during the school year as well. Create introLEAGUES with friends at your school or with other schools, train with teammates in your sport (offseason and during the season) and learn from friends what they are doing to improve conditioning and keep in shape.

We especially appreciated introPLAY being mentioned as a great website for college students because of how introPLAY first got its start. We know how much fun it was to outdo our buddies in college and we hope everyone can now use introPLAY to have the same fun.

It is very exciting to be included as one of the top destinations on the web for sports and motivation. Thanks very much to SI and the writer, Rosario Doriott (editor of HackCollege)!

Link to SI article

Announcing the Workout Ticker

We are very excited to announce the release of the newest feature at introPLAY, the Workout Ticker!The Workout Ticker is a real-time streaming update of all workouts being entered by Players on introPLAY. Think of it as a collective blog of the performance of all Players on introPLAY, where you can see how many introPOINTS Players are scoring and the workouts they are doing.You can use it to see how your workouts stack up against everybody else’s, to get ideas on a new regimen or to read about the experiences of other Players from their Player Notes and Injury Reports (all Players can write Player Notes and Injury Reports in the Workout Journal).The Workout Ticker can by found on the site by clicking on the “Community” link at the top navigation bar. It refreshes itself periodically or you can click on “refresh” to manually update the Workout Ticker to check for new workouts.Stay tuned as we allow you to view Player Cards from the Workout Ticker and we syndicate the Ticker to allow you to catch the latest workouts on your favorite RSS reader.We hope you use the Workout Ticker to get to know the introPLAY community better!

New Stats on the Player Card

Every Player Card now features two new key stats in the introLAY Stats section: introLEAGUE Efficiency and Daily introPOINTS. These stats give you even more insight into a Player’s performance.

• introLEAGUE Efficiency is the average number of introPOINTS scored per day when that Player is in at least one introLEAGUE

• Daily introPOINTS is that Player’s average introPOINTS scored per day, whether he or she is in an introLEAGUE or not

With these new stats, the Chairperson can balance out the teams to make the introLEAGUE competition even better! Or, if you are in an introLEAGUE or thinking about joining one, you can use the Efficiency and Daily stats to gauge the strength of the other Players.

Also, comparing the two stats is very useful:

• If the Player has a high Efficiency but a low Daily, then that Player needs to be in an introLEAGUE to motivate to workout. They would be a great teammate because they respond well to being motivated by others.
• If Efficiency and Daily are about the same, then the Player is consistent and a solid addition to any team in an introLEAGUE.
• If Efficiency is less than Daily, this means the Player has strong self-motivation and has more potential to perform when in an introLEAGUE.

Now you can pick your teams better in an introLEAGUE and size up your competition! Check out your own Player Card now!

Public introLEAGUES Launch

Today, we are very happy to announce the launch of our newest feature, public introLEAGUES. Now you can meet new Players and compete with Players who share your interests and goals throughout introPLAY. Want to compete with other runners training for a marathon? Then join the “8 Weeks to the Big Race” introLEAGUE. Want to meet and get into shape with other recent mothers? Sign up for the “New Mothers Competition.” Interested in getting to the gym more often but don’t see the introLEAGUE for you? Then create a “Work Out” introLEAGUE today!

To create a public introLEAGUE, choose “public” as the invitation option in the introLEAGUE creation page to allow any Player on the site to join in the competition.

To join a public introLEAGUE, just click on the “introLEAGUES” link on the top of the page, which will show you a summary of all public introLEAGUES still in signups. Click on any single introLEAGUE to find out more information and click “join” to become part of the action.