Insights: see who's coming to your social sessions and how they're mixing

Most organisers have a feel for how their sessions are going. Saturdays are busy, Tuesdays have dropped off a bit, and the same two people always seem to end up partnering each other. But it's hard to know if that's actually true or just how it feels on the night.

Every session you run in Setsy already records who turned up and who they played with. Insights turns that into something you can look at.

How to find it

Click Insights in the top menu. Pick a day and a time period, say Saturdays over the last 12 months. You'll get a list of every session in that period, with All sessions combined at the top.

Click a single session to see just that one, or All sessions combined to see the whole period.

Every session also has its own Insights tab, so you can look at how it went straight after it finishes.

What it shows

Attendance. How many players came to each session and whether it's going up or down. Click a column on the attendance chart to open that session.

Who came. A table of every player, how many of the sessions they came to, how many rounds they played and how many they sat out. Sort it by sessions and the regulars who've been coming less often stand out.

Female and male players, and rating mix. Useful if you're trying to grow a group, or if your Tuesday crowd has slowly become a lot stronger than it used to be.

Players each round. How many people were on court in each round, and how many sat out.

Court usage and pairings. Which courts get used, and the pairings that come up most often.

Repeats. How often, within a session, people partnered or played against someone they'd already met that day. It's a good check on how well everyone's getting mixed up.

Comparing sessions

You can compare a single session with last week, last month, the same time last year, or your average. For a whole period, you can compare it with the period before or the same time last year.

Looking at one player

Click any player's name and a panel opens with their partners, opponents, which surfaces they've played on, and their match history. Repeats are highlighted, so if someone tells you they always get stuck with the same partner, you can check.

A couple of honest limits

Ratings shown are each player's current rating, not what they were rated on the day. If you've moved someone up a level since March, their March sessions will show the new rating.

Insights only knows about sessions you've run in Setsy. If you've only been using it for a few weeks, there won't be much to compare yet. It'll fill up as you go.

Which plans get it

Everyone gets Insights. On the Basic plan it covers your last three months. Pro and Elite cover your full history.

If you have a question about your sessions that Insights doesn't answer yet, I'd like to hear it.

Thanks, Marty