Match Reports
Your USTA league team gets three different written reports around each match — delivered by text, as personal links, without you having to ask for anything. Here’s what each one is for, when it arrives, and how to pull it up whenever you need it.
The three reports
Your court report
For every player who played a match.
After a match, each player who was on court gets their own personal report covering exactly that one court on that one night. It walks through where you sat in your pair, what the analysis expected from that court, how things played out as the match progressed, and what your court’s result meant for the team’s overall night.
This is the report that answers: how did my court go against what was expected?
Post-match Debrief
For the captain and co-captains.
Also sent after the match, the debrief looks at the full team’s night — every court’s result measured against expectation, the lineup shapes both teams put out, and how well the prematch prediction held up when the dust settled.
This is the report that answers: how did the team’s night compare with the call?
Lineup Report
For the captain and co-captains, before the match.
About a week before a match, the captain and co-captains get a lineup report for that upcoming opponent. It scores every cap-legal pairing your roster could field against everything the opponent could put up, then ranks those combinations by the floor each lineup guarantees — so you’re not just picking your best pair, you’re picking the lineup that protects you on all three courts at once.
This is the report that answers: which pairs should we field, and on which courts?
How they arrive
No one has to request anything — a text arrives once each report is ready, with the link. The Lineup Report lands about a week ahead of the match. The court report and the debrief arrive after the match’s results are recorded, delivered during the day.
Each report comes as one text, one link. If a link goes unopened, you may get a single follow-up reminder — at most once.
Some reports also include an interactive version alongside the written summary, where you can try a different partner or a different lineup arrangement and see how the odds would shift. Not every report has this, but when it’s there you’ll see it alongside the main link.
Reports arrive for matches whose results have been recorded, on teams that have match reports as part of their subscription.
How to ask for them anytime
You don’t have to wait for the automatic text. You can ask at any time and the assistant will send the links right away. Just text naturally:
You: Send me my report from last night. Headcount Buddy: Here’s your court report from Tuesday’s match vs. Midtown A: Your court report: [link]
You: Can I get the lineup report for Saturday? Headcount Buddy: Here’s the lineup report for Saturday’s match vs. Riverside: Lineup report: [link]
You: Can you send me the debrief from last week? Headcount Buddy: Here’s the team debrief from your match vs. Eastside B: Post-match debrief: [link]
If you captain more than one team, the assistant will ask which team you mean before sending anything — it names each one so you can point to the right one.
The assistant figures out which report fits the situation from context: if the match has already been played and results are in, you get the post-match reports; if it’s still upcoming, a captain gets the lineup report. You don’t need to specify which type you want.
About the links
Each link is personal to the person it was sent to. Open your own link — if someone forwarded you theirs, it won’t work correctly for you. If you’ve lost a link, just text and ask for it again.
What the numbers mean
The reports use an analytical model to estimate each pair’s chance of winning their court. Here’s what that model takes into account — and what it can’t see.
What it looks at:
- Each player’s dynamic rating, adjusted for recent form (how many games they’ve won relative to what their rating predicted) and which direction their rating has been moving
- On a Mixed court, the Mixed rating is used; if that rating hasn’t moved in more than 60 days and the player has a more recent Adult rating, the Adult rating steps in
- How often the two partners have played together, how each player performs as the favorite versus the underdog, how each does when leading or following their partner in terms of relative rating, how recently they’ve played, and their NTRP level
- Players without a rating on record are estimated at the average for their gender and NTRP level in the league — and the report marks them clearly as estimated
Match and sweep odds — labeled MWP and MSweeP in the reports — combine the individual court chances, treating courts as independent.
How accurate is it? When the model leans clearly to one side — outside the 45–55% range — it has picked the winning pair about 3 times in 4, measured across more than 7,000 past Mixed doubles courts. When a court falls between 45% and 55%, it’s a genuine toss-up; the model isn’t picking a winner there.
What it cannot see: Injuries, late lineup changes, weather or court conditions on the day, or anything not captured in results and RSVPs on record. The odds are a guide to help you make better decisions — not a guarantee of how any court will go.
Getting set up
Match reports are part of the PixieNet and Headcount Buddy subscription for USTA league teams — you need a PixieNet account to receive them. Questions, or want to get your team set up? Reach out at help@headcountbuddy.com.