70
SportsPress – Sports Club & League Manager
A heavy hitter for sports stats with a shaky Pro support promise.
Healthy
70/100
The plugin provides extensive sports tools but Pro users frequently encounter unreliable support and technical friction.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.7★
368 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-2%
Holding steady
89 → 87 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -2% in the last year
89/day a year ago→87/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySportsPress is praised for its strong support and versatile league-management features, but users frequently report unreliable or missing support for the Pro version and several functional limitations.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful support team×8
- +Versatile and adaptable to many sports and use-cases×3
- +Capable of handling large numbers of teams, athletes, and matches
- +Effective for managing rosters and individual player statistics
Common complaints
- −Support for the Pro version is often slow, inconsistent, or unresponsive×4
- −No built-in feature to calculate and display total team statistics on roster pages
- −License validation issues may remain unresolved for extended periods
- −Plugin architecture makes extending or customizing the code difficult
- −Incompatibility with popular caching plugins such as LiteSpeed Cache and W3 Total Cache
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.17★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 28%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 368 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-03★★★★★Easy to use plugin & great supporththr321-shot
- 2026-02-12★★★★★High praiseobmann1602
- 2026-01-13★★★★★The Best Sports Plugin and great supportwmhit
- 2025-12-13★★★★★Great supportGlenn Langford
- 2025-10-07★★★★★Excellent Support Service!sayburt
- 2025-07-29★★★★★It’s okay …Bjørn Nielsen
- 2025-07-22★★★★★Best Sports Managing Plugin and Great SupportJorge Martínez Combellas
- 2025-07-19★★★★★Team Roster Totals for Player Statsgranedoy
- 2025-05-02★★★★★Super Energy for Div 3 Team with great supportlickylips1-shot
- 2025-05-02★★★★★Great Help and Supportbahnsportinfo
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
78
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
85
Prior 7-day baseline
77
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
78
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-8.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.66
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
71%
5★ share in analyzed sample
28%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
0%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.10 → 4.17★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered