HundredHound: Your Personal The Hundred Companion
A personalized match-day companion for The Hundred that tracks both women's and men's fixtures, alerts you when your favorite team London Spirit is playing, suggests fantasy Hundred picks, and shows live win probability with a one-glance summary of what just happened.
Cricket fans following The Hundred tournament, especially London Spirit supporters
- Personalized match alerts for your chosen team across women's and men's fixtures with kickoff reminders
- Plain-English 'what just happened' recap every five balls for casual fans who can't watch live
- Fantasy Hundred draft helper based on current form, pitch type, and opposition
- Post-match video highlights auto-curated with play-by-play explanation for newcomers to the format
The Hundred 2026 is mid-season with new teams (Manchester Super Giants) and London Spirit just suffered a heavy defeat at Lord's, driving fans to seek better coverage tools
The Hundred has real coverage (BBC, ESPN, Cricbuzz all run ball-by-ball) and an official ECB app, but it is a niche ~6-week UK summer tournament; 200+ Google searches for 'London Spirit' is modest and the premise misstates facts (the official site says London Spirit won their first title in 2024, not that they just suffered a heavy Lord's defeat).The Hundred: The Official App - Apps on Google Play ↗The Hundred ↗
The ECB's official Hundred app already bundles tickets, live scores, highlights AND an integrated fantasy game (fantasy.thehundred.com); Cricbuzz/ESPNcricinfo/BBC also do real-time coverage, leaving little obvious whitespace for a team-only companion.The Hundred Fantasy ↗The Hundred Men's Competition 2025 - ESPN ↗
Official Hundred Fantasy is free; paid fantasy cricket is dominated by Dream11-scale operators, and cricket fans rarely pay subscriptions for fan-companion utilities when official broadcast coverage is comprehensive.What is the Hundred Fantasy Game? ↗Top Fantasy Cricket Apps 2025 - Win Big in The Hundred & CPL ↗
Tournament is ECB-backed and stable since 2021, but it runs only ~1 month per summer, so DAU-driven utility value would collapse off-season — high seasonality limits a standalone app's shelf life.The Hundred ↗
Technically straightforward: live scores, fixtures and push notifications can be layered on top of existing Cricbuzz/ESPN APIs, with team-following UI being trivial; live win-probability modelling is the only non-trivial piece, but models like Cricbuzz's IPL win-prob already prove the approach.Manchester Originals vs London Spirit - Cricbuzz live scores ↗