Pickleball.com
All Things Pickleball—pro rankings and leaderboards, tour and league ecosystem links, news, and SSO-backed accounts.
About
Pickleball.com positions itself as the central home for the sport: “All Things Pickleball.” Visitors get interactive professional leaderboards (including PPA Tour–oriented standings with player profiles, countries, and points), pathways to full rankings and “Where to Watch,” and account access through a dedicated SSO flow on sso.pickleball.com. The site surfaces the wider Pickleball Inc. network in one place—PPA Tour, Major League Pickleball, Pickleball TV, Pickleball Central commerce, tournament and league products, club discovery, UPA-A, mobile experiences such as MATCHDAY and Game Maker, and partner brands like Top Court and Just Courts. Editorial coverage spans live event recaps, industry news, culture, and participation trends.
Highlights
- Real-Time Tournament Updates: Delivering live scores and rankings required low-latency infrastructure. We solved this with Redis pub/sub for real-time event streaming and efficient GraphQL subscriptions.
- Scalability During Peak Events: Tournament weekends cause major traffic spikes. To handle demand, the system was designed with horizontal scaling on AWS ECS and CDN-based caching for static assets.
- Marketplace Integration: Balancing BigCommerce with custom features was a challenge. We built a hybrid commerce model, using BigCommerce APIs for catalog/order management while extending checkout flows with Stripe for flexibility.
- Balancing Content and Data: Combining editorial content with live data posed UX challenges. We built a modular dashboard layout where users can toggle between news, rankings, and marketplace views without losing context.
- Community Trust & Engagement: User-generated content and social features required moderation. We integrated role-based access controls and automated content moderation pipelines to ensure safety and inclusivity.