Personal bests and season bests
How PBs are calculated, and why your season runs from a different month depending on the sport.
Athletes usually track two numbers: their personal best, which is all-time, and their season's best, which resets each season. Proletics keeps both.
A personal best is recalculated whenever results change, and respects the discipline's direction — lower is better for a time, higher for a throw.
When your season starts
Seasons do not start in the same month for every sport, so each sport carries its own start month. Proletics ships researched defaults, and you can override any of them for your club.
| Sport | Season starts |
|---|---|
| Athletics | January — athletics scores season bests by calendar year |
| Football | August |
| Cricket | April |
| Rugby union, netball, hockey, cross country | September |
| Rugby league | February |
| Swimming, tennis | January |
| Gymnastics | October |
Changing your season
If your club's calendar differs from the default — a Scottish gymnastics club, for instance, whose governing body year starts in September rather than October — set the season start month on that sport and it overrides the default.