Automations for sports fans 2025

Sports fanatics, it’s time to get Applets ready for your fall teams. Keep track of scores, have your fantasy team strategy sent to your inbox, and celebrate big wins this season.

Celebrate game day

Put the games you want to watch on your calendar, and make sure you get reminders so you never miss a moment. Plus, you can have your lights or other visual device give you a reminder that your team is warming up by displaying the team colors.

Sports news

Keep up with the latest using Sport Illustrated or RSS Feeds from leading sports sources. Get specific and get specific updates for your favorite team or players, or get a digest of the top news before your weekly meeting with your boss who loves to talk sports.

Celebrate the wins

Get notifications or send a tweet when your team wins, or automate a Slack message to your coworkers if you want to let them know. Celebrate with your college friends on Telegram with an automated message. For a smart home, you can make your smart lights change to your team colors or flash to let you know they won! Your Android Device or Sonos could play the victory song of your choice when you want to dance around the room

An easy way to trigger a these Applets is to use the team-specific Twitter accounts from Really Simple Scores. Each tweet is formatted as Yes (win), or No (lose). So, using the Tweet from search trigger you can enter the keywords as "@(Really Simple Scores account of your choosing)"+"Yes". Alternatively, use filter code to only run if the tweet includes the word Yes.

You can use this as a basis to start a party with your smart lights or even to send a Slack message to brag to your co-workers.

Be there

Send an email to your alumni group when you are at your college team’s stadium, or send a message on Twitter when you are cheering on your team live.

Fantasy

Building a fantasy team is part of the excitement of draft season. Keep up with conversations on Reddit to see what people are talking about, and try to learn new things to increase your chances of winning your pool.

Explore

Want to do even more with IFTTT? Explore the possibilities and create powerful experiences by making your own Applets.