THE STAT CREW SYSTEM For Basketball

What's New For 2007

Version 4.9.0 (available June 2007)

• Access to all updates from June 2007 through May 2008 (i.e., versions 4.9.1 - 4.9.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2008
• New style game reports:
  boxscore
  play by play

Versions 4.8.1 - 4.8.16 (updates made from June 2006 - May 2007)

• Install updated NCAA team code list (ncaacode.rpi)
• Add personal and team foul info to play-by-play lines ("P#T#")
• Allow for primary live stats output in HTML format and secondary output in XML format
• Display the latest clock time in the "scoreboard" area of the live HTML stats display
• Add "Minutes/game" to summary section of individual game-by-game report
• Utilities "import game" function changed to pull in the team name from the master list
• Game Viewer - implement method to automatically resize viewer window at startup
• Game Viewer - allow for "http" access to game, season, and career XML files via the internet
• Various fixes and other minor enhancements

What's New 1997-2006

2006 (Version 4.8.0)

• Access to all updates from June 2006 through May 2007 (i.e., versions 4.8.1 - 4.8.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2007
• New “stylesheet” format for live HTML stats with TAS Live
• Career summary all-time, single-season rankings
• Career all-time records vs opponents
• Roster name format functions (upper,mixed,first,last)
• Import games list sort by date
• Conference "stellar" performances (30-pt,20-pt,20-reb,10-ast games)
• Conference import game play-by-play (hardcopy, HTML)
• Conference import - games list sort by date
• Career category ordinal rankings (1., 2., etc.)
• Prompt team name spelling on roster import
• Conference career change team id and delete team functions
• Add substitution information to game XML output, and 2-column play-by-play report
• Display "40-" in box score minutes column for players who did not play the entire game
• Add Reports | Overtime game box score for overtime-only statistics
• Add technical fouls to newspaper box score
• Various fixes and other minor enhancements

2005 (Version 4.7)

• Access to all updates from June 2005 through May 2006 (i.e., versions 4.7.1 - 4.7.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2006
• Option to include substitutions on the play-by-play
• New report! Player Substitutions
• In-game play editor nows works with the game clock running
• Career reports: game results are now included in the Season | Summary report and Summary HTML outputs
• Career reports: new "All-time results" report shows game results for each season
• Career reports: new "All-time vs team" report shows game results against a selected opponent
• Career reports: career capture automatically extracts game results; Edit | All-time results function to enter results for prior seasons
• Easier setup for transmit of report files to Sports Systems
• Add page for opponent individual game highs in Season reports | Superlatives | Player game highs
• Add filters to Season reports | Settings | Include games to select:
  • Stats for 1st half only
  • Stats for 2nd half only
  • Stats for final minutes of game
  • Starters-only statistics
  • Bench player-only statistics
• Improve layout of HTML statistics home page
• Include latest version of NCAA team code list (to support Edit RPI codes function)
• Improve layout of the HTML Season Statistics page contents
• Improve layout of the HTML Game-by-Game Statistics page contents
• Improve layout of the HTML Game High/Low Statistics page contents
• Improve layout of the HTML Game Reports page contents
• Game reports: show largest lead for each team on the box score
• Game reports: Condense the length of the play-by-play report by combining actions that occur at the same clock time on a single line (such as missed shot/defensive rebound)
• HTML pages: Add option HTML | Setup to control whether to use the "new" table format HTML output, or the previous "pre-formatted" HTML output
• HTML table-style: Use Game reports | Live | HTML tailoring value defined in Home stats header | Background for column headers in html generation
• HTML pages: Add 'table' style option for career statistics
• Season reports: Treat the visiting team as the "home" team when the Game Setup | Home/Away/Neutral field is set to "A" -- indicating an away game for the team in the "home" slot
• Game Viewer: show time of possession stats on the Team Stats screen

2004 (Version 4.6)

• All maintenance updates from June 2004 through May 2005
• Live XML activation through July 2005
• New conduct reports
• New Control Panel feature to access software downloads online
• Career stats - Improve format for Edit season | Summary report
• Career stats - Add function to generate season summary HTML file for a historical season (Edit season | HTML summary)
• Career stats - Add season/career leaders category for games played
• Career stats - Add season/career leaders category for games started
• Career stats - Add season/career leaders category for minutes played
• Career stats - Add season/career leaders category for minutes per game
• Show players with no points or attempts in scoring section of newspaper box score (to indicate participation)
• Career stats - Add option to Edit season | Individual stats | Offensive stats | From prior team/school to mark statistics for a player from another team or school;
  these statistics are excluded from the Career leaders and Season leaders reports
• Extend XML activation for 'Copy to file' function to support Game Viewers
• Change the default to "yes" for specialty stats display
• Add Season reports | Stats | Conduct fouls report for NCAA conduct fouls study
• Add Tournament | Generate tournament HTML (and View tournament HTML) functions to Season Reports
• Game Viewer: Improve the resizing method used for enlarge/shrink window (+/-) functions; in particular for the play-by-play view
• Game Viewer: Add "!" (exclamation point) keyboard command to game viewer to switch between display/no-display of top panel (scoreboard) and bottom panel (command
  buttons) -- this is designed to obtain as much usable space as possible for the Stats Summary view for VGA output, especially for output to a video switch or to a TV converter box

2003 (Version 4.5)

• Add breakouts for conference-only career statistics
• Add breakouts for career statistics vs specific opponents
• Add individual game-by-game statistics to html output
• Add BB Game Viewer feature (for XML output)
• Add file transmit function for FTP to a report server
• Options added to control the display of specialty stats on monitors
• HTML "preview" function
• Alerts for possible data discrepancies for NCAA reporting (click HERE for more info)
• Improved NCAA team code lookup functions
• New conference career stats program

2002 (Version 4.4)

• add "Last FG" per team on the game box score (with specialty stats)
• live HTML now indicate players currently in game
• specialty stats on remote display now update with each play during the game
• default auto-save value set to "01" (in-game scoring options)
• displays "stats imbalance" information when creating the end-of-season XML output for NCAA reporting
• allow for "span" season format in career stats (for example, "2001-02")
• add FGA and FTA attempts categories to career/historical reports
• new option in career reports to show 3-pointers, off/def rebounds starting with a specified year
• expanded NCAA team code lookup lists
• electronic NCAA (XML) reporting via the internet
• new report showing individual season overall and career overall in one report
• increase the size of the "as of date" field in reports
• improvements in player name reconciliation (during importing)
• improvements to the Windows Utilities function

2001 (Version 4.3)

• New report! - newspaper boxscore (AP style)
• New report! - game play-by-play in a 2-up column format
• New report! - "statistics per 40 minutes" (season stats prorated for a full game)
• "Minutes played" category added to the Individual Game Highs report
• New option to generate "summary" HTML output for overall stats & game results
• Ability to configure top & bottom sections of HTML pages (for logos, links, etc.)
• Ability to tailor colors on TASLIVE (live internet stats)
• New option in Career/Historical reports to generate summaries for "all years"
• New "Control Panel" for Windows to make it easier to launch STAT CREW programs

2000 (Version 4.2)

• New! - Basketball Career/Historical Reports for Windows®
• Automatic HTML generation for career, season and single-game records
• Manual entry as well as automatic "capture" functions
• Individual career summaries (for active players)
• Individual career, single-season, and single-game records
• Team single-season and single-game records
• Team and individual year-by-year leaders
• Include RPI team codes in the NCAA Finals Statistics form
• Conference: Automatic lookup of team codes for the NCAA RPI Questionnaire
• Live internet stats: improved format, simpler setup (requires TASLIVE)

1999 (Version 4.1)

• Media stats display now included as a standard feature (at no additional cost)
• Specialty stats analysis report including: points off turnovers, second-chance points, points in the paint, fast-break points, bench scoring
• Additional options to tailor the play-by-play narrative report
• Option to generate play-by-play for selected players
• Additional report options such as multiple sort criteria for season box score, # entries in each category, stat minimums, tab stops, etc.
• Auto "reports display" at startup
• New! - Combined Statistics report
• New! - Category Leaders report
• New! - Team Stats reports
• New! - Overall/Conference Statistics report
• New! - Extended Season Box Score report
• New! - NCAA Final Stats form
• New! - Game-by-game Highs report
• Import/export roster and game stats functions for exchanging rosters and game files with other teams
• Directory "finder" function to locate STAT CREW games directories on your compute

1998 (Version 4.0)

• New! Windows® Game and Season Reports (for Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT)
• Print to Windows printers, network printers, fax devices, etc.
• Create output with "tab stops" for use in word processing
• Display and manipulate multiple reports on the Windows desktop
• Generate HTML files for your Web site with a single button
• Copy to clipboard for pasting into other documents
• Simpler report options tailoring
• Use TAS "Live" to display live official game stats on the Internet (available at an additional cost)

1997 (Version 3.0)

• Auto save feature to automatically save plays to disk throughout the game
• Expanded roster size
• New feature for quicker player name and number changes/additions during a game
• New codes for 20-second timeouts and "team" fouls
• Expanded comments field at the bottom of the box score
• Allow for multiple starting positions on the box score (i.e., 3 guards, etc.) or just "*" for starters
• Create HTML ready box score and play-by-play files for the Internet
• "Remember" the last play-by-play options selected for print or display
• Ability to write the play-by-play to a text file
• Create HTML ready report files for the Internet
• New option on the Season Box Score to print conference stats below each player's overall stats
• New option on the Season Box Score Report to sort by average # of points per player
• New Game By Game report for opponent stats
• New option to change the header on any report (title and through date info)
• Expanded printers file for additional printer types and options
• New option to print any report at either 6LPI or 8LPI

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