THE STAT CREW SYSTEM For Basketball

What's New For 2009

Version 4.11.0 (available June 2009)

• Access to all updates from June 2009 through May 2010 (i.e., versions 4.11.1 - 4.11.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2010
• Add handling of more than 5 OT periods in conference reports

• Add print all box scores function
• Add controls for text color of teamID's and "Prd" in scoreboard area of Live HTML
• Add in-game scoring code ("W") for defensive points (wrong basket)
• Add Double-Doubles report 
• Add largest lead information to Specialty Stats report
• Adjust spacing in game and season reports for large number of players
• Combine multiple players on single page for Individual Game-by-Game report
• Implement 'style' format for Overall/Conference report in team and conference reports
• Add support for schedule legend in Career All-time Results reports
• Expand ties for team and individual season and career records in Career reports
• Improve sort for Career reports season statistics summary (sort on total points)
• Add Career reports XML summaries (by season) for archive purposes
• Add controls for Career HTML column header color (table-style)
• Accommodate career historical data where games played information was not tracked
• Add "All" line to Individual Career Summary for "prior team" stats totals
• Add defensive and offensive rebound percent to Conference Team Leaders report 
• Add Team Highs (by half) report to Conference reports 
• Conference reports: Show OT, O2, O3, etc where applicable in team reports
• Add scoring margin category to Team Game Highs report
• Add controls for Conference HTML column header color (table-style)
• Html output: Add handling for "special" characters in player names
• Various fixes and minor enhancements

What's New For 2008

Version 4.10.0 (available June 2008)

• Access to all updates from June 2008 through May 2009 (i.e., versions 4.10.1 - 4.10.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2009
• New style format season reports
• New style format career/historical reports
• Play analysis breakdown by "who is on court"
• Improve directory prompts for: import/export, pack/unpack, copy html to disk, backup/restore
• Add menu item for taszip backup/restore in Windows Utilities
• Capability to insert graphic images into the header area of hardcopy "style" reports
• Roster report added to "Season Reports" (features include sort by uni # or name, 'style' format and XML format)

Versions 4.9.1 - 4.9.28 (updates made from June 2007 - May 2008)

• HTML generate: Accommodate Vista to display HTML | View HTML functions.
• Utilities: Modify method for import roster to accommodate Vista (fix to avoid failure in copy of ".bro" file)
• Season reports: Include scoring avg, margin, by period in team statistics section of Combined Statistics report
• Career reports: Filter out values of '0' for individual year-by-year leaders report for years when data not available
• Play analysis: Initial "beta" version of analysis statistics. To use this function:
• Play analysis: Add "court combination" breakouts to the Plus/Minus report
• Live HTML: Optionally display game info within sponsor text -- to do this add a line in the sponsor text file containing the tag: <info/>
• Season reports: Include F-Throws made per game in Team Statistics report and Combined Statstics (team stats section)
• Various fixes and other minor enhancements

What's New 2000-2007

2007 (Version 4.9.0)

• 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
• 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

2006 (Version 4.8)

• 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

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