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The Automated ScoreBook
For Baseball/Softball
What's New For 2009
Version 5.11.0 (available June 2009)
- Access to all updates from June 2009 through May 2010 (i.e., versions 5.11.1 - 5.11.xx)
- Live XML activation through July 2010
- New Game Viewer access to career statistics (uses Career XML Summaries by player)
- Add Analysis Database | Plate Appearance Detail Reports
- Plate Appearance Report
 | Batters Faced Report
Versions 5.10.1 - 5.10.37 (updates made from June 2008 - May 2009)
- Add print all box scores function (NCAA and Newspaper box)
- Add weather to Pre-Game report
- Add catchers to Line score report
- For Live HTML, add weather to game information section of game status page
- For Live HTML, show additional batter information in "field" display
- Add Analysis Database | Pitch Chart Reports: Base Hit Totals | Base Hit vs. Left | Base Hit vs. Right | Base Hit vs. Left/Right | By Count Totals | By Count vs. Left | By Count vs. Right | By Count vs. Left/Right | Summary Totals | Summary vs. Left | Summary vs. Right | Summary vs. Left/Right | Where Hit Totals | Where Hit vs. Left | Where Hit vs. Right | Where Hit vs. Left/Right
- Add Pinch-hitting Listing to Analysis Database
- Add Opponent Game Highs report
- Implement 'style' mode format for ab-r-h-rbi, po-a-e, ip-h-r-er-bb-so reports
- Implement 'style' mode format for inherited runners report
- Adjust 'style' reports to allow more characters to display in player name
- Show double-header indicator in Results report (hardcopy and Html 'style' formats)
- Indicate neutral site in Game Highs report
- 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 average)
- 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
- Include roster files in the pack/unpack game functions
- Html output: Add handling for "special" characters in player names
- Various fixes and minor enhancements
What's New For 2008
Version 5.10.0 (available June 2008)
- Access to all updates from June 2008 through May 2009 (i.e.,
versions 5.10.1 - 5.10.xx)
- Live XML activation through July 2009
- New style format season reports
- New style format career/historical reports
- Table-style format career HTML output
- Automatically swap home/visitor colors in live html when
neutral site=H
- Improve directory prompts for: import/export, pack/unpack,
copy HTML to disk, backup/restore
- Add menu item for taszip backup/restore in Windows Utilities
- Analysis database listings of outfield assists and of double
plays
- 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)
- Individual game-by-game report: Add position, on base pct
and slugging pct information
Versions 5.9.1 - 5.9.24 (updates made from June 2007 -
May 2008)
- HTML generate: accommodate Vista to display HTML | View HTML
functions
- Game scoring: allow entry of home run hit location + inside-the-park
description in the format "HR location IP", for example,
HR LC IP for "homered to left center, inside the park"
- Game scoring: add "Weather" field to Game info window
- Game reports: display "Weather" field in notes section
of box score
- Game XML: add "nitegame" attribute to the <venue>
tag
- Game XML: add "weather" attribute to the <venue>
tag
- Career reports: adjust individual career summaries report to
exclude prior school stats from all-time and single-season rankings
section
- Career reports: adjust history names list report to exclude
prior school seasons
- DOS Utilities: modify method for import roster to accommodate
Vista (fix to avoid failure in copy of ".tro" file)
- Live HTML: optionally display game info within sponsor text
-- to do this add a line in the sponsor text file containing the
tag: <info/>
- Game reports: insert images in title area of reports (beta version);
Select Display | Style report options | Images to include
- Live game HTML: automatically reverse "visitor" and
"home" colors when Game info | Neutral site = "H"
(indicating home team is in visitor spot and vice versa)
- Various fixes and other minor enhancements
What's New 2000-2007
2007 (Version 5.9.0)
- Access to all updates from June 2007 through May 2008 (i.e.,
versions 5.9.1 - 5.9.xx)
- Live XML activation through July 2008
- New style game reports:
composite
boxscore,
newspaper boxscore, NCAA
boxscore, play
by play, situational
stats report
- Install updated NCAA team code list (ncaacode.rpi)
- Allow for HTML generation of current "Include games"
settings for all reports (for both Team and Conference)
- Use extended names for player links index to individual career
summaries (HTML)
- Utilities "import game" function changed to pull in
the team name from the master list
- Add message text to the game status page of the live HTML
- Add uniform numbers to the Lineup card window
- Display opponent name in upper case for home games on Schedule/Results
and Combined Stats reports
- 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 5.8)
2005 (Version 5.7)
- Access to all updates from June 2005 through May 2006 (i.e.,
versions 5.7.1 - 5.7.xx)
- Live XML activation through July 2006
- 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
- If a game is declared "no contest", enter "NORESULT"
in the Game wrapup | Game duration field (This allows the stats
for the game to count, but no win-loss is awarded. For e.g., if
a game is not replayed from the point of a successful protest,
this outcome may apply. Consult your league rules.)
- Game reports: add bats/throws info (B/T) to the non-starters
section of the Pre-game report
- Season reports: Game highs report - show pitching categories
for most "allowed" -- runs, earned runs, hits, walks,
doubles, triples, home runs
- Season reports: add Games | Opponent game-by-game report
- Season reports: add Games | Both teams game-by-game report
- Season reports: add LOB column to team situation game-by-game
report
- Career reports: add total bases category to individual game
records
- Career reports: add total bases category to team game records
- Career reports: add runners LOB category to team game records
- Career reports: add double plays category to team game records
- Career reports: add HTML index links to season/career records
categories
- Improve layout of HTML statistics home page
- Add option to specify whether to include "conference-only"
statistiscs report in the HTML output
- Improve layout of league/conference HTML statistics home page
- Include latest version of NCAA team code list (to support Edit
RPI codes function)
- Conference career statistics: add HTML generate functions; upload
files in the carconf/html subdirectory; link to the carconf.htm
file
- Utilities: add option to sort roster by uniform number or name
(roster maintenance)
- Utilities import roster: add field to specify team short name
2004 (Version 5.6)
- All maintenance updates from June 2004 through May 2005
- Live XML activation through July 2005
- New Control Panel feature to access software downloads online
- Include uniform number in batting order list on the graphical
scoresheet display
- Expand team Win-Loss record breakdowns in the Games Summary
report
- Automatically select Remote display | Connect comms at startup
in in-game scoring program
- Include roster position information for non-starters in Pre-game
report
- 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)
- Add "Comments" function to in-game scoring play-by-play
- Extend XML activation for 'Copy to file' function to support
Game Viewers
- Add Game reports | Reports | Game viewer menu item to invoke
the game viewer for the currently selected game (requires Game
Viewer 5.6.6 or later -- download below)
- Implement extended names in "By Position" report
- Make '.cap' file lookup in Game reports | Settings | Load stat
files non-case sensitive (for example, "Brown" matches
"BROWN")
- Allow mixed case in Game wrapup | Conf ID field (for example,
"Pac-10" instead of "PAC-10".
- Add ranking indicators to category leader reports
- Game Viewer: Add RH/LH batter stats to Game Viewer | Team stats
- Game Viewer: Add (pitches/strikes) to Announcer display
- Game Viewer: Add strikeout info to batter summary lines on Announcer
page
- Game Viewer: Improve the resizing method used for enlarge/shrink
window (+/-) functions; in particular for the play-by-play view
2003 (Version 5.5)
- 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 BS Game Viewer feature
(for XML output)
- Add file transmit function for FTP to a report server
- Add Reports | Pre-game report to Windows Game Reports
- Enhancements for live game XML output:
- Extended pre-game report format when season-to-date stat files
are loaded
- Html "preview" function
- Include "conference-only" stats report in Html output
- Conference career statistics (batting and pitching leaders)
- Alerts for possible data discrepancies for NCAA reporting (click
HERE for more info)
- Improved NCAA team code lookup functions
- New conference career stats program (click HERE
to view sample reports; click HERE
to view sample displays)
2002 (Version 5.4)
- allow for input for double error on a single play (for example,
"E4F E4T")
- new - message line feature for stats display
- improved performance in scoring window under Windows
2000/XP
- added keyword for ground-rule double
- allow for player jersey # 0
- pitch-by-pitch info has been added to the "live"
internet stats
- improved play-by-play printout to reduce number
of lines
- new report - Combined Season Stats
- new option to show and sort by GB in standings
(tournament format)
- show start time in game schedule
- add "day/night" selection to include
game function
- expanded NCAA team code lookup lists
- electronic NCAA (XML) reporting via the internet
- new report with individual season overall and career
overall in one report
- ability to display team rankings in game reports,
game results
- increase the size of the "as of date"
field in reports
- improvements in player name reconciliation (import
function)
- improvements to the Windows Utilities function
- format HTML file names for Windows 2000/XP
- statistical ranking comparison report (for conference/tournament)
2001 (Version 5.3)
- Single page "graphical" scoresheet
- Stolen base/caught stealing analysis
- Enhancements to home runs listing/analysis
- Pickoffs analysis
- Pinch-hitting situation statistics
- HBP handling while using pitch-by-pitch scoring
- Ability to configure top & bottom sections of HTML pages
(for logos, links, etc.)
- New option to generate "summary" HTML output for overall
stats & game results
- Ability to tailor colors on TASLIVE (live internet stats)
- New TASLIVE option to display a comment line of text after the
last play entered
- Career/Historical reports (in Windows), including:
Individual career summaries, Individual career records, Individual
single-season records, Individual year-by-year leaders, Team single-season
records, Team year-by-year statistics, Individual single-game
records, Team single-game records
2000 (Version 5.2)
- New - Inherited runners statistics (box score and season stats)
- New - Expanded situational analysis statistics including:
Home runs listing, Bunting statistics, Batter vs pitcher matchups,
Detailed batting/pitching analysis stats, Batting/pitching inning-by-inning
stats
- Game starters listed in the play-by-play narrative
- Windows Game Reports can show pitch counts, current averages
- Pitchers lines added to the AP-style linescore report
- Optionally flag or hide inactive players in season reports
- Various enhancements to season reports:
Catcher pickoffs displayed in Overall Statistics report, Select
"all" players when generating the Individual game-by-game
report, Games started column displayed in Individual game-by-game
report, Notation for double-header game displayed in Individual
game-by-game report, Pitcher fielding stats displayed in Individual
game-by-game report
- NCAA RPI codes can be automatically inserted into the NCAA Final
Statistics report
- Simpler "capture" function for conference season-to-date
reporting
- HTML copy to disk function added to Windows Game Reports
- New - NCAA Conference Trends reporting form
- Several additional categories added to the Media Summary report:
Pitching- appearances, games started, complete games, opponent
batting avg,
Batting- total bases, walks, on-base percentage, slugging percentage
- Automatically insert NCAA team codes into the RPI Questionnaire
- Automatic "catch-up" for class (FR,SO,JR,SR) info
in conference reports
- Optionally "archive" files after they have been imported
- Live internet stats: improved format, simpler setup (Requires
TasLive)
Click HERE
for a PDF file of this "What's New" page |
