The Automated ScoreBook For Football

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
• New Game Viewer access to career statistics (uses Career XML Summaries by player)
• New feature to Show/Flag/Hide inactive players

• Add print all box scores function (scoring summary and AP boxscore)
• Add controls for text color of teamID's and "Prd" in scoreboard area of Live HTML
• Format scoreboard output names as Last, First
• In Report Packet function, add option for interspersed "cumulative thru" Quickie stats
• In Report Packet function, add option for interspersed "quarter-only" Quickie stats
• Add play type "FUMB" to 'longplays' tag in game XML, for NCAA data collection
• Add play type "PUNTING" to 'longplays' tag in game XML, for NCAA data collection
• Show opponent rank in Combined Stats report
• Add "Drives" summary to Play Analysis to show avg. field position on drive possessions 
• Implement "style" format for Long Plays and Money Plays in Play Analysis 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
• Add Career reports XML summaries (by season) for archive purposes
• Add controls for Career HTML column header color
• Accommodate career historical data where games played information was not tracked
• Add "All" line to Individual Career Summary for "prior team" stats totals where applicable
• Add controls for Conference HTML column header color
• 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
• Table-style format career HTML output
• Improve directory prompts for: import/export, pack/unpack, copy HTMLto disk, backup/restore
• Add menu item for taszip backup/restore in Windows Utilities
• Ability to arrange the order of reports in the game packet
• 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)
• Career reports: additional columns and categories in the Individual Year-by-Year Leaders report

Versions 4.9.1 - 4.9.30 (updates made from June 2007 - May 2008)

• HTML generate: accommodate Vista to display HTML | View HTML functions.
• Career reports: add categories for fumbles forced, fumbles recovered, pass breakups, QB hurries and blocked kicks to season and career records reports
• Game scoring/Utilities: update the RULES.NCA file to reflect new kickoff spot (the 30-yardline)
• Utilities: modify method for import roster to accommodate Vista (fix to avoid failure in copy of ".fro" file)
• Season HTML: use format "plyr_#.htm" for filenames/links to individual game-by-game sections to simplify linking from bio pages
• Live stats: enable second feed as XML format when primary feed is HTML
• Game reports: implement "style" report for newspaper box score
• Game reports: implement "style" report for play breakdown report
• Game reports: show number of yards gained to the point of a fumble in the play-by-play narrative
• Game reports: display the extended name in the Participation report
• Game reports: in the play-by-play quarter summary, display negative yards (rushing, passing) in format "4-(-10)" instead of "4--10"
• Season reports: improve the Game-by-Game Comparison report tab-stop header contents
• Game scoring: adjustments for AFL rules set (on-side kicks, forced fumbles on sacks, fumble recovery TDs, fumble transitions on kick returns)
• Live HTML: optionally display game info within sponsor text -- to do this add a line in the sponsor text file containing the tag: <info/>
• 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:
  quickie stats, team stats, individual stats, scoring summary, drive chart, defensive stats, participation report, play by play
• Game Viewer - allow for "http" access to game, season, and career XML files via the internet
• Generate player name links with underscores to accomodate web-based tools (for both season and career HTML reports)
• Option to include games started in the Defensive Stats report (season)
• Add a new result code of "A" for Aborted Play Fumbles
• Option to mark stats for a player from another team/school (to exclude from season & career leaders)
• Tackles added to Quickie Stats report
• Add a line fot TDs in both the Rushing and Passing sections of the Team Stats report (game)
• Install updated NCAA team code list (ncaacode.rpi)
• Game Viewer - implement method to automatically resize viewer window at startup
• 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
• Import games list sort by date
• Include manual entry ".sss" scoring summary in game XML
• Onside kicks in season Team Statistics report
• Red-zone summary in Team Statistics report
• Onside kick success/allowed categories in conference Team Leaders report
• Conference standings shows home/away/neutral record in won/lost streak
• Table-style format for post-game web pages
• Career category ordinal rankings (1., 2., etc.)
• Prompt team name spelling on roster import
• Conference career change team id and delete team functions
• Team net punting avg calculation in accordance with NCAA change
• Kickoff statistics added to game individual statistics report
• Prompt for touch by receiving team during on-side kick (for fumble/return stats)
• Play detail tags added to game XML output
• 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
• 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
• Play-by-play: reflect adjusted drive start yardline after penalty on kickoff
• Add Settings | Report options | Show uniform number in play-by-play option
• Use smaller print in "Fumbles" section of game individual stats to avoid truncation on right
• Use smaller print in Newspaper box to avoid truncation on right
• Game reports: reduce the font size in the scoring summary, individual stats and drive chart to avoid truncation on the right (on some printers)
• Game setup | game info: Allow values of "V" and "H" in the "Conference:" field to indicate the game is a conference game for only the visiting or home team, respectively
• Game scoring: implement result code of "S" for 1-point safety as a possible result when defense attempts a return of a PAT attempt
• Season reports: add info for average starting yardline in kickoff stats -- show average net yardline for opponents field position after a kickoff
• Use "vs" instead of "at" for neutral site games in Game Highs report
• Season reports: use the current uniform number in the "master" roster in reports (instead of uni number from 1st game)
• Add punt details to Season/Career summary report
• Add kickoff details to Season/Career summary report
• Add kickoff statistics to team and individual game-by-game reports
• Season reports: add new report Summaries| All-purpose yards (individual game-by-game summary format)
• Career stats: add total offense category to Individual Career Summary report for individual players
• Career reports: enable the Reports | Individual career summaries (ALL YEARS) report to be displayed using TasFonts (otherwise, this output is too large to fit into the "standard" file viewer -- you can use a word processor such as NotePad, WordPad, Microsoft Word, etc., to display it)
• Improve layout of HTML statistics home page
• Display the HTML Individual Game-by-Game links on both the Game-by-Game Statistics page and the Individual Game-by-Game Summaries page
• Conference statistics: game setup | Game info: Allow values of "V" and "H" in the "Conference:" field to indicate the game is a conference game for only the visiting or home team, respectively
• Include latest version of NCAA team code list (to support Edit RPI codes function)
• Expand Team Kickoff Coverage category display on Team Leaders report
• Conference reports: add new report Team reports | Summaries | All-purpose yards (individual game-by-game summary format)
• Career statistics: add HTML generate functions; upload files in the carconf/html subdirectory; link to the carconf.htm file

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
• Implement play analysis Long Plays report
• Implement play analysis cumulative Play Breakdown report
• Implement play analysis cumulative Down Breakdown report
• Implement play analysis cumulative Tackles Breakdown report
• Implement play analysis cumulative 'Money' Breakdown report (rush/receive)
• Implement Utilities | Import/Export/ Import defensive stats function (to import manually adjusted defensive stats after the game)
• Prompt for save after change to Game info window (primarily to force a live internet stats update)
• 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)
• Place defensive stats on a separate page in Combined Statistics report if Settings | Report options Combined stats | Defense #lines is more than 10
• Career stats - Add scoring, total offense, all purpose to season summary report
• Season reports - Add <All players> option for generating Individual game-by-game
• Career game records - add indiv longest fumble return category
• Career game records - add indiv/team pass breakup, blocked kicks categories
• Career game records - add indiv/team tackles for loss categories
• Career game records - add team/indiv fumbles forced, fumbles recovered categories
• Career season/career records - add fumble returns, yards, TDs categories
• Career season/career records - add fumbles forced, recovered categories
• Extend XML activation for 'Copy to file' function to support Game Viewers
• Add <qtrsummary> tag to the game XML output within <qtr> block to hold team statistics summary for each quarter. Note: If you use the Game Viewer, you must also download and install the Game Viewer update (below) to properly handle these new statistics in the XML output.
• Add pass efficiency column to Individual Game-by-Game Passing Summary report
• Implement additional kickoff statistics:
  • Show kickoff for touchback, out-of-bounds in Team Individual Statistics report
  • Automatically track kickoff touchbacks and out-of-bounds (in-game scoring)
  • Add fields to hold kickoff TB and OB values (manual entry)
  • Include "tb" and "ob" attributes in the XML <ko> tag
• Automatically mark participation for starters
• Automatically figure the team on a QB hurry input (only prompt for the uniform number)
• Add <redzone> stats to XML output; for use in Game Viewer
• Include additional statistics in Game reports | Team statistics
  • Expand rushing section
  • Expand passing section
  • Expand punting section
  • Show return TDs
  • Show punt/kickoff avg per return
  • Add kickoffs section
  • Show possession times by quarter
  • Add PAT, FG lines
• Add line for neutral site attendance to Team Statistics report
• Game Viewer: Implement optional Season XML files option to support display of season-to-date stats for a selected player
• Game Viewer: Improve the resizing method used for enlarge/shrink window (+/-) functions; in particular for the scoring summary, drive chart and play-by-play views
• Game Viewer: Add handling for new <qtrsummary> tag -- use buttons on Team statistics page to view team stats for the entire game (Game Totals) or for a specific quarter.
• Game Viewer: Implement display of redzone stats on Team stats view

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 FB Game Viewer feature (for XML output)
• Add file transmit function for FTP to a report server
• Implement scoring changes for Canadian football rules:
• Show "BrUp" instead of "PD" (passes defended) in game defensive stats report
• Prompt for player that blocks a PAT kick attempt
• Add option to control whether first downs by penalty are counted as a play in the drive
• Add breakout by "period" in Scoring Summary for overtime possessions
• Add defensive statistics to the Cumes | Season/Career summary report
• Implement tab stops for play-by-play report
• Implement option to sort additional defensive stats by avg-per-game (FF, FR, PD)
• 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)

• include timeouts left on scoring window, in live stats, and in XML output
• revised scoring: punt muffed then punted & blocked - goes against individual
• no longer displays "penalty against wrong team?" on penalties involving possession change
• Improved remote stats display
• improved performance in scoring window under Windows 2000/XP
• changed "Pass Def" to "Pass Brup" in season game-by-game reports
• ability to display team rankings in game reports, game results
• now shows red-zone stats in game reports (team stats, quickie stats)
• new "include games" options (season reports): home only, away only, wins only, losses only
• new report option added for "Half TFL assists"
• now uses extended names in Career Statistics
• new options in roster maintenance to convert names (upper case, mixed case, last-first, first-last)
• 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
• now supports 1st down guidelines for the AFL
• now show all-purpose stats in game individual stats report (for the AFL only)

2001 (Version 4.3)

• Produces all defensive stats as defined in the 2001 NCAA Guidelines
• Creates a post-game file to send to the NCAA ("Summary of Football Game Statistics" report)
• New yardline checks in the in-game scoring to reduce errors
• Red-zone stats are now calculated automatically in the in-game scoring program
• Game stats can now be generated for just a specific quarter
• All purpose yards no longer include "fumble return yards" (per NCAA Guidelines)
• 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! - Football 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
  Added passes defended, fumbles forced, blocked kicks to career stats
• Fumbles forced added to the game defensive stats report
• Fumbles by added to the game individual stats report
• Updates to NCAA Summary of Football Game Statistics form (per NCAA guidelines)
• Include RPI team codes in the NCAA Finals Statistics form
• Conference: Kickoff coverage added to the Team Leaders report
• Conference: Stats Discrepancy report to highlight possible data entry errors
• Conference: Automatic lookup of team codes for the NCAA RPI Questionnaire
• Method to enter foreits into the game results
• Quick access between Windows Reports programs via menu selection
• Live internet stats: improved format, simpler setup (Requires TasLive).

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