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The Automated ScoreBook
For Football
What's New For 2007
Version 4.9.0 (available June 2007)
Versions 4.8.1 - 4.8.20 (updates made from June 2006 -
May 2007)
- 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
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
- 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)
1999 (Version 4.1)
- New! - Football Utilities for Windows
- Extended (20-character) player names for game and season reports
(Windows reports)
- Missed field goal descriptions (wide left/right, short, hit
crossbar/uprights) in play-by-play
- Punts inside the 20 statistics included in game reports (Individual
& Quickie Stats)
- QB hurry command included as in-game scoring function
- Career statistics categories for field goals and all purpose
yards added
- Rename game ID function in Utilities (Windows utilities)
- New! - Optional feature to display career stats on the Internet
- New! - Compatible with TasZip utility (file compression, e-mail,
HTML browsing tools)
- Option to show games started for rush, receive, pass in Individual
Statistics
- Allow max of 20 games for "at-a-glance" game-by-game
reports
- Add copy to disk function in Windows Game Reports
1998 (Version 4.0)
- New! - Display and print reports on the Windows desktop
- New! - By-quarter statistics report (3rd/4th down conversions)
- New! - By-quarter statistics report (time of possession)
- New! - Red-zone statistics breakdown (results inside opponents
20 yardline)
- Generate reports with "tab stops" for use in word
processing/desktop publishing
- "Links" to game box scores are automatically created
in the Game Results HTML page
- Media stats display now included in the Standard Version (at
no additional cost!)
1997 (Version 3.0)
- Improved entry sequence for blocked punts, offsetting penalties
and kickoffs that go out-of-bounds
- Narrative scoring summary for use in away game (manual entry)
reports
- New! Game Participation report shows starters and non-starters
- New! Graphical version of the Drive Chart displays drive summaries
in a visual format
- New! Play Breakdown report showing formation and run/pass tendencies
(designed for scouting)
- Improved readability for Scoring Summary (font size) and Play-by-play
(indentation) reports
- New! Individual Passing Game-by-Game Summary (single page for
all players)
- New! Individual Tackles For Loss and Sacks Game-by-Game Summaries
(single page for all players)
- New! Individual Fumbles & Fumble Recoveries Game-by-Game
Summary (single page for all players)
- New! NCAA Final Cumulative Football Statistics Report for end-year
reporting (Div. II, Div III)
- Net punting average statistic added to the Team Stats report
- Punting stats include touchbacks, inside the 20, fair catch
and 50+ yard punt categories
- QB hurries stat now included in the Defensive Statistics report
- Import/export rosters, reconcile name spellings during game
import added to the Utilities program
- Statistics displayed in a 1-up column format in HTML files for
better readability
- New! Individual career statistics (designed for reporting on
active players).
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