The Automated ScoreBook For Lacrosse

What's New For 2009

• Access to all updates from June 2009 through May 2010 (i.e., versions 1.11.1 - 1.11.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 controls for text color of teamID's and "Prd" in scoreboard area of Live HTML
• Add defensive saves statistic to in-game and manual scoring
• Add option to show defensive saves in Game and Season reports
• Change prompt for penalty types to technical, personal, 1.5- 2- and 3-minute penalties
• Add print all box scores function
• Format faceoff as "won-attempts" (instead of "won-loss") in Game reports
• Display goalies in order of appearance in boxscore (when team uses more than 2 goalies)
• Show opponent rank in Combined Stats report
• Combine multiple players on single page for Individual Game-by-Game report
• For Combined Stats report and Results report, format W-L-T as "#-#" if no ties 
• 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 points)
• 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
• Add controls for Conference HTML column header color
• Show W-L instead of W-L-T in Conference Standings report
• Html output: Add handling for "special" characters in player names
• Various fixes and minor enhancements

What's New For 2008

Version 1.10.0 (available June 2008)

• Access to all updates from June 2008 through May 2009 (i.e., versions 1.10.1 - 1.10.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 prompt dc or gb after faceoff
• Improve directory prompts for: import/export, pack/unpack, copy html to disk, backup/restore
• 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 1.9.1 - 1.9.10 (updates made from June 2007 - May 2008)

• Manual entry: fix to avoid setting games played to "1" when editing a season-to-date "game" file
• 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 ".cro" file)
• Manual entry: automatically sort the Goal history list in chronological order after edit
• Roster size: increase roster size from 50 to 75 players
• 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 2003-2007

2007 (Version 1.9.0)

• Access to all updates from June 2007 through May 2008 (i.e., versions 1.9.1 - 1.9.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2008
• New style game reports
• Game Viewer - allow for "http" access to game, season, and career XML files via the internet
• Use player uniform number in season HTML files/links for individual game-by-game outputs to allow for more predictable file names (for example, to create links from player bio pages)
• Remember separate rules for each directory (to simplify switching between mens and womens formats)
• Add a separate field in Rules setup to specify the number of overtime minutes for the second and ensuing overtime periods
• Add saves by period to goalie stats in "table-style" Html if that option is enabled; this update includes other cosmetic changes to the "table-style" Html output for the game box score
• Option to mark stats for a player from another team/school (to exclude from season & career leaders)
• 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 1.8)

• Access to all updates from June 2006 through May 2007 (i.e., versions 1.8.1 - 1.8.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
• Career category ordinal rankings (1., 2., etc.)
• Prompt team name spelling on roster import
• Option to "hide" opponent season totals
• Add faceoff information to Combined Statistics report
• Career categories for save pct, games played, games started, minutes played
• Various fixes and minor enhancements

2005 (Version 1.7)

• Access to all updates from June 2005 through May 2006 (i.e., versions 1.7.1 - 1.7.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
• Game reports: use full team name instead of team ID in short box score report
• Game reports: show line for "TM" in box score if any stats allocated to uniform number "TM" (for example, caused turnovers)
• Add running home-visitor score to the scoring summary in the box score
• Prompt for rules settings when starting in-game or manual scoring (to verify correct mens/womens rules are in effect)
• Deliver a default value of "180" seconds instead of "90" seconds for the Game setup | Rules | Penalties | Match field
• In-game: allow for multiple EMO/PP opportunities to be associated with a penalty by using a result code of "2", "3" ... or "9" -- in addition to the standard result code of "Y" to indicate a single EMO/PP opportunity is present
• Tweak the statistics area for in-game scoring to show various team totals in the summary area depending on selected options (for example, show penalties, show facesoffs, show draw controls, etc.)
• Only allow for one assist in-game scoring and manual game entry (unless in NLL or MLL 2-point mode)
• Game reports: add indication in play-by-play of "failed" clear attempt
• Game reports: add option whether to display goalie saves by period in box score
• Game reports: show starters in order entered on Game starters window instead of uniform number order
• Improve layout of HTML statistics home page
• Game HTML: use table format for game box scores
• Season HTML: added Settings | Report options | Use table format option
• Season reports: add free position made-attempts line to the Team Stats report
• Season reports: add draw controls to individual game highs report
• Season reports: add Cumes | Capture season stats for season-to-date reporting to conference office (optional); this function creates files in a "SEASON" subdirectory
• Include latest version of NCAA team code list (to support Edit RPI codes function)
• Implement season-to-date capability for team reporting
• Enable the Settings | Report options | Season-to-date mode option for collecting season-to-date files from member teams, rather than game-by-game reporting
• For season-to-date reporting, teams must use the Season reports | Cumes | Capture season stats which creates files in a "SEASON" subdirectory

2004 (Version 1.6)

• 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
• Season reports - Add <All players> option for generating Individual game-by-game
• 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)
• Extend XML activation for 'Copy to file' function to support Game Viewers
• Add tab stops feature for Season Reports
• Change message prompt for penalty input to include a note showing that "2" is a valid result code (indicating a penalty caused 2 power play opportunities)
• Add functions to track red/yellow card stats (womens venue)
• Add Season reports | Special | Conduct fouls report for NCAA conduct fouls study
• Game Viewer: Improve the resizing method used for enlarge/shrink window (+/-) functions; in particular for the play-by-play view

2003 (Version 1.5)

• 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 LC Game Viewer feature
• Add file transmit function for FTP to a report server
• Implement game scoring changes for National Lacrosse League (NLL)
• Html "preview" function
• Alerts for possible data discrepancies for NCAA reporting (click HERE for more info)
• Improved NCAA team code lookup functions

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