The Automated ScoreBook For Soccer/Field Hockey

What's New For 2007

Version 1.9.0 (available June 2007)

• 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:
  boxscore
  play by play
• Game Viewer - allow for "http" access to game, season, and career XML files via the internet

Versions 1.8.1 - 1.8.17 (updates made from June 2006 - May 2007)

• Add "Season goal number" prompt on penalty kick goal
• Add "Shutouts" column to table-style season HTML output for goalies
• 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)
• In field hockey mode credit game-winning goal to the player whose goal put the team ahead for good -- instead of the goal that provides the winning margin (in soccer)
• Add option to specify whether to show "Fouls" in the game box score
• Remember separate rules for each directory (to simplify switching between soccer and field hockey)
• 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

What's New 1999-2006

2006 (Version 1.8.0)

• 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
• Show fouls in box score if "Show fouls" is enabled
• Show shootout results in box score if applicable
• Table-style format for post-game web pages
• Career category ordinal rankings (1., 2., etc.)
• Prompt team name spelling on roster import
• Include full goal description in box score
• Add goal description and clock time for subs to game XML
• Schedule/results shows "F" to indicate forfeited game
• Career categories for GWG and save pct
• Conference career change team id and delete team functions
• Various fixes and other 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
• Include latest version of NCAA team code list (to support Edit RPI codes function)
• Improve layout of HTML statistics home page
• Career statistics: add HTML generate functions; upload files in the carconf/html subdirectory; link to the carconf.htm file

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
• Add Season reports | Cumes | Capture season stats for season-to-date reporting
• 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 categories for games played, game started, minutes played, shutouts
• Season reports - Add <All players> option for generating Individual game-by-game
• Season reports - Add option to show fouls in individual stats, team stats
• Season reports - Add option to show goals scored in game results
• F-Hockey penalty strokes: say "penalty stroke" instead of "penalty shot" in box score, play-by-play, manual game entry
• F-Hockey stroke-offs: say "stroke-off" instead of "shootout" in box score, play-by-play
• F-Hockey penalty corners: indicate "penalty corner" in box score (enable Season reports | Settings | Report options | Show goals off corners to display
  information in Team season statistics report); goals off corners are automatically capture with in-game scoring and can be entered in Manual game entry on
  the Scoresheet | Team stats window.
• F-Hockey goal types: The Scoresheet | Goal history | Goal information window now allows a goal to be flagged as unassisted, first goal, game-tying goal,
  overtime goal
• F-Hockey shutouts: credit a shutout for both teams if game is tied at 0-0 before stroke-off result (in-game scoring)
• Add defensive saves column to individual and team game-by-game reports (field hockey)
• Extend XML activation for 'Copy to file' function to support Game Viewers
• 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 SO Game Viewer feature
• Add file transmit function for FTP to a report server
• Tweaks to text outputs for field hockey mode
• Allow for up to 6 lines in game results schedule notes
• Prompt for 35/45 minute rules depending field hockey mode option
• Add defensive saves column to combined stats report (field hockey)
• Add option to display individual games started in career stats
• Add "TEAM" line in season stats report to show team combined shutout totals
• Add live internet XML output option
• Html "preview" function
• Alerts for possible data discrepancies for NCAA reporting (click HERE for more info)
• Improved NCAA team code lookup functions

2002 (Version 1.4)

• improved input for multiple subs
• now automatically calculates playing times
• improved performance in scoring window under Windows 2000/XP
• game box score now has fouls, defensive saves, player cards (field hockey)
• improved line spacing for scoring summary in box score (field hockey)
• new - shootout input function (field hockey)
• now allows for 7 players on "Re-set players on field" for overtimes (field hockey)
• shows green cards in cumulative stats (field hockey)
• pack/unpack game file function added to Utilities
• ability to display team rankings in game reports, game results
• "GaAvg" added to Team Stats Report
• new "include games" options (season reports): home only, away only, wins only, losses only
• 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)

2001 (Version 1.3)

• In-game scoring now calculates playing times automatically
• Minutes played can optionally be included on the NCAA boxscore
• Games played at goalie (separate from a field position) now tracked automatically
• NCAA guidelines for goalie shutouts now an option
• New features added to support Field Hockey, including 35 minute periods, "green cards", defensive saves, report formats
• 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 1.2)

• New! - Soccer 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
• Method to reset all players "on-the-field" (in-game scoring)
• Include RPI team codes in the NCAA Finals Statistics form
• Method to enter foreits into the game results
• Show game start times for scheduled games in Game Results
• Add ref signature line to bottom of box score
• Add HTML copy to disk function to Windows Game Reports
• Display HTML box score in 2-column format (Windows)
• Enable Select period function for box score stats thru a specific period
• Quick access between Windows Reports programs via menu selection
• New! - Scoreboard interface (Requires Electronic Scoreboard Interface For Soccer)
• Conference: Automatic lookup of team codes for the NCAA RPI Questionnaire

1999 (Version 1.1)

• Optional running clock for entering times into play-by-play narrative
• Automatically calculate goalie shutout and shots faced statistics (in-game)
• Add shot descriptions (wide left/right, high, crossbar, post, ... ) to play-by-play
• Automatically prompt for a goal description to add to the play-by-play (in-game)
• Add game notes to the box score
• View current players "on-the-field" (in-game)
• Option to enter time and uniform number for fouls (in-game)
• Distiguish between uniform numbers of "0" and "00"
• Improved handling of "TM" uniform number
• Additional scoresheet balance checks
• New ! - NCAA Final Statistics Report

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