Version 5.13.0 (available June 2011)

• Access to all updates from June 2011 through May 2012 (i.e., versions 5.13.1 - 5.13.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2012

Version 5.12.1 - 5.12.16 (updates made from June 2010 - May 2011)

• Add "Reached base streaks" category to Miscellaneous statistics report ("Style" hardcopy and Html formats)
• Add height and weight to Cumes | Roster report for Xml format and tab-stop outputs
• Add Support for entry of career-totals-only statistics (career totals for a player, without season-by-season stats for that era). To use this:
  1. Select Edit | Add new season
  2. Add a season for the last year of the player(s)
  3. Select Edit | Edit season data
  4. Check the "Contains career totals only" option
  5. Click the "Individual stats" button
  6. In the "Full roster" list click <New player>
  7. Enter the career totals for a player who last played in that year
  8. Repeat for other players as necessary
  9. Stats entered will be marked as "Contains career totals only", will be considered for individual career records, not individual season records.
• Fix to tab-stop output for career individual single-game highs
• Adjust font size for Season/Career report GP-GS column
• Add option to force page break for each player -- Individual game-by-game (hardcopy 'style' mode)
• Improve NCAA team code lookup function
• Include OBPct and SlugPct in Media report tab-stop output
• Include "O" game scorebook (scoreboard option)
• Fix to error in Other Metrics report when player has 0 AB
• Add tabs stops for reached base streaks in Miscellaneous stats report
• Show game results in combined stats report (season-to-date mode)
• Sort conference standings by conf w-l pct, most conf wins, fewest conf losses, overall pct
• For Miscellaneous Report, fix to starts for DH, and add reached base streaks to non-table style HTML

2010 (Version 5.12.0)

• Access to all updates from June 2010 through May 2011 (i.e., versions 5.12.1 - 5.12.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2011
• New Career Single Game High's Report for individual players sample report
• Career Single Game High's included in Career Summary Report and HTML for individual players
• Career All-time Results and All-time vs. Opponents included in the HTML Sample
• New Prompt to include play-by-play in Game Reports | Reports | Box score all (Ncaa and Newspaper)
• Add Cumes | Situational statistics | Other statistical metrics report (various "interesting" statistics)
• Add option to include "All years" in Html setup window for Career reports
• Add BABIP (batting avg on balls in play) to Cumes | Situational statistics | Other statistical metrics report
• Add support for national rankings in Career all-time results report
• Add "Last 10" and "Streak" to Standings report (not available in 'StatEdit' mode)
• Add "OB" keyword for "obstruction" -- treated the same as the "INT" keyword for "interference" but clarifies the narrative text
• Add "AP" keyword for appeal plays. For example, if you enter "F813 DP AP" the text "on appeal" will appear in the play-by-play, and only the pitcher will be credited with an assist.
• Improve name sort for 3-part names
• Add "Show list of NCAA team codes" button to Reports | Xml output -- to display reference list of NCAA team codes
• Add "All players" option to Games | Individual Game Highs report selection
• Use extended name in Individual Career Summaries Html page
• Save separate titles for baseball and softball venues in Career Reports
• Accommodate "runner placed on second" tie-breaker scenario in filtering for "Leadoff batter" in Plate appearance breakdown report
• Accommodate display in historical reports for results when W-L-T is known, but final score is unknown; in own-score/opp-score fields enter "99-0" for a win, "0-99" for a loss, and "99-99" for a tie

2009 (Version 5.11)

• Live XML activation through July 2010
• Access to all updates from June 2009 through May 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
• 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

2008 (version 5.10)

• Access to all updates from June 2008 through May 2009
• 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
• 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

2007 (Version 5.9)

• Access to all updates from June 2007 through May 2008
• 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)

• Access to all updates from June 2006 through May 2007 (i.e., versions 5.8.1 - 5.8.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2007
• New “stylesheet” format for live HTML stats with TAS Live
• Career summary all-time, single-season rankings (batting), (pitching)
• Career all-time records vs opponents
• Roster name format functions (upper,mixed,first,last)
• Support for season-to-date statistics in game XML output
• Import games list sort by date
• 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
• Line score uses extended player names
• Add pitch sequence data to game XML output
• Various fixes and other minor enhancements

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)

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