Releases with an * have a file format change. A backup of league files is necessary in order to be able to revert to an earlier version in an emergency.
Bug fix. Pacer's games were omitted from the Automatic Awards resulting in the total of 600 series being wrong for one player. This has been fixed. It was discovered by Martin Johnson and members of the Masters Premier League.
Bug fix. HTML reports erroneously showed the last game scratch score for the series in the right hand team's results. This has been fixed. It was discovered by Andrew Langley and members of the Regency Trios League.
Bug fix. The best series report could cause a crash as it incorrectly identified a partial series bowled by a pacer as a full series. This has been fixed. This was discovered by my old chum Stephen Taylor from Sydney, Australia.
Bug fix. Combined standings where a vacancy was present and flagged to be omitted from the standings was behaving badly. Is now behaves. This was discovered by Geoff Harris from Northamptonshire.
Bug fix. Team handicaps were only being applied to the first two games in a series in a pairs league. This was discovered by Donna Beavis from NY state in the USA.
When using the points ajdust feature for a handicap league, the adjustment range was set from the scratch points. This was discovered by Dave MacFarland from England.
In a 4 game scratch league, when one person bowled the first 2 games, and another bowled the last 2, some of the report items got things wrong. This was discovered by Michael Schäfer from Germany. Thanks to his excellent english, the problem was concisely described, and quite quickly fixed.
Implemented secondary standings criteria for Petersen Points handicap leagues. The ever watchful Ian Grundy of Manchester Lightening YBC noticed this omission.
Bug in the html version of the report in the 'Most Improved' category, where for some inexplicable reason (unless I had another 'senior moment') the players averages were printed instead of their improvement. The ever watchful Ian Grundy of Manchester Lightening YBC noticed this.
Bug in the scratch league standings report where the 'BYE' team is required not to be listed. It was spotted by Stephen Taylor of Bowl Sydney Tournament League in Australia.
Obviously a little used feature, but the player list option from the view menu would scramble the data when a print was requested. Colin J. Keegan of NSW, Australia reported this.
For owners of a 'Full' registration, the facility to start a new league based on the old league now only calculates entering averages for those players who played the requisite minimum number of games to qualify for an entering average. The lack of this feature was spotted by Neil Reedy.
Points Adjust for pyramid points scoring now works under all circumstances. Ian Grundy of Manchester Lightening YBC spotted the circumstance when things did not work.
Re-instated the game or series description for automatic awards. If yours are missing, use edit but change nothing and the full description will reappear. Ian Grundy of Manchester Lightening YBC spotted this omission.
The points adjust facility now gets applied to the pyramid points system. Nick Longworth of the Hants YBC requested this change.
Included scratch individual series win points in the individual points total. Allan Morris of the Supreme Doubles League at the Airport Bowl, Heathrow, reported this omission.
Leagues using pyramid points where teams are tied now have their 2nd choice implemented. This was for Nick Longworth of Hants, UK
Became Build 41 before being issued.
Another html bug fix for Neil Mitchell of Berkshire, UK, and another for Ian Grundy of the Manchester YBC, and yet another installer as well as moving over to the windows registry from the old (Windows 3.1) ini file system.
A bug fix in html reports for Neil Mitchell of Berkshire, UK. Also a new installer as the old one (a 16 bit program) was beyond Windows XP – despite what the adverts for thunking 16 bit code claim.
A very obscure bug due to an amazing combination of scoring rules and scores. Far too complicated to explain, but it was suffered by Lee Pearson of Berkshire, UK.
When the lane number override was applied, and the recap sheet format was not side-by-side, the amended lane numbers were not printed.This has been fixed.
A Bug fix for 4 game series with 2 man scratch leagues, where the 4th game was overlooked for high scratch game if the team bowled on the right hand lane of the pair. Spotted by Michael Schaefer from Erding, Germany.
Tidied up the fixtures report for Michael Schaefer from Erding, Germany.
Reinstated the missing Team elements of the HTML version of the ‘Best’ report items for Tunbridge Wells YBC.
A bug fix for the Drop 5 handicap system, which was spotted by Paul Forrester and Margaret Wood who reside in the country that recently lost a very important rugby union football match to England (Sorry – just could not resist…) And just in case you don’t understand, I’m referring to Australia – who usually beat us at everything.
A change to allow handicap percentages greater than 100% for the Norwich (UK) YBC.
The facility to abandon Entering averages after a specific round has been reinstated. This unfortunate got ‘switched off’ in the process of one of the other features being added. I offer apologies to Uma Nicholson, Paul Stephen Myers, and any others who missed it. Another small change has been made for John Ralphs, where when 2 teams that have dropped out play, and the pinfall is zero, they are both have their ‘lost games’ counts incremented (instead of showing a draw).
John Ralphs, scorer for the NW fives spotted that the ‘Team order same as last match’ feature had vanished. I have reinstated it. Another of life’s great mysteries!
Mark Henry from Melbourne Australia requested that the Max Handicap feature be implemented in the Automatic Awards, and also requested that the player’s average when the award was achieved be shown. This has been done. The html version of ‘Results by Round’ for singles leagues has had the layout changed slightly for Wendy Ford of the UK.
Martin Johnson in the UK has caught me out again. Scratch draws were not being counted! DOH! This has been fixed.
Bug fix when counting games won/lost in 5 man teams playing a single game series. Spotted by Martin Johnson in the UK. (I don’t know whether he plays rugby yet.)
Small change to the bonus points to allow half points. Don’t ask, and nobody will be embarrassed, especially the person who requested it then having explained what was really wanted, will never use it! The bonus points now accumulate on a ‘per round’ bases for the unit value.
Further to Build 23, a bug fix (teams in the right hand lane were sometimes not getting their awards, and a reformat of the award name. To implement this, use the award edit on each award – just enter edit and exit – the name will then be reformatted.
Added an automatic award feature where games and series are related to an average. i.e. a 200+ game by a bowler with an average of 140 or less. I trust that the more eagle eyed amongst you will report any circumstances that may have been overlooked. This should match the new ABC award rules reported by Ira Arenson.
Bug fix for a bug discovered by Ira Arenson of De Moine, Iowa USA where a high scratch series was not always updated correctly in a 5 man team match.
Discovered by Andrew Monka in NJ USA the floating subs with negative handicaps were being displayed incorrectly.
Bug fix for a fairly complicated set of rules where a team drops out for David Hirsh of London.
Enhancements to the average buster feature to enable several requests to be satisfied.
The mysterious ‘unsticky’ Secretaries Note justification is now firmly stuck down, for Lee Pearson.
Fixed some ‘Best Game/Series’ report problems – both html version and normal reports for Wendy Ford, and some minor updates to the help file.
Finished off the previous change properly. Game 1 of the 2nd team in matches had the Bonus points showing as twice the real value. This was cosmetic, and did not affect standings etc.
Added a separate line in the results report for bonus points to assist my Antipodean clients.
Some changes for Mr E Deacon of the UK to handle a combination of report options where team has folded.
Fixed an obscure (but very significant) bug that sometimes scored game 4 of a 4 game series incorrectly. This was discovered by Lynda Guyder, Secretary of the Nightowls in Australia.
Fix to the league schedule for 30 team leagues in round 12, and a cosmetic change for Stephen Taylor.
The recap sheets in a team handicap league were showing
random averages for team subs. This was
reported by Tommy Morgan of Nashville TN.
Cycling opponents each game amended for a 2 player team 4 game series league for Paul Forrester in Australia, and stopping the printing of recap sheets for teams that drop out for Leon Loberman and the Maccabi league.
This build has added an option to use the current playing average in a rolling average league for most improved player reports, and a change to display the actual date played for Awards reports. Both for Wendy Ford of the UK.
This is a bug fix for a problem with position rounds and the
fixtures by team report discovered/suffered by Leon Loberman of London.
Team handicaps for defaulted matches were not being ignored. Suffered and reported by Donna Belvees of the UK.
Bug fix (crash) for Dennis Rowley of Yorkshire. A quite unusual league configuration, and an obscure combination of circumstances.
Fixtures report in html now up to date with the last change.
Some changes to the fixtures report to show bonus points, the fixtures report, which was showing matches against a ‘bye’ team, and forcing inclusion of pacer scores even when the team is showing as not having played the match.
And more!(I’m getting old!).
More Pyramid points changes.
Pyramid points enhanced to enable individual games to be scored as well as the series.
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