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******************** NFL-AID DOCUMENTATION ******************** WHAT IS NFL-AID? It's a program designed to assist you in handicapping NFL football games - providing you with an in-depth comparison of any upcoming NFL game. NFL-AID will answer many valuable questions regarding the past performances of any two teams scheduled to play one another in the upcoming week. Whether you're employed in a sports related profession, a sports bettor or simply an avid sports spectator you'll be impressed with the programs ability in spotting the trends, picking the winners and providing the stats in blinding speed. HOW DOES IT WORK? The program assumes that you have interest in a specific upcoming game and will prompt you for relevant information regarding this game. NFL-AID will respond with four screens of detailed information that will provide the answer to most of your inquiries. Also, NFL-AID provides a computer forecast that is accurate beyond belief. NFL-AID is driven by a com- prehensive data base that contains game results, including point spread data. The supplied data base holds the last 500 games for each NFL team and comes pre-loaded with game results back to the 1980 season. IS THIS PROGRAM SHAREWARE AND WHAT IS SHAREWARE? Yes, NFL-AID is shareware. SHAREWARE is simply a marketing concept that works well for the seller and the buyer. The seller benefits from the shareware concept by providing a reduced cost method of advertising and and program distribution. This is accomplished via bulletin boards and shareware disk distributors. Buyer's benefit from shareware by having a "try before you buy" opportunity to test drive a program before spending their money. Buyer's are also benefit of a "less than commericial" cost for sharware (the money saved in commericial advertising is passed along to the buyer in the way of less costly software). WHY SHOULD I REGISTER MY COPY OF NFL-AID? Please register for one or all of the following reasons: 1. Because you'll receive a current data base. 2. Because it's the right thing to do. 3. Because you'll receive weekly updates via modem for 1 full season free of charge. 4. Because you don't want to have a bad conscience. 5. Because you want to be on our mailing list when we release CF-AID (that's right College Football-AID) and it's cooming soon. 6. Because the author has 4 children (3 in braces). 7. Because Sunday and PC's now go together. 8. Because you know that spending hundreds of hours writing and testing a software program is not just fun and games. 9. Because you would like the author to spend many more hours making NFL-AID even better. 10. Because the first 9 becauses are all true. HOW DO I REGISTER? For your convenience, the next screen can be printed and used to place your registration request. This same form is in the file NFLorder.doc. Send check or money order to: Competitive Edge Software 1739 East Carson St Dept#118 Pittsburgh, Pa. 15203 Allow 7 days for processing. NFL-AID ------------------------------ORDER FORM--------------------------------- - Instructions: - - Complete this form, attach your Competitive Edge Software - - check or money order payable to 1739 East Carson St. Dept#118 - - Competitive Edge Software, mail to: Pittsburgh, Pa. 15203 - - - - First Name:______________________ Registration: - - Registration fee (note1):____ - - Last Name: ______________________ Disk Fee (see note2): ____ - - Next Ver. Fee (note3): ____ - - Address: ______________________ Add 3 lines above: ____ - - Quantity ordered: x ____ - - ______________________ Sub-Total: ____ - - Pa/residents add 7% tax ____ - - From where did you get this copy - - of NFL-AID? Total Amount Due: ____* - - _______________________ * - US funds only! - - Note1: Registrations received from 1/1/94 to 12/31/94 is $30.00 - - Registrations received from 1/1/95 to 12/31/95 is $35.00 - - Registrations received from 1/1/96 to 12/31/96 is $38.00 - - Registrations received from 1/1/97 to 12/31/97 is $40.00 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISK FEE: Most users have a modem and communication software that (note2) allows them to download NFL-AID updates over the phone. If you don't fall into this catorgy we will need to send you a diskette with the most recent NFL-AID updates. The diskette fee is $7 for 5 1/4" or $8 for a 3 1/2". NEXT VERSION FEE: We are always adding new features to NFL-AID, (note3) to pre-order and pre-pay for the next version include $15 and we will send you Version 5.0 as soon as it is available. MODEM USERS: After we receive your registration fee we will add you to our online service and assign you a password that's the same as your check number from your registration fee. Wait 7 days from the date that you send in your registration. Then logon to our bulletin board using your real first and last name (make sure that your name is clearly typed or printed on the order form that you send us). Don't forget your password needs to be the same as your check number (you may change it at a later date). Add- itional instructions will be provided online. HOW DO I STOP THIS DOCUMENTATION DISPLAY? The documentation that you are currently reading is displayed after you press the F1 key on the logo screen. To bypass or cancel the display of this documentation simply press the "c" key either on the logo screen or on any screen of documentation. Press any key to display one additional line of documentation, press PgDn key to display the next 24 lines of documentation, press PgUp key to display the previous 24 lines of documentation. HOW CAN I PRINT THIS DOCUMENTATION? Print file "NFL-DOC" using the DOS PRINT utility or any other similar print utility. WHAT NOW? The remaining portion of this document provides a detailed des- cription of NFL-AID. Although, it is not necessary to review this documentation prior to using NFL-AID as it is selfexplainitory. Press c to start NFL-AID or press PgDn for more documentation. WHAT ARE THE INITIAL PROMPTS AND RESPONSES? PROMPT RESPONSE --------------------- ---------------------------- 1. Enter home team Valid team number or abbrev. 2. Enter away team Valid team number or abbrev. 3. Enter favored team H = home, A = away, E = even 4. Number of games to evaluate 1-500 WHAT DOES NFL-AID DO AT THIS POINT? NFL-AID goes to work on your request retrieving the appropriate information from it's data base, tabulating, summarizing and for- mating four screens of statistical data that will be displayed in a very easy to read format. Additionally, NFL-AID will, based on it's review of their previous games predict the games final score. This is all accomplished in lightening speed (20 game review takes 2 seconds on a PC/AT system) and the first screen is displayed at the completion of this evaluation. ARE THE REPLACEMENT GAMES FROM '87 INCLUDED? Yes, although if you would prefer to exclude them from any of your evaluations make sure that you respond to the first question with either a small c or n. The first question is in regards to whether you are using a color monitor. A response of a capitol C or N is the way to request that the replacement games be used by NFL-AID when evaluations are requested for that time period. HOW DO I GO FROM SCREEN TO SCREEN? As noted on the bottom of each screen the function keys move you from display to display: F1 - Displays the summary screen F2 - Displays the head to head screen F3 - Displays computer-pick screen F4 - Displays recap screen(s) F5 - Displays standings screen F9 - Restart NFL-AID F10 - End NFL-AID WHAT'S ON SCREEN 1? This is referred to as the "summary" screen and is sectioned into two major areas: 1. Win/Loss/Tie (W/L/T) summaries 2. Average points scored These sections are cross tabulated with the information that is most relevant and beneficial when handicapping an upcoming game, i.e, if the away team is from the NFC central division then stats will be provided showing how the home team has performed against NFC central division teams. Another example: if the home team is the favorite then stats will be displayed showing how they have performed as a home team favorite and how the away team has per- formed as an underdog on the road. CAN I CHANGE ANYTHING ON SCREEN 1? Displayed at the top of screen 1 is the number of games that were evaluated. This number can be changed on screen 1 which will result in an immediate refresh of this screen to reflect this change. WHAT'S ON SCREEN 2? This is referred to as the "Head to Head" screen and is just that. NFL-AID will display all of the previous games between these two teams over the last nn games, where nn is the number of games that you requested be evaluated. The format i.e. follows: WINNER-LOSER WINNER'S DATE WINNER SCORE LINE WINNER W/SPREAD ------ ---------- ------------ -------- --------------- 092185 a-Dallas 28-25 -7.5 Atlanta Dallas won away 28-25 but Atlanta won with the points. WHAT'S ON SCREEN 3? This is referred to as the "Computer Pick" screen. NFL-AID will predict the final score if there are an adequate number of games on file for it to make it's prediction. This feature is impressive to say the least. But don't take our word for it, keep track of the "Computer Picks" in addition to the final scores, and then you'll see what we mean when we say impressive! WHAT'S ON SCREEN 4? This is the "Recap" screen. Side by side all of the previous games that have been reviewed are displayed for both teams. The format of this display is self-explanatory. Games displayed in white (or in high intensity on non-color monitors) indicate that both teams have played this opponent during this period of evaluation. Paging from screen to screen of recap data is controlled via a keyed page number on top line of screen 4. WHAT'S ON SCREEN 5? This is the "Current standings" screen. The format of this display is self-explanatory. The current standings will be reset at the start of each new season, automatically. HOW DO I ENTER NEW GAME RESULTS INTO THE DATA BASE? CAUTION: Before you enter new scores copy NFL-DATA & NFL-STAN files to a backup disk, this is critical because if you enter incorrect game information, there is no way to correct it other than to restore these files from a backup copy. On the very first screen when NFL-AID requests "Enter Home Team" enter "++". After "++" has been entered NFL-AID will prompt you for the following: PROMPT RESPONSE --------------------- ---------------------------- 1. Game date MMDDYY format 2. Home team Valid team number or abbrev. 3. Home team score Points scored 4. Away team Valid team number or abbrev. 5. Away team score Points scored 6. Favored H=Home, A=Away, E=Even, N=No-line 7. Point spread .5 thru 35 (I.E. 3.5 is 3 1/2) 8. Correct (Y or N) Y-N (N will restart prompts) (Y will update data file) 9. Any more games (Y or N) Y-N (N will go to start screen) (Y will go to prompt 2) NOTE - During the entry of game results in order to change the game date you will need to end the update process and restart (via ++) to enter a new date. THE NFL-AID DATA BASE CONTAINS THE RESULTS OF OVER 3,000 GAMES, IS ALL OF THIS DATA CORRECT? We have gone to great lengths to ensure that all of the data is correct, although, the possibility of a very few errors does exist. Team abbreviations: CINCINNATI - CIN CHICAGO - CHI CLEVELAND - CLE DETROIT - DET HOUSTON - HOU GREEN BAY - GB PITTSBURGH - PIT MINNESOTA - MIN BUFFALO - BUF TAMPA BAY - TB INDIANAPOLIS - IND DALLAS - DAL MIAMI - MIA NY GIANTS - NYG NEW ENGLAND - NE PHILADELPHIA - PHI NY JETS - NYJ PHOENIX - PHO DENVER - DEN WASHINGTON - WAS KANSAS CITY - KAN ATLANTA - ATL LA RAIDERS - RAI NEW ORLEANS - NO SAN DIEGO - SD LA RAMS - RAM SEATTLE - SEA SAN FRAN - SF END OF DOC----------------------------------------------------------------------