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COLLEGE FOOTBALL POOL IS THE PRODUCT OF MARTY CRITICS P. O. BOX 1381 POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA 33061 COPYRIGHT 1991 TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- . GENERAL INFORMATION 1 . GETTING STARTED 3 . PRINTING FOOTBALL SELECTION SHEET 5 . ENTERING PLAYERS SELECTIONS 8 . PRINTING FINAL RESULTS 10 . LIST ALL PLAYER'S SELECTIONS 11 . REMOVE LAST WEEKS PLAYER SELECTIONS 11 . FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR 12 . SAMPLE WEEKLY SELECTION SHEET A1 . SAMPLE LIST OF PLAYER'S SELECTIONS A2 . SAMPLE MONDAY MORNING REPORT A3 GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- College Football Pool (CFP) was designed expressly for the IBM-PC and compatible. A complete football schedule for the entire current season is included in a data file on the CFP disk. The operator picks the week he wants for the selection sheet and all the games for that week appear on the screen. He then chooses any 14 games he desires for the selection sheet. He then decides if he wants to assign point spreads to the games. CFP then prints a selection sheet. The selection sheet contains rules for playing the game. The rules are simple and encourage non-football experts to participate in the game. The object is to pick the most winners of the 14 weekly games. In the event of ties, each player enters the total number of points they think will be scored in the last game on the selection sheet and whoever is closest to the actual points scored is declared the winner. Entering each players selections has been simplified by a data entry screen designed expressly for this purpose. Using the 10 key numeric pad on the keyboard, it is easy to enter 2 players a minute. Groups of selection sheets may also be entered at different times. Each player is stored on disk when operator is satisfied that entry is correct, so that in the event of a power failure, no work is lost accept for the current player being entered on the screen. After all players are entered the operator may produce a list of this weeks selections. This report shows the time and date and can be used to verify that no selections were changed after the games were played. Up to 300 players can be handled by CFP. A final report must be produced on Monday morning. Operator keys in the 14 numbers of winning teams from weekend games and CFP counts number of games each player picked right. 1. Operator keys in the number of points scored in last game and CFP prints final report in order by 1. Most games won. 2. Smallest point difference. Monday morning is also a good time to print the next weeks selection sheet. ************************** WARNING : PLEASE NOTE. ************************** You must operate College Football Pool in the correct sequence in order not to mess up your player selections. Its basically simple. Follow these steps. 1. Make first selection sheet. 2. Enter players selections for coming weeks games. 3. List player selections before games are played. 4. Enter weekend game results.(Prints final report.) 5. Remove last weeks player selections. 6. Make selection sheet for next week. Repeat steps 2 thru 6. 2 GETTING STARTED --------------- Make a backup copy of College Football Pool diskette. Do not try to operate the game from the master disk. Format a disk using your version of DOS. Put formatted disk in drive B: and the CFP disk in drive A:. Copy all files from master CFP disk using the command A:INSTALL followed by, A:2 Put the master CFP disk away for safe keeping. If any of the files get lost on your working copy disk you may retrieve them from your master CFP disk. INSTALLING ON HARD DISK. ------------------------ Place CFP disk in drive A: Enter A:INSTALL followed by, A:1 This will give you the necessary commands to install the program on your hard disk or floppy diskette. STARTING THE PROGRAM. - FROM DISKETTE. -------------------------------------- Put working copy of CFP diskette in drive A:. Enter following commands. A: CFP or CFP /MONO STARTING THE PROGRAM. - FROM HARD DISK. -------------------------------------- Enter following commands: C:\CFP CFP or CFP /MONO This will cause the main menu for College Football Pool to appear on the screen. The /MONO should be used if you are having trouble seeing what is on the screen. 3 ====================================================== DATE: 11-15-1987 COLLEGE FOOTBALL POOL MENU (VERSION 1990) ---------------------------------------- 1. PRINT NEXT WEEK SELECTION SHEET. (REQUIRED WEEKLY) 2. ENTER PLAYER SELECTIONS. (REQUIRED WEEKLY) 3. ENTER WEEKEND GAMES RESULTS (REQUIRED WEEKLY) & FINAL PLAYER STANDINGS REPORT. 4. PRINT EXTRA COPY OF SELECTION SHEET. 6. REMOVE LAST WEEKS PLAYER SELECTIONS. 7. PRINT LIST OF ALL PLAYER SELECTIONS. 8. ORDER FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR NEXT SEASON. 9. TO END PROGRAM. ENTER NUMBER FROM MENU. NO [ENTER] NEEDED. ====================================================== If you select the wrong number from the menu, you can cancel whatever you accidently selected by pressing Enter key when the next screen or question appears. 4 PRINTING THE FOOTBALL SELECTION SHEET. -------------------------------------- You must begin the College Football game by producing a selection sheet. Use item 1. on the main menu to print a sheet. When you press item 1. to print a selection sheet you will then see a list of Saturday dates for all the weeks of the college football season and a number in front of each date which is the week no. of the season. You will then see a screen which looks like this. ================================================================= DATES FOR SATURDAY GAMES FOR 1987 SEASON ARE WEEK NO. DATE 1 SEPT. 5 2 SEPT. 12 3 SEPT. 19 4 SEPT. 26 5 OCT. 3 6 OCT. 10 7 OCT. 17 8 OCT. 24 9 OCT. 31 10 NOV. 7 11 NOV. 14 12 NOV. 21 13 NOV. 28 14 DEC. 25 ENTER WEEK NUMBER FOR SELECTION SHEET ================================================================= 5. If you enter a 7 and press the Enter key for week of Oct. 17 you will see team names of 40 games being played that weekend. The screen will look like this. ============================================================================== PICK 14 GAMES IN [ ]'s FOR WEEK OCT. 17 Esc TO CANCEL 1 NOTRE DAME AT AIR FORCE 21 HOUSTON AT WYOMING 2 TENNESSEE AT ALABAMA 22 WISCONSIN AT ILLINOIS 3 OREGON STATE AT ARIZONA 23 INDIANA AT MINNESOTA 4 WASHINGTON ST AT ARIZONA STATE 24 IOWA AT MICHIGAN 5 TEXAS AT ARKANSAS 25 MISSOURI AT IOWA STATE 6 AUBURN AT GEORGIA TECH 26 OKLAHOMA AT KANSAS STATE 7 TEXAS A&M AT BAYLOR 27 KENTUCKY AT LOUISIANA ST 8 BOSTON COLLEGE AT RUTGERS 28 MARYLAND AT WAKE FOREST 9 S.W.LOUISIANA AT MISSISSIPPI 29 TULANE AT MEMPHIS STATE 10 CORNELL AT BROWN 30 MICHIGAN STATE AT NORTHWESTERN 11 CINCINNATI AT WEST VIRGINIA 31 SO. CALIFORNIA AT WASHINGTON 12 DUKE AT CLEMSON 32 SOUTHERN MISS AT MISSISSIPPI ST 13 KANSAS AT COLORADO 33 NAVY AT PENNSYLVANIA 14 YALE AT COLUMBIA 34 NEBRASKA AT OKLAHOMA STATE 15 DARTMOUTH AT HARVARD 35 NORTH CAROLINA AT NO.CAROLINA ST 16 VIRGINIA AT SO. CAROLINA 36 OHIO STATE AT PURDUE 17 TEMPLE AT FLORIDA 37 OREGON AT UCLA 18 LOUISVILLE AT FLORIDA STATE 38 PENN STATE AT SYRACUSE 19 GEORGIA AT VANDERBILT 39 RICE AT TEXAS TECH 20 UTAH AT HAWAII 40 STANFORD AT SAN DIEGO ST GAME NO. > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] PUT GAME # IN [ ] AND PRESS ENTER KEY. (i.e.[21] [16] [ 3] etc.) =============================================================================== The blinking cursor will be sitting in the first box [ ] on the bottom of the screen and you must select a game number from 1 to 40 from the games which appear on the screen. Enter the number in the first box and press the Enter key to get to the next box. You can enter the numbers in any order you like. You may not enter a number which does not have a game listed or a number which you have already entered in a previous box. The computer will beep at you to let you know you are doing something wrong if you do. If you mess up your game number selections and want to start over, you may do so by pressing the Esc key. This allows you to customize the selection sheet with the games you desire. Make the last game one which has a great deal of interest to people in your geographic area. It is the game whose points are used as the tie breaker. 6. After picking the games you want on the selection sheet you will then be asked if you want to assign points. If you answer N the CFP will print your selection sheet without point spreads. If you answer Y the CFP will display the teams in each game and you will have to pick the favorite and the number of points in the spread. The teams appear as follows on the screen, A. ALABAMA AT B. MEMPHIS STATE you must enter an A or B to indicate which team is favored and the number of points they are favored by. If you entered A7.5 it would mean that Alabama is favored by 7 and 1/2 points. If a game is even and has no points you should enter A0. After you have entered each games points a selection sheet will be printed showing point spreads. HOW MANY SELECTION SHEETS DO YOU WANT PRINTED Enter the number to be printed and press enter. You will then be told to SET PRINTER TO RECEIVE SELECTION SHEET & PRESS ANY KEY Make sure printer is turned on and loaded with paper and then press any key to begin printing. When it is thru the program will return to main menu and you can end the program with item 9. A sample of the selection sheet is shown on page A1. 7. ENTERING PLAYERS SELECTIONS. ---------------------------- You must enter all players into computer before games are played. Use item 2. on main menu to bring up the player selection data entry screen. Use bottom tear-off stub on football selection sheet for data entry. Enter player's name in box where cursor is blinking and press enter key to get to first football game box. Enter a 1 or 2 as indicated above the box. If you enter anything else, you will hear a beep and cursor will remain in the box until you enter correct number. When you enter correct number the cursor will move to next box automatically. Use 10 key numeric pad on right of keyboard for speeding up the player entries. You can enter numbers as fast as you like without worrying about making mistakes since CFP is checking each keystroke you type in game boxes. Enter all 14 games in boxes provided. When you get to "LAST GAME POINTS" box you must enter point total and press enter key. Below the boxes you will see this message: ENTER 0 FOR ANY GAME PLAYER DID NOT CIRCLE. If players do not chose every game by circling them, then they lose those games as indicated on the selection stubs they turn in to the game coordinator. When screen appears you will see some function key settings on bottom of screen. F1 = MAIN MENU F2 = CLEAR SCREEN USE BACKSPACE <-- TO CORRECT ERRORS At anytime you may return to College Football main menu by pressing F1. At anytime you may clear screen and start over by pressing F2. After you have completed entering data on the screen 2 more function keys will appear on bottom. F9 = SAVE SCREEN F10 = CHANGE SCREEN and on the line above the function key messages you will see USE THE F KEYS 8. If data on screen has been entered correctly you must use F9 to save it. After data is saved screen will be cleared. If any data is incorrect use F10 to change it. You will see message on line above function key messages change to USE [ENTER] TO SKIP TO BOX YOU WANT TO CHANGE Also blinking cursor is sitting in the player's name box. Move cursor to box to be changed by pressing enter key. When cursor is in box you want to change, just type the correct number. Then press F9 key to save the data. You may enter player's football sheets in different data entry sessions. They do not have to be entered all at the same time. When you are through with a data entry session you may return to main menu by using F1 key. After all players have been entered into computer you should do item 7. PRINT LIST OF ALL PLAYER SELECTIONS. and keep this printout as a data entry verification report. NOTE: When you pick iten 2, ENTER PLAYER SELECTIONS, you may see following message; **** YOUR CURRENT SELECTION SHEET WEEK DOES NOT MATCH **** DATE OF YOUR CURRENT PLAYER SELECTIONS. IF PLAYER SELECTIONS IN THE COMPUTER ARE FROM LAST WEEKS GAMES, DO YOU WISH TO DELETE THEM AND ENTER PLAYER SELECTIONS FOR A NEW WEEK (Y/N) If you are entering player selections for a new week, you must answer Y and this will erase the players from last weeks game. The selection sheet puts a date in the computer and that date is saved with the players selections. When you make a new selection sheet this causes CFP to prompt you for the message above. 9 PRINT FINAL RESULTS ------------------- After weekend games have been played you must do item 3. on main menu. 3. ENTER WEEKEND GAME RESULTS. & FINAL PLAYER STANDINGS REPORT. This will cause the following messages to appear on your screen. THIS SCREEN IS FOR ENTERING WEEKEND GAMES RESULTS. ENTER NUMBERS 1-28 OF TEAMS THAT WON WEEKEND GAMES. IF YOU USED POINT SPREADS YOU MUST ENTER THE WINNING TEAM AFTER APPLYING THE POINTS. ENTER A ZERO (0) FOR ANY GAME WHICH ENDED IN TIE. Below this message you will see boxes with numbers over them. The numbers indicate the team numbers for each game and a box for the TOTAL LAST GAME POINTS. This screen looks and works just like the screen you used to enter the players selections. You can only enter 1 of the 2 numbers over the top of the box. If you make a mistake you can backup using the Backspace key and enter the correct number. Only teams 1 or 2 can win game 1. Only teams 3 or 4 can win game 2. Only teams 27 or 28 can win game 14. CFP will count the number of games each player picked correctly and then print the preliminary report after displaying following message : SET PRINTER TO RECEIVE REPORT & THEN PRESS ANY KEY. After printing report you will see following message: FINAL REPORT IS COMPLETE. DO YOU WANT ANOTHER COPY (Y/N) Enter Y and enter key for another copy or N and enter key to return to main menu. A sample final report is shown on page A3. If you made an error in picking a winning team, and discovered your mistake after printing the report, just do item 3. and print the report again. 10. LIST ALL PLAYERS SELECTIONS. ---------------------------- You should print a list of players entered into CFP after you have keyed in all the players so that you will have proof of each players team selections. This list shows the time and date when it was printed. The list should be printed before any games are played. To print the list you need to press 7 on the main menu. LIST ALL PLAYER'S SELECTIONS. This will cause CFP to display following messages. PRINT LIST OF PLAYER SELECTIONS. ON SCREEN (S) OR PRINTER (P). Enter an S or P and press [ENTER] SET PRINTER TO RECEIVE REPORT. PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE. After list is printed CFP will return to main menu. A sample of this report is shown on page A2. REMOVE LAST WEEKS PLAYER SELECTIONS ----------------------------------- When you press item 6. you will be asked to verify that you want to remove last weeks players. DO YOU REALLY WANT TO REMOVE LAST WEEKS PLAYERS (Y/N) Enter a Y and [Enter] to remove all players. 11. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR. ------------------------------- The original CFP disk you received contained the college football schedule for the current season. The program cannot operate for the following season without the new college football schedule. Marty Critics will prepare a file each year with the new schedule for the coming season and make it available to the users of College Football Pool any time after June 1. Item 8 on the main menu is an order form for the new football schedule. It will display on your screen and you may print it out by holding shift key down and pressing PrtSc key. Fill out the order form and mail it in with your check or money order for $10. We will send you a floppy disk with the current college football schedule. The bowl games played between Christmas and New Years provide and additional and interesting week of games which can be used to conduct an office pool. The teams in these games are not known until early December and there are usually about 15 games. We have created and additional week to the schedule which will be sent to you in early December. 12 COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES FOR WEEK OF DEC. 25 CIRCLE NUMBER OF TEAM YOU THINK WILL WIN. MOST GAMES CIRCLED CORRECTLY WINS EACH WEEK. IN THE EVENT OF TIES, THE TOTAL POINTS SCORED IN LAST GAME WILL BE USED AS THE TIEBREAKER. WHOEVER COMES CLOSEST TO THE ACTUAL POINTS SCORED(ABOVE OR BELOW) WILL BE DECLARED THE WINNER. FILL IN AND TEAR OFF BOTTOM SECTION AND TURN IT IN TO GAME COORDINATOR BY FRIDAY NOON. (THUR. FOR WEEKS WITH THUR. GAME) 1. OKLAHOMA STATE AT 2. WEST VIRGINIA 3. FLORIDA AT 4. UCLA 5. ARKANSAS AT 6. GEORGIA 7. AIR FORCE AT 8. ARIZONA STATE 9. SO. CAROLIAN AT 10. LOUISIANA ST 11. PITTSBURGH AT 12. TEXAS 13. CLEMSON AT 14. PENN STATE 15. FLORIDA STATE AT 16. NEBRASKA 17. NOTRE DAME AT 18. TEXAS A&M 19. TENNESSEE AT 20. INDIANA 21. MICHIGAN AT 22. ALABAMA 23. MICHIGAN STATE AT 24. SO. CALIFORNIA 25. SYRACUSE AT 26. AUBURN 27. OKLAHOMA AT 28. MIAMI-FLA. TOTAL POINTS IN GAME 27-28 ( ) FINAL REPORT WILL BE PRINTED MONDAY MORNING. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES FOR WEEK OF DEC. 25 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 TOTAL POINTS LAST GAME 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 ( ) NAME....................................... (IF YOU FORGET TO PICK ANY GAME, YOU LOSE THAT GAME.) (SAMPLE WEEKLY SELECTION SHEET) A1. DATE : 12-18-1987 TIME : 13:21:19 PLAYER'S SELECTIONS. PAGE 1 ------------------- 1 SUSAN FOLEY 1 3 5 7 10 12 14 15 17 20 22 23 26 28 47 2 PAT GROSS 2 4 5 8 9 12 14 16 17 20 22 23 26 28 63 3 THE GREEK 1 4 6 8 9 11 13 15 18 20 22 24 25 28 41 4 MR. BEAR 1 4 5 8 10 12 14 15 17 19 21 23 25 28 36 5 D. WRIGHT 2 4 6 8 9 12 13 16 17 19 22 23 26 28 48 6 GINA 2 3 5 8 9 11 14 15 17 19 22 23 25 28 43 7 BUBBA 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 19 21 24 25 28 37 8 F A F 1 4 6 8 9 11 13 15 17 19 22 24 25 28 38 9 ANDY ALPINE 2 4 6 7 10 12 14 15 17 20 22 24 25 28 48 (SAMPLE LIST OF PLAYER'S SELECTIONS) A2. RESULTS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL POOL WEEK OF DEC 25 (01-04-88) ------------------------------------------------ WINNING TEAMS TOTAL POINTS = 34 1.OKLAHOMA STATE 4.UCLA 6.GEORGIA 8.ARIZONA STATE 10.LOUISIANA ST 12.TEXAS 13.CLEMSON 15.FLORIDA STATE 18.TEXAS A&M 19.TENNESSEE 21.MICHIGAN 23.MICHIGAN STATE 0. **TIE GAME** 28.MIAMI-FLA. PLAYER WON DIF. POINTS ****TEAM NUMBERS SELECTED BY PLAYERS**** --------------------- --- ---- ------ ---------------------------------------- 1.MR. BEAR 10 2 36 1 4 5 8 10 12 14 15 17 19 21 23 25 28 2.BUBBA 9 3 37 2 4 6 8 10 11 13 15 17 19 21 24 25 28 3.F A F 8 4 38 1 4 6 8 9 11 13 15 17 19 22 24 25 28 4.THE GREEK 8 7 41 1 4 6 8 9 11 13 15 18 20 22 24 25 28 5.D. WRIGHT 8 14 48 2 4 6 8 9 12 13 16 17 19 22 23 26 28 6.SUSAN FOLEY 6 13 47 1 3 5 7 10 12 14 15 17 20 22 23 26 28 7.ANDY ALPINE 6 14 48 2 4 6 7 10 12 14 15 17 20 22 24 25 28 8.GINA 5 9 43 2 3 5 8 9 11 14 15 17 19 22 23 25 28 9.PAT GROSS 5 29 63 2 4 5 8 9 12 14 16 17 20 22 23 26 28 (SAMPLE FINAL REPORT) A3.