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GA-09: Games Management -------------------- 1908 Game Management Small Programs Disk -------------------- Baseball (BASEBAL) Himowitz, Michael J. $? This program will keep track of batting statistics for 180 players on 12 teams, print out a variety of statistics for individual players and teams, sort the players on various stats and produce a variety of reports on the screen or printer. The author designed it for little league play, but says it can be used on all levels of competitive baseball or softball. BASIC is required. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8126.) Baseball Statistics Manager 2.95 (BSM) Caboose Software Engineering $10-$25 is a baseball stat keeper for up to 30 players. You can enter the statistics for a game or series of games. If a player is also a pitcher, a pitching data entry screen will be flashed up. Data entry is in standard Lotus style. The program allows editing of innings pitched, has sorting capabilities and comparison statistics. Other features include a flexible report writer, ratios, and little league support. Baskball (BASKBAL) Rankin, Pat and Day, Don $10 is a database of college and pro basketball games data from 1938 through 1986. The database consists of one-line records containing: the year, the teams, leading players, conference winners, major tournament winners, Hall of Fame members and much more. The documentation is a little confusing because it gives examples of looking up football data, but this is a basketball database. Duplicate Bridge Scoring Program (DBSP) Donald, Dick $15 is used to help set up and score a duplicate bridge game. It is designed for home use and is limited to ten pairs. Included are the movements which may be used, and automatic match point or IMP calculations. Partial or final results may be saved to disk for later recall, and the results may be sent to a printer. NFL-92 2.1 Kerr, Thomas C. $20 allows you to predict, track, and update NFL football games. The 1992 NFL weekly game schedule is included, along with estimates of the offensive and defensive scoring strengths for each team. As you enter each week's game scores, the program updates its estimates of each team's ratings and can then predict the next week's scheduled games. This program is Windows friendly, and includes PIF and icon files. Pro Huddle (PROHUDL) Stamford Parameters $0 allows you to keep track of NFL teams' wins, losses and schedules for 18 weeks. It shows the average points per game scored by each team's offense and the average points per game given up by each team's defense. The program also attempts to make a line on two teams you choose to oppose each other. Weekly results can be printed out. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18071.) SailScor 1.O (SAILSCR) Softab $10 is a very powerful and comprehensive, yet quick and easy way to score sailboat races, print results and maintain seasonal standings. Teams Hill, August $0 will create a tournament schedule given the number of players, rounds and team size. It can be used for bridge, golf and other team sports where players should be scheduled to play against all other players. It would not be suitable for non-team sports nor for set-team sports where members of teams should stay together, such as a bowling league. TMatch Hoyt, James A. $5 is a round-robin tournament scheduling program. It can be used to schedule games for up to 40 different opponents or teams such that no two teams play each other more than once until all the teams have played each other at least once. The schedule can be saved to disk and recalled and printed to screen or printer. Unfortunately, it does not allow results to be posted and saved in the program, but otherwise, this is a very well written, feature filled and easy to use program with enough on-line help for even the most computer illiterate user. Anyone ever faced with the job of scheduling a league or tournament should snap up this program. Unarchives to over 140k. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1908 -------------------------------- -------------------- 3879 Golf Management Small Programs Disk -------------------- Callaway Handicap (CALAWAY) Rankin, Pat $20 calculates the callaway handicap for golfers. The callaway handicap is computed by subtracting up to six of the worst holes, excluding holes 17 and 18, from the player's gross score. Also included is Sport Schedule Management ($10), which lets you print and record sport schedules for 4 to 16 teams and 1 to 30 matches. Callaway 3.0 (CALLAWA) Morgan, Norman O. $20 is a golf scoring system that helps compensate for the occasional golfer whose scores are not consistent. This is useful for company golf tournaments, charity tournaments, etc. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18058.) Golf Handicap (GOLFHCP) Rankin, Pat $25 lets you keep track of golfers' scores and course ratings. This is an easy way to compute handicaps on a daily or weekly basis. The program also makes it easy to add new golfers and to correct scores and course ratings. GH is menu driven, fast, and easy to use. Golf Handicapper 3.0 (GOLFHA) Leithauser, David $25 is a combination golf score data base and handicap calculator. It can hold the most recent 20 scores of up to 1000 players. When a player enters a new score, the program automatically calculates their current handicap, their net score for this game, and their handicap for the next game. The program can be used by an individual player, a team of players, or an entire golf club. Golf Master 2.2 (GLFMSTR) Majewski, Terry $15 is a personal or league golf scoring and record keeping software. You can maintain a complete record of league players, their handicaps, points earned in play, scores, courses played and course par. You can compile a player summary that totals all points earned by each player, and create a graph of individual player performance. GolfHCap 2.01 (GOLFHCP) C & E Associates ASP $35 calculates a golf handicap index in accordance with the USGA slope system. It prints membership lists, mailing labels, score input forms, handicap index cards, monthly reports and a list of handicapping data for any player to help resolve any problems. The program supports 12 groups with up to 500 golfers per group. TwoSome Generator 1.0 (TWOSOME) Fain, Charles B. $40 allows you to generate equal twosomes for golf tournaments and couples mixers. Features include up to 400 players (couples) per data file; an unlimited number of data files; the ability to save each player's (couple's) name, handicap, and play status and to edit the file; allows you optionally to rank players in four different groupings. It has three different scrambling routines, including one to scramble pairs without regard to handicap. It prints a player roster with handicaps, rankings, etc. The program is well written and easy to use. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3879 -------------------------------- ------------------------- 1909 Commercial Game Aids Small Programs Disk ------------------------- Carrier Krauskopf, Ben K. $0 is a Flight Simulator v.3.0 file which demonstrates the technique for landing a LearJet on the USS Nimitz in FS3. (For Microsoft's Flight Simulator, see PSL Computer Products.) Clue Detective Notebook 1.1 (CLUEBK) $0 prints detective notebooks for either the Clue or Master Clue games. They are redesigned to print two games per page and provide more room for notes. The lists are in Suspect, Room, Weapon order to conform to the Master Clue computer game play order. DCALand Lee, Richard S. $0 is a demo file for Flight Simulator 3.0. It shows an approach and landing at Washington National Airport (DCA) in a Lear Jet. This is a particularly difficult approach because of the location of the White House and the Pentagon (both restricted airspace). Landin Lee, Richard S. $0 is a file for Flight Simulator 3.0 which shows a program-generated flare-out just before touchdown. LSLarry are tips and other ways to do better with the retail game, "Leisure Suit Larry 1." (See section RE-01 for descriptions of retail products.) Rollup 2.10 Spectral Overlord $0 creates player and non-player characters for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Fantasy Role Playing Game. It takes care of all the necessary scores and rules governing characters. UGCS MicroGenesis Software $25 lets you cheat at PC arcade games by giving yourself higher scores, more gold, more power, more lives, etc. It requires some trial and error, but it adapts to almost any video game. Patchers for ULTIMA 1,3,4,5 are included. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1909 -------------------------------- Aldersoft's Bowling Secretary 1.5 [ABSEC1] (11-93 CD) Aldersoft $30-$50 #7079/2521 keeps track of all of your league's time consuming secretarial duties. It maintains averages, handicaps, high game and series both scratch and handicapped, most improved averages and automatically detects most ABC/WIBC awards for up to 9999 players in up to 9999 teams. It also performs team point scoring based upon the ranking system and produces 12 different reports ranging from membership lists to league statistics summaries, nightly scoring sheets and even turkey shoot score sheets. Members' averages from the previous season can now be used when calculating absentee or blind scores at the beginning of the season. Other features include the option to specify either a percentage of average or a number of pins penalty, the entry of spares for quarter ends, and the ability to reset each individual's handicap to the one defined in their last year's handicap. Requires 512K and two drives. Bowl-101 12.2 [BOWL101] 09-93 CD Stowe, Randy ASP $53 #7079/1522 is a bowling league management program. It will handle up to thirty six teams with up to 10 bowlers/subs per team. 100 substitutes are accepted and kept separately. An unlimited number of weeks can be managed. There are pop-up windows and pull down menus with 70 help screens. The program automatically handles high team and individual games and series, scratch, and handicapped, mixed or not mixed. It will handle match or Peterson points and three or four game matches. A built in calendar and pop up calculator are included. There is also an option that will allow you to manually enter the number of wins if your league uses a different type of scoring system not handled in this version. A final average sheet printout is available along with a money sorting routine that can make labels for money envelopes. BowlSec Wharry, Stephen M. $35 #7079/2217 is a bowling secretary program. It will keep track of the team roster, averages, handicaps, and game scores for each team and bowler in the league, including substitutes. Separate handicap systems are maintained for men and women as well as a bonus handicapping system for the teams. The program is menu driven and slick looking, with pop-up windows and optional mouse support. League standing charts may be printed. Bowling Statistics 8.0 Sandlin, Donald R. $50 #7079/1134 will handle mixed leagues, mens' leagues, or womens' leagues all with or without substitutes or handicaps. You may input up to 33 teams and 180 members. Features include the following: an option of printing your standing sheets to the printer or to a disk file; a program that will print last week's team and/or bowlers' highs from 1 to 10 places; a program that will give the league's, men's, and women's total average; an alerting sound and note when any game you input is 100 pins over average or 150 pins over series average; print the bowler's final sheets; and the ability to look up and print games and/or series between any two input numbers. Included is a program that takes bowlers from the inactive roster and places them on the active roster to replace another bowler and have all their previous data intact. Printer formats can be saved instead of reentered each time. Bowling League Secretary's System 3.4 Bowen, Lloyd C. Jr. $25 #7079/1297 will handle up to 40 teams, 10 bowlers per team (400 bowlers total), and up to a 50-week season. (These limits can be increased somewhat.) The program lets you enter scores, print weekly standings, prepare ABC/WIBC book average listings and final team/bowler standings, and print individual team/bowler record sheets. You can also print teams in lane order according to schedule on weekly summary sheet. Almost any Point Scoring may be used including Peterson. Other features include support for a team forfeit, the ability to print all team and bowler scores on separate sheets of paper without exiting the print procedure, and support for many different printers. HGR_Bowling League Secretary H.G.R.III Ltd. $79 #2522 is a bowling league secretary program. It's quick and easy to use. Features include 98 teams per league, 999 bowlers per league, mixed league with separate weekly and season stats, the ability to do substitutes, automatic blind or absent scores, allowing bowlers to change teams, memo fields, and a pop-up calculator. Advanced features include the ability to keep records for a split league (A/B divisions) or split season, and the ability to start in mid-season. It prints out a weekly team, bowler, pairing sheets with averages, handicaps and team points; a standard weekly performance sheet showing team status and bowler status; team and bowler high games, games handicapped, high series, and handicap series; lane assignment for the season; and team rosters with telephone, address and social security fields for each bowler. Requires 512K, and a hard drive is recommended. LineDrive Fantasy Baseball 6.12 [LD6] (11-93 CD) Maranatha Custom Software $35 #2427 (formerly AllStar) allows you to become owner, general manager, manager, and chief scout of your very own team made up of major league stars. It will keep track of rosters, player trades, free agent signings, league standings, and the league's prize fund. A league newsletter can also be printed. If you have not heard of Fantasy Baseball, it is a multi-person game in which each participant owns a team and drafts actual players to be on their team. Team results are based on the actual game statistics of the players in real games. 720K of disk space and a color monitor are required. Baseball Statistics Sports League Management Associates $? #7181/1969 is a program for baseball team managers and coaches. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the Sports League Management Program (GA-1878). This program lets you track statistics for each game for the team and for individual team members. BaseBall Statpak Himowitz, Michael J. $30 #7181/1159 allows coaches and fans to keep track of baseball statistics for up to 250 players on 12 teams. Features include full-screen data entry, sophisticated sorting, tracking of fielding as well as batting records, a scrolling statistical display, sorting by any statistic, coach information, and more. Soff Balls Elwood, Jeff ASP $25 #7181/2226 will allow you to record game results and later view team records, game results, team and player statistics, and print reports. The program will record games for up to 20 teams. A maximum of 9,999 total at bats (200-300 games) can be recorded for each team with a roster limit of 40. Player results for up to 20 players can be recorded for each game. Some of the statistics for each player include: total at bats, home runs, runs, walks, sacrifices, total hits, doubles, triples, strike-outs, runs batted in, pitching stats, stolen bases, and on-base average. The program is menu-driven, has on-screen assistance, and is easy to use. Diamond Data 4.4 The Software Construction Co. ASP $25 #4253 (formerly Softball Coach) keeps track of the statistics for a baseball team. It can be used to support members of a team throughout the season or an individual player across multiple seasons. Examine a player's career at a glance by looking at team statistics. Multiple databases can be merged together. You can have each season as an individual database and combine them to get lifetime statistics or keep each game during a season as a separate database and merge them together for a look at season totals. You can generate reports; sort each player by any statistic and exclude players who are below a threshold in any statistic. Basketball Statistics Sports League Management Associates $? #1968 is a program for basketball team managers and coaches. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the Sports League Management Program (GA-1878). This program lets you track statistics for each game for the team and for individual team members. BBall 30 Statistics Hatch, Laurence $33 #4002 will compute basic averages, indices, totals, and ratios for basketball player performance. It will determine ratings for individual players or groups of players by position and compute statistics used by both NBA and NCAA Division One coaches. You can graph any dataset in comparison to 1990-91 NBA Stat Leaders like Jordan, Bird, Johnson, Barkley, etc. The manual provides comprehensive discussions of each statistical measure with practical examples of good and bad values. Football Statistics Sports League Management Associates $? #7182/1970 is a program for football team managers and coaches. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the Sports League Management Program (GA-1878). This program lets you track statistics for each game for the team and for individual team members. Football Stats-Alyzer Bruzas, John A. $60 #7182/1487 [3 disks] lets you compile and analyze team statistics for football games for one or more teams. It can be used for pro, college, or high school games and can track games by division and conference. A flexible report generator is included. Data for the first three weeks of the 1988 NFL season are included on the diskette. Required: 384k. DBK/LT KASE $25-$100 #7487/3229 [3 disks] is a golf league management program. It maintains a hole-by-hole record and statistics for golfers. Statistics include stroke averages, handicaps (9 and 18 hole), point levels and more. It allows an unlimited number of golfers and courses and up to 6 players per team. It does team scheduling and will generate several different reports. Requires 512K and a hard disk is recommended. Foursome Generator C. B. Fain & Assoc. $39 #7183/1160 assists golf clubs in assigning equal foursomes as teams in tournaments. It does this by keeping a record of each player's name, handicap and status, and generating a list of foursomes based on handicaps. The program will allow decimals in handicap scores and scramble foursome to reduce repetition. It is easy to use and will handle up to 500 names. Golf Card #7183/103 is a scorekeeper for one person or a group. Prints charts, winnings and averages. Golf League Secretary Rankin, Pat $35 #7183/1843 is a set of programs for a golf league secretary. It keeps track of names and address, scores and handicaps of players, lets you assign players to teams and maintain won-loss statistics, and publish schedules and standings. It is can also add scores, correct scores and change data from the Browse display screen. You can set up and print schedules for 1st and 10th tee starts, for all 1st tee starts, or for shotgun starts. Handicaps go to one decimal place. The program also incorporates USGA slope considerations when figuring handicaps. Golf ScoreCard Yellow Moon Communications $25 #7183/2136 tracks your golf game. An unlimited number of golf courses and personal rounds of golf can be entered into the database. The program can review any game, display results graphically, calculate your handicap and other statistics, and print out scorecards or statistics. PC-Golf #7183/106 is a personal score keeping and game evaluation program allowing you to compare scores and chart improvement. Requires BASICA or GWBASIC. Double Bogie Killer (LTV) KASE $25-$100 #7500 (on 1.44meg 3.5" disk only) (League/Team Version) is a set of programs that allow a league, team, or group of golfers to be tracked using their hole-by-hole performances. This program was written specifically for persons charged with the responsibility of running a league to maintain stats such as stroke averages, handicaps (9 and 18 hole), point levels, and so on. Requires 512k of RAM and 1.6 meg of hard disk space. Per the requirement of the author, this program is available on a 3.5" 1.44meg disk only. Individual user version is available on MegaDisk #7503. Computer Caddy Pliable Products $25 #7680/4175 is a database for keeping track of statistics on your golf game, including improvement rating, consistency rating, handicap, putting percentage, average on par 3, 4, and 5 holes, and more. It can tabulate scores from rounds within a range of dates and provide statistics that point out weaknesses. The program supports up to 20 golfers, 10,000 golf courses and 10,000 rounds of golf per player. Personal Golf Tracker 3.0 Transparent Reflections $15 #7680/2712 keeps track of your golf scores, averages, comparisons to par, score distribution, percentages, and six statistics of your choosing. It displays graphs of scores and statistics. It features Mouse support, drop-down menus, and on-line help. Information can be processed for up to 64 courses and 96 golfers. Personal Pro for Golf Software Development Productivity, Inc. $27 #7680/2628 helps analyze and improve your golf swing. League Play! Scheduler Millikin Software Systems $75 #4484 creates a round robin playing schedule for sports leagues. It prints a schedule for up to 32 contestants, individuals or teams. Up to 31 rounds of competition may be included on schedules. Previously prepared lists can be retrieved and updated as required. There is also automatic shuffling of contestants, balanced home/visitor designation, a line editor, ability to switch games within a round, support for postponed/rescheduled games and much more. Requires DOS 3.3+, and 640K RAM. Matchers Duggins, Estill $30 #2807 does matchpointing and scoring for Mitchell, scrambled Mitchell and Howell duplicate bridge movements. It controls from two and a half up to eighteen full tables with one or two sections. Features include a database for players' names, the ability to print labels for masterpoint certificates, and more. Requires 512k. (Also see Duplicate Bridge Scoring Program on disk #1908, above.) Race Manager Hilsman, Steve & Williamson, Rick $25 #2525 will manage a racing event such as running, swimming, dog sledding, and more. It supports entries of teams or individuals. It will manage the entries, starting, finishing, and results. It does not do the timing. Times must be entered manually. Score-Plus RocSoft Micro Consultants $70 #1593 is used in scoring women's gymnastic meets for up to 300 gymnasts (per file). Ranking and reporting is in accordance with United States Gymnastic Federation rules. ALL-AROUND report shows all scores and ranking in USGF format. Team scoring is also included. Ninety-five teams may be stored on file and up to 50 teams may be used to calculate team scores and ranking. Sports Management Package Sports League Management Associates $20 #7184/1878 maintains records about player personnel, including the coach's or manager's comments, and information about the league and team. The program can be used for almost any sport. It does not keep statistics at this time; selecting that option causes the program to crash back to DOS. Pressing E to enter data in the TEAMMGRD program doesn't work; press "1" instead. Sports Statbook RJL Systems $49 #7184/1700 [2 disks] maintains and prints hockey, soccer and other sports statistics for players and teams. Features include automatic updating of year-to-date and lifetime player and team statistics, easy multiple team handling. Many printed reports are available. SwimBase 2.0 Wahl, Donald L. ASP $52 #3303 keeps track of data for a swim team. The swimmers' personal data is stored along will all event, meet and season results. Data from previous seasons can be reviewed at any time. Print-outs include team rosters, address lists, mailing labels, individual swimmer results, event results, and meet results. This program is based on the United States Swimming (USS) rules for event names, swimmer and age groups and groups and points. Requires 512K, DOS 3+. Tournament Keeper Taylor, Robert E. $30 #3172 will maintain fishing events for clubs or any organization that keeps results by weight. It provides a club roster, tournament schedule, individual tournament results and year-to-date standings. Requires 300K and a hard disk drive or high capacity floppy disk. ]]]]]