Team Sports Scheduling System 5.1.6

Team Sports Scheduling System 5.1.6 is intended to let you rapidly create league schedules for your sport organization. With it you can create tournament, round-r obin, official, and practice schedules for nearly any sport. The Team Sports Scheduling System is used world wide by leagues just like yours. Some of the features include multi-division scheduling; prioritized field usage; prioritized day and time usage; field sharing; automatic schedule generation; fully customizable project web site creation and publishing; standings support; sophisticated conflict resolution for rescheduling games; single and double elimination and consolation tournament scheduling; contact and sponsor management; powerful print reports and export capabilities; plus much, much more!

This year, create your sports schedules in minutes instead of days with the easy to use, all-in-one Team Sports Scheduling System™. Download and Install today to discover why thousands of leagues around the world have chosen TSSS as their #1 scheduling solution.

Schedule your single-elimination, double-elimination, and consolation tournament bracket schedules as well as your round-robin and practice schedules all from one program. Plus, TSSS schedules officials for your round-robin and tournament games as well! TSSS also works with nearly any sport including baseball, soccer, hockey, volleyball, darts, billiards, curling, basketball, football, fantasy leagues, and frog jumping (to name a few). If you are only interested in round-robin scheduling, be sure to check out the Round Robin Scheduler.

Unlike their competitors, the producer doesn't put unreasonable limits on the number of teams, leagues, fields, and officials you can schedule with the Team Sports Scheduling System. Round-robin, official, and practice scheduling support tens-of-thousands of teams*, and tournament scheduling supports up to 1024 teams in the first round - try drawing that on paper! 

Major Features:

1. Availability & Start Times: this competitor can't compete with the flexibiliy provided by the Team Sports Scheduling System for setting up field and official availability, and team, league, and division game start times.
   • Team, Division, and League Game Start Times
   • • Set start times by day of the week
     • Prioritize which day of the week should be scheduled first
     • Prioritize the start time order - start times listed first on a day will be filled before ones lower in the list (this is great if you want most of your games to start at 8pm, but you also have a 7pm time slot you can use
     • Blackout specific dates, or set special start times on specific days
     • For simple schedules, just set start times on the season, practice, or tournament schedule
     • Set game start times on the league, and have all teams automatically inherit them
     • *Teams can inherit start times from another team or league, and override the start times on certain days by creating exceptions
     • Add multiple start times on a day for double-header scheduling (double-headers are only booked if more than one team game is allowed per day)
   • Field and Official Availability
   • • Set field and official availability by day of the week
     • Blackout days for scheduling, or set special available hours on specific days
     • Set up one field or official's Availability, and have other fields or officials inherit it (so you don't have to set up each individually
     • *Add exceptions to availability even if the field or official is inheriting another field or official's availability
2. Field Setup
   
   • Set opening/closing hours on a field-by-field basis, or inherit from another field 
   • Create a heirarchy of fields so double-header games can be scheduled at the group
   • Teams can have one home field, a prioritized list of home fields, or depend on the league's prioritized list of home fields
   • Officials can be prevented from officiating a games on a certain field 
   • Add directions, contact people, and images for website generation
   • Fields can set how many practices can be scheduled at the same time
     
   • You don't need to create fields for scheduling
   • Teams and leagues can specify different fields to use for season, practice, and tournament scheduling
3. Round-Robin Scheduling Features
   • Basic Features
   • • Automatic schedule generation
     • Division and Inter-division scheduling
     • Balance home/away frequency
     • Balance start times
     • Balance field usage
     • Won't double-book coaches, fields, or teams
     • Won't schedule the same games back-to-back
     • Official scheduling
       
     • Minimum rest time between the next game (days off between games)
     • Maximum number of team games per week
     • Game duration from 1 minute to 1 day
     • Remembers all your settings so you can later make changes and reschedule the season
     • Games are scheduled based on day-of-week and start time priority 
     • *Fields are not required to schedule games (great for Fantasy Sports leagues)
     • Settings for max number of league games per day and week
     • Optional season end date
     • Teams and leagues can specify different fields to use for season, practice, and tournament scheduling
     • Games can be locked so they won't be auto-scheduled
   • Double-Header Support
   • • Max team games per day
     • Minimum rest time between games
     • *Maximum rest time between games
     • *Limit double-header games to the same field, same group of fields, or any field
     • Limit double-headers to certain days
       
   • Team Pairings
   • • The Team Sports Scheduling System makes creating the game sets (team pairings) easy.
     • You have complete control over how your teams will play each other
     • Have all selected teams play each other one or more times, or
     • Have all selected teams play a certain number of games
     • Home/Away frequency is balanced within the game set
     • Create games sets for each division and have them all scheduled at once
     • Add or remove specific games to fully customize who plays who
4. Tournament Bracket Scheduling Features
   • Automatic schedule generation
   • Single-elimination
   • Double-elimination
   • Consolation (& first round losers only)
   • Initially create the tournament without teams
   • Create tournaments based on team seeding
   • Support tournaments with up to 1024 teams in the first round
   • Tournaments can use start time and field settings already set up for the fields, leagues, and teams, or the tournament can override these by specifying different ones
   • Schedule multiple officials & positions with the tournament games 
   • Game duration from 1 minute to 1 day
   • *Optionally give home field advantage to lower seeded teams in the first round
   • Minimum rest time before the next team game
   • Specifiy the maximum number of team games per day and week
   • *Fields are not required for scheduling
   • Remembers all your settings so you can later make changes and reschedule the tournament
   • Save the tournament bracket as an image on your computer
   • Fully customize the styling, fonts, and colors of the brackets
   • Show/hide byes, reverse the brackets
   • Print brackets in poster form
   • Teams are automatically moved to the next round when scores are entered 
   • Teams and leagues can specify different fields to use for season, practice, and tournament scheduling
   • Games can be locked so they won't be auto-scheduled
5. Practice Scheduling Features
   • Automatic schedule generation
   • *Practice schedules can use prioritized start time and field settings already set up for the fields, leagues, and teams, or you can override these by specifying different ones (
   • Choose specific teams to create practices for
   • *Set the number of practices per week
   • *Minimum rest time before the next practice
   • *Fields are not required for scheduling
   • Practice duration from 1 minute to 1 day
   • *Schedule multiple practices at the same field
   • Remembers all your settings so you can later make changes and reschedule the season
   • Teams and leagues can specify different fields to use for season, practice, and tournament scheduling
   • Games can be locked so they won't be auto-scheduled
6. Official Scheduling Features
   • Schedule officials during season (round-robin) and tournament schedules
   • Set available hours by day-of-week or on a certain date (
   • Specify certain positions the official can hold (umpire, referee, second base umpire, line judge, etc)
   • Create your own positions if we haven't included one you need
   • Limit which fields an official can work at
   • Don't let the official be scheduled when certain teams are playing (parents won't be scheduled when their kids are playing)
   • Limit the number of games an official can officiate at by day, week, and season
   • Optionally reschedule only the officials when rescheduling a season (round-robin) schedule
7. Scores & Standings
   • Game Support
   • • Enter home and away scores (points shot, goals, etc) on a game by game basis
     • *Forfeit support - home or away forfeit per game
     • *Optionally don't include a specific game in the standings calculation
     • Overtime support
   • Standings Calculation
   • • Specify how many points for a win, loss, tie, and overtime loss
     • *Specify points for a forfeit win and a forfeit loss
     • *Optionally count a forfeit win as a win
     • *Optionally count a forfeit loss as a loss
     • Customizable tie-breaker support including Win/Loss Percentage, Total Points, Point Differential, Higher Points For, Lower Points Against
8. Fully Customizable Website
   • Easily generate a complete website based on all the data in your project - with one click of the mouse!
   • Choose different website templates and color styles
   • Create your own color styles by making changes to the stylesheet
   • If you are familiar with HTML and Javascript, you can easily make changes to the website templates since the FULL SOURCE CODE is included!
   • TSSS exposes a full object model so you can easily get to any project data you need from your favorite scripting language
   • Integrates in to your existing website - simply upload the generated project website to your current web (easily done if you have installed the free Web Publishing Wizard from Microsoft)
9. Reporting Features: The Print Wizard provides easy access to all reports (both canned and custom). Print Wizard reports can be sent to the printer, the screen, or exported to CSV (comma or tab delimited) and HTML (Web) files. Also, season and practice schedules provide a Summary report which details home/away frequency, start time usage, field usage, and other important aspects of the schedule. The following reports are supported from the Print Wizard
   • Schedules
   • • Master Schedule
     • Tournament Schedule
     • League Schedule
     • Division Schedule
     • Team Schedule
     • Field Schedule
     • Official/Referee Schedule
   • Standings
   • • Division Standings
     • Team Standings
     • Tournament Standings
   • Contact List
   • Game List
   • Custom Reports: Many custom reports are provided including a calendar report, home/away frequency report, a schedule graph among others. You can author your own custom report using Javascript, or we can do it for you! TSSS provides a complete object model so you can easily get to any project data you need. Check out the help file for the object reference and details on how to author your own reports.
10. Conflict Resolution: The Team Sports Scheduling System will not schedule conflicting games. However, it allows full manual override for scheduling and rescheduling games. Sometimes it is easier to reschedule a conflicting game while you are customizing the schedule, so the conflict status icons can immediately alert you to potential problems with the schedule. Here is a list of some of the conflicts TSSS checks for.
    • Check if coaches are double-booked
    • Check if the field is available
    • Check if the field is double-booked
    • Check if the field has been specified
    • Check the max practices per field at a time constraint
    • Check if playing on the home team's field
    • Check if teams are double-booked
    • Check if the home and away teams have been specified
    • Check if all official positions have been filled for the game
    • Check if the official is double-booked
    • Check if the official is assignd to the proper position
    • Check if the official is available
    • Check if the official is only playing at requested fields
    • Check if the official's kids teams are playing when the official is working at another game
    • Check if the same teams are playing back-to-back games
    • Check the max team games per day constraint
    • Check the max team games per week constraint
    • Check the max league games per day constraint
    • Check the max league games per week constraint
    • Check the maximum double-header rest time constraint
    • Check the minimum double-header rest time constraint
    • Check if double header games are at the same field/group of fields
11. Importing & Exporting Data
    • Import Data using the Import Wizard
    • Import team, division, league, field, contact, and sponsor information all from one file
    • Import data from previous projects
    • Also import contacts, sponsors, officials, leagues, teams, divisions, and fields independently
    • Export data using the Print Wizard to specify the data, and export to CSV and HTML files
    • *Right-click any grid and choose to export the list in HTML, Comma Delimited, Tab Delimited, XML, and iCal formats
    • Custom reports can be authored to export data in exactly the format you need
    • Copy & Paste data from the game lists to Excel, Word, or any other type of program
12. Ease of Use Features
    • Wizard based data entry for all data
    • Multiple Undo/Redo support - so don't worry about making a mistake!
    • Drag & Drop rescheduling of games
    • Cut, Copy, and Paste games from one day to another to quickly reschedule
    • Quickly create a skeleton project with the New Project Wizard or the Quick Create dialog
    • Swap game times for the two selected events
    • Easily swap home and away teams by right-clicking on any grid
    • Shift selected game times earlier or later in the day, week, or season
    • Import data from previous projects or other files
    • Find Available Times dialog helps you quickly find open time slots to reschedule rainouts
    • Conflict and status icons quickly alert you to any potential problems with the schedule
    • Help is only a keypress away - press F1 on any screen for context sensitive help
    • Easily add lots of start times at once with the redesigned Start Time dialog
    • Add ad-hoc games easily to a season or practice schedule
    • Customize the interface of the program to display only the information you need - where you want
    • Easily synchronize the game list views for a particular field, team, league, or official by right-clicking the item in the project tree and choosing Synchronize Views
    • Sticky Properties window to show you context sensitive information for whatever is currently selected
    • Contact management for all teams, leagues, fields, and officials
    • View games by day with the DayView, or a list of games between two dates with the ReportView
    • Lots of keyboard shortcuts so you don't have to use the mouse

Enhancements:

• Fixed issue where league and division combos were grayed out when creating a new team
• Fixed issue where the importer wouldn't auto match the column names
• Changed the way the 'Total num of practices per team to schedule' field works when creating Practice Schedules. This value is now calculated based on season length and the number of practices per week per team. You can override the calculated value by changing the value