Football Rankulator 2.3.4 Build 304 - Changelog

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.3.2 Build 300:

July 9th, 2011

· No major modifications, new build for 2011 season
· Fixed bug in creating new data sets

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.3.1 Build 298:

July 4th, 2011

· No major modifications, new build for 2011 season

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.3.0 Build 296:

November 6th, 2010

New Strength of Schedule Option: Use weighted WL in calculations:
· SoS's calculated wins and losses will be based on the user assigned team weights

2 new column options for the Conference Page:
· Weighted Win Loss Record
· Weighted Win Loss Percentage

· The Rank Method "Strength of Schedule" has been modified so that the points assigned to the top ranked team is 100 (not the percentage)

· New Rank Method added under I-A Weighted, "Weighted Wins divided by Games Played

New Preferences Option in the Ranking section:
· Weighted Win Loss Fudge Factor (this adds a phantom tie game to the weighted win-loss calculation that has a weight of 0.01)

· Minor bug fixes and GUI enhancements

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.2.2:

November 6th, 2010

· Year end final update
· Fixed bug in internal indexing of team levels
· Fixed bug with duplicate internal game indexes
· Minor bug fixes and GUI enhancements

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.2.1:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in NFL datafile I/O

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.2.0:

November 6th, 2010

· Div 1-A, Div 1-AA now referred to as FBS & FCS
· Put game display combo box on game page (previously only available when right-clicking on game list)
· Minor bug fixes and GUI enhancements

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.1.1:

November 6th, 2010

Conference and Team weights:
· you may now define a conference and/or team weight that is used to calculate win-loss records
· editor for team weights
· Team Graph Records has weight option

Three new Ranking Methods which uses team weights:
· Weighted Win Percentage
· Fewest Weighted Losses
· Most Weighted Wins

New merge options for voter & BCS polls:
· You may select a poll to be skipped during the merge operation, thus allowing you to use a defined poll to enter your own user poll

Grouped poll graph on the Poll Page:
· The Poll Page has a new view which graphs selected polls together

Final FBR rankings points are rounded to two decimal places:
· now teams that have final rankings that round to the same 100th decimal place will tied in ranking

· Bugs in HTML report on the ranking page have been fixed

· Various GUI enhancements

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.1.0:

November 6th, 2010

New view on the Team Page - Team History:
See team records against selected categories spanning past years:
· e.g., record against ranked teams in the last 5 years
· see help file for more information

New conference columns:
· Bowl Eligible Status - status as seen on the Bowl Eligible view
· Bowl Team - i.e., did/will play in a Bowl game

New team grid columns:
· Is Bowl Eligible
· Opponent is Bowl Team
· Opponent's conference
· Opponent's level

You may now add a note to Teams and Conferences:
· Add note in the Edit Team or Edit Conference dialog boxes

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.0.4:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in Poll grid (display of points change)
· Modifications to Merge routine to correct some misleading log comments
· A few minor GUI enhancements and bug fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.0.3:

November 6th, 2010

Fixed bug in Schedule grid:
· Values in the "Opponent's FBR Ranking (now)" column were incorrect and has been fixed

· A few minor GUI enhancements and bug fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.0.2:

November 6th, 2010

Modified Bowl Eligiblity:
· a 6-6 record now shows as bowl eligible

Bug fixes:
· GUI bug on the Games Page (some text not being updated on reset click)
· GUI bug on some grids, latent font colors and/or styles not being reset

· Report type may now be changed by right-clicking on the report icons

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.0.1:

November 6th, 2010

Reports for now available for the following views:
· Conferences Page - Conf Teams (new)
· Teams Page - Schedule (new)
· Games Page - Game grid (new)
· Rankings Page - Ranking Methods and FBR Ranking (HTML is new)

There are three types of reports that you may generate:
· Text
· CSV
· HTML

You select which type of reports you wish to generate from the main menu:
· Options | Report type.
· Text reports are printable representations of the view's contents.
· HTML reports may be saved and using in web pages, etc.
· The data in CVS reports are separated by commas - these are suitable for saving and importing into other programs (e.g., MS Excel).

If you plan to import CSV data into an Excel spreadsheet, you should be aware of the following issue:
· When Excel brings in a CSV file, it will change into a date any data that looks
· like a date; it does this whether the data is really a date or not. In FBR CSV
· exports, there is a lot of win-loss data that looks like dates, e.g., 10-1,
· 4-7, etc. Excel will change a win-loss record of 10-1 into a date of October 1,
· of the current year; 4-7 becomes April 7th, and so on. Obviously, this is not
· what you want.
· This is a known issue (problem?) with Excel. One work around is as follows...
· Change (or save) the file's extension to something other than CSV -- for
· example, TXT. Then, when you open the file, Excel's Text Import Wizard will
· kick in. In Step #3 of the wizard, specify "Text" as the format for your
· win-loss columns.
· If you are an Excel whiz (I am not) - I have seen some discussions about
· creating macros to address this problem. Use Google and search in "Groups" using the following keywords: excel csv date.

Improved FBR Build:
· option to build on the Ref Date

New column for conference grid:
· TV schedule for the current week

· Option to ignore division when sorting a conference by conference record

· Fixed some image alignment problems (i.e., TV schedule dropdown picklist)

What's new in Football Rankulator 2.0.0:

November 6th, 2010

Two new game attributes have been added:
· Time
· TV schedule
· Note: Because of the dynamics of game times and TV schedules, WSA will not provide this information in the datafiles; these attributes have been added for your convenience. When you download a datafile, just be sure to use the "Merge" option - merging will not alter any time or TV schedules you have entered

· Game add/edit dialog has been redesigned

Games may be added even if opponents are not known (e.g., bowl games, conference championships, etc.):
· Note: the latest 2006.fbd file will contain the Div1-A conference championships and bowl games

Improvements to the user configurable grid columns feature:
· the Game Page grid is now configurable

· Polls are listed by date in ascending order instead of descending order

· History list of last 10 tracked teams are maintained during a FBR session

· Numerous GUI enhancements and bug fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.7:

November 6th, 2010

· Year End update for the 2005 season
· Fixed bug in Teams Strength of Schedule graph
· minor GUI enhancements and bug fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.6:

November 6th, 2010

2 new ranking criteria added:
· Most points scored per game against BCS teams
· Fewest points allowed per game again BCS Teams

· Enhanced FBR Ranking graph

Datafile download modified to browse for a local file:
· should you ever have trouble downloading datafiles from within the application, you could manually download datafiles to a local directory and then do a copy/merge operation
· also added "Exit on success" to the dialog

Conference vs Conference:
· now able to select specific conferences from the conference to compare

- Fixed Tracked Team bug in the ranking lists on the Rankings Page:
· FBR was sometimes highlighting the wrong team in the Football Rankulator Ranking

· Various minor GUI enhancements and bug fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.5:

November 6th, 2010

Various minor GUI enhancements and bug fixes only, however you may notice:
· FBR column in the Team's schedule now shows FBR at game date if the game row appears in the current week
· Some Improvement to the graphs on the Team page

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.4:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in Building FBR polls - Download Datafile Merge was deleting schedules for non Div 1 teams - they are now retained
· Option to hide criteria panel on the Games page (look under the Games menu item) - Helpful if you are doing Game Analysis and the application is too wide for your screeen
· Minor GUI enhancements

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.3:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in the Download | Merge feature
· Other minor GUI enhancements

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.2:

November 6th, 2010

Added Game Analysis feature on the Games Page:
· Use a user-defined ranking criteria configuration to compare game opponents
· See help file for more information

· Updated help file

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.1:

November 6th, 2010

Added Graphs to the Team Page - Polls, Records, SoS:
· (Hope to add more graphs as the season goes along)

Added functionality for the Harris Poll used in the BCS:
· 1st Harris poll to be released Sept 25th

· Added a Game State attribue to flag games that are postponed or canceled
· Fixed bug in the score entry dialog

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.2.0:

November 6th, 2010

Use Windows XP Visual Styles:
· Options | Preferences... General

Save column configurations for Conference and Team schedule views:
· Manage configurations in the "Visible Grid Columns" dialogs

Customize graph preferences using gradient mode and/or quick styles:
· Right click on any graph - help file has more details

· Updated help

· Updated graphics driver

New datafile format, downloads for the 2005 season will require version 1.2:
· add reserved attributes for future enhancements

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.1.5:

November 6th, 2010

· Conf vs Conf - games listings are now sorted by date
· Calendars - right click to see 'Today' menu item
· Conference Grid - modifications to the "Season finished" notice; improved column widths for games having titles (e.g., Bowl games)
· Game Page - bowl game titles are now displayed in the games grid
· Polls Page - when building the FBR list, only weeks having Div 1A games will cause a FBR ranking to be built

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.1.4:

November 6th, 2010

· New - Conference vs Conference view added to the Conference Page
· Moved the Bowl Eligibility View to the Conference Page (was on the Team Page)
· Fixed win-loss record coloring in Games Page grid for the away/home & hot streak records
· Improved Team Find function on the Games Page
· Updated help file

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.1.3:

November 6th, 2010

NEW view to show bowl eligible teams:
· located on the Team Page, new tab next to the SoS (strength of schedule) tab

NEW sorting combinations options for the Games Page:
· sort by Polls, BCS, or FBR rankings
· best matchup based on Polls, BCS or FBR
· best matchup based on home & away records or hot streak records

Improved Find Team feature:
· Now integrated with the Track Team feature
· Implemented for the Ranking Page

Added new column options to the Conference Grid:
· Record of future conference opponents
· Team's hot streak win loss record

Added new column options to Game Grid:
· opponent FBR Ranking at game date
· opponent FBR Ranking now

· Fixed bug in Rankings Methods view, SoS methods were not updated when SoS options are changed

· BCS ranking now displays 4 digits

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.1.2:

November 6th, 2010

· Added new optional columns to the Conference Grid - conference opponents' win loss record, non conference opponents' win loss record, future opponents' win loss record
· Improved "Find Team" on the Games Page
· Games Page settings are saved between settings
· Games Page GUI enhancements
· Fixed sorting bugs on the Games Page
· Other minor enhancements & fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.1.1:

November 6th, 2010

· Added Ranking Methods Graph on the Rankings Page
· Added options to include team images to the games grid and conference grid
· Added option to turn all images
· Fixed some TrackTeam / Reference Date synchronization issues
· Game dates on games grid emphases non Saturday game
· Game Grid options may be saved between sessions
· Introduced additional report type option to the Rank Methods report (HTML)
· Application will use animation on startup and shutdown (with option to turn off)

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.1.0:

November 6th, 2010

· Added Track Team feature
· Impoved Find Team dialog
· Datafile format has changed (new game type, 'playoff')
· Several GUI enhancements & fixes
· Datafiles for 1998-2000

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.0.8:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in Download Merge (was not handling teams playing a second time)
· Fixed bug in Game grid (was not showing post season games until the game date)
· Other minor enhancements & fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.0.7:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in initial BCS rankings (was not ascending)
· Added new columns to the game grid - opp's win loss record at game date, opp's win loss record now
· Game grid enhancements - color for opp columns
· Sorting by conference improved to account for conference with divisions - division record is next tie-breaker for teams with the same conference record
· Other minor enhancements & fixes

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.0.6:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug on poll page (was not reacting to RefDate changes)

· Fixed bug on poll graph when using Team Tracking

· Ability to create (then use) enhanced bmp images from the gif images

Game page enhancements:
· Conference image is displayed when a conference is selected
· Mini team images may be displayed in the game grid

· Conference grid may now contain home, away, and BCS win-loss record(s)

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.0.5:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in the download datafile merge
· New improved interface for entering game scores
· Poll page now has team track feature
· Team display name on team page is user configurable
· Improved team sorting in Edit Poll dialog (click on grid headers to sort)
· Reports for ranking methods and FBR Rankings
· Minor conference display improvements
· Minor team schedule display improvements

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.0.4:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in team schedule display

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.0.3:

November 6th, 2010

· Some SoS display improvements
· Fixed a display problem for indepedent conferences

What's new in Football Rankulator 1.0.2:

November 6th, 2010

· Fixed bug in Edit Conference dialog
· Fixed bug in Edit Team dialog
· Ref Date & SoS dialogs are closed (if open) if a different datafile is read
· Added the ability to customize the columns in the conference and team grids
· Cleaned up some of the sort comparision functions