Golf League Tracker Release Notes

5/30/2021 - Version 8.25

Fixed

• Team Totals max strokes not be applied correctly in certain circumstances
• Updated the "Remember Me" function on the login page to work with more browsers
• Live scoring for 2-man teams wasn't putting the scorecard into the correct state to "confirm" the card
• Points for teams winning both matches would compute incorrectly whne viewing the Detailed Scorcard, but was correct for recording points.

5/30/2021 - Version 8.24

Added

• New Setting: Best Ball Max Strokes (setting #243). Allows a maximum number of strokes for one player in a best ball match

5/29/2021 - Version 8.23

Added

• Live Scoring check to disable certain admin functions to prevent the league to get out of sync while entering scores.
• The ability to set your own skins labels for the net and gross pots
• Added a course "All" option in the league scoring average report
• Performance improvement of the WLT reports
• Enhanced messaging on the Player/Team setup if the lineup is incomplete

Fixed

• Browser screen flashing with some combinations of browser and theme selected
• Some login slowness due to retrieving league settings multiple times
• Minimum team points being applied to min player points when playing the course.
• An apostrophe in the course name was causing an error in the Player Best Ball Report

5/22/2021 - Version 8.22

Added

• New Setting: Points for teams where both players win their low net vs opponent
• New Setting: Tie option for above format (split points or not awarded
• New Setting: Gross and Net Skins label configuration. This enables the admin to change the default label from "GROSS SKINS" and "NET SKINS" to something else. This is especially useful where the Net Skins pot is repurposed as a 2nd gross skins pot by handicaping the Handicap % or Max Strokes to 0

Fixed

• ESC Handicap ranges using Handicap Index rather than the Course Handicap when determine which range to apply for ESC.
• Hole highlight not working on printed scorecards for shotgun leagues.
• Force a skips update if a League Group changes after the scores are entered
• Handicap Allowance Percentage rounding applied at the wrong time for WHS calcualtions.
• The message on the league standings page was inaccurate when reporting that not all points were recorded. Enhanced this so all rounds are shown.

5/15/2021 - Version 8.21

Added

• Allow jpeg files to be added to the image gallery. JPG was already allowed but iPhones save files as .jpeg

Fixed

• Error in live scoring when multiple players started live scoring within seconds of each other for the same players
• Alert box not sized properly
• Player Display Order on print scorecards not remembered correctly
• Fix Min/Max point settings when doing a "save and record points"

5/8/2021 - Version 8.20

Added

• Added an "Average" row to the individual and team stroke play results report
• Disallow the printing of a scorecard for a round when there are no teeboxes entered for a course, and give a warning, and direct the admin to the course list to fix this issue
• Added functionality to the 2-player team schedule so that subs are reflighted and displayed in their proper flight as they would be on the scorecards

Fixed

• Net Double Bogey ESC not calculating properly under certain circumstances. The logic was essentially adding 1 extra stroke to a players handicap when determining the Net Double Bogey max on a hole. This was not affecting any point calculations
• The point logic for when the setting for A vs B for low net was not correct under certain circumstances.
• An issue when a sub had more than 1 email address entered, the sub request "accept" functionality was not working properly.
• Cart Sign name overlap when a sub was listed on the sign
• Score Entry "Save and Record" now is enabled properly when admin picks the course, or in the event of 2-player teams, when the solo player is playing for both players.
• Handle an error when a user tries to enter scores for a course where no teebox has been added
• Fix to the scorecard to display proper number of strokes when a max stroke limit is applied to a match. This did not affect any point calculation, but only the "tick" marks on a printed scorecard

5/2/2021 - Version 8.19

Changed

• Improved UI for entering and editing a contest winner
• Improved UI for entering and editing player payments, to enter multiple one after another
• Cart sign prettying-up

Fixed

• Change to Minimum/Maximum point limits
• Stroke Play Results All Rounds when filtering by group not regenerating properly
• Handle it when someone has two or more windows open while entering the same scorecard, or entering scores while live scoring is turned on
• Fix UI warning when entering very low (but valid) slope values for a course
• Edit Skin contestants page not refreshing properly under certain circumstances

4/24/2021 - Version 8.18

Fixed

• Record Points Logic - Prevent recording points when a player doesn't have a handicap
• "Image not found" image was rotated 90 degrees in error.
• Tweaked wrapping of scorecard info for the group/tee times
• Handicap cards not giving enough space for accounts using the World Handicap System (20 scores)
• "Confirm" option not displaying properly for scores entered with live scoring under certain circumstances.
• Add/Remove Rounds not allowing extended leagues go to beyond 30 rounds
• For leagues who manage more than 1 league, fixed the "switch league" option

Added

• Added "Created By" in the cart signs
• Delimiter character for teams based on league format. The "vs" in the schedule was confusing people if they weren't playing head to head formats.

4/13/2021 - Version 8.17

Fixed

• Applying proper limits for par 3s for bestball and team totals format in the point calculation
• Added points for combined BestBall/Team Totals format for front/back/total score
• Added check for a malformed URI when user imports an Excel file
• Scorecards not applying Max Strokes for Team Totals (setting #215) propertly in the stroke display
• Display for scorecards not correct when trying to print for 2-person teams with 2-somes on the cards
• Points not clearing in the cache for the home page widget when points were changing

Added

• A separate league news screen which will be used for the android app to display the news.

4/4/2021 - Version 8.16

Fixed

• Error when Review Scores page is redirected after logout because the selected round number is not retained
• Home Page Standings cache wasn't being cleared under certain circumstances
• Multiple tee times displayed when clicking from the Schedule widget to the full schedule
• Error when calculating stableford points in live scoring when the foursome didn't have scores for both teams entered
• Player handicaps not updated under certain circumstances when editing a scorecard and changing the player who played

3/27/2021 - Version 8.15

Added

• Adding inline page help to various administrative pages.

Fixed

• Handicap percentage being applied twice under rare circumstances.
• Maximum handicap index being applied as max course handicap
• Live Leaderboard not display both rounds when playing split tee times at different courses.

Changed

• Enhanced E-mail log for better display
• When saving individual round schedule, made for a better error message when trying to schedule odd number of players or teams
• Check for expired session logic updated.

3/14/2021 - Version 8.14

Changed

• Added more stringent League ID validation rules to only allow letters and numbers in the league ID

Fixed

• Display of settings for Handicap Detail information was incorrect when using the WHS (Official) or Pre-2020 (Official) settings
• Apple's conversion of "smartquotes" was causing an issue with player's last names (e.g. O’Reilley vs O'Reilley) and importing scores

3/14/2021 - Version 8.13

Added

• New Report - Print Handicap Cards. Handicap Cards are old school USGA. They allow a player to print "cards" which has a summary of their score history along with their handicap. This can be found in the Stats section.

Fixed

• Disallow invalid Word Email addresses to be entered into a player's email. They have a format of: name<email@addressdomain.com>. When an admin would try to enter an address like this, it causes an error because it is NOT a valid email address. Emails are only name@domain.com
• Handicap calculation would consider not enough scores when throwing out a percentage of scores. If set to percentage, the score count used for handicapping can never be 0, it will automatically adjust to using 1 score.

3/10/2021 - Version 8.12 - Internal administrative functions.

3/7/2021 - Version 8.11

Added

• New Setting - Number of Most Recent Years to Use. You can now limit which seasons are included in the handicapping by settings with this setitng. E.g. If you set this to 2, and the current year is 2021, it will not use scores from the 2018 season or earlier.

Fixed

• Handicap calculation was ignoring the "confirm" status of a score for handicap only leagues entered by players.

2/28/2021 - Version 8.10

Added

• Several updated YouTube help videos
• Admin and Player Login Count totals in the League Info section
• New Filtering options for "Stroke Play Results - Full Season" report

2/20/2021 - Version 8.9

Added

• New Scheduling Function - Auto schedule for a single round. This feature allows an administrator to choose a subset of players from the league and have the system automatically set the pairings.

Changed

• E-mail log now using the on-off slider switch to show and change the log status
• Hid the "points" option on the "Review scores" popup in the matchup screen, and resized the window so it's fills the screen.

Fixed

• Export was including hidden columns in the data. Fixed so only displayed data columns are shown
• E-mail log was not refreshing properly when a log entry was deleted

2/13/2021 - Version 8.8

Added

• New Feature (All Leagues): Document Library. The Document Library is now part of the Image Gallery Add-on. When you purchase the Image Gallery, the Document Library is included. The Document Library
• New Feature (Standard Leagues): The ability to e-mail the list of players who are scheduled for a specific round. Rather than e-mailing the regular player list and/or the sub list, you can choose a round number and the players who are scheduled, including any subs with sub reservations, are e-mailed.
• New Feature (All Leagues): When e-mailing, a button shows the number of recipients. Click the button and the list of recipients will pop-up. This enables you to see the recipients before sending the e-mail.
• New Setting (Standard Leagues): Pace of Play Minutes. In the Scorecards category of the settings, if this value is set a pace of play time is displayed on the scorecard as well as the End Time, as computed from the group's starting time. If this is set to 0 the setting is ignored and pace of play is not displayed.

Fixed

• Course rating information was duplicated on the display in some circumstances
• League Standings course rating info wasn't spanning all of the available columns.

2/7/2021 - Version 8.7

Added

• Handicap Only League - New Report - Scoring average by player
• Handicap Only League - New Report - Scoring average over time by player

2/4/2021 - Version 8.6

Added

• Signup Captcha with a keyword to prevent bots from signing up
• "Official" old USGA Handicap calculation. Don't use this, use the new World Handicap System and get with the times!

Fixed

• Best Ball calculation causing an error is a player didn't have a handicap
• IE11 fix or team assigment. For the love of God people, stop using IE11, it's 10 years old!!
• Force a recalculation of Low Net when the report is viewed to insure it's updated

1/30/2021 - Version 8.5

Added

• Handicap Only Leagues: Added a setting so that you can allow players to post their own scores. Scores are then confirmed or rejected by the league administrator.

Fixed

• "Number of rounds" setting verification logic incorrect for different type of leagues with different options chosen.
• Scorecard screen for players causing an error in some circumstances
• Stableford points for triple bogey or worse not calculating correctly
• Round length verification not working properly in some circumstances

Changed

• Colors for hyperlinks when printing in black and white was a shade of gray depending on the color scheme chosen, and was difficult to read. Changed the color to pure black for better printing.

1/23/2021 - Version 8.4

Added

• Win/Loss/Tie Weekly Report. This report compares a player/team score vs all other players/teams for the week, and calculate a WLT for each. You can run a net or gross skin report, and show the WLT in 3 different formats: WLT, Points (1 pt for a win, 1/2 pt for a tie), or a Win %.
• Page Help Control. New page help text will be added to the pages as time goes on. A "?" will appear to the left of the page title when help is available.
• Scorecards: Team Point stroke display option was missing after upgrading Scorecards over the winter. Added this option back in.

Fixed

• "Save and Record Points" was not running the record points function.

1/16/2021 - Version 8.3

Added

• Handicap Only Leagues - The ability to add scores for all players for a single date, rather than one by one
• Added Team column to the live leaderboard, and grouped the teammates together on the display

Fixed

• Live Leaderboard not displaying points for the "B" player in team play
• Live Leaderboard causing an error if no players are scheduled for a given round

1/9/2021 - Version 8.2

Added

• Course List report displays each course and each tee box for the course along with course rating, slope and par.
• New Excel sample import worksheets

Fixed

• Season list in the menu wasn't displaying proper season when switching to older seasons
• League officer contacts weren't display the validation errors if the name was left blank

Changed

• Internal optimization of detailed points scoresheet to cache available point type calculates

1/1/2021 - Version 8.1

Fixed

• Multi-league discount applied incorrectly under certain circumstances
• Error when logging in if typing a bunch of spaces for the user id
• Force style version numbers when version changes
• Fix to League Contacts when an invalid e-mail is entered

12/24/2020 - Version 8.0

Added

• Internal rewrite removing all old Classic ASP code. This major update will improve performance, allow for faster development, and larger scalability of the website for future expansion. In addition, it creates opportunity for more advanced features to be developed. The following sections were rewritten:
• Point engine / Detailed Points Scoresheet
• Scorecard entry screen
• Record Points screen
• Login logic
• Live scoring leaderboard update which include live point total calculations
• Live scoring leaderboard update displays the League Group if league groups are used in the league

Changed

• Added ability to save scores and record points with one click, or the option to override the points the system calculates.

12/4/2020 - Version 7.81

Added

• Added "paging" to the Historical Score List to aid in display when there are many scores entered

Changed

• Hide skins information from the player list for "Handicap only" leagues
• Showing only widgets which pertain to specific League Type

Fixed

• Fixed error when retriving standings if there is no schedule set for future rounds
• Logic for which dates can be chosen for live scoring fixed when a "fun night" is the next night

12/2/2020 - Version 7.80

Added

• Major internal rewrite of the Detailed Points Scoresheet
• Converted several pages of legacy code to MVC to get ready for next major release.

Fixed

• Team/Player numbers not displayed properly when viewing full schedule in the event that league added players mid-season
• Fixed add/remove rounds when league uses custom dates
• League Group column width in the team/player number assignment

Changed

• Live Scoring enhancements to navigation and UX
• Add a Sub update to handle gender

11/15/2020 - Version 7.79.1

Added

• In Historical Scores section, you can choose a course and teebox from courses which you have entered, or you can choose "custom" to enter your own teebox info
• You can change team assignments for a given week provided scores for that team (or player) haven't been entered yet.
• You can change the schedule for a given week for players or teams who don't have scores entered yet.
• When setting up an individual league, an option to "auto assign" player numbers.

Fixed

• When a league had more than 100 tee boxes entered for their league, the incorrect tee box was sometimes used when calculating strokes on the printed scorecard
• Team Contest fix in the event teams change throughout the season. The proper team name is retrieved when the round number is chosen.
• Leagues with custom dates had problems saving after adding rounds

Changed

• Converted some legacy Classic ASP code to MVC/WebAPI calls for better performance
• Converted Scorecards to MVC code for better performance and update to technology

September 13, 2020 - Version 7.78

Added

• Option to hide Amount Won from the Contest Widget
• Added negative handicap stroke indicator on the printed scorecards (tick mark shows red in color)

Fixed

• Reorder rounds was causing an error when the data for the reorder was being truncated for being too long.
• Team Season Score Detail not rendering properly when a team didn't have an average

September 5, 2020 - Version 7.77

Added

• E-mail "draft" mode for league administrators. The system will remember what you've started typing and you can continue where you left off (info saved is per browser)
• Ability to Upgrade your account from the MENU in the upper right

Fixed

• Live scoring "enter scores" screen, changed labeling for handicap
• Loading of sub information was incorrect for a subset of leagues since the last update.

August 15, 2020 - Version 7.76

Added

• Confirmation of unusually low slope value when < 90. While the USGA can have a course with a slope of < 90, it's very rare, and usually a number < 90 is entered when an admin accidentally divides the slope by 2 for each 9 holes, which is the incorrect procedure.

Fixed

• Date/time displayed for an accepted sub request showed UTC rather than the league time zone.
• Logic for which the next round is cancelled was incorrect if trying to cancel two rounds in a row.
• Best Ball hole Net Score incorrect when using full handicaps and player < 0 handicap

August 2, 2020 - Version 7.75

Added

• New Setting: Number of Round Required to Establish Handicap - For A Sub! That's right, it's finally here. A separate setting for subs. By default, the setting is 0, which means it's the same as the setting for regular players. But change it to 1 and give a sub a handicap immediately
• Added the points for the "course" to the league standings

Fixed

• The sort in the league standings which start with Group had the Segment and Season point sort logic backward.

Changed

• The Admin Contest list now shows contests which were set to Inactive
• Updated several internal packages and error reporting to get better details on errors which happen to a user

July 20, 2020. Version 7.74

Added

• New Report: Contest Winner Summary
• Ability to filter Best Ball Team and Player report by segment
• Round number to the scorecards next to the date
• In the Opponent Average report, added 3 columns to show difference between net, gross, and handicap average for each player

Fixed

• Season long stats has an error if no scores present
• When setting #110 is ON (Swap A/B Matchup), schedule was not displaying proper matchups.

July 5th, 2020. Version 7.73

Testing

• Pilot test for the new Detailed Points Scoresheet begins.

Added

• New Report: Team Score detail for all rounds
• New Feature: Update your main league administration contact information option.

Fixed

• Live scoring issue. When a league admin disabled live scoring, then reenabled it for another round, a player could have their browser window open and record scores for the wrong round. Typically this wouldn't happen because the player's timeout expires before 1 week, but it could happen if leagues play more often than that.
• Add/Remove round fixes which caused an error under certain circumstances

June 28, 2020, Version 7.72

Added

• Leaderboard enhancement to allow to select "favorite" players

Fixed

• Team order not correct when generating scorings for 2-somes
• Leaderboard info incorrect if playing more than 1 course per date
• Leaderboard not showing hdcp or net total when playing the front 9
• IE11 garbage fixes. c'mon people, upgrade your browser!
• Course/Side fix when course is not selected in the schedule
• Fixed error for sub request when a player doesn't have an email, and sub verification is turned off.

June 21, 2020, Version 7.71

Added

• New option in individual player leagues when printing scorecard to display handicaps off the low player. Note that there is no setting or point system for this game, this is for display purposes ony
• New point setting for Team Low Gross Score Points

Changed

• Save dashboard layout and settings when settings are saved to eliminate a step in the update
• Score History Dashboard widget shows round date rather than most recent round #
• League Dates automatically regenerate when administrator adds more rounds to their leagues, rather than forcing the admin to go to the League Dates section which triggered the rewrite.
• Internal rewrite of league setting validations to allow for more complex rules.

Fixed

• Cleaned up number of tee times when the player count changes mid season
• Rewrote the add/move/remove round option to handle a more complex set of changes to the schedule at one time
• Fixed an issue in live scoring where when a sub is playing for a player, the system would allow both the original player and sub's score to be entered, causing an error in the system.
• Display net score properly in Live Leaderboard when a player doesn't have a handicap. Treat a no handicap as 0 for leaderboard purposes.
• Fixed an issue when entering a scorecard where a player name would be duplicated under certain circumstances
• Fixed an internal issue when saving a hole score, when the hole number was 0. This may be an attempt to hack a score, but handle the situation gracefully.

June 7, 2020, Version 7.70

Added

• Option for 2-player teams to print scorecards with just two players on them. This allows someone to print a card for each team rather than the full foursome.

Fixed

• Player validation was broken when entering scores, thus allowing "teammate plays again opponent" for BOTH teammates, thus causing an error when trying to calculate points
• Handicap was not displaying for inactive players.
• Error when "copy admins" function was on, but an admin didn't have an email address entered for themselves.

May 24, Version 7.69

Added

• New value options for Number of High and Low Rounds to drop for handicapping. If the value is a negative amount, the value is a percentage. For example, if you enter -50 for High Rounds To Drop, then the system will take 50% of the scores entered and drop them (rounding any fractions to the nearest whole number. e.g. 50% of 7 = 3.5, which is rounded to 4 rounds to drop. If you only want to drop 3 of 7, then enter -49 (49%) for this setting.
• New "League Settings" dedicated section, which gives you two options: to change all league settings, and 2nd report which shows which settings that are point related are set to a non-zero value. This aids in helping you find points which are set that you don't know about.

Fixed

• Table Export fixed when exporting non-standard tables like the schedule or the league standings. A non-standard table is one which has something other than a single piece of data in a cell
• Error in pulling up the league schedule if the next week's schedule didn't have the course set.
• Auto Generate across all groups option was being ignored, and the scheduler was still scheduling within each group
• E-mail log "Date Sent" was not being displayed correctly
• Player gender when adding a sub on the fly wasn't saving properly.

May 17, Version 7.68

Added

• Option for the skins calculation to use the handicap index rather than course handicap
• Check to see if player count was valid when changing from individual to 2-player leagues. The lack of this check was causing errors when creating the schedule, because it allowed a user to get around the even number of teams requirement.
• Added Handicap section to stats, and included the player handicap matrix report. There are now 3 reports specific to handicaps
• Added checks for network connectivity when using the live scoring. If connection failed, the page would just spin, and essentially lock the user out from continuing the scoring.

Changed

• Changed the way disabling live scoring worked on the scorecard entry screen. Previously the link would take you to the enable/disable screen, which was confusing in that it was not clear that you then had to disable live scoring. Changed the link to a button, and now the live scoring is disabled with one click.

Fixed

• Live scoring round selection gives warning when choosing a fun night, preventing the user from enabling fun nights (no scores are entered into fun nights)
• Rename of a script folder which was causing browser extensions like uBlock to give a false positive, making a couple of pages non-workable.
• Fix code to prevent two "absent, teammate will play against opponent" from being chosen for the same team.
• Automatically clear skins carry over if carry over was turned off and skins were edited for a round
• Schedule WebAPI, only add weekly schedule when it actually exists. This was causing an error in the scheudle in the Android app if a blank schedule was saved.
• Javascript error under certain circumstances in the "Change Course/Side For All Rounds", which would then cause the page validation to fail, causing a system exception
• Scorecard message would have stray repeats when an individual player league playing split tee times.

May 9 - Version 7.67

Added

• Handicap Only League - New Course Handicap report to show handicap for selected course and assigned tee box

Changed

• Increased performance of the individual head to head report

Fixed

• League standings error when no schedule is set
• Fix to email log when doing a "blind copy" in sending emails.
• Fix to schedule if tee time is not set. This typically shouldn't happen but could if the user places the schedule widget on their homepage
• Schedule widget displayed improperly if an apostrophe was in the player's last name
• Fix to schedule widget if groups are skipped in setting up the schedule.

May 2 - Version 7.66

Added

• When using the "Add a Sub" button on the score entry screen, added the gender drop down as well as starting and current handicap

Changed

• Import Scores is limited to 600 scores at a time to prevent performance problems and browser crashes.
• For handicap only leagues - Course Handicap Player List - Added course and gender filtering, as well as option to display the handicap for only the tee box the player is assigned to.

Fixed

• Schedule Widget was not showing the course name or side when a schedule was blank.
• When adding a sub from the "Add a Sub", gender was defaulting to female with no option to change it

April 25 - Version 7.65

Added

• Added "paging" to the Historical Scores list rather than displaying all scores at once
• Made it a requirement to choose the player name in the Historical Scores section
• Added an Email Type to the email log so for future enhancements to the filtering of the log

April 21 - Version 7.64

Added

• New Setting: Points Low Gross Score in Group - Number of points a player will win if they have the lowest gross score in their foursome.

Fixed

• Link to order a schedule was broken

April 18 - Version 7.63

Added

• New Timezone setting. Set your league timezone so that the date/time for sub requests and e-mail log shows your local time. Default is Eastern Standard Time.

Changed

• Ability to "page" The email log results for leagues who have upgraded
• Updated

Fixed

• Fix for league dates on the home page widget. Not displaying correctly under certain circumstances
• Import player function. Error was caused when an entirely blank line was in the middle of the player list
• Enter scores wouldn't allow user to get past the "fun night" if the fun night was the first round in the season

March 29 - Version 7.62

Added

• New option: Send League News. When entering league news you can check this box and after saving, the league news you entered will be preset in the e-mail form.

March 26 - Version 7.61

Added

• Ability to log e-mails which are sent from the website
• New Setting: Allow Players to Send Emails. By default, regular players can send emails to the whole league. Turn this off if you want to disable that functionality
• New Setting: Hide Player Detail Infomation. Normallyer a player's phone and e-mail address are displayed in the player list. Turn this off if you want to hide that information from other players. League adminsitrators will still be able to view this information
• Added highlighting for a player in the Assign Player/Team numbers to show if a player has been moved off the regular player list. This will make it easier to identify why the setup is not complete in those instances.
• Added ability to change a player or team's League Group after scores have been entered for a particular round.

Changed

• For leagues who pull handicap from the GHIN, the ghin has an "active" status for a player. Golf League Tracker would not pull the hanicap if "Active" was FALSE for a player. Turned out that the status from the GHIN is not always accurate. Changed it so GLT ignores this flag and pulls the handicap value anyway.
• When entering players, it remembers the gender of the last player entered so the user doesn't have to keep choosing it.

Fixed

• Link from the "scorecards" section for players to the Live Leaderboard was not working properly.
• The handicap index "adjustment" for when a player has a handful of scores per the WHS rules was not being halved in two for 9 hole leagues.

March 12 - Version 7.60

Added

• Ability to choose a "World Handicap System - Official" setting for handicap which automatically takes the best 8 of 20 scores. If a player has fewer than 20 it uses the WHS table to determine how many to take.
• For leagues with multiple groups, you can now schedule 1 or more group at a time (previous you would do either 1 or "all")

Changed

For WHS official, changed the handicap display to reflect only those settings which apply.

Fixed

• Fixed the starting hole drop down for the back 9. When editing a saved tee time/starting hole, it wasn't preselected the saved value.
• Course Hanidcap wasn't displayed properly on scorecards when WHS-Official was handicap type

March 7th, 2020 - Version 7.59

Added

• Added more fields to both player and historical score import.
• For leagues who don't keep track of segment or season points, add a sort by "weekly points" to the league standings

Fixed

• Fixed a broken link from a help dialog box to one of the help documents
• Fixed import of floating point values from excel which would translate values such as 36.1 to 36.09999999999994.

Feburary 29, 2020 - Version 7.58

Added

• API for android app now returns HTML for the league news. The Android app was updated to display formatted HTML rather than plain text

Fixed

• Remove the ability to remove all round from the league's schedule. Number of round must be >=1 round
• Round numbers for position and fun nights were not being calculated properly when doing split tee time schedule
• When removing more than 1 round at a time, an error would occur under certain circumstances.
• Max Team Handicap for team totals was not being applied correctly when printing scorecards
• Require a group name to be entered when adding a league group, otherwise an error would occur
• "Review Scores" page was only display 9 holes for 18-hole leagues
• Average score in Stroke Play Results would cause an error if a player had no scores entered

February 23, 2020 - Version 7.57

Added

• Added Stableford point system for 5 under par

Changed

• Logic to determine whether courses are set up has been changed. If you have 1 or more men in your league (regulars or subs), each course must have a Male tee box. Conversely, if you have 1 or more women in your league, each course must have a Femal tee box.
• When adding a player, the system takes a "best guess" as to the default tee box for the player based on gender.

Fixed

• API for Android application updated to handle some internal changes

February 16, 2020 - Version 7.56

Added

• Player highlighting when editing a single round in the scheduler. Shows which players have already been selected
• Added an "average" column to the Season Stroke Play Results report
• Rearranged the score history edit screen to show the score near the top of the form, and to allow the ENTER key to save the score. This speeds up manual entry.
• New Setting: Max # of Strokes For Team Totals points. This only applies when the handicap method is to set to use the difference in the two team's handicaps
• New Loading Panel displayed any time navigation occurrs on the site. This is helpful for mobile devices and devices with slow internet connections

Changed

• Removed the forced page break on the print scorecard screen. This will allow the user to control how many scorecards to print per page, rather than having a maximum of two.

Fixed

• When adding a new course, the system allowed someone to enter a 9 hole course when the league was set up as an 18 hole league. This is now disallowed. If you play a 9 hole course twice, enter the course as an 18-hole course with the same information for the front and back 9.
• The Player Course Handicap report would have incorrect number of columns when generating a report with two tee boxes named the same for different genders.
• Prevented a league from making multiple copies of itself when copying from one season to the next.

Febrary 9, 2020 - Version 7.55

Added

• Added gender to the player set up. This is used when assigning tee boxes so that only the tee box which matches the gender is available to select. It also affects which tee box is automatically chosen for a new player so that the wrong gender tee box is not pre-selected.
• New League Mode: Handicap Only. For leagues who only want to track handicaps, a new mode has been created which changes the league's menu structure, eliminating those items which aren't needed or available.
• New Report: Course Handicap Player List. This report shows each player along with their handicap index, and a column for each tee box and course entered into the system with the calculated Playing Handicap for the player.
• New setting: "Handicap Index Decimals". Traditionally Golf League Tracker has rounded the player's handicap index to 2 decimals (note, the players playing handcicap is always a whole number). This setting allows you to choose between 0 and 3 decimal points for the calculation, in case you want to align with the USGA and World Handicap System of using 1 decimal point.

Fixed

• Calculation of league cost was incorrect when multiple leagues of 6 or more.

February 6, 2020 - Version 7.54

Added

• New setting: "Handicap Allowance Percentage". This percentage does NOT affect a player's calculated handicap index. Instead, it is applied at the time of the match to conform to the suggestions in the USGA Handicapping Manual Appendix C. For example, it is suggested that players get 90% of their Course Handicap when playing in a four-ball (2-player best ball) event.
• New free Tools for non-members to calculate a single player's handicap index based on the scores they enter.

Fixed

• Fixed an error which would occur if an administrator entered a really long tee box name
• Display value of a Course Handicap in the schedule was sometimes rounded incorrectly depending on the settings of the league. This did not affect the handicap used when entering the actual score, but only in displaying the schedule.

January 31, 2020 - Version 7.53

Added

• World Handicap Calculator - Simple online tool to calculate a player's Playing Handicap from their index using the rating, slope, and par of the tee box they will be playing.

Changed

• Stripped down required Javascript for pages which are public such as the home page and login page, for faster initial load.
• Other internal performance improvements

January 25, 2020 - Version 7.52

Added

• Color coding of tee box when assigning tee boxes to players. Using the color of the tee box selected.
• When assigning players a player or team number, highlight which player has been previously selected

Changed

• Changed how rounding of slope work for 18-hole leagues since the USGA seems to have standardized this with the new WHS. Example, if the slopes are 130 and 125 for front and back respectively, the average is 127.5, and rounded to 128.

Fixed

• Display of player handicap was not displayed properly when viewing schedule by player for all weeks. The handicap displayed would show the handicap of the last round in the schedule, rather than the calculated course handicap for each week.

January 18, 2020 - Version 7.51

Fixed

• Option to hide/show date in player payment dashboard widget

Changed

• Several internal changes to SEO related features on blogs and how-to info

Added

• The ability to change your league name in the "League Info" administration section

January 11, 2020 - Version 7.50

Added

• Added service worker process which translates into "You can add Golf League Tracker and install it as an App on your Phone".

Changed

• Hide GHIN # from regular players. The GHIN has changed their login to only require GHIN # and last name. Hopefully they change this, as it's a very unsecure way to do logins
• Updated the GHIN code to pull down the GHIN index to conform to the new GHIN site which went live on Jan 6.
• Redesign of the footer for mobile for better SEO

January 5, 2020 - Version 7.49

Added

• For live scoring, if more than 1 round was scheduled for the live scoring date, an option now appears for the player to select which round to use.
• When sorting league standings by group, then by some other metric, the "Position" column resets at the start of each group

Fixed

• An error occured when entering players, but where one or more courses didn't have a teebox defined. System was trying to assign the default tee box for the player but couldn't find one
• Error occurred when logging in with a Live Scoring date not existing, e.g. live scoring from the previous year was carried over to the new season.

January 1, 2020 - Version 7.48

Added

• Additional sort options for the league standings
• Settings for the default sort method for the league standings, in the "display settings" category.
• Interal optimizations/rewrite for point calculations. Necessary for live point calculations which I plan on doing

Changed

• Optimizations for the Individual Player Stat report
• Optimizations for the Team Stat report
• Optimizations for the point calculation reporting which will affect nearly all reports
• Converted Google Analytics library to use GA Tags.
• Added posted date to the Blog content

Fixed

• Fix to saving the proper player when editing a scorecard under certain circumstances
• Fix to the schedule on the League Standings. Not displaying effectively when at end of season and no more rounds are available
• Fix to Stableford Points for Triple Bogey. System was considering Triple Bogey as "other" rather than specific triple bogey points.
• Fixed opponent report and opponent average report. If a player was absent it was considering their score as "0" instead of ignore it.
• Handicap display was showing 0 for course rating and/or slope if rating/slope was not entered for an previous season. Up until 2018, a user could enter a tee box without rating/slope. This would only affect users whose handicap is calculated on really old scores (such as a sub which has only played a couple of times in the previous 3 or more years.

November 23, 2019 - Version 7.47

Added

• Add the ability to set custom tee times for specific rounds.

November 14, 2019 - Version 7.46

Added

• When signing up after September, give the user the ability to choose the next year for their official "season".

November 13, 2019 - Version 7.45

Added

• For league managers who manage more than 1 league, there's a new "My Leagues" section in the League Setup which shows each league the player manages, and allows easy switching between them. Also shows paid date and paid amount for each league.
• For league managers who manage more than 1 league, all leagues they manage will be copied to the new season automatically
• For league managers who manage more than 1 league, automatic league discount and payment ability to pay for all leagues at once.

Fixed

• Handicap update and creating of padding score would cause an error if the handicap percent was set to 0.
• Fixed season long score summary for net scores. It was displaying a negative score for a player who didn't have a score entered for a given week, essentially displaying their net score as 0 minus their handicap. It now displays a blank for those scores.
• Fixed broken links to the old handicap update page, updating to the new link

Changed

• Updated the Low Net Calculation routine for vastly improved performance

November 3, 2019 - Version 7.44

Added

• Remove the season drop down from the login page and replaced it with a "switch season" option under the menu. The advantage of this is that whatever your current page is remains the same when you switch the season

October 30, 2019 - Version 7.43

Added

• A user friendly interface for assigning the Equitable Stroke Control setting for your league

October 30, 2019 - Version 7.42

Added

• Added Differential Calculation type setting to choose between par, Pre 2020 (USGA) Method, or the new 2020 World Handicap System

Changed

• Refactored several SQL procedures to increase performance
• Rewrote the handicap calculation procedure to convert from old ASP to C# to greatly improvement performance

Fixed

• Fixed League Scoring Average report to show front/back columns properly when only 1 side is chosen
• Fixed League Scoring Summary report to show front/back columns properly when only 1 side is chosen
• Fixed Scoring Average By Year report to show front/back columns properly when only 1 side is chosen
• Fixed Individual Scoring Detail report to show front/back columns properly when only 1 side is chosen

October 12, 2019 - Version 7.40-7.41

Added

• Added new Handicap Calculation Type options for leagues who use USGA Handicaps (GHIN.com). You can automatically update player's handicaps from the GHIN website (Experimental!)

Fixed

• Issue pulling up standings when changing leagues
• Fixed the header for "Upcoming schedule" in the league standings when there is no upcoming schedule

Changed

• Converted Individual Scoring Sumary to a web api call to improve performance
• Converted Team Best Ball Stroke results to web api call to improve performance

September 28, 2019 - Version 7.39

Added

• Equitable Stroke Control option and logic of "Net Double Bogey" to conform to the World Handicap System coming in 2020
• Ability to Save a Player and Add Another to eliminate the number of clicks when setting up multiple players

Fixed

• Fixed bad link between scoring averages and individual average reports

September 21, 2019 - Version 7.37-7.38

Added

• New report for Teams - "Individual Season Long Point Detail". This report shows what points an individual won for each week, allowing you to take "best x" or "drop y" number of scores. This compliments the "Team Season Long Point Detail" report.
• "Round Type" for each round - Normal, Position, Fun Night.
• Balanced Tee Time Schedule Generation to try to get each player spread out among tee times equally rather than randomly
• Player/Team Name on the header when generating the schedule
• Improvement to the Live Leaderboard to show Front and Back scores for leagues who play split tee times

Changed

• Renamed and moved "Season Long Point Summary" to Standings to match the new report listed above. New name is "Individual Season Long Point Summary" and "Team Season Long Point Summary".
• When a player is changed on the scorecard when entering scores, confirm if the scores already entered for the player should be cleared
• Converted Scoring Average By Year Report to MVC/WebApi for better performance
• Converted Hole by Hole Scoring History to MVC/WebApi for better performance

Fixed

• When editing an already entered scorecard, if the player was changed on the card, the "old" player's handicap was sometimes not recalculated
• If editing the scores for the last round of the season, the user had to choose a different round from the drop down, and then select the last round in order for the screen to refresh properly
• Scheduling being generated for Purchase Schedule was sometimes corrupt if buffer didn't flush properly

August 24, 2019 - Version 7.36

Added

• Ability to "force" a date in your league dates which isn't on the standard rotation. If you play every 7 days, you can add a day which isn't one of those 7 days.
• New Setting - "Sub Request E-mail Message". You can set a custom message which is included on all sub request e-mails. Useful for things such as indicating to your subs whether there's a fee to play.
• Sticky Player Selection - In various reports, when a player is selected, that selected player is defaulted to for other reports with a player selection.
• Several code optimizations for better performance.

Fixed

• WLT Summary Standings not taking segment breaks into consideration

August 10, 2019 - Version 7.32-7.35

Added

• New Golf League Tracker Blog
• Internal performance improvements
• Content Management System to allow updating of content without an application update

July 27, 2019 - Version 7.31

Added

• New Report: Opponent scoring average. This is in conjunction wit hte Opponent History which is the detail of all opponents

Changed

• Changed the layout to the GLT news section so it's easier to read.

Fixed

• When a league uses split tee times, the skins summary was incorrect/blank for the 2nd round being displayed
• Recode of saving the state of a report, so that the sort order is retained. The previous method was not compatible with all devices.
• Handle error when user switches a contest type from player to team or vice versa, and no winners are added.

July 14, 2019 - Version 7.30

Fixed

• Fixed blank standing when switching sorting method between segment and season

June 22, 2019 - Version 7.29

Added

• New "add sub" functionality when entering scores

Fixed

• Date sorting in contest winners
• Date sorting for player payments
• League Standings refresh when sorting by Segment or Season Points

Changed

• Optimizations for WLT standings
• Continued optimization of League Standings page

June 15, 2019 - Version 7.28

Version 7.28 was rolled back after an issue was found. Changes for 7.29 were included in version 7.29

June 8, 2019 - Version 7.27

Added

• All standard tables with sorting now remember the last sort the user chose
• Added back in the Sub Request Confirmation requirement for leagues who have that set to Yes.

Changed

• Retrieve schedule data optimization to improve performance.

Fixed

• Fix to Individual Scoring Detail for "all years".
• Fix to League Group Manager when no teams are set up yet.
• Sorting in the Player Sub Request list by date was
• Fix to copying teammate when sub request is made
• Fix to Contest widget so that it's refreshed properly

May 25, 2019 - Version 7.26

Added

• Player image updates. Ability to rotate image which was uploaded for the player profile
• Sticky Group Filter option in the league standings
• Standings Widget to show optional Last Round points
• Warning to admin when entering a handicap of 0 for players.
• League Group interface so league can manage league groups themselves
• "Forgot League Id" e-mail functionality

Fixed

• Error when editing and resaving scorecard under certain circumstances
• Position for Best Ball Stroke Play fixed when subs are included

May 11, 2019 - Version 7.25

Added

• Added subs as an option to the League Score Summary
• Added subs as an option to the Round Summary Widget
• Added YTD Skins for Contest Widget

Fixed

• Player skin count in the skin summary in the league standings was being calculated incorrectly
• Total points were not including the TeamMatch totals setting in the Detailed Points Scoresheet. Points were being recorded correctly when doing "Record Points"

May 4, 2019 - Version 7.24

Added

• Added a link to the live leaderboard for desktop users when league is currently in live scoring mode
• Behind the scenes task running to calculate skins and low net at 3am if the user made changes to their league but never pulled up a page which would trigger a calculation. This will speed up rendering of pages by executing high volume tasks in the off hours.

Fixed

• Skin contestant count on league standgs calculated incorrectly under certain circumstances
• Fixed player list when player score entry was refreshed by the browser while entering scores.
• Round summary widget was not being refreshed when scores were deleted

Change

• Rewrite of Calculate Skins routine to improve performance
• Handle invalid contest entry data gracefully

April 28, 2019 - Version 7.23

Added

• New options for contest widget
• New options for the standings widget
• More robust message when entering a duplicate player name
• Skins type in the league standings in the skins summary (net or gross)

Changed

• New styling for live scoring screen to better fit on smaller screens
• Hard coded the background color of the points entry in Record Points so it's the same with all themes

Fixed

• League standings were not showing skins for both front/back rounds for leagues with split tee times
• Table headers were overlapping their content on successive pages when printing
• Schedule widget wasn't updating date after using the Rainout Function
• Exception when generating schedule under certain group/team number combinations
• Contest widget for skins was ignore the "most recent number of rounds" setting
• Error occurred when someone tried to change a setting to a blank value
• Layout of the team player assignments was messed up on some older browsers
• SQL Deadlock issues under certain cirumstances when players were logging in

April 21, 2019 - Version 7.22

Added

• The ability to hide flight designations for 2-player teams when printing scorecards
• Additional help documentation
• Equitable Stroke Control Settings for "Double Par minus 1". e.g. 5 for par 3, 7 for par 4, 8 for par 5

Fixed

• Individual Scoring Summary report wouldn't let you pull up "all" years
• Increased performance of Individual Scoring Summary report
• Removed extra "Sent From Golf League Tracker" footer when sending e-mails
• Schedule for individual players would show incorrect sub when selecting All Dates
• Allow filtering of Historical Scores by sub name
• Cart Signs were doing a page break after the first item rather than the second

Changed

• When running auto scheduler mid-season, the scheduler now looks at the team lineup for the first round selected when scheduling, rather than looking at round #1.

April 14, 2019 - Version 7.21

Added

• Enhancements to the Player Payments
• Created specific YouTube links for a variety of administrative functions

Fixed

• Widget settings not being saved if widgets were dragged and deleted in a specific order when creating layout
• For live scoring the "start hole" would not update property when the round # or player was changed for split tee time leagues
• Division count was incorrect for API call from Anroid application
• Feet/Inches contest winner data entry

March 24, 2019 - Version 7.20

Added

• Keep track of player payments for league dues
• Automatic "forgot password" functionality for league administrators
• Added highlight of a skin in the Season Long Player Best Ball Report

Fixed

• Fixed issue with league dates not refreshing after adding or removing a round
• Fixed issue when retriving scores in certain situations for various reports
• Fixed an issue where the dashboard settings would revert to default values upon editing the dashboard a 2nd time

March 19, 2019 - Version 7.19

Added

• Schedule Widget - New options for display: show course, show side, and hide empty tee times
• Gave ability of administrato to switch between regular date management and "custom dates". Custom dates allows a user to pick specific dates for each round, rather than a starting date and a regular interval.
• Internal maintenance functionality to support my leagues more effectively

Changed

• Schedule now only shows tee times which have groups assigned.

March 13, 2019 - Version 7.18

Added

• Ability to import players and historical scors from Excel or a CSV file
• Upgraded text editor to allow creating of tables in your text for rules or news

Changed

• Updated the styles of the administration site to a more modern look and feel.

March 2, 2019 - Version 7.17

Added

• Best Ball Stroke play points for position finished
• Upgraded text editor to more closely match the font size and styles for league news and rules

Fixed

• Issue when trying to send me e-mail from "contact us" form if the user's email was preceded with a space
• Fixed login when user is copying league to new season. If user was admin, it would mistakenly forward the user to the "player" version.

Febrary 26, 2019 - Version 7.16

Added

• Redesign of home page to more modern look and font
• Golf League Tracker "tips" section
• Added points settings for team totals front and back 9

Changed

• Cleanup of reports for consistency
• Rewrite of export for reports to allow exporting on all but the Detailed Point Scoresheet and moved the export function to the upper right of each report under a hamburger menu

Fixed

• Fix to net score point calculation for 18 hole leagues for front and back 9 net score

January 17, 2019 - Version 7.15

Added

• Home page layout designer and widgets
• Handicap history report
• Live scoring to allow starting hole to be chosen
• Setting for taking the best "N" number of rounds when calculating points in the league standings

Fixed

• Fix to individual player scorecard printing when only 2 players are scheduled in a group