Team Sports Scheduling System
Release Date: 9/1/2010
Version: 5.1.7
Thank you for installing the Team Sports Scheduling System v5! This document contains information regarding the capabilities and current state of the program when this version was shipped. Please read this document before using the Team Sports Scheduling System.
What Is It
System Requirements
Installation
Features
History of Changes
Known Issues
How To Submit a Bug
Uninstalling
Contacting Galactix Software
Feature Requests
The Team Sports Scheduling System (TSSS) is a powerful program that helps you quickly create schedules for your sports league. All you have to do is enter your league, team, and field information, select the available times to play, and TSSS will take care of the rest. TSSS can handle as many teams and fields you have, multi-division leagues, cross division games, and much more. You have an unlimited amount of freedom selecting available times for fields, leagues, teams and officials. Plus, you can generate round-robin, practice, official, and tournament schedules for all your sports leagues. The Team Sports Scheduling System is a complete league scheduling solution.
Minimum Configuration:
Recommended Configuration:
To install the Team Sports Scheduling System, download the self-extracting, self-installing file from our web site at http://www.galactix.com/download.htm . Save the file to your download directory (or wherever you want), and double-click the tsssetup.exe file. Follow the directions on screen to install the software.
If you would like to receive e-mail updates when new versions or modules of the Team Sports Scheduling System become available, you can fill out the form on our web site at http://www.galactix.com/, or send a message to tsssupdates@galactix.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject. You don't need to join the e-mail list to find out if a new version is available - the Team Sports Scheduling System has a version checking feature built into it. To see if you have the latest version, select the 'Check Version' option on the Register menu or visit the update web page at http://www.galactix.com/tsss/update.htm.
There are many new features in this version of the Team Sports Scheduling System. Some of the most requested feature additions are listed below.
New to TSSS v5
- Drag & Drop game rescheduling
- Shift Game Times
- Group multiple fields together for double-header scheduling
- Schedule Summary report shows field and time usage plus other helpful information
- Added a new command line program to generate the website and run custom reports (much faster than the old method, and doesn't interfere with your antivirus software
- Export data in multiple formats by right-clicking in the grids
- Tabbed interface to easily show which files are currently open
- Max time between double-header games scheduling constraint
Other Improved Features
- New and improved practice scheduling algorithm (light-years better than the previous version)
- Multiple practices can now be scheduled at the same field at the same time
- Fields are no longer required for scheduling (great for fantasy type sports leagues)
- Official scheduling improvements like balancing use throughout the season and preventing officials from working at certain fields
- Improved standings and forfeit support, and added ability to ignore certain games from standings calculations
- Tournament scheduling improvements like forcing lower seeded teams to be the home team during the first round, and crossing over double-elimination loser brackets so teams are less likely to play the same teams in a later round
- Tons of customizable constraint checks have been added to quickly show any potential problem areas in the schedule
- Start time and availability exceptions can be added to teams and fields that inherit from another team/field
- Lots of UI enhancements including new project wizard, list sorting, better start time data entry, and easier data import
- Much, much more!
Please see the HISTORY.TXT file for a list of changes from version to version.
The following issues may affect some users of this program so please read on to see if they pertain to you. If you discover a bug or problem during the course of using this program, please let us know about it. See the How To Submit a Bug section below..
Have you found a bug? We would love to hear about it. The bug report form can be found at http://www.galacitx.com/bugreport.htm .
To uninstall the Team Sports Scheduling System, open up the Control Panel, open Add/Remove Programs, select the entry for the Team Sports Scheduling System and click the Change/Remove button. Follow the prompts to uninstall the program. Make sure TSSS isn't running before trying to uninstall.
If you have a question about the program, please refer to the help file or tutorial. Also, somebody else may have already asked your question. You can check out the Frequently Asked Questions page for this product at http://www.galactix.com/tsss/faq.htm If neither of those resources answered your question, you can contact us using the following methods.
Forum: http://forum.galactixsoftware.com
E-mail: support@galactix.com
WWW: http://www.galactix.com/support.htm
FAX: (425) 605-2136
Tel: (425) 605-0684
Would you like to see a feature added to the Team Sports Scheduling System? If so, please let us hear about it! It is our goal to have the best sports scheduling software solution available on the planet. So, if you have anything you would like to see added, changed, or deleted from the program, send your input to feedback@galactix.com.