What's New in Cricket Statz 8?

Cricket Statz 8 is an exciting major release from Red Axe. V8 offers many new features including all new reports and much more! See below for details.

Important Notes:
This edition will be able to read all data entered from previous editions. Due to the addition of many new fields in the database, CSD files saved in this version are not backward compatible, ie. Cricket Statz V3, V4, 2005, 2007, 2009 users will be unable to load CSD files saved by this release. Up to 60% discount is available to existing customers.

New Features in Cricket Statz 8 (July 2010) - Major Release

All New Reports - Added a Players by First Match, Most Time at the Crease in an Innings and Most Balls Faced in an Innings reports.

New Report Filters - A "finals" filter has been added to allow all report data to be filtered for finals matches.

Improved Match Entry - You can tag matches a "finals", you can nominate the toss winner as "unknown", you can set match win by results manually and you can now enter "unknown" as a fielder name. Additionally, the fielding events name list can now be filtered by active, all and global.

New HTML reporting and style sheets - Reports have been refreshed to be HTML 4.01-strict compliant. We are using style sheets to reduce the size of the report files. A custom CSS can be linked into the reports giving you complete control over the look at feel and providing better fit with existing web sites (advanced function).

Other Additions - A T20 match type has been added, report table headings will now show on each page when printing big tables across pages. More historical data will now show in selected season fielding reports.

New Features in 2009 (August 2008) - Major Release

New Reports - Added a Most 4's, Most 6's and Most Boundaries in a Season reports. Added a combined 4's and 6's into a Most Boundaries in an Innings report. Added keeper dismissals per innings and season reports.

New Report Filters - A "by round" filter has been added to allow all report data to be filtered by round. A "by team" filter has been added to allow web page generation to be limited to a single team.

Improved Match Entry - Improved the FOW checking to ensure all later FOW's are greater than or equal to the previous. Added bonus points to Fielding Events to allow for custom individual bonus points to be assigned on a match by match basis. Increased the match comment field size by 60 characters. Match order on the match select screen will now be remembered when you change the default sort order. Text fields are now auto-selected when they get focus on scorecards to allow for faster data entry. A URL can now be added to matches to link an external match report.

New HTML reporting and printing - A Direct print facility has been added to the report screen. Reports are now shown as HTML (colour) reports from within the application.

Report Enhancments - The Player Name column width in reports has been increased by 1 character to show the full report name of players. Added 4's and 6's to the Complete Summary report. Multigrade reports now list all of the grades in the title. Added 50's and 100's to season batting reports. Added overs, maidens, runs, 5WI, 10WM, BBowl and Econ to most wickets in a season report.

More Report Enhancments - The match draw/results report now lists matches in chronological order. Wides and Noballs have been added to the Top Wicket Takers report. Stumpings has been added to the Top Run Aggregates report. Implemented true alphabetical sorting of the Complete Summary report.

Interface improvements - Increased the ground name field size from 24 to 30 characters. Increased the grade name field size from 24 to 30 characters. Increased the club name field size from 24 to 30 characters. Increased the team name field size from 16 to 24 characters. Help file updated to be more Vista compliant.

New Features in 2007 (September 2006) - Major Release

New Reports - Keepers rejoice! Several new reports have been added including a Most Catches by a Keeper in an Innings, Most Catches by a Keeper in a Match, Most Catches in a Season by Keeper & Most 4's in an Innings.

Windows Vista Support - Cricket Statz 2007 has full Windows Vista support.

Player Merge facility (CS Pro only) - A new facility has been added that allows player records to be merged. For example, if you have two players records for the same player then you can merge them across the database into a single record.

Multi-grade selection - You can now select multiple grades when running reports. This is particularly useful if you wish to include/exclude results from practise games or combine limited overs results with 2 innings results.

Report Enhancments - The individual report now includes a breakdown across grade/ground/team/batting pos. The first match/debut match results are also shown. Byes have been added to the Wicket Keeping report. HTML pages are now left justified rather than centre justified and minor formatting improvements have been added.

Interface improvements - We have added a scorecard warning if balls faced exceeds balls bowled. A player's batting position is shown in the FOW drop down list for quicker data entry. A grade column has been added to the match list for additional sorting. Blank player names are now allowed in the FOW entry and will be shown as a "?" on the partnership reports. Select All/Unselect All has been added to the player selection page. Recent database file names have been extended from 2 to 4 entries.