Golf League Scoring - Software Product Description

League Scoring

The League Scoring software program is downloaded from the home page of this web site to the league manager's computer. The manager enters the league rules and players' scores into the computer. After previewing the results on screen, the manager clicks on File / Post to Internet from within the program and the scores are available to everyone when they access the LeagueScoring.com web site.

The program may be used for free if the handicaps and points are manually computed and entered into the program.

Payment of the license fee of $20 for six months, or $35 for a year, per league (not per player), enables the automatic calculation of handicaps and points. Mailing information for the license fee and your league's unique ID number is available from File / Post to Internet from within the League Scoring software program. To get there, dowload the program, enter at least one test player and one round and then click on the post to the internet function. After you have defined your league in this way, the program can generate a unique ID number for you to write on the license fee check. This test data can be changed to an actual player and round when league play starts.

After payment is received, the league is flagged as paid and the next time the league is posted to the internet the calculations for handicaps and points are enabled.

This program will reduce the time spent by league managers in computing handicaps, determining final results and answering phone calls from league members. All league members can view the posted results on LeagueScoring.com instead of calling the league manager.

FAQ's

Question: How do I get the program to run? Answer: The program must be saved to your computer, then run the program. To run the program, go to Windows Explorer or My Computer and find LeagueScoring.exe, then double click on it.

Question: How do I enter a player's name? Answer: After the league name is entered in Setup, go to Edit / Player's Scores and click on the New Player button. If you need to change a player's name, click on the player's name field and then opposite click the mouse.

Question: How do I enter the player's scores? Answer: Before any scores can be entered, a course must be established. Click on the New Round button found in Edit / Player's Scores.

Question: Why is the Send button to post results to the internet, greyed out? Answer: At least 1 player's score must be entered to produce results which can then be posted.

Question: When I go to the Setup screen my league name is gone. Why? Answer: Use the drop down arrow to the right of the league name field to view and select from leagues previously entered.

Question: Can I post the league results to my web site instead of LeagueScoring.com? Answer: Yes. By adding a link to your site that starts with, "www.LeagueScoring.com/Results/" followed by your league ID number, the user will be able to access the league results from your web site.
For an example of what your players will see, click this link > League Results

Problem: When I post to the internet the blue bar goes across and it says done, but my league results do not appear on LeagueScoring.com. Solution: When sending from a network environment, the network administrator may have turned off certain rights or the configuration in your Tools / Internet options / Connections / LAN Settings are not correct. To check if this is the problem, post to the internet from a computer in a non-network environment.

Question: Why do I get "Unable to connect." when I post to the internet? Answer: Go to your Internet Explorer / Options / Security / Trusted Sites and add www.LeagueScoring.com. Firewalls could also be stopping League Scoring from FTP'ing. Wireless networks need to be set to allow other network users to connect. Go to Wireless Connection Properties / Advanced / Internet Connection Sharing / and check the box for Allow other network users to connect thruough this computer's internet connection.

Question: How soon after I post will the league results become viewable on LeagueScoring.com? Answer: The first time you post it takes 24 hours to view the results. Every subsequent post will be instantly available for viewing.

Question: Why don't the handicaps and points compute? Answer: These calculations are enabled after the license fee is paid and your computer sees the paid flag. You need to post results to the internet 1 time after the paid flag is established. When using PayPal, you must send an email to info@LeagueScoring.com indicating your league ID number so that we know which league to mark as paid. The ID number displays at the bottom of the program screen.

Question: Why don't the handicaps compute correctly? Answer: The handicap may have been overriden on the Edit / Players Scores screen. Overridden fields are displayed in red. Place the curser on the Handicap field and right click the mouse. Uncheck Override.

Question: For leagues that play 9 holes, should the entry for par be the 9 hole par or the 18? Answer: In this case you would enter the 9 hole par. If the 9's have different pars, enter them as 2 different courses.

Question: How do I get a printout of the league results? Answer: There is a print function from within the File / Preview screen.

Question: Seven Golf files appear on my desktop. How do I get rid of them? Answer: These files are created by the League Scoring program when a league is created. Use Windows Explorer to cut and paste these files along with the LeagueScoring.exe file to a different folder.

Question: Our league computes points hole by hole. How do I enter results per hole? Answer: The hole scores and points are entered and totaled on the score card. The total points earned for the round are then entered into the League Scoring program in the Edit / Players Scores screen. The per hole scores are not needed by the program for the computation of a player's handicap and leaving the hole by hole data on the score card, reduces the data entry time required in producing league results.

Question: Our league has different divisions. How do I set this up? Answer: Enter each division as a different league. Indicate the league name and the division in the Setup / League Name. This does not increase your license fee of $35.

Question: How are past rounds updated? Does changing Setup effect past rounds? Answer: The program computes all rounds when it calculates. Therefore you may make changes to the past round scores and they will generate new results for the past rounds. This also means that any change in the Setup screen will effect past results. Any round may be posted to the internet but only one round can reside on the internet at any given time.

Question: Our league has a first and second halve split to the season. How are total points reset? Answer: Each time the program encounters Round 1, it resets total points to zero. Handicaps are never reset to zero except for a player's first round.

Question: Why doesn't League Scoring compute a USGA handicap? Answer: On March 12, 2000, the software industry was notified by the USGA that it had officially decided "...not to grant any new licenses for the use of its Handicap System Formula in products designed to allow individuals to monitor their USGA Handicap Indexes. Accordingly, the Handicap Department has determined that permitting its Formulas to be used for monitoring purposes has not helped to promote a clear understanding about the USGA Handicap System, and in fact may have caused confusion amongst the public as to how to obtain an official USGA Handicap Index." Press Release - USGA wins in court.