1 INTRODUCTION

1.1	Programs
1.1.1	Team Manager Programs
1.2	Main Features
1.2.1	What The Programs Will Not Do
1.3	How Should the Program Be Used
1.4	Points Conventions
1.5	Non Occurring Events

1.1Programs

This manual documents a range of software programs to produce results for athletic meetings in the U.K. The program name effectivly identifies the age, gender and league of the athletes it deals with. All programs deal with between 3 and 8 teams per match for a maximum of six rounds during one season plus promotion and final matches. The main aim of all programs is to provide a full set of printed match results as quickly as possible after the completion of the last event. The process to do this removes the last minute rush by recorders and allows match results to be produced in a consistent manner regardless of the number of teams or league.

Junior Athletes (JA) is intended for use in the National Junior League where male and female athletes compete in one team in up to 34 A/B-string events and 4 relays.

Senior Athletes (SANOE, SAMID, SASAL, SAWEL) is intended for use in the NoE, Midland, Southern and Welsh senior leagues in the U.K. where senior male and female athletes compete in one team in up to 34 A/B-string events and 4 relays.

Senior Women (SWUK, SWSWL) is intended for use in the UKWAL and Southern Womens League where teams compete in up to 18 A/B-string events and two relays.

Senior Men (SMBAL, SMSCO, SMSOE) are intended for use in the BAL, Scottish mens league and Southern mens league where teams compete in up to 18 A/B-string events and two relays.

Knockout Athletes (KABAL, KANOE) is intended for use at BAL and NoE Cup and Plate competitions when senior men and womens compete in a single string knockout competition, having up to 36 individual events and four relays.

Knockout Men and Knockout Women (KMBAL, KWBAL) is intended for use at BAL Cup and Plate competitions when senior men and womens compete in a single string knockout competition where there are upto 10 individual events and a relay.

Young Athletes (YAENG, YASCO) is intended to cover the English and Scottish Young Athlete League where male and female athletes compete in one team in three age groups in up to 73 A/B-string events and 9 relays.

Regional Women (RWSCO, RWSOE) is intended for use in the Scottish Womens league and the Southern Womens League for multiple age groups each having up to 44 A/B-string events and five relays.

1.1.1Team Manager Programs

Each program identified has an equivelant team manager program. The team manager program name is the same as the match day program with "mgr" added to the end of the program name.

See: 8.1.8., 8.1.9, Appendix F

1.2Main Features

Consistent format of final and guest results.
Full match scoring sheets.
Automatic printing of event results immediately after entry.
Automatic printing of updated of match positions.
Automatic printing of announcers draw order lists.
Automatic on screen indication of an event that is due to start.
Automatic retrieval of match information after a power failure.
Automatic selection of points.
Automatic selection of timetable(s).
Results file generation for use with E-mail and word-processing.
League and cup dependant timetables.
Round by round event draw orders.
Configurable media standards.
Large division support (9/16/25 teams).
Full team declarations lists.
Result cards for post match scrutiny.
Dual and triple match support.
Promotion matches options.
Recalling of any meeting at a later date.
On line help.

1.2.1What The Programs Will Not Do

The Program will not do the following:

Support new or changes to league and/or division names and structures.
Support large divisions of other than 9, 16 or 25 team, (i.e. 3, 4 or 5 teams / match).
Support events other than the standard number of events.
Automatically detect new records.

1.3How And Who Should Use The Program

All programs are intended to be operated by one person for one or more matches at a venue on one computer. In all cases each match is regarded as separate in terms of points scoring.

Where a venue has more than one match, it may be easier to have one person deal with each match on seperate computers.

Where the number of teams at a venue is large or there are a large number of age groups, it may be worth while having a second person using the team manager program to create team declarations which can then imported into the match program. Alternatively, the team managers themselves might help this process and email the declaration before the match.

1.4Points Conventions

Points awarded to athletes for actual event places are called event points, the exceptions being:

The Northern of England League Womens 1500m Steeplechase A&B string (2009).
The Southern Womens League the U17 300MH B string.

Points awarded to a team in addition (or subtraction from) event points are called "non-event points," typically for officials, are treated the same as event points in any event points calculation.

Points awarded to a team for its match placing based on event total points (including addition and subtraction of non event points) after the completion of any number of events are called league points.

All programs score teams on league points throughout the season, the exceptions being:

All cup/plate/knockout programs.
Southern Womens League.

1.5Non Occurring Events

In order the programs to deal with all events it is intended to, events that do not occur in some leagues still appear on event menu. These events and are treated the same as events that do occur. To prevent any of the programs treating a non occurring event as if it was occurring, the current match timetable should beset to 9.00am for the non occurring event(s). The non occurring events do not change the number of result pages printed.

Some league change an event depending on the round, eg 5000M in round 1 becomes 3000M in round 2. Such changes are automatically made when the round is selected. However the standards lists are not modified accordingly. The result of this is that all performances are likely to better the related standards and will therefore be printed or not as the case may be.