The new season is right around the corner! Stat Manager gives you a couple different
ways to handle a new season. The way you
handle the new season depends on how much your team has changed and whether you
would like to handle season-to-season or career stats.
Create New Game Type
The first way to handle a new season is to create a new game
type. The best case for using this
strategy is if your team has little turnover or if you would like to keep
career stats for your players. For example,
if you coach a travel team that keeps the same players year after year or you
play year-round with the same players. Creating
a new game type allows you to filter by season, or choose to not use the filter
and track career stats. To create a new
game type, open the Game Types window and add a new game type for the new
season. You can use multiple game types
per season if preferred.
Copy Current File
The second way to handle a new season is to copy your
current team file and modify the new file.
This strategy should be used if you want to keep career stats, but also
want to separate the older stats. This
strategy can also be used if you have some turnover on your team and would like
to keep the old team’s stats together, but also want to track career stats for
players on your team. For example, if
you are getting ready to coach your second year in a 11-12 year-old league –
half of your team will be new, but the other half is not. This strategy will allow you to track 2 years
of stats for your returning players but not have a file full of players no
longer on your team – those players can always be looked up using the older
file.
To apply this strategy, you will need to copy your team
file. To do this, open the file and go
to File>Save As on the menu. Save the
file with a new file name. You can now
modify the new file. If you want to
remove players who are no longer on the team, you can delete them from the
Players window. Or if you want to keep
your player information, but don’t want to keep the stats, you can delete the
game data which will also delete the stats associated with the game.
Create New File
The third way to handle a new season is to create a new team
file. This strategy is best for if your
team is completely different from the previous year with no player
overlap. For example, you recently
switched from coaching from one league to another. To do this, go to File>New on the menu to
create a new team file.