The documentation for the main program is at http://www.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/sqbs3doc.htm. I recommend reading the documentation for the main program first and then reading this tutorial.
This tutorial covers the differences in the program for Bible Quizzing.
To start a tournament and type in rosters, launch the program and select New Tournament from the File menu. The Tournament Options Dialog Box will appear.For Nazarene Bible Quizzing
For World Bible Quizzing
I recommend against tracking tossups heard or tracking fouls. If your tournament will have division, select "Use Divisions".
I recommend automatic entry.
After selecting the tournament options, the Roster Entry Form and the Game Entry Form appear.
On the Roster Entry Form, enter team and player names, using the Previous and Next buttons to move between teams. Enter the team’s name in the top edit box. If you are using divisions, select the division in which the team is playing from the Division Drop-Down Box. Enter each player's name on a separate line in the memo box. There is no limit to the number of players on a team, or to the number of teams. You may go back to edit or add names at any time. Even after you have begun entering games, you may go back and edit player or team names (such as making replacements or misspelling corrections), or add players or teams.
However, do not delete any team or players once you have begun entering games. Teams or players with no games played will not appear in any reports, so there is no need to delete them. Deleting players or teams after games have been entered WILL cause the reports to be wrong (though you can correct this by going through all previously entered games again and making needed corrections). It is however okay to delete teams or players before beginning to enter games.
The game entry form is designed for three-team matches. For two team games, use
the leftmost two columns on the Game Entry Form; don't select a team in the rightmost combo box.
Choosing the teams. After entering the rosters, you may begin entering games in the Game
Entry Form. Most of the form should be self-explanatory. For each game, select the teams from the
drop-down menus, which include all team names from the rosters you entered. If you entered the rosters
in some random order, but would like for the team names to appear alphabetically in the drop-down menus
so that they are easier to find, you may choose Sort Teams from the Ordering Menu and click OK when the
confirmation box appears. The Game Entry Form will return to the first game, so you may need to
navigate back (using Next or Go To) to get back to where you had been (see Managing Games Help Section
below).
Choosing the players. As you select a team name, the names of its players automatically
appear on the form in drop-down boxes. If there are fewer than eight players on a team, only as
many rows will appear as there are number of players. By default, the first player on the roster is
automatically selected in the first row, the second player in the second row, and so on. Also by
default, the number of games played is set to one for the first five players (or for all players if
there are fewer than five players on the roster) and to zero for any additional rows. Thus, in the
common case that a team has only five or fewer players (all of whom are playing), or the first five
players on the roster play (with no substitutions), you do not need to edit the player name drop-down
boxes or games played boxes at all. Otherwise, you can change the drop-down selections and the games
played boxes in any way you want so that all players who played in the game are selected on some row,
and their respective stats, including games played, are entered on the row in which their name is
selected, just as you would obviously expect.
Substitutions and games played stats. In Bible Quizzing, the 5 quizzers are credited for a full
game.
Entering individual stats.
Bonus stats. With Automatic Bonus Statistics, these values are calculated automatically and
will not be displayed until you tab onto the Previous/Next buttons on the game form, or you revisit the
game later. They are always calculated and stored internally whenever a game is entered (by clicking
Next, Previous, or Go To). Bonus points equals total team score minus all individual scores.
Entering round numbers and game ids. You may enter a round number (a positive integer)
in the box labeled "Rnd". If you do, and if you check the Round Reports Checkbox in the Reports Tab
of the Settings Dialog Box (choose Reports from the Settings Menu), the full web report will include
a page with cumulative stats about each round (see “Reports” Help Section). By default, the games are
given sequential numerical id's, but you may enter any other alphanumeric identification system you want
in the box labeled "Id", such as "R1G3" for Round 1 Game 3.
Entering games. A game is officially entered into the database when and only when its form is completed, by clicking (or tabbing to and pressing Enter) either the Next, Previous, or Go To Buttons. Thus, reports may not include the last game you entered unless you have officially entered it by clicking one of these buttons.
Settings>Standings allow you to switch between the two options. The default
options are based on Modified Olympic Points: Deselecting "Use bonus points" allows for standard Olympic Scoring -
First place: 10 points, 2nd Place: 5 points, 3rd Place: 1 Point You can also change the values for your tournament.
For Nazarenes:
For WBQA:
Point values are automatically calculated from the number and values of the questions answered.
For example, if a player got two tossups correct questions and one error, enter 2 in the 20s column
and 1 in the 0 (-10 for WBQA) column for this player, and 40 will automatically appear in the total
points. You cannot edit the point total, as it is calculated automatically.
Managing and Editing Games
Editing, deleting, and navigating through games.
After entering a game, click the Next Button to go to the next game, and enter it in the same way.
You may use the Next and Previous Buttons to navigate through previously entered games and make changes
at any time. Remember that changes to a game you are editing will not be reflected in reports until you
have re-entered that game, by clicking Next or Previous or Go To. You may at any time "jump" to a
specific game by entering its id number in the box next to the Go To button, and then clicking this
button. (It is not a good idea to have two games with the same id; however, this is not enforced, so if
it occurs "jumping" to the id will take to the first-entered game with that id.) Any changes made to
the rosters while entering games will be reflected in the Game Entry Form the next time you enter a game
(by pressing Previous or Next). To delete a game, navigate to that game and press the Delete button,
and click OK on the confirmation dialog box that appears.
Grouping games by round.
If you have entered round numbers for the games in the box labeled "Rnd" (see “Entering Games” Help Section), you can sort games by round. For example, if you forgot to enter one scoresheet from a round until after having entered other rounds, but would like all the games from each round to appear together on the Scoreboard Report and as you scroll through the Game Entry Form, you can select Group Rounds from the Ordering Menu and click OK in the confirmation box that appears. The Game Entry Form will return to the first game, so you may need to navigate back (using Next or Go To) to get back to where you had been.
Sorting games by id.
Likewise, you can sort games by game id (see “Entering Games” Help Section). Select Sort Games from the Ordering Menu and click OK in the confirmation box that appears. The Game Entry Form will return to the first game, so you may need to navigate back (using Next or Go To) to get back to where you had been.
Tracking Standings
Generating Reports
At any time during the tournament, you may generate up-to-date reports.
Creating the Reports.
The Full Web Report will automatically create a complete set of fully formatted, interlinked HTML
documents for the tournament. You can view such a sample set of web pages generated by the program
by clicking here. If you select Full Web
Report from the Reports Menu (or click the Full Report Speed Button on the taskbar), a standard Windows
Save As dialog box appears. Select (or create) the folder in which you want to save the pages, and type
a name for them (such as "aggiebowl" or "round1"). If you have entered round numbers for the games in
the Game Entry Form, you may also select which rounds to include in the report (such as just preliminary
rounds or just playoff rounds) under the General Tab of the Settings Dialog Box (accessed from the
Settings Menu).
Types of Reports.
Up to seven web pages will then be created, each named with the base name you entered and the type of report it is. For example, if you entered "example" in the Save As dialog box, pages may be generated for team standings (example_standings.html), individual standings (example_individuals.html), a scoreboard (example_games.html), team details including each team's game-by-game results and player stats (example_teamdetail.html), individual details including each player's game-by-game stats (example_playerdetail.html), round reports including cumulative stats about each round for comparing the difficulty level of different packets (example_rounds.html), and a key explaining all of the statistics (example_statkey.html).
Customizing the Reports.
You may select exactly which pages will be included in your report by checking or unchecking the checkboxes in the Reports Tab of the Settings Dialog Box (accessed from the Settings Menu). Each page has a link to each other page at the top, and team and player names are linked to their expanded statistics in the team detail and individual detail pages (if included in your report). If you have entered a tournament name under the General Tab of the Settings Dialog Box (accessed from the Settings Menu), this name will appear in the title of each page. You may also provide your own names for each web page using the edit boxes on the Reports Tab of the Settings Dialog Box.
Report Descriptions.
If the Divisions Option is selected, a separate standings table for each division appears in the Team Standings Report. Most statistics on the pages should be easily understood by anyone in quiz bowl (and are further explained in the Stat Key Web Page, if included). The Scoreboard includes miniature boxscores for each game. If the Round Reports option is selected (accessed in the Reports Tab of the Settings Dialog Box), the Scoreboard will note the rounds. Thus, if you did not enter all games from a round consecutively, you might want to use the Group Rounds Feature before generating the report (see “Managing and Editing Games” Help Section). The score is on the first line in larger font, the players are listed on the second and third lines, along with the number of each type of question they answered and their point total for the game, and (if applicable) lightning round and/or bonus stats (bonuses heard, bonus points, points per bonus) for both teams are on the final line. The Rounds Report includes the average number of points scored per team, the average number of toss-up points scored per toss-up heard (if applicable), and the average number of points scored per bonus (if applicable)
QuickPrint Reports
Although of course the web pages can be printed, the other three reports available in the Reports Menu provide the ability to immediate view and print team standings, individual standings, and a scoreboard directly from the program. If QuickPrint Teams, QuickPrint Individual, or QuickPrint Games is selected from the Reports Menu, the respective fully-formatted report will appear in a pop-up window. If the Divisions Option is selected, a separate standings table for each division appears in the QuickPrint Teams Report. The report may be directly printed from this window by clicking the Print button. You may change the page orientation by choosing Page Setup from the File menu (the standard Windows Print Setup Dialog Box will appear), and you may change the font size by using the box above the Print Button in the printable window. The report is in an editable text box, so you can add comments or make changes directly to the report before printing. This window will disappear when you click the close button or the minimize button, but a new printable pop-up window will appear every time you select one of these reports.
Saving and Opening Files
You may save the tournament at any time, using different names for different back-up versions or just overwriting the same file. Saving and opening tournaments is done from the File Menu and uses standard Windows dialog boxes. Each time you save the file, two copies are written – one with the name you specified, and a backup with the name you specified followed by "_sqbsbu".
Forms
After beginning or opening a tournament, there will always be exactly one copy of the Roster Entry Form, one copy of the Games Entry Form, and (if applicable) one copy of the Division Entry Form open. Thus, the close box for these forms actually minimizes rather than closes the windows, so that you don't needlessly close and recreate these forms while the program is open. This prevents accidental data loss. The only way to actually close them is to choose Close All from the File menu. Then you must re-open a saved version of the tournament to continue working with it. You may Tile, Cascade, or Arrange the forms using the Windows Menu.
Contact Richard Hendricks at richardwm@yahoo.com if you have any questions on how I use this program.
Christopher Sewell was kind enough to make the changes to his program to support Bible Quizzing. Contact Chris at chrissewell@hotmail.com anytime for additional technical support, corrections, or suggestions.