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TITLE: TRANSMISSION AND RETRIEVAL OF REAL-TIME SCOREKEEPING
Inventor
Docket No.
Filing Date
Edward Matthew Sullivan
33261-00001
June 2, 2009
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This non-provisional patent application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/130,683, entitled “TRANSMISSION AND RETRIEVAL OF REAL-TIME SCOREKEEPING FOR AMATEUR SPORTS,” filed June 2, 2009, and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/205,104, entitled “TRANSMISSION AND RETRIEVAL OF REAL-TIME SCOREKEEPING FOR AMATEUR SPORTS,” filed January 15, 2009.
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Official Scoring Team
We encourage any user to create a GameChanger team and utilize our scorekeeping and stat management tools. As a result of this open platform, there may be several versions of the same team.
GameChanger is beta testing solutions to establish authenticity of teams so fans can easily trust that the teams they follow will provide consistent game data.
Official GameChanger teams will be marked with an official tag in search results and on team home pages.
GameChanger reserves the right to contact a team's head coach to confirm that it is an official team.
GaMECHaNGER Premium
GameChanger is pleased to offer our users several levels of team-specific features:
Basic Access (Free): live scores, basic post-game box scores and season stats, and team schedules are free for all GameChanger users.
Inside Access (intro price $9.99): includes unlimited lifetime access to all public content for this season, including live streaming box scores and play-by-play updates, expanded box scores, expanded season stats, player game logs, player spray charts and more.
Basic Alerts (Free): unlimited email alerts for the team's season, including email alerts for game start/end and inning recaps, are free for all GameChanger users.
Premium Alerts ($9.99): includes text (SMS) alerts as well as real-time player activity alerts.
Inside Access to all GameChanger teams created before noon EST on Thursday, May 6, 2010 will remain free for fans forever. This is the least we can do to thank you for helping us improve our beta_overlay product over the last several months.
Features Comparison
Feature
Fans
Admins
Team schedule and roster
Basic Access
Basic Access
Post-game box score
Basic Access
Basic Access
Basic season stats
Basic Access
Basic Access
Embeddable scoreboard widgets
Basic Access
Basic Access
Game update email alerts (beginning, end, inning)
Basic Alerts
Basic Alerts
Live streaming play-by-play
Inside Access
Included
Live streaming box score
Inside Access
Included
Post-game play-by-play recap
Inside Access
Included
Expanded box score stats
Inside Access
Included
Expanded season stats
Inside Access
Included
Player game logs
Inside Access
Included
Player spray charts
Inside Access
Included
Player activity email alerts
Premium Alerts
Premium Alerts
All text (SMS) alerts
Premium Alerts
Premium Alerts
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What's a "Beta"?
"Beta is a nickname for software which has passed the alpha testing stage of development and has been released to users for software testing before its official release. Beta testing allows the software to undergo usability testing with users who provide feedback, so that any malfunctions these users find in the software can be reported to the developers and fixed."
For the current beta release, each League name entered becomes unique.
When establishing a League name, Administrators are encouraged to provide as much detail as possible, e.g. "Savino County Little League Majors Division".
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Innings per Game
Team innings-per-game is used to calculate Earned Run Averages (ERA).
GameChanger team innings-per-game are defaulted to:
Youth: 6
Prep: 7
College, Adult: 9
Team admins, via the Team Settings tab, may change the innings-per-game value to any integer between 5 and 9.
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Why do we require Postal Codes for GameChanger teams?
GameChanger users can find teams to follow simply by searching by postal code. We will also be grouping teams by postal code region on our scoreboards.
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What are external links?
If teams have pages on sites other than GameChanger such as Weplay.com, links to those sites may appear here, and clicking them will take you off of the GameChanger site. We have no control or influence over the content found on outside sites, but provide these links as a convenience.
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Enter the final score for games completed in the past.
Blank box scores will automatically created for past completed games with scores.
Optional: Admins may add or edit statistics to any game box score by clicking Add or Edit in the "Box Score" column.
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There are currently three GameChanger user roles.
Administrators
Administrators have full website administration and editing capabilities for their team and set the privacy settings for player stats.
They can also grant "Admin" permission to up to 2 other team followers.
In order to score a team game, a scorekeeper must be logged into the mobile scorekeeping application as a team administrator.
The original creator of a GameChanger team is made an Admin by default.
Fans
Fans have "read-only" capabilities on a team's GameChanger website.
Fans can view season stats, player game logs and spray charts.
Fans cannot view next game's lineup, and cannot edit rosters or schedules.
Users
Registered Users have limited "read-only" capabilities on GameChanger teams that they are not Fans of.
Users can view team rosters, schedules and box scores, and the team's FanBase.
"Non-Fan" Users cannot view player stats, game logs or spray chart data. Users must become Fans for access to statistics outside of individual box scores.
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Completed Games
Differences between "Unfinished" and "Final"
A scored game's statistics do not become official in the GameChanger scorebooks until the Scorekeeper or Admin finalizes the game.
When a scored game is over, the Scorekeeper clicks [End Game], which makes the game "Final".
If [End Game] is not selected within 30 minutes of the last scored play, the game is marked "Unfinished" and denoted by this orange 'carrot symbol': ^
Unfinished games can also be made "Final" on the GameChanger website by authorized Admins.
Effect on Season Statistics and Spray Charts
Individual game statistics do not count towards season statistics until its box score is finalized and made "official". Additionally, 'Exhibition' game statistics are viewable only if selected from the Game Type drop-down menu. 'Exhibition' games never count towards season statistics or standings.
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Box Score Admin Tools
This is the Administrator's toolset for modifying properties and statistical aspects of a particular game.
Click on:
to change the final home and/or away scores. Score changes do not cascade into the linescore and box score.
to permanently revert a game's box score to its original state (this change cannot be undone!). Season-to-date statistics will be affected.
to change game date/time, opponent name, location, and game type (Exhibition, Preseason, Tournament, etc).
to permanently remove a game from your team's schedule (this change cannot be undone!). Season-to-date statistics and team record will be affected.
to mark the game as "Final" and make the game statistics count towards season-to-date totals.
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MaxPreps Game Import Requirements
MaxPreps requires a jersey number for each player uploaded.
Complete your team's jersey numbers using the Roster Editor.
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Explaining "Other" actions for "My Teams"
Administrators
A co-Admin may safely Unfollow a team if there will be Admin(s) remaining.
Admins may not Delete a team if that team has Fans.
Admins may Delete their team only if it has zero Fans.
Fans
A team Fan may Unfollow that team at any point.
Upon un-following, all alerts (email and premium SMS) for that team are de-activated until re-follow.
Fans may request to [Become an Admin] if the team does not already have three admins; whereas on approval s/he can edit rosters, lineups, schedules, and statistics.
Watch GaMECHaNGER in Action
GameChanger provides mobile apps that replace pencil and paper scorekeeping and online tools that distribute real-time game updates for amateur sports.
This GameChanger tutorial shows how to use GameChanger for scoring during a game, including: using settings; swapping home and away teams; at bats and pitch results; batted balls and fielding; advancing runners; using the GameStream tab; menu options to override, pause and end the game.
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