Copyright: NFL Pool Manager ® 1994 Simon Torrington


Contents

Overview

Getting Started

About the Author

Good News:

NFL Pool Manager is being distibuted FREE OF CHARGE for the 1994 Football season. Just try it out and see what you think.
If you want to make copies of the software for friends, please make sure you copy all of the necessary files. It was written in Visual Basic and gets a bit upset if you forget the VBRUN300.DLL and the *.VBX files.

Fun Bit:

Although I am distributing this software as a freebie, I am really interested to see where it ends up. For this reason I would like you to please send a picture postcard from where you live. You don't need to give your address. Go on, make someone happy today!!

Disclaimer:

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the reliability of this software you will not be surprised to see me state that "No liability will be accepted for any damage or loss caused by the use of this program".


Overview

The NFL Pool Manager is a program designed to be used by Football enthusiasts. It was inspired by a program written by Joe Cesare a couple of years ago. Thanks go to him for the basic interface design.
It's features have been built up over the course of the last few seasons and currently meets the needs of a bunch of us here in England. (Yes, I did say England - we watch Football here too!!)

Hopefully the NFL Pool Manager will suit you too.

Main Features:

•	Records NFL fixtures and results.

•	Displays week by week Divisional standings and team records.

•	Maintains a Pool for predictions by up to 30 players.

•	Allows for Points Spread.
(You can choose whether or not to use it each week).

•	Tie-Breaks using a 'Margin of Victory' prediction.

Getting Started

About the Author


Getting Started

Schedule

•	The NFL fixtures for 1994 have been set up for you already from lists published on CompuServe. You can amend these if required. (Edit-NFL Schedule).

Pool Players

•	Contact your friends and decide who is going to be in your Pool. Then enter their names into the Pool Manager. (Edit-Player List)
(If you have no friends you can still use the program to record and display the results, leaving you plenty of time to make some ready for next year!).
Note: Whilst there is no provision within the NFL Pool Manager for any kind of betting I'm sure you can think of some interesting entry/prize scenarios of your own?! Why not just play for a trophy like we do?

Before each Weekend

•	If you have access to early Points Spread information and you want to allow for it in your predictions you should enter the details into the NFL Pool Manager before printing the Schedules. (Edit-Points Spread).

•	Print off your schedules, one for each player. (File-Print).
Each player should make a mark on the sheet to indicate selections. The final game is also used as a 'tie-breaker'. The player must predict the winning margin for the selected team.

•	Input the selections into the NFL Pool Manager. (Edit-Picks).

•	Wait for the results with even greater anticipation than usual !!

After each Weekend

•	Enter the results into the NFL Pool Manager. (Edit-Results).

•	You then have immediate access to the current Pool Standings (View-Pool Standings), the weeks results - allowing for any Points Spread (View-Net Results), the updated NFL tables (View-NFL Tables) and individual Team Statistics (View-Team Statistics).

Tip

•	If you did well, announce the results with a fanfare of trumpets and print out on fluorescent orange paper. Pin to a prominent wall and laugh at the pathetic performance of the others.
If not, well, there's always next week...


TIPS
Double-clicking on a helmet on the main Pool Manager form will take you straight to that team's statistics.


About the Author

Simon Torrington

I work for British Gas in Croydon, England as a PC systems developer. Hobbies include Soccer and US Football.

You can contact me with any bug reports or enhancement suggestions via my CompuServe ID 100336,3377.

Don't forget to send those postcards to me at:
Simon Torrington,
c/o British Gas plc,
Segas House,
Katharine Street,
Croydon,
Surrey  CR9 1JU,
ENGLAND

By the way, 1994 is gonna be the Steelers year...