Release notes

1.0.8.50 - 26th September 2020

Fix bug in commentary generation where there was a one in fifty chance of finding no commentary line.
Fix team names for old transfers.
Show correct team names on transfer details page.

1.0.8.49 - 25th September 2020

Add member feature to see forum topics created by a user.
Small match engine change to allow bowlers to build up rhythm against specific batters and not just left handed or right handed batters in general.
Show team names at the time of the transfer for player, team and all historic transfers.
Reduce chance of immediately repeated commentary lines.

1.0.8.48 - 18th September 2020

Fix error linking to knockout tournaments from MVP, tournament statistics, tournament records and player awards pages.
Fix typo in message after setting XI as default for tournament.
Show scores as level rather than 'lead by 0 runs' when summarising the score.
Add mini scoreboard for matches.
Fix error showing champions of a knockout as 'Playing' in team list.
Use team name at time of tournament for knockout team lists.
Remove commentary from matches between banned teams and other non-user teams (expired or bot or banned) after only one season.

1.0.8.47 - 21st August 2020

Exclude banned users and teams from search results.
When sorting players by bowling type subsort by bowling skill rather than just bowling speed.
Ensure user banned before confirming account cannot confirm account.
Update terms and conditions to explicitly prohibit bidding on players from teams that log in from the same place.

1.0.8.46 - 4th August 2020

Add page for knockout tournaments showing teams who have played or are playing the tournament.
Fix bug allowing entry into a tournament which has matches potentially late in the day and which therefore clash with matches or tournaments on the following day.
Add a warning on tournament pages that may cause clashes for an extra day because of having a late start time.
Add paging links to the top of global rankings pages.
Fix bug generating fixtures for a knockout when there are 9 teams remaining.

1.0.8.45 - 10th July 2020

Fix paging on all transfers page.
Change batting points in user commissioned leagues to start at 200.
Fix bug allowing team to be in two knockout competitions on the same day if they had a bye in the first round.
Fix bug not identifying knockout tournament champions in knockout results.
Describe knockout tournament finishing positions better for teams.

1.0.8.44 - 22nd June 2020

Fix rounding error to display morale correctly in squad CSV.
Don't allow minimum and maximum team rating settings on tournaments that are negative or excessively large.
Fix caching issues on all transfers second and subsequent pages.
Reduce likelihood of morale gains when playing the same team repeatedly.
Don't gain morale when repeatedly playing system teams.

1.0.8.43 - 14th June 2020

Allow tournaments to be filtered by match start day when searching.
Ensure tactic for not resting death bowlers is shown in past tactics.

1.0.8.42 - 5th June 2020

Fix caching issue on ground honours boards pages showing incorrect competition.
Fix bug with specific player tactics getting copied to competition tactics when match tactics were saved as the default.
Add member feature to search for just seam or spin bowlers in transfer market.

1.0.8.41 - 27th May 2020

When finding teams to invite to a tournament only return active, non-system, teams.
Only allow team names between 5 and 50 characters when changing name or creating new team.
Ensure when an invalid team name is entered on sign up that the reason is shown.
Add a team row for detailed player statistics when a player changes teams even if it is for a full season.
Show overs remaining in commentary on smallest screens.

1.0.8.40 - 15th May 2020

Only show team settings link on your own team.
Improve display of batsmen and partnership in end of over on commentary for small screens.
Add note to membership payment buttons to say that the payment page is hosted by Stripe.
Move team renaming and relocation to the team settings page.

1.0.8.39 - 10th May 2020

Fix bug preventing league applications from being rejected by the commissioner of the league.
Add note to skill threshold settings explaining threshold.

1.0.8.38 - 8th May 2020

Ensure elevens with only four bowlers don't get incorrectly flagged as weakened.

1.0.8.37 - 8th May 2020

Ensure tooltip shows on switch to this team button when membership has expired.
Fix error with player appearing on multiple pages of MVP lists.
Change the thresholds at which player skills are coloured differently for your team.

1.0.8.36 - 7th May 2020

Improve display of previous matches in head to heads.

1.0.8.35 - 6th May 2020

Prevent player being released from contract in the time between an auction ending and the auction being processed.
Fix age display for umpires.
Ensure commentary for the toss is displayed for one day matches.
Remove switch team button from menu for users whose membership is no longer active.
Show overs gone in favourite matches in progress for first innings of limited overs matches.
Show overs remaining in final innings of a limited overs match next to required run rate in commentary and match summary.

1.0.8.34 - 4th May 2020

Ensure player names don't overlap in end of over summary on commentary on small screens.
Show the age for umpires on their player page.
Show a breakdown of how many matches an umpire has umpired on their player page.
Add a link to the player auction details from the list of all player transfers.

1.0.8.33 - 2nd May 2020

Fix bug in gate receipts calculations where four day matches were only yielding one day of gate receipts.

1.0.8.32 - 29th April 2020

Fix wording on description of old member features.
Add missing sneak peak image for partnership balls member feature.
Fix error calculating gate receipts for four day game where play finishes on a different calendar day to play starting.

1.0.8.31 - 25th April 2020

Fix ball count for not out partnership at the end of an innings.
Fix ball count for opening partnerships.
Change ratings as normal when a weakened side beats an unweakened side.
Don't lose a quarter of the gate receipts for each day a four day match finishes early.
Reduce gate receipts when a team is playing a weakened side.
Don't allow membership to be purchased for more than two years.
Cancel tournaments that have been setup by an expired or banned user account.

1.0.8.30 - 24th April 2020

Only show player skill losses in training report (at end of season) when their skill level in a skill is not very low already.
Improve page to set draft preferences for mobile.
Show drafted played for all teams (linked under transfers menu).
Fix ball count for partnerships that crossed a session break.

1.0.8.29 - 18th April 2020

Don't include auctions where the minimum price is zero in unsold players count for a team.
Don't show red warning on an auction where the minimum price is zero regardless of the vendor's other auctions.
Reduce rating gain when playing against a team that is playing a weakened side.
Don't change ratings for team playing a weakened side.
Don't include point on the team ratings chart when the rating hasn't changed.
Move player training to 23:30.
Add knockout name to browser title on knockout page
Add knockout name and round to browser title on knockout fixtures page.
Add knockout tournaments to options in tactics pages.
Fix bug selecting the incorrect tactics for a knockout.
Add around the grounds link to knockout matches.

1.0.8.28 - 17th April 2020

Add new limited overs tactic option to not save bowlers for the death overs.
Add number of balls in partnership to commentary.
Add number of balls in partnership to innings partnerships page.
Add number of deliveries faced by each batsman to innings partnerships page.
Increase colour on transfer market trading history hints.
Prevent invalid values for ratings in friendly broker.
Minor styling changes to friendly broker on smaller screens.
Minor styling changes to challenge a team page on tablet screens.
Ensure banned teams are not considered to be active.
Add note to transfer market results about players aging when the end of the season is approaching.

1.0.8.27 - 10th April 2020

Fix date formatting in challenge messages.
Fix date format on match scorecard JSON.
Allow teams to be banned from the draft.
Allow teams to be banned from the transfer market.
When calculating draft position only use number of matches won in each competition type to determine the rating point balance between competition types.

1.0.8.26 - 10th April 2020

Fix wording on page for knockouts commissioned by a user.
Add screenreader label on individual tactic groups.
Require user names to be 3 characters or more.
Prevent renaming to an invalid name for grounds and teams.
Ensure team names at the start of a match are used in commentary throughout.
Improve efficiency of checking for unallowed multiple teams.

1.0.8.25 - 6th April 2020

Ensure captain's asterisk doesn't show in bowling figures.
Don't allow batting position number to be selected to copy to clipboard to help with player reordering by drag and drop.
Don't show starter leagues in list of leagues that can be applied to.
Describe the starter league process more clearly on the sign up page.
Further improvements to detecting and processing unallowed multiple teams.
Improve list display of players on small screens.
Improve display of skills for player who is for sale on small screens.

1.0.8.24 - 1st April 2020

Show date correctly in the dropdown for choosing a previously selected XI for a match.

1.0.8.23 - 31st March 2020

Add hit wicket dismissal.
Save tactics at the start of a match so that they are visible in the "View past tactics" pages.
Fix labelling of dates on team rating chart when only a few rating changes are present.
Fix width of commentary text on larger screens to avoid very spaced out commentary in part overs.
Tidy up option at bottom of forum post on small screens.
Add note to user guide about coin toss to decide winner of a tied knockout match.
Add caching to latest match summary json and text.

1.0.8.22 - 29th March 2020

Allow team and ground names to be reused if the team has been inactive for over 2 years.
Show dissolved teams on the team and ground search results pages.
Show date team was dissolved on team page.
Allow forum posts to be liked.
Allow messages to be filtered to just those from a specified user.

1.0.8.21 - 25th March 2020

Use shorter date format on smaller screens.
By default show the most recent tournaments commissioned by a user first.
Fix error with sorting tournaments commissioned by another user.
Fix sort order of tournaments to apply to to show those with matches starting soonest at the top of the list.
When replying to a message show that message below your reply.
Speed up image, javascript and stylesheet hosting globally.
Ensure link to apply to league is only shown for logged in users.

1.0.8.20 - 24th March 2020

Roll back change to how tables are displayed from previous release.

1.0.8.19 - 23rd March 2020

Small tweak to how tables are displayed on various devices to hopefully help readability.
Add player of the match to the recent performances list for each player.
Change to player of the match to describe the outstanding performer from a match.
Add latest match summary JSON for teams - details on the API guide page.
Prefer players who have played more matches when selecting which players will become umpires.
Add note in user guide page on players about players becoming umpires.

1.0.8.18 - 20th March 2020

Improve display of ratings on team page for small screens.
Fix broken page footer on match teams page.
Make tactic descriptions more accessible for screen readers.
Add link to skip to main content.
Simplify match scorecards somewhat on small screens.
Add commas between falls of wicket on scorecard.
Improve end of over commentary display on small screens.

1.0.8.17 - 17th March 2020

Add alt tags on all images.
Improve team's current tournaments display on small screens.

1.0.8.16 - 8th March 2020

Allow unfair auctions bids to be invalidated before the auction takes place.

1.0.8.15 - 6th March 2020

Remove option to be emailed when a league application is successful.
Don't allow user names to include @.
Fix issue with incorrect number of tied/drawn matches showing for two innings match records.

1.0.8.14 - 14th February 2020

Fix friendly page user guide description of when system teams will accept a challenge.
Ensure league end date is stored internally based on the final team count rather than the maximum number of teams that can play.
Remove note about rarity in commentary submissions user guide.
Fix incorrect tournament records page when no matches have finished.
Align player names correctly when modifying eleven.
Fix bug with knockout tournament winners not being able to arrange friendlies.
Fix bug with knockout tournaments still showing on winner's current tournaments page.

1.0.8.13 - 4th January 2020

Fix user guide for knockout tournaments to clarify that this feature is current only available to members.
Don't automatically quote the original post or message when replying.
Show forums for current knockout tournaments on forums page.
Don't show back to top link on post shown in reply.

1.0.8.12 - 30th December 2019

Prevent api access more frequently than once per second.
Fix commissioning a league or knockout that isn't a recommission.

1.0.8.11 - 28th December 2019

Fix team pickers when using match finder.
Allow a cancelled tournament to be recommissioned.

1.0.8.10 - 17th December 2019

Fix error with not clearing selected eleven when a team withdraws from a starter league having already picked their team for a match.
Fix error with API when viewing a match in a league.

1.0.8.9 - 17th December 2019

Ensure 8 teams are allowed for a commissioner's first knockout tournament.
Fix error when expired users try to log in.
Display a confirmation message when team is picked or tactics are set as the defaults for a tournament, competition or competition type.
Further improve detection of multiple accounts.

1.0.8.8 - 8th December 2019

Reformat match commentary on smallest screens.
Don't show balls for recent overs when there aren't any deliveries to display.
Show day of the week for tournament dates.
Fix bug setting dates for recommissioned league.

1.0.8.7 - 6th December 2019

Fix bug preventing registering a new team.

1.0.8.6 - 30th November 2019

Fix error logging in from same location as another team.

1.0.8.5 - 29th November 2019

Ensure the user page for a pending user cannot be viewed.
Don't allow banned users to attempt to reset their password.
Don't reveal that an email has been used to register for the game when responding to reset password requests.
Send an email when a user's password or email are changed.

1.0.8.4 - 23rd November 2019

Fix error restricting team count when recommissioning a knockout tournament.
Only use powers of two in knockout team count options.
Fix bug to ensure team picked can be set as the default for tournaments.
Fix bug to ensure tactics chosene can be set as the default for tournaments.
Ensure knockout commissioner's teams are entered first into their knockout tournaments.
Ensure knockout applications are processed in the order in which the teams are applied.
Show the value of the bid in an auction's summary when an auction only has one bid.
Update team rating graphs.

1.0.8.3 - 8th November 2019

Fix bug preventing invitation only knockout tournaments being entered.
Fix league records pages that were showing only recent matches.

1.0.8.2 - 7th November 2019

Add knockout option to searching menu.
Ensure league matches get linked to the league correctly.
Fix bug with leagues being completed immediately due to missing matches.

1.0.8.1 - 2nd November 2019

Fix error getting default eleven and tactics for league matches introduced when knockout tournaments were added.

1.0.8 - 1st November 2019

Add knockout competitions.
Allow users to commission knockout competitions.
Ensure recommissioning user tournaments sets the same match day.
Hide link to cancel tournaments that are cancelled, playing or complete.
Ensure elapsed auctions aren't shown in transfer market search results.
Fix display of online users which was excluding newer users.
Add note about priority order to draft page.
Fix minimum password length display when changing account details.
Reduce likelihood of in-match training when teams are playing each other repeatedly.
Improve email to confirm signing up to include the full link to copy in case an HTML link doesn't work.

1.0.7.12 - 6th September 2019

Fix error with team being added to multiple starter leagues.
Fix newer users and teams not being returned in search results.
Fix recent performances over counting fielding efforts.
Fix intermittent problem with charts not showing.

1.0.7.11 - 28th August 2019

New external membership purchase page.
Add "I am not a robot" to sign up page.
Describe left arm wrist spinners as "left-arm unorthodox".
Add link to home page on error pages.

1.0.7.10 - 8th July 2019

Fix all time league bowling records.
Redesign player skill change chart to show more information and to only show a single chart for all skills.
Add season indicator to player skill change graph.
Fix bug with players being duplicated on MVP lists.
Show most recent balls first in recent overs display on commentary.
Fix fielding summaries in players' recent performances.

1.0.7.9 - 15th February 2019

Add fielding to players' recent performances details.
League commissioners can moderate the forums for their leagues.
Fix searching in the forums for terms containing single quotes.
Inviting a team to play in your league removes a previously rejected application from that team.
Don't allow odd characters in team and ground names.

1.0.7.8 - 1st February 2019

Ensure recent performances for a match are shown in the correct order.

1.0.7.7 - 24th January 2019

Add summary of performances in recent matches to players' pages.
Update wording on membership description page.
Remove forthcoming features section.
Improve processing of official leagues to balance teams across divisions in a single tier.
Improve processing of official leagues to avoid relegating teams whose manager already has a team in the tier unnecessarily.
Process matches involving teams whose managers are online before processing other matches.
Ensure team lists on match pages show changes to captain and wicket keeper during a match.
Set founding date for teams with no manager.
Add umpires to matches json.

1.0.7.6 - 14th January 2019

Add named umpires (ex players) for matches.
Add tokens for umpire names in commentaries.
Fix spacing on select all messages control.
Add an option on all pages for members to switch to their other team.
Fix second and subsequent pages for ground batting and bowling honours boards.
Fix time selection on friendly broker for small screens.

1.0.7.5 - 3rd January 2019

Fix missing space on tactics title.
Fix error with adding players to a team when email address is changed.

1.0.7.4 - 24th December 2018

Fix head to head records showing incorrect page when teams haven't played before.

1.0.7.3 - 23rd December 2018

Fix head to head records not being updated.
Remove automatic formatting of prices when buying or selling a player.
Add a confirmation message containing the price entered when buying or selling a player.
Add bowling speed tooltip to player compare page.

1.0.7.2 - 15th December 2018

Fix bug with too much morale lost after unsuccessful auction.

1.0.7.1 - 14th December 2018

Fix switching between member teams.
Don't change user names to lowercase.

1.0.7.0 - 14th December 2018

Add "remember me" as an option when signing in.
Lock accounts after several failed log in attempts.
Show field settings with the batsman at the top of the screen.
Ensure league names cannot be too long (maximum 80 characters).
Tidy punctuation on transfer details page.
Fix error when sorting by age on team transfers page.
Players in an unsuccessful auction lose a little bit of morale.
Commissioned leagues default to starting between 0:00 and 16:00 to avoid running into the next day.
Add warning about start times after 16:00 on leagues, friendlies and challenges.

Older Release Notes

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