Release notes
1.0.8.64 - 15th April 2021
- Permanently delete teams where the user's account has expired and they played no matches and made no transfers.
- Ensure draft knockout tournaments aren't shown to other users.
- Further improvements to detecting multiple accounts.
- Add note to forum posts when they may contain links to external content.
- Add note to user messages when they may contain links to external content.
1.0.8.63 - 17th March 2021
- Allow user tournaments to specify whether both of a members teams can apply to play in the tournament or not.
- Ensure caching on other teams squad pages doesn't show skills.
1.0.8.62 - 15th March 2021
- Add member feature to filter your squad by role.
- Ensure teams keep same colour throughout the season in the chart of league positions.
- Differentiate in a match between players with exactly the same names.
- Improve presentation of table of timings in the user guide.
- Limit the number of invitations for a tournament (three times as many as there could be teams).
- Improve formatting in the user guide of the descriptions of the various options for commissioning leagues and knockout tournaments.
- Fix display of two strengths in squad csv.
- Don't show the team name for each player in other team's squad list.
- Don't show other team's squad at full screen width.
1.0.8.61 - 5th February 2021
- Tidy innings summaries on match page for tablet sized screens.
- Tidy field setting page for individual balls for tablet sized screens.
- Reinstate full menu width on mobile.
- Ensure player attribute values align correctly on squad page.
- Remove "about" from transfer market page when describing how soon an auction will end.
1.0.8.60 - 29th January 2021
- Allow wider page on squad page.
- Allow wider page on transfer market search results.
- Show how long it will be before the transfer ends on transfer market search results rather than the date.
- Ensure invitations to a tournament are removed when the tournament starts.
- Show invitations for leagues and knockouts in the order that the tournaments will start with soonest to start first.
- Remove commentary for matches that are between system or banned teams each week.
- Show tournament invitations messages as being from the tournament commissioner.
- Hide user pages and pages for inactive teams from search engines.
1.0.8.59 - 8th January 2021
- Fix error showing your own previous membership purchases.
1.0.8.58 - 8th January 2021
- Fix error saving tactics as default tactics when tactics for specific players have been included.
1.0.8.57 - 8th January 2021
- Add note to confirmation email to suggest people email us if they are registering from somewhere other people play.
- Fix declaration not being shown on innings scorecard after declaration for start of session.
1.0.8.56 - 11th December 2020
- Don't allow newer teams to promote up two divisions in official leagues (newer than 15 weeks).
- Allow hiding of dissolved teams in team search.
- Add a note about how to withdraw from a league you've been automatically entered into to the message that gets sent.
1.0.8.55 - 27th November 2020
- Remove pop up tips on registration form.
- Improve registration form for different screen sizes.
- Don't show forum twice when both user teams are in a tournament.
1.0.8.54 - 20th November 2020
- Add select all checkbox for favourite matches.
- Add note about player names being generated to user guide.
- Add note about league bonus points being for the first 110 overs to the user guide.
- Change wording on invitation messages to make it clearer that you cannot accept an invitation directly - you still need to apply to the tournament.
- Fix player bio display on team transfers list.
- Ensure count of previously unsuccessful listings on a player is set correctly when that player has not been transferred before.
- Fix recording of player skill drops for skills history graph at end of season.
- Fix ordering of statistics by bowlers wickets so that when players are tied on wickets the player with the better strike rate is first.
1.0.8.53 - 17th October 2020
- Fix bug with training players except match XI training everyone for new team's first match.
- Fix run not being added to commentary output when a boundary catch is taken off a no ball.
- Ensure that strike protection happens when a boundary catch is taken off a no ball.
1.0.8.52 - 16th October 2020
- Show when a team is inactive in teams and grounds searches.
- Add cookie consent prompt.
- Expire accounts that signed up and were last seen on the same day after two weeks (reduced from one month).
- Fix bug leaving you managing your second team when membership expires.
- Allow a team to play a match when they have a bye week in a knockout.
1.0.8.51 - 2nd October 2020
- Show on team's transfers, draftees and retirees lists those players that have a biography for the club.
- Move the delivery outcome to the top of the page when adding commentary submissions.
- Add a button to randomise the delivery outcome when entering a commentary submission.
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
This list only includes the most recent releases but older releases can be found here.