Release notes

1.0.8.68 - 26th November 2021

• Ensure players cannot be sold when it would leave team with too few players.
• Ensure advanced tactic for delaying declaration to ensure a short session is not used for basic tactics.

1.0.8.67 - 17th August 2021

• Don't allow new teams to set up friendlies until their starter league entries are processed to avoid clashing fixtures.
• Don't show external link warning on messages from the system.
• Set appropriate minimum and maximum values for the fields when searching the transfer market.
• Fix error displaying match where an innings has been forfeit by declaration.
• Fix issue viewing pages of completed leagues lists.

1.0.8.66 - 11th June 2021

• Fix issue with removed team causing issues with processing tournaments.
• Hide for sale panel on player page when not signed in.
• Show funds available when bidding for a player.

1.0.8.65 - 4th May 2021

• Only automatically refresh pages when the viewer is logged in.
• Fix errors caused by crawlers to retired pages.

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.