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Tourney Tracker™
Features |
Compare these features with other products, many
that sell for a higher price!
No other pool software offers you so much for so little.
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No need for paper with the Entry-Net! |
Save
yourself hours of work by having your pool participants enter their picks through our
Entry-Net pool entry feature. Picks are stored on the web and available for you to
download with only a few simple clicks of the mouse! This service
offered free until Dec. 31, 2024 with your purchase.
Renew the following year at a discounted price!
Click
here to try it out!
(Please note that the pool entry
feature of the Entry-Net is available only for the supported
national tournaments and can only be used for one pool per type
of tournament at a time.
Click here
for the list of supported tournaments.) |
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Input entries faster than with any other pool
software! |
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still use paper entries, Tourney Tracker™'s "drag & drop" entry
system is fast and easy -- or if you're good with the number
keys, the keyboard entry method is even faster! Keying the
picks for an entry in a 64-team tournament takes an average of less than 2 minutes by
yourself, about 1 minute with an extra person dictating the picks, even less
using the keyboard method. Also,
you can create a blank paper input form quickly and easily that
shows all of your pools scoring parameters and rules!
Also, you can collect entries using your favorite spreadsheet
program! Click here if you
wish to download a starter spreadsheet. |
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Download
brackets and results from our web site in seconds! |
| All of the
major tournament brackets and seeds can be downloaded within hours of the
pairings announcement. Results are available the following morning for the
college basketball tournaments. Click here
for a list of supported tournaments.
Note that a purchased upgrade is
required at least once every 4 years to qualify for downloading
brackets and results. |
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Set your own parameters for running your pool! |
| Choose your own tiebreaker...Payouts can be set for first place
only, or up to tenth place (plus a booby prize for last place!)...Hold back a certain
percentage or dollar amount of the pot for your favorite charity! |
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Use Tourney Tracker™ for MORE than just the College
Basketball Tournament! |
| For those who are
out of the running after the first week of the national college
basketball tournament, have a special pool for the Final 16!
Tourney Tracker™ can also be used for any single-elimination
tournament, such as NBA playoff series. You can even
use Tourney Tracker™ to run a pool on the
NFL or NHL playoff
series, not to mention the FIFA World Cup! The fun never
ends with Tourney Tracker™! |
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Handles
the most complex scoring options! |
| You can set
the number of points received for a correct pick in each round! Use a standard tiebreaker
method or set up one of your own! Award the bold for picking upsets – give extra
points based on the seed values of the teams in each match-up. Scoring options are
fully controllable,
giving you the ability to award bonus points for upsets differently in each round
and even by each game.
Bonus points can also be rewarded to those who pick groups of games
correctly, such as a bonus for picking the winners of all of the games
involving the 8 and 9 seeds or a bonus for the entry that has the most
correct picks in the first round. Pools can be run where picks are made "round-by-round."
(Note: The Entry-Net is not
available for round-by-round entry.)
With the new advanced bonus scoring capabilities, Tourney Tracker™ can handle nearly every conceivable scoring structure.
Click here for a more detailed
explanation on scoring options. |
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Predict
potential winners accurately! |
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Once the tournament is down to 16
teams, Tourney Tracker™ accurately predicts which entries are
still in the running for a payout.
Don't be fooled by other products that merely predict the
possible points for each entry. Every possible scenario is
analyzed so that you know exactly which entries are still in the
running for prizes! |
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Use Tourney Tracker™’s full array of
reporting! |
| Tourney Tracker™ has
10 standard reports packed full of information on your pool!
Report on the leaders of the tournament with one click. The Pool
Analysis Report is full of statistics, such as which team is the
pool "favorite" and how often "upsets" are predicted. Much
more!!! Click here to view
some sample reports. |
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Publish reports on our web-site!
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create reports to e-mail in a flash! |
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With a few clicks, you can send your reports to the Entry-Net
Report Viewer, our web-based reporting tool which your friends
can visit for free to check up on the pool standings!
(Please note that there is a limit for each report of 1000
entries and you may only post results on our site for one pool
of each tournament type at a time. Reports will remain on
our site for at least one month.) This service is offered free
through Dec. 31, 2024 with
your purchase.
Click here to view sample pool reports. ...If
you prefer not to use the Entry-Net Report Viewer, you can create a
file of all reports and a list of e-mail addresses in a snap. Attach the file to an e-mail
and your work is done! |
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Tourney Trash! |
| Trash talkin' is
welcome and even encouraged with your pool's own message board!
Tourney Trash allows those in your pool to add their say to the
conversation in real-time fashion from the moment you set up
your pool to the end of the tournament! |
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Scoring
options:
Tourney Tracker™ has the most
flexible scoring capabilities available today. Below is an
explanation of the various types of scoring that is supported by the
software. Any combination of the scoring options listed below
can be used, meaning that virtually any scoring strategy is
supported.Straight
round-based points: A set number of points, by round,
awarded for each game picked correctly.
Seed-based scoring: For
each game picked correctly, points are calculated one of five
different ways, based on the seeds of the teams in the game.
The rule can be varied by round.
| Winner’s Seed x
Point Value: The seed of the winning team is multiplied by
the point value that you select. |
| For Each Upset,
Points Added: This method gives a standard bonus, as
specified by you, any time a lower seeded team defeats a
higher seeded team. |
| Upsets Only –
Winner’s Seed x Point Value: If a lower seed defeats a
higher seed, then the winning team’s seed is multiplied by a
point value that you select. |
| Upsets Only –
Difference in Seeds x Point Value: If a lower seeded team
defeats a higher seeded team, the difference between the seeds
of the two teams is multiplied by the point value that you
select. |
| Winner’s Seed
divided by the Loser’s Seed x Point Value: For all games
picked correctly, the seed of the winning team is divided by
the seed of the losing team. That result is multiplied by the
seed factor and added to the points won for the game. |
Advanced Bonus Scoring:
The bonus scoring feature of Tourney
Tracker gives you, the pool manager, the ultimate flexibility for
awarding points during your tournament. If the more straight-forward
methods of assigning a point value per game and round-by-round
seed-based bonuses are not sufficient for your pool traditions, the
advance bonus feature can usually fill the gap.
The advance bonus scoring system allows you to give extra points for
many different scenarios. Some examples are:
· Bonus points for picking the
final four teams in the tournament correctly.
· Bonus points for picking all of the correct teams in one section
of the bracket.
· Bonus points for picking all but one game in one section of the
bracket.
· Bonus points for picking a seed higher than 10 to win a game in
the first round.
· Bonus points for picking a seed higher than 8 to make it to the
final four teams.
· Bonus points for picking all of the winners of the 8/9-seed
matchups correctly.
· Bonus points for picking the most winners in the first round
correctly.
· Bonus points for picking most upsets by seeds 12 and above in
2nd round.
· Many, many, many more possibilities…
There are three types of automated
advanced bonuses that can be set up, as described below. Any
number of "bonus items" can be created for your pool. For each
bonus item created, you can choose exactly which games the bonus
will apply to, giving you the ultimate in flexibility.
Each-type - Bonus for each game
picked which fits criteria: With this type, you earn bonus
points for picking the correct team in each game defined in the
bonus that fits the defined criteria. For example, you can award 2
bonus points for correctly picking a team with a 12 seed or higher
to win a second round game.
All-type - All (or certain number of games) must be picked
correctly: With this type, in order to earn the bonus, the
entry must have the correct pick in all of the games defined in
the bonus. For example, you can award 10 bonus points for picking
all of the final four teams. Another option is to award the points
for getting a certain number of games correct out of those defined
in the bonus. For example, you can award 5 bonus points for
picking 3 out of 4 of the final four teams.
Most-type - Pick the most correct out of the selected games:
With this type, bonus points are awarded only to those entries
that pick the more correct games than any other entry for the
selected games. For instance, you can award 10 points to the entry
(or entries, if it is a tie) that has the most correct picks in
the first round of the tournament.
And, finally, if all of this
fails, you can set up a "Manual-type" of bonus. With
this type of bonus, you simply name the bonus something that will
make sense to your pool participants and assign a point value. After
defining this, you can go into the appropriate entries and assign
how many times that entry has earned that bonus.
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For a step-by-step summary of the pool manager's tasks for running a
pool, click here.
Want to see a very detailed explanation of Tourney Tracker™?
You can download the actual Help document included with the
software, which explains in detail how Tourney Tracker™ works. It
may answer many of your specific questions.
Click here to download the
document, which is in Adobe Acrobat format and approximately 770 KB.
If you need to download a copy of the
Adobe Acrobat reader software,
click
here (it's free). |
Technical Requirements -
Windows 95+ or later, 32 MB Ram, 10 MB disk space
Tourney Tracker™ will work in a MAC environment running Virtual PC
software.
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Only $14.95!
Vista, Windows 7, 8, or 10 users
There are a couple of potential issues with running Tourney Tracker on
Vista or Windows 7. Click here to see a
more detailed explanation. |
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