Using Golf Whiz to calculate bets for up to 20 players at a time

We have had a number inquiries recently about calculating bets for/with players that are outside your foursome.  That is, if you are playing in a group of 20 or so players (say 5 foursomes), or even two foursomes, you may have bets with players that are playing behind or ahead of you.  Obviously, you can't enter their scores into Golf Whiz until the round is complete.  Let's go through the process...

So you are playing in a foursome and you have bets that only apply to the guys in your immediate group.  Yet, you have singles (nassau), team nassau bets, etc... with other players ahead or behind.  Here is how you will be able to use Golf Whiz to handle both.

First, you will begin by going to the "score cards" tab and clicking on the "Play Golf Now" button.  Go immediately to "Settings" and setup the players in your foursome and the bets you have that apply to your foursome.  You will use Golf Whiz to track the scores and bets for your foursome, "live" as you play.  Golf Whiz will show you the status of every bet (in your foursome) after every hole you score.  Once you are done with 18 holes and have seen the win/loss status for every bet in your foursome, tap the "save" button to save the four score cards for your immediate group.

Now, once you reach the clubhouse and order beers for everyone, you will need to enter the

completed score cards for each of the other players.  So if you are part of a larger group of players, (say 2 foursomes), you will need to go to the screen shown on the right and tap on "Enter Completed Score Card(s)".  You will need to enter the scores for each of the other 4 players.  Once all 8 score cards are in, you will tap on the "Bets" tab (see bottom right of picture), to access the bet calculator for the larger group of players.  You will then see the two buttons shown in the image to the left...  From here, you will have access to all score cards entered for the entire day and will be able to perform both simple and highly complex bet calculations.  (See image on right).

Please note the youtube video that was recorded to show this process.  The video is located here: Using Golf Whiz bet calculator for up to 20 players

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Personal Records for Each Player

The image to the right is another one of the reports generated by Golf Whiz.  This report is access from the "Players" tab.  Once there, you will see a scrolling list of all the players that have been added to your Golf Whiz.  Tap on one of them to enter this report area.  Note the tabs at the top of this window labeled, "Scorecards", "Records", "facebook", and "email".  The screenshot to the right was taken, obviously, while viewing the "Records" tab.

This report shows many other metrics for the player but I wanted to more fully describe this scoring tabulation.  Golf Whiz searches the database for all the holes this player has ever played and it calculates that players scoring average on par 3's, par 4's, and par 5's and then renders the following data values for each: 

• Number of each hole type played
• The player's scoring average on each type of hole
• The total number of birdies the player has ever made on that type of hole
• The % of times the player birdies that type of hole.

It is fun to compare these figures across the different players you play with most often.  We have discovered that we have a "par 3 specialist" in our crew...

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New LeaderBoard Layout!

New leaderboard layout coming soon.  This will be in the 2.5.3 release which already has the following additional enhancements and bug fixes incorporated:

Note: sadly, we are getting ahead of Apple's review process with the new releases of our app.  We are still waiting for Apple to release version 2.5.2 to you all on iTunes!!!  We will submit 2.5.3 immediately after Apple gets our previous release out the door.  Come on, Apple!

Regardless, Version 2.5.3 will contain the following, (at least)...

major enhancement: greatly increased the amount of window space given to the leader board.  Now, the leader board and the chat window are separate windows that you toggle between, rather than the two windows splitting a single screen in half.  Leaderboard/chat window toggle buttons now moved to the bottom of that screen.  Note the improvements in the screenshot to the right.  

For the uninitiated, the Golf Whiz Leaderboard provides you with the ability to view many player scores right from your iPhone while you are on the course competing in the same event.  The "event" can be your regular 3 foursomes that play every Saturday or it can be a 100 person event, etc...

minor enhancement: fixed the spinning activity indicators so that they spin properly when updating/refreshing the chat window as well as the leader board.  The spinner also now works when the leader board is first displayed.  (the spinner used to only come up on refresh - it did not appear on initial load).

minor enhancement: when the leader board is displayed, the "show join codes" button is already depressed and can not be pressed again until the "update leader board" button is tapped.  Now, either button is ready to be tapped when the leader board is displayed.

minor enhancement: changed the wording on the main buttons used to enter scorecard info.  One now says, "Enter Completed Scorecards" and the other, "Play Golf Now".  

minor bug fix: The email that is generated when sending a leader board "join code" to someone did not correctly display the name of the event (i.e. leader board title) in the body of the email.

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Notice the chart listed to the right.  This is one of the reports generated by Golf Whiz.  It shows the difficulty ranking for each hole, based on actual scores recorded for each hole.  There are 213 rounds of golf represented here by 25 unique players.

Probably the most surprising result shown on the right is the ranking of hole number 2.  The handicap shown on the score card indicates that this is the 16th most difficult hole, when, in actuality, it is the 3rd hardest hole on the course.  Interestingly, almost every other hole is well represented by the USGA hole handicap ratings.

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Ok, we goofed, but only a small goof

We just released version 2.5.1 which included the following enhancements:

-- major: when the feature 2-man nassau bet amount was set, it would revert back to $2, until you set it a second time, then it would stick.

-- minor: when you hit "save" after specifying bet details, you are returned all the way back to the dashboard rather than having to hit "done" 4 times to get back to the dashboard.

-- minor:  after scoring a hole, user is returned to either the front9 scorecard or the back9 scorecard, depending on the current hole.  (Used to be returned to the dashboard each time).

Shortly after it left our hands, we realized we'd omitted one other small bug fix that we had readied for this release.  So we have now issued another release, v2.5.2 that has the fix.  Here is a description of the current issue in the latest release:  If you setup a two-man team nassau bet and accept the default bet settings, the bet values will revert to an invalid number - ie the bet values for the front nine, back nine, and the full 18, will all be $-1...  Workaround: Just 'tap' your way into the bet settings for the two-man team nassau bet and set them the way you want them, tap on save and all will be fine.  We expect the fix to be released by Apple around April 24.

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Check out these videos that show you how to use Golf Whiz

Golf Whiz - the cloud-based leaderboard.

This video will give you a good introduction to the new "cloud based" leaderboard functionality that is built into Golf Whiz 2.5.  It provides you with a 3-way demonstration of the leaderboard in action and also provides you with ideas of how the leaderboard can be used, aside from the obvious uses.

Enjoy the new leaderboard feature.  There is no charge for using this feature!

The next video will take you through the new "live scoring" features of Golf Whiz that were introduced in v2.0 of the app.  Enjoy!

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New Release Sent to Apple

We have just submitted a small .release to iTunes.  We have amended four items:

major: when the feature 2-man nassau bet amount was set, it would revert back to $2, until you set it a second time, then it would stick.

minor: The icons on the dashboard were hard to read and they would stick occasionally.  The new ones (see to the right) are easy to read and are lightning fast with no "stickage".

minor: when you hit "save" after specifying bet details, you are returned all the way back to the dashboard rather than having to hit "done" 4 times to get back to the dashboard.

minor:  after scoring a hole, user is returned to either the front9 scorecard or the back9 scorecard, depending on the current hole.  (Used to be returned to the dashboard each time).

We anticipate this release to be available for download on or before Saturday, April 20.

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