Splendid City Sports Scheduler for Mac

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• Best sports scheduling software I could find

  r.kuwonskiJune 17, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been using the Splendid City software now for several months for our youth soccer league and it has worked quite well. We've used it for generating grids for several divisions that share fields, as well as coaches that officiate at the same time. The software automatically adjusted the events to not conflict across the divisions which is exactly what we were looking for. OUTSTANDING! This is undoubtably the best sports scheduling software package. I HAD been evaluating some of the others out there with much higher sticker prices, but none of them had the capabilities of Splendid City and were quite frustrating to use. In addition, this is the only one that runs natively on the Mac and doesn't require Winblows.

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• FANTASTIC !!!

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionAugust 26, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I was very pleased to find this program as there are many alternatives available but none as feature rich as this one. It was a little tricky to learn at first but I was still able to get a working schedule relatively easily just by fudging and groping around with it. As a free lite user, I examined the many available online tutorials at the software web site which helped my get confortable using the program. This program has an addictive quality to it with all the feedback that it offers on the built schedules. I went ahead and made the purchase to upgrade from the lite version to the pro version. Here's where the value is: I had a complex scheduling question that I needed support from the author. I immediately got a response (within an hour or so) and I found the guy to be somewhat of a scheduling genius, and what was great was he helped me get up to speed with the software to solve my own issue. I've never encountered product support of this high quality. Really first rate.

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• FANTASTIC !!!

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionAugust 26, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I was very pleased to find this program as there are many alternatives available but none as feature rich as this one. It was a little tricky to learn at first but I was still able to get a working schedule relatively easily just by fudging and groping around with it. As a free lite user, I examined the many available online tutorials at the software web site which helped my get confortable using the program. This program has an addictive quality to it with all the feedback that it offers on the built schedules. I went ahead and made the purchase to upgrade from the lite version to the pro version. Here's where the value is: I had a complex scheduling question that I needed support from the author. I immediately got a response (within an hour or so) and I found the guy to be somewhat of a scheduling genius, and what was great was he helped me get up to speed with the software to solve my own issue. I've never encountered product support of this high quality. Really first rate.

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• FANTASTIC !!!

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionAugust 26, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I was very pleased to find this program as there are many alternatives available but none as feature rich as this one. It was a little tricky to learn at first but I was still able to get a working schedule relatively easily just by fudging and groping around with it. As a free lite user, I examined the many available online tutorials at the software web site which helped my get confortable using the program. This program has an addictive quality to it with all the feedback that it offers on the built schedules. I went ahead and made the purchase to upgrade from the lite version to the pro version. Here's where the value is: I had a complex scheduling question that I needed support from the author. I immediately got a response (within an hour or so) and I found the guy to be somewhat of a scheduling genius, and what was great was he helped me get up to speed with the software to solve my own issue. I've never encountered product support of this high quality. Really first rate.

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• FANTASTIC !!!

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionAugust 26, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I was very pleased to find this program as there are many alternatives available but none as feature rich as this one. It was a little tricky to learn at first but I was still able to get a working schedule relatively easily just by fudging and groping around with it. As a free lite user, I examined the many available online tutorials at the software web site which helped my get confortable using the program. This program has an addictive quality to it with all the feedback that it offers on the built schedules. I went ahead and made the purchase to upgrade from the lite version to the pro version. Here's where the value is: I had a complex scheduling question that I needed support from the author. I immediately got a response (within an hour or so) and I found the guy to be somewhat of a scheduling genius, and what was great was he helped me get up to speed with the software to solve my own issue. I've never encountered product support of this high quality. Really first rate.

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• Unusable

  julia2August 19, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Creates a data entry window whose bottom is below the bottom edge of my screen. Since the "add" button is off the screen I can't add items. Since the green window size button is not implemented and the lower-right window corner is off the screen I can't fit the window. Game over. In addition, the interface is extremely unintuitive and the Help not very helpful, and the program seems awfully sluggish. All that said, it's a great idea, looks like it's pretty powerful if and when it works, and the price is right.

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• Amended Review

  HorspoolFebruary 2, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />OK, I couldn't remove my earlier review, and the comment I posted is not visible enough, so I am posting this amended review of the Splendid City Pro software. Splendid City will score match play! I was not specific enough in my earlier comments...what I was looking for is the ability to score individual games within a match-play format. If you are willing to score a match as 2 games to 1, it is easily done. If you want (as I do) to score the match as 15-13, 12-15, 15-10, then this has yet to be incorporated into Splendid City. However...and this is a big "however", Michael, the SC developer has personally talked this over with me and has assured me that he will look into the possibility of developing this feature. He sounded very positive that he could do it. We also talked over some ideas for improving the look of our league website...an upgrade for my earlier review about support/documentation. The developer is definitely willing to work with you, and the product (Splendid City Pro) is worth buying.

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• Won't do match play

  HorspoolJanuary 31, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This software works very well for certain sports. I own the pro version, but I wanted it for a volleyball league which requires match scoring, i.e. any sport with match play, like tennis or volleyball which requires a "best of three or five" game sequence for a win, cannot be scored properly. The scoring is only for sports which require one game per win. This is a feature which seems quite important for a sports scheduler/standings program...even for a tournament with a "best of seven" final. Also, publishing and import/export is a bit difficult unless you are publishing to a website.

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• Splendid Sports Scheduler...

  fpetosa00June 7, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Very pleased with the abundance of features for the price. Well worth upgrading to professional as well.

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• A GREAT Sports Scheduling Program!

  pel1230April 9, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I like this program because it is <b>unpretentious</b> and <b>automatically</b> satisfies my specific scheduling needs to a greater degree than any other sports scheduling software I have tried. I had a mixture of inter and intra divisional play of which I needed to concur with the program support person who was quite helpful and forthcoming at every step. I can <b>definitely endorse</b> this program.

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