New for 2011
- 68 Teams - The site fully supports the new 68-team format and has been prepared to handle future expansion up to 96 teams with no change to the way it works. There is now only one entry form and the play-in games have been added to columns at the far left and far right of the form. When the NCAA expands the number of teams in the first round, the number of games in these columns will grow without changing the other aspects of the form. As before, pool administrators can elect to ignore the first round (play-in) games by setting their pool to "Immediate 64" (formerly called "Start Early"), which uses a 64-team field with dummy place-holders for the play-in game winners. There is also a new option called "Early Bird" which lets players begin creating entries on selection Sunday, including picking the play-in games. But after those games start, players can still create/update entries - they just can't pick or change selections for the play-in games.
- Reports Organization - The reports section has been modified to make navigation between reports and back to the main menu easier for players and administrators. Also, the reports that were previously published on a web server and possibly viewable by others outside their pool have now been secured inside each pool. In order to preserve the ease of players accessing the reports, we have added an option to "Keep Players Logged-in" (see below).
- Download Reports - This option will allow administrators and players to download a zip file of reports for the current year or any previously-available years.
- Keep Players Logged-in - This option will set a cookie in the user's browser so that if they come back to the site from the same browser, they will not have to log-in again. This option can be turned-off by the administrator. Also, if the player explicitly logs out by clicking on the "Log-out" link on the main menu, they will have to enter the pool player password the next time they access the pool.
- Keep Administrator Logged-in - This option will set a cookie in the administrator's browser so that if that person comes back to the site from the same browser, they will not have to log-in again. This option can be turned-off by the administrator. Also, if the administrator explicitly logs out by clicking on the "Log-out" link on the main menu, they will have to enter the pool administrative password the next time they access the pool.
- Context Menu on Master List - This feature adds a pop-up menu that appears when the administrator clicks on the down-arrowhead icon at the left of each entry in the master list. From this menu the administrator can mark one entry as paid, unpaid, active, inactive, or view or delete an entry without having to select it and click one of the action buttons at the top of the page. Those buttons are still available and are useful for acting on multiply-selected records (such as marking paid).