BLS-2023 Standard

Some of the features for the financial management portion of BLS include:

• Record payments and manage treasurer duties with the built-in treasurer module to manage league finances to track by bowler or by team.
• Keep track of membership card payments.
• Track sponsor money.
• Track and assign fines.
• Allow different pricing for regulars and subs.
• Set up and manager prize funds

A sample of some of our general features include:

League Types:

• Up to 6 games of bowling per week.
• Scratch or Handicap Leagues.
• Up to 190 teams per league.
• Roster sizes up to 12 per team.
• Up to 95 weeks per league.
• Men, Women, Boys, Girls, Adult, Youth or Adult/Youth league support.
• Travelling leagues.

Split Season Support:

• Up to 8 splits in a season.
• Definable split weeks.
• Reset specific items when a new split is reached, such as team points, team pinfall, score recognition and more.
• Rank standings by the split or by the season.

Legal Lineup Control:

• Configurable legal lineup minimum requirements.
• Fix roster support.
• Adjust lineups when advancing weeks, such as re-arrange from low to high average.
• Team average cap limits.

Individual Averages Control:

• Set requirements for use of book or entering average for a period of time.
• Set requirements for bowlers without a book or entering average for a period of time.
• Cushion average and declining cushion average support.
• 3-6-9 average format for first 3 weeks when book average not used
• Pin drop limits, such as pins a player can drop from book/entering average.
• Minimum average requirement.

Handicap League Control:

• Same or different handicap percentage and base for genders.
• Support for leagues adopting USBC Rule 100g-5 regarding capping of handicap scores.
• Negative handicapping support.
• Maximum handicap limiting support.
• Support for team handicap methods of:
  • Summing bowler handicaps
  • Team average basis
  • Difference between team averages

Subs, Absentee, forfeit and vacant bowler control:

• Absentee score by specific pinfall or percentage.
• Pin drop rule support for absentees missing consecutive weeks or cumulative number of weeks.
• Vacant bowler can be based on gender score or be based on a specific score or have a different percentage and base then others.
• Bye team rule support or BYE team support.
• Permanent Substitutes support
• Temporary/Roving Substitutes support

Points control:

• Team points for game and series, handicap and/or scratch.
• Individual match points (bowler vs bowler) for game and series, handicap and/or scratch.
• Bonus points.
• Peterson points (1 pin per designated amount of pinfall).
• Regressive points.
• UBL league support.

League awards:

• Scratch and/or handicap game and series awards
• Game and series above average
• Most improved
• High average.
• Limit bowlers/teams to 1 awards or all that they qualify for.

Special Features:

• Mid-Season startup to more easily start a league in BLS when season already started.
• Multiple Teams per Lane
• Bowling against two teams per week.
• Supports Prebowls and Makeups/Postbowls in an simple to use format
• Supports overrides for averages, handicaps, wins and losses

Additional features include:

Lane Assignments

• USBC Schedule support.
• Position rounds.
• Reverse position rounds.
• Different starting lane.
• Holiday support.
• Multiple shift support.
• Multiple teams per lane support.

Score Entry

• Easy to use score entry screen.
• Rapid entry of scores.
• View calculated columns to assist with diagnosing questions, such as scores with handicap, average of bowler per game, etc.
• Baker score support.

Bowler Management

• Easy to manage bowlers
• View bowler history at a glance

Supports the USBC, CTF and TNBA for the 2022/23 bowling season with the following features:

• USBC Certified Leagues with award detection and forms, membership forms, sanctions forms and more for the 22/23 season.
• Playing rule changes for the 22/23 season.
• Generate export file for WinLABS league average import for the 22/23 season.
• Prints USBC bowler membership cards for the 22/23 season.
• USBC Youth Pepsi Tournament qualifications processing, including divisional changes and age changes for the 22/23 season.
• Prebowl / makeup scores can be designated to disqualify for USBC awards for the 22/23 season.
• CTF awards changes for the 22/23 season.
• Prints CTF bowler membership cards for the 22/23 season.
• Prints TNBA awards for the 22/23 season.
• Prints TNBA bowler membership cards for the 22/23 season.

Some of the report features include:

• Standing sheet can have different league title than description for league for opening leagues.
• Reprinting of scores redesigned and consumes less paper and contains more details for paper trail / audit purposes.
• Multiple Reports are managed with customization of league standings, detailed reports, season histories and more.
• Add graphics and watermarks from our bowling clipart CD-ROM’s or your own creations. You control size, position and effects
• Fonts customization within multiple reports, changing font style, size and color.
• Print plain paper recaps
• Print on available laser, inkjet and dot matrix printers using forms officially approved by CDE Software with our official recap partner Databar.

Some of the Internet enabled features include:

• Single one-click upload to your websites comes standard with all editions of BLS-2023.
• Download program updates from within the program.
• Give your bowlers FREE access to INTERACTIVE standings with LeagueSecretary.com for the 2022/2023 bowling season to dynamically show positions, rosters, histories and more
• FREE uploading standings to LeagueSecretary.com f for the 2022/2023 bowling season for certified USBC leagues AND non-sanctioned leagues
• FREE cloud backup storage on LeagueSecretary.com for the 2022/2023 bowling season to securely backup leagues for emergencies (One Click!)
• FREE uploading standings to USBC’s own Bowl.com for certified leagues
• FREE uploading standings to USBC’s own Bowl.com for certified Sport leagues
• Web uploads – Have your own site too? Upload to both LeagueSecretary.com and your own website

The following are systems requirements to install and operate this software:

• Operating System: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows 2016 Server and Windows 2012 Server. Supports Intel/AMD based 32 bit and 64 bit versions of these operating systems.
• Hard Drive Storage: 200-250 megs free space on hard drive (95 MB additional hard disk space required for installation. Space used may be less depending on prerequisite installs already present)
• Display: 1024×768 or higher display resolution with greater than 256 color depth (16 bit color recommended) with 32 MB of graphics memory.
• Display Fonts: Display font size to Small Fonts (100%)
• Processor: Minimum operating system requirements, 1.4 gigahertz or faster recommended
• RAM/Memory: Minimum operating system requirements, 2 gigabytes or more recommended.
• Optical Drive: CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive 4x or faster (compatible with reading CD-R’s) – Not needed if installation via download.
• USB Port: Not needed if installation via CD-ROM or electronic download from destination machine.
• Printer: A physical printer or printer driver must be installed.
• Pointing Device: Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
• Software Prerequisites:
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader (free from Adobe.com website)
  • Internet connection to use built in Internet features