SQBS, a Quiz Bowl Statistics Program for Windows

Welcome to the home of the easy-to-use, robust, flexible, powerful, and free program for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament.  

Anyone willing to help testing would be greatly appreciated.All comments, suggestions, and bug reports are most welcome (chrissewell@hotmail.com).Thanks to all those who have given suggestions and/or helped with testing for Version 4.0, especially Scott Williams, Matt Bruce, Daniel Greenstein, Craig Barker, Chris Romero, and Eric Smith.

SQBS has been used in a number of tournaments, including

NAQT ICT 2007
NAQT ICT 2006 Division I
NAQT ICT 2006 Division II
NAQT ICT 2005 Division I
NAQT ICT 2005 Division II
NAQT ICT 2004 Division I
NAQT ICT 2004 Division II
NAQT ICT 2003 Division I
ACF Nationals 2006
ACF Nationals 2005
PACE Nationals 2005

For the more complete list of tournaments previously listed on this page, which is no longer kept up-to-date, click here.

All you need to run the program is a Windows computer.  All you need to do to install it is to download and run the setup program.  Then just double-click it to run it.

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Example Web Report Generated by the Program

Version 4.0 Documentation (including screen shots)

  Most recent change to download files:  Version 3.2: 02/14/04, Version 3.3: 10/10/04, Version 4.0: 11/17/07
If you downloaded before then, you should download the updated version.

Features

New features in Version 4.0 include

• Automatic Schedule Generators
• Full Round Robins, including support for tournaments with a limited number of rooms
• Real-Time Swiss Pairing (including repeat avoidance) based on stats entered in SQBS
• Random, Generalized Scheduling for virtually any number of teams, rooms, and rounds, guaranteeing equal numbers of games for all teams and repeat match avoidance
• File merging, allowing parts of a tournament entered independently to be combined, particularly useful for very large tournaments with multiple stat keepers (this feature was in Version 3.3 Beta)
• Optional support for tracking bonus bounce-back statistics in addition to a team's own bonuses
• Many new warnings, as well as detailed descriptions of the specific warnings that appear and precise control over which warnings are enabled
• Automatic Bonus Calculations update in real-time as you enter data, not just when you tab to Previous or Next or enter the game
• British Report Style option, replacing all references to "toss-ups" in the reports by "starters"
• Auto-save option
• New keyboard shortcuts
• New tie-breaker options for team standings, including strength-of-schedule and points per toss-up heard (in addition to existing head-to-head and points per game options)
• Bug fix for tie-breakers in circle-of-death
• Unavailable options grayed out when forfeit selected or games played for a player is zero

Below are the features of Versions 3.2 and later.

Options

• Allows up to four different types of toss-up questions, worth any amount each, making it compatible with virtually every common quiz bowl format including NAQT (15/10/-5), ACF and CB (10/-5), and others, such as 20/15/10/5 formats.
• Optionally tracks bonuses heard, bonus points, and bonus conversion statistics manually or automatically; either enter bonuses heard and bonus points while entering each game or allow the program to calculate these number automatically (from total score, input toss-ups, and if applicable input 60-second round scores). Automatic bonus calculations can even correct for overtime games.
• Optionally tracks number of toss-ups heard and calculates points per toss-ups heard for teams and players. Allows players to be ranked either by points per game or by points per toss-up heard.
• Optionally tracks specialty statistics such as power to neg ratios and cumulative round statistics, providing information about the relative difficulty of packets' toss-ups, bonuses, and overall.
• Optionally tracks sixty-second ("lightning") round points (for applicable tournament formats).
• Backwards compatible: Import tournament files from SQBS Version 1.x or Version 2.0 into Version 3.0.
• Optionally allows multiple divisions, allowing separate standings for each division while combining individual rankings and allowing interdivisional matches. (For completely independent divisions, multiple copies of the program may be launched.)
• Break win-loss record ties in standings either by points per game or head-to-head (followed by points per game if still tied).

Rosters

• Enter any number of teams with any number of players each.
• Easy-to-use roster input window allows additions of teams or players or changes to any names to be made at any time.
• Type rosters into roster entry form, or read all rosters in from a text file.
• Teams can be entered in any order and then sorted so that they appear in drop-down boxes and in reports in alphabetical order.

Game Input

• Enter all game statistics in one easy-to-use window.
• Allows scrolling back and forth among games and jumping to specific games, so changes to previously entered games can easily be made at any time.
• Select the two teams from drop-down menus, and the players' names and all data entry boxes applicable to the chosen options automatically appear.
• Individual points are calculated automatically from question values and the number of questions of each type entered for each player, and they appear on the screen instantly.
• Statistics for bonuses, toss-ups heard, and sixty-second rounds appear if applicable to the chosen options and may be entered or (for bonuses) automatically calculated.
• Games may be assigned round numbers and/or any alphanumeric id (sequential numbering is used as the default), which can be used to later query for a specific game or to sort the games, so they can be ordered correctly on the screen and in the scoreboard report even if they are entered out of order.
• Forfeits, overtimes, and ties can all be handled with ease.
• Substitutions can be handled by games played statistics. Either enter as a decimal (such as "0.5"), or as the ratio of toss-ups heard to total toss-ups in the game (such as "11/23") for greater accuracy.
• Optionally produces warning messages when entered game data is inconsistent.
• Games can be deleted with a single click.

Reports

• With one click, an entire fully-formatted web report is created, including
• Team Detail : Complete game-by-game statistics and totals for each team, and individual stats for all of the team's players
• Individual Detail : Complete game-by-game statistics and totals for each player
• Scoreboard : Boxscores of all games, including concise individual stats and bonus conversions
• Team Standings : Won-loss records and complete statistics for all teams, sorted by winning percentage (and secondarily by ppg)
• Individual Standings : Complete statistics for all players, sorted by ppg or by points per toss-up heard.
• Round Reports : Average number of points per game, toss-up points per toss-up heard, and points per bonus for each round, useful for comparing the difficulty of packets
• Stat Key : Provides full explanations of all statistics in the reports
• User can select which reports to include and which not to include in a web report, and can provide names other than the defaults for each generated file.
• The pages are all interlinked, including links from team and player names in the standings to their game-by-game details. View an example of a web report generated by the program by clicking here.
• One-click web publishing. Once the user enters his/her FTP settings, full web reports can be automatically uploaded to a website with a single click using built-in FTP.
• Web pages can use a user-provided cascading style sheet.
• A tournament name may be entered, which will appear on all reports.
• Immediately print pre-formatted team standings, individual standings, and game details reports with the click of a button directly from the program.

Installation and Help

• InstallShield installer automates installation.
• Fully-integrated Windows Help System.

Special Three-Team Version for World Bible Quiz Format

• Three-team version, allowing two or three-team matches, now available, designed for World Bible Quiz format tournaments.

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