Starting a new year

[us6krums]

OK, so I have the new leagues created for this year. I took the players from last year and put them on my new team, assigned to the new leagues. And since I only have this year's leagues activated, the stats for all those players don't show up, and neither do all those teams in the team list. Perfect.

Now, what is the best way of doing all that on another iPhone or iTouch. One I have from last year has all the same data, but can't I just overwrite (or import). What will be imported, just the active leagues or the whole set of data. Same goes for a blank iTouch that wasn't used to score last year. All the data or just this year's setup?

Thanks! Looking forward to another great year with iScore!

[OhioTex]

us6krums

.... what is the best way of doing all that on another iPhone or iTouch. One I have from last year has all the same data, but can't I just overwrite (or import). What will be imported, just the active leagues or the whole set of data. Same goes for a blank iTouch that wasn't used to score last year. All the data or just this year's setup?....

You will need to ask yourself and decide if you need last year (or any prior year) history on the 'other "secondary" devices' or can they just go with a clean slate and future games, teams, players, leagues for next year, leaving only the original device holding all the history?

couple approaches.

A) if you need all devices to have history...
the solution is probably to have FTM do the work for you, (subject to their willingness, availability and time). it would go something like this:
I) Export the data from all your devices.
ii) email support with request and instructions with all the device ids.
say something like, I want the database on this "abc device", to be copied and duplicated on these "xyz device(s)", I realize I will loose forever all the data on those "xyz devices". and that is ok by me.
iii) FTM would do the back end work, email you when done, and
iv) you would then import to each "XYZ device(s)" the data base.
this approach works great for new device, for old device from last year, that means you want it totally erased and replaced with data from "abc device" (which you indicated is ok, and understood). the downside is now all units have potentially bloated databases, slower exports and larger data usage and clutter in player, team, game and league managers.


B) if you want the other devices to be 'purged of history and cleaned" for next year...and not burden with big database and extraneous history, you would do "data sharing" . it goes something like this:
I) Option > Export your "abc device",
ii) Option data share from web from each 'XYZ device(s)' from 'abc device' the teams and players, that should be fast and easy.

A small twist is leagues, league assignments do not transfer when data sharing, if you only have one or a few leagues or teams for future not a problem. Just remember, to set up the new league before you data share, and enable it, and then the transferred data will adopt enabled leagues. if you have a lot of future leagues or teams, that just makes it more tedious.

[PetroGuy]

I am in the same boat for fall. My son will be playing with basically the same team, but there will be some kids dropped and some new additions. I would want the stats from the previous year to still be live but not necessarily mixed in with the current team. I am thinking about starting a new team and just including the age with the team name. I would purchase an additional team website for this new team. Then I would have the last season's team archived in the old team website and this year's team would have it's own space. The historic tracking of player's data would still be available.

Does anyone see any problems with this that I have overlooked (aside from the cost of an extra team website)?

[FTMSupport]

That actually sounds like the way things are intended to be used. When you enable all leagues, you will be able to see historical stats for the returning players. When you just have this season's league enabled, you will see stats for just this year.