RCP Software
Bowling Software
Bowling Software
Welcome to the home of easy to use and inexpensive bowling software by
RCP Software for scoring bowling sweepers, specialized tournaments, and
special events. This software was created by a regular league bowler (3
perfect games) for other bowlers, not by some computer geeks who are
unfamiliar with the bowling world and just want to make a buck off league
secretaries by selling them buggy, expensive, hard to use software.
Our first commercial product was RCP SweeperScore, a handy application for
quickly scoring simple or complicated bowling league sweepers, league or
small house tournaments, and pot games. It also handles fairly large singles
and doubles events. This easy to use bowling software runs on an average
Windows-based laptop computer and makes life much easier for league
secretaries who want to have a sweeper at the end of the league, possibly
include interesting events like round robin mixed doubles (every man paired
with every woman and every woman paired with every man) along with
standard events such as team events, and still get the sweeper scored quickly
and accurately. RCP SweeperScore requires Microsoft Excel, version 2002 or
later. The instructions are written in Microsoft Word. The current version as of
early 2010 is v3.7. There are several sizes/variations within that main version
to handle different situations. This is likely the last version that will be written
for Excel 2002 and 2003.
There will be a more powerful and versatile version developed during 2010
that will require Excel 2007. Tentatively it will be called SuperSweeperScore.
To get some idea of what events you can score with our software, look at
Bowling Events & Appropriate Software.
In the future we will strive to create even more innovative bowling software
applications to make life easier for league secretaries, tournament club
managers, bowling associations, bowling centers, and others who want to
quickly score simple or complicated sweepers, tournaments, and special
events, and for bowlers who just don't want to wait around a long time while
that complex sweeper, tournament, or large doubles or singles event is being
scored on paper, or with old, cranky DOS-based software that looks like it
belongs in the Smithsonian, or with proprietary format software that is
unreliable. Software we provide will score these events in seconds, even when
they have thousands of entrants.
RCP Software is now the leader, and will continue to be, for supplying software
to score bowling sweepers and other special bowling events. Our software will
always cost less than and outperform other commercial software for scoring
special events. All bowling software created by RCP Software will be
inexpensive as well as easy to use.
We heard complaints about bowling software for scoring league sweepers not
being available at all or not being available in an integrated form that will allow
the same three games bowled in the sweeper to be scored multiple ways
(such as men's doubles, women's doubles, men's singles, women's singles,
teams, mixed doubles, hi-low doubles, generic doubles, etc.) in one software
application. People told us they searched the Internet in vain and could only
find expensive software that didn't even cover all the events they wanted to run.
They would have to buy several different programs and pay a king's ransom
for each one in order to handle all the events they had in mind. And then they
would have to enter the data more than once. So they just gave up and
continued doing it on paper, often taking hours to score their sweepers while
annoyed bowlers waited for the results.
And during 2008 I heard several stories about league secretaries trying to
score events with old DOS-based software or proprietary format software that
froze up, leaving them unable to retrieve the data they had entered or to do
anything with it. And then some of them saw another league secretary running
SweeperScore which calculated results in seconds, displaying the results in an
easy to read format. Then they called RCP Software. Two of the best "Are you
kidding me?" stories came out of Las Vegas where SweeperScore was used to
instantly score some huge sweepers with other envious league secretaries
watching.
Software for scoring even simple events like a singles tournament is often
priced at $150 or more by previously existing software companies according to
other bowlers who have checked around and searched the Internet, and based
on our own searches as well. And that outrageous price is for scoring only
1500 bowlers bowling only 12 games! That is just plain ridiculous. Large
singles tournaments can have thousands of bowlers. And for a special event
you might want to bowl more than 12 games. How about 21 or 30 or 40 games
in some qualifying event? I have heard people were quoted prices like $500 for
such software. Special software for scoring a large singles tournament or
qualifier rounds that can involve many games has been available for several
years from RCP Software and at a far lower price. Look at RCP Software's
SuperSingles which was created in May 2007 to run on Excel 2002 or 2003.
SuperSingles will handle 3,000 singles bowlers bowling up to 40 games (i.e.
120,000 scores) for $79.95. Even larger capacity software is available as of
April 2010 in standard form that works with Excel 2007 or later, or by special
order, but we won't pick your pockets clean, unlike the software design
predators out there.
As of April 2010, a newer version of software to handle singles or doubles is
available. SuperSingles-n-Doubles for 2010 has even more advanced features
(including handling Mulligan singles or doubles), has a larger capacity (4,000
singles or 8,000 doubles bowlers), special tracking ID # compatibility with the
new-for-2010 BowlerTracker, and is powered by Excel 2007.
All bowling software created by RCP Software will be in standard, widely
available, and easily usable formats unlike the bowling software previously
available from other vendors which is commonly in highly proprietary formats.
One consequence of using Excel that recent purchasers discovered is that the
software was very easy to learn. One 2007 customer bought SweeperScore on
a Thursday and used it successfully that Saturday to score a singles event.
Some applications already have embedded self-teaching tutorials. That will be
the future standard.
During 2008 there were several inquiries about software to instantly calculate
payoff distributions. A new application to handle that task was released May
15, 2008. A fully tested full-featured version of that payout calculation software
(RCP DivvyItUp!) is now available by e-mail to any current or former
purchasers of SweeperScore Pro v3.7 for an additional $20. It can instantly
provide a wide variety of payout lists for prize funds ranging from small
amounts up to tens of thousands of dollars. Later, this payout calculation
software and some other features (some still under design consideration) will
be integrated into later versions of SweeperScore Pro. A lite version is already
embedded in SuperSingles up to the space available. Another lite version is
embedded in the new SuperSingles-n-Doubles. The full 2.0 version of RCP
DivvyItUp! is also available as a standalone application for $39.95 (plus $3.30
tax for California residents).
The new 2010 version of DivvyItUp! has even larger capacities and more
distributions. It will handle payouts to 5, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50,
55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, and 150 winners, as of this writing in late April 2010. It is
being tested in late April and may be expanded even further, depending on
feedback. It has handy tools for quickly determining amounts when several
people or teams are tied. It requires Microsoft Excel 2007 or later.
The 2010 and later versions of SweeperScore which will be known as
SuperSweeperScore will also have some greatly expanded capabilities to
handle really large leagues or events with really large round-robin mixed
doubles events. Other features may also be added. The next version of this
mega-capability software will be available after all beta testing of new
components and user ideas incorporation is complete.
If you have a request for software you don't already see at this Web site or
which hasn't been mentioned as being under construction, call Richard at
(530) 306-6370 (cell) and tell us what you want.
RCP Software for scoring bowling sweepers, specialized tournaments, and
special events. This software was created by a regular league bowler (3
perfect games) for other bowlers, not by some computer geeks who are
unfamiliar with the bowling world and just want to make a buck off league
secretaries by selling them buggy, expensive, hard to use software.
Our first commercial product was RCP SweeperScore, a handy application for
quickly scoring simple or complicated bowling league sweepers, league or
small house tournaments, and pot games. It also handles fairly large singles
and doubles events. This easy to use bowling software runs on an average
Windows-based laptop computer and makes life much easier for league
secretaries who want to have a sweeper at the end of the league, possibly
include interesting events like round robin mixed doubles (every man paired
with every woman and every woman paired with every man) along with
standard events such as team events, and still get the sweeper scored quickly
and accurately. RCP SweeperScore requires Microsoft Excel, version 2002 or
later. The instructions are written in Microsoft Word. The current version as of
early 2010 is v3.7. There are several sizes/variations within that main version
to handle different situations. This is likely the last version that will be written
for Excel 2002 and 2003.
There will be a more powerful and versatile version developed during 2010
that will require Excel 2007. Tentatively it will be called SuperSweeperScore.
To get some idea of what events you can score with our software, look at
Bowling Events & Appropriate Software.
In the future we will strive to create even more innovative bowling software
applications to make life easier for league secretaries, tournament club
managers, bowling associations, bowling centers, and others who want to
quickly score simple or complicated sweepers, tournaments, and special
events, and for bowlers who just don't want to wait around a long time while
that complex sweeper, tournament, or large doubles or singles event is being
scored on paper, or with old, cranky DOS-based software that looks like it
belongs in the Smithsonian, or with proprietary format software that is
unreliable. Software we provide will score these events in seconds, even when
they have thousands of entrants.
RCP Software is now the leader, and will continue to be, for supplying software
to score bowling sweepers and other special bowling events. Our software will
always cost less than and outperform other commercial software for scoring
special events. All bowling software created by RCP Software will be
inexpensive as well as easy to use.
We heard complaints about bowling software for scoring league sweepers not
being available at all or not being available in an integrated form that will allow
the same three games bowled in the sweeper to be scored multiple ways
(such as men's doubles, women's doubles, men's singles, women's singles,
teams, mixed doubles, hi-low doubles, generic doubles, etc.) in one software
application. People told us they searched the Internet in vain and could only
find expensive software that didn't even cover all the events they wanted to run.
They would have to buy several different programs and pay a king's ransom
for each one in order to handle all the events they had in mind. And then they
would have to enter the data more than once. So they just gave up and
continued doing it on paper, often taking hours to score their sweepers while
annoyed bowlers waited for the results.
And during 2008 I heard several stories about league secretaries trying to
score events with old DOS-based software or proprietary format software that
froze up, leaving them unable to retrieve the data they had entered or to do
anything with it. And then some of them saw another league secretary running
SweeperScore which calculated results in seconds, displaying the results in an
easy to read format. Then they called RCP Software. Two of the best "Are you
kidding me?" stories came out of Las Vegas where SweeperScore was used to
instantly score some huge sweepers with other envious league secretaries
watching.
Software for scoring even simple events like a singles tournament is often
priced at $150 or more by previously existing software companies according to
other bowlers who have checked around and searched the Internet, and based
on our own searches as well. And that outrageous price is for scoring only
1500 bowlers bowling only 12 games! That is just plain ridiculous. Large
singles tournaments can have thousands of bowlers. And for a special event
you might want to bowl more than 12 games. How about 21 or 30 or 40 games
in some qualifying event? I have heard people were quoted prices like $500 for
such software. Special software for scoring a large singles tournament or
qualifier rounds that can involve many games has been available for several
years from RCP Software and at a far lower price. Look at RCP Software's
SuperSingles which was created in May 2007 to run on Excel 2002 or 2003.
SuperSingles will handle 3,000 singles bowlers bowling up to 40 games (i.e.
120,000 scores) for $79.95. Even larger capacity software is available as of
April 2010 in standard form that works with Excel 2007 or later, or by special
order, but we won't pick your pockets clean, unlike the software design
predators out there.
As of April 2010, a newer version of software to handle singles or doubles is
available. SuperSingles-n-Doubles for 2010 has even more advanced features
(including handling Mulligan singles or doubles), has a larger capacity (4,000
singles or 8,000 doubles bowlers), special tracking ID # compatibility with the
new-for-2010 BowlerTracker, and is powered by Excel 2007.
All bowling software created by RCP Software will be in standard, widely
available, and easily usable formats unlike the bowling software previously
available from other vendors which is commonly in highly proprietary formats.
One consequence of using Excel that recent purchasers discovered is that the
software was very easy to learn. One 2007 customer bought SweeperScore on
a Thursday and used it successfully that Saturday to score a singles event.
Some applications already have embedded self-teaching tutorials. That will be
the future standard.
During 2008 there were several inquiries about software to instantly calculate
payoff distributions. A new application to handle that task was released May
15, 2008. A fully tested full-featured version of that payout calculation software
(RCP DivvyItUp!) is now available by e-mail to any current or former
purchasers of SweeperScore Pro v3.7 for an additional $20. It can instantly
provide a wide variety of payout lists for prize funds ranging from small
amounts up to tens of thousands of dollars. Later, this payout calculation
software and some other features (some still under design consideration) will
be integrated into later versions of SweeperScore Pro. A lite version is already
embedded in SuperSingles up to the space available. Another lite version is
embedded in the new SuperSingles-n-Doubles. The full 2.0 version of RCP
DivvyItUp! is also available as a standalone application for $39.95 (plus $3.30
tax for California residents).
The new 2010 version of DivvyItUp! has even larger capacities and more
distributions. It will handle payouts to 5, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50,
55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, and 150 winners, as of this writing in late April 2010. It is
being tested in late April and may be expanded even further, depending on
feedback. It has handy tools for quickly determining amounts when several
people or teams are tied. It requires Microsoft Excel 2007 or later.
The 2010 and later versions of SweeperScore which will be known as
SuperSweeperScore will also have some greatly expanded capabilities to
handle really large leagues or events with really large round-robin mixed
doubles events. Other features may also be added. The next version of this
mega-capability software will be available after all beta testing of new
components and user ideas incorporation is complete.
If you have a request for software you don't already see at this Web site or
which hasn't been mentioned as being under construction, call Richard at
(530) 306-6370 (cell) and tell us what you want.
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