Many of BLS-2024 features are features CDE and its BLS product line have been doing for years. Such features include:

• Manage as many leagues as you wish (Why pay more for each league or # of teams).
• Authentic support for Microsoft Windows using digitally signed applications for security and authentication purposes which follow software industry standards.
• Built-in league treasurer module to manage finances for a league.
• Manage men, women, mixed and youth leagues.
• Support – CDE provides the largest opportunity for support for your program via online chat, message boards, email, fax, mail and phone. Dedicated AutoScore support phone number.
• Additional features available beyond what is listed.

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.

Social Distancing

• 1 Team per Pair
• Two shifts – Odd lane teams / Even lane teams
• Dark pair between pairs
• Dark lane
• Split Team, Split Shift
• and more!

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

BLS-2024 supports the USBC, CTF and TNBA for the 2023/24 bowling season with the following features:

• USBC Certified Leagues with award detection and forms, membership forms, sanctions forms and more for the 2023/24 season.
• Playing rule changes for the 2023/24 season.
• Generate export file for WinLABS league average import for the 2023/24 season.
• Prints USBC bowler membership cards for the 2023/24 season.
• USBC Youth Pepsi Tournament qualifications processing, including divisional changes and age changes for the 2023/24 season.
• Prebowl / makeup scores can be designated to disqualify for USBC awards for the 2023/24 season.
• CTF awards changes for the 2023/24 season.
• Prints CTF bowler membership cards for the 2023/24 season.
• Prints TNBA awards for the 2023/24 season.
• Prints TNBA bowler membership cards for the 2023/24 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-2024.
• Download program updates from within the program.
• Give your bowlers FREE access to INTERACTIVE standings with LeagueSecretary.com for the 2023/24 bowling season to dynamically show positions, rosters, histories and more
• FREE uploading standings to LeagueSecretary.com f for the 2023/24 bowling season for certified USBC leagues AND non-sanctioned leagues
• FREE cloud backup storage on LeagueSecretary.com for the 2023/24 bowling season to securely backup leagues for emergencies (One Click!)
• FREE uploading standings to USBC’s own Bowl.com for certified leagues for the 2023/24 bowling season.
• Web uploads – Have your own site too? Upload to both LeagueSecretary.com and your own website

Important Information:

This program enhaces the user functionality by supporting sending emails to your bowlers within the application. If using Google Gmail or Microsoft Office 365/Outlook.com servers, this program only accesses your Google account (or Microsoft account) for retreiving the user details and to send emails on your behalf. You can Disconnect the program at any time by disconnecting Google Gmail or Microsoft Outlook from the application by changing the special email server to NONE.

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.
• Create and manage prize funds.

Some of the extras included in the professional edition include:

• Additional report capabilities available only to Pro and A/S editions.
• Lane Assignments can use new random lane assignment generator
• Pair by pair statistics by the week and for season to date
• Attach PDF Standing Sheet to mass email to your league bowlers.
• Additional rule options available only to Pro editions.
• Password protection of leagues, for additional security.
• Custom templates for reports and standing sheets.
• PDF Export of reports, including standing sheets.
• Import bowlers from Bowler Trac / BITS format
• Export bowlers from Bowler Trac / BITS format
• HTML Export of reports, including standing sheets.

The bracket module includes the following:

• Free integrated bracket module to run brackets for your league(s). [For a dedicated Bracket product solution, checkout TBRAC-2022]
• Use to run brackets for fun, to make additional money for yourself, the league, the youth program or your favorite charity.
• USBC allows brackets to be offered for USBC youth leagues, providing winnings go to scholarship fund.
• Eight different bracket groups can be offered.
• Each bracket group can be either scratch or handicap and can be a different price.
• Each bracket group can either be offered for individual bowlers or teams.
• Each individual or team can be entered up to 99 times for a total of 999 brackets per group.
• New and improved bracket registration screen

The included Master Bowler Database features include:

• Includes license for Master Bowler Database 2024, which is in a separate installer.
• New bowler and league based reports.
• Import common bowlers into a league.
• Share bowlers between leagues.
• Merge duplicate bowlers.
• Generate bowler reports across multiple leagues.
• Generate mailing labels.
• Generate Average Books from selected leagues.
• General call lists.
• Import and export between Bowler TRAC.

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

• Network connection to scoring system front desk or back office computer, depending on scoring system.
• Operating System: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows 2016 Server and Windows 2012 Server. Supports 32 bit and 64 bit versions of these operating systems.
  Note: While Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2 are no longer supported by Microsoft and are not officially supported by CDE Software, this program appears to install and operate as designed.
• Hard Drive Storage: 150-200 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 9.0 or later (free from Adobe.com website)
  • Internet connection to use built in Internet features