{"id":2640,"date":"2018-05-16T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2018-05-16T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:20:55","slug":"new-match-charting-project-excel-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/new-match-charting-project-excel-template\/","title":{"rendered":"New Match Charting Project Excel Template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in more than two years, I&#8217;m ready to release a new, substantially improved version of <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/charting\/template\/\">the MatchChart excel template<\/a>, the platform on which volunteers log matches for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/meta.html\">Match Charting Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New in version 0.2.0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Color-coding of the players, as well as game-ending and set-ending rows, to make it easier to keep track of where you are in a match;<\/li>\n<li>A new shot code for drop volleys, to differentiate them from other volleys;<\/li>\n<li>Total points won and total points shown in the MatchStats tab;<\/li>\n<li>Options to handle certain now-rare match formats, such as tiebreaks at 8-all (as in some 1970s Wimbledons) and matches with no tiebreaks at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re already an experienced contributor, just <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/charting\/template\/\">click here to download the new version<\/a>. Take a quick look through the Instructions tab, as I&#8217;ve highlighted the relevant changes.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to the MCP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/the-match-charting-project-quick-start-guide\/\">please take a look at my Quick Start Guide<\/a>, after which you can give the new template a spin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in more than two years, I&#8217;m ready to release a new, substantially improved version of the MatchChart excel template, the platform on which volunteers log matches for the Match Charting Project. New in version 0.2.0: Color-coding of the players, as well as game-ending and set-ending rows, to make it easier to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/new-match-charting-project-excel-template\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Match Charting Project Excel Template<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-match-charting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}