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Lax Book

Lax Book is an iPad app for taking Men’s & Boy’s lacrosse stats.

Main Page

Teams – input your team and opponents

Games – input season’s games

Scorebook – enter game stats

Reports – various reports for single or

multiple games

Settings – application settings

Settings Page

Set the following for defaults used in

setting up a game

o Period in Quarters – turn on for quarters,

off for halves

o Minutes per period

o Minutes in overtime

o Enable running clock / Goal differential –

when taking stats the clock will not stop if

this is enabled and the goal differential has

been met

Select turn over after caused turn over –

when taking stats the selection of who

turned over the ball is automatically

displayed after caused turnover is entered

Set app colors to running team colors – if turned on the app will use

the team colors for bars and buttons

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Running for team – select the team you are running the app for. Your

teams are defined when creating teams via the team page. By setting

this, reports and games will only show for this team.

Upload team stats – you can upload game stats that can be displayed

in the app “Lax Book Stats”. This button takes you to the setup

screen.

Upload Team Stats Page

Select team and enter code – only teams

you have defined as “My Team” during team

setup will be listed. Go to

http://mobilestatapps.com/lax-book for more

information on obtaining a code.

In order for others to have access to

your teams stats in the “Lax Book Stats” app

you need to give them a code. Select the

team and press the “Email” button. This will

create a code you can send to someone via

email.

Teams Page

+ to add a new team

Swipe left on team row to see the

options for editing the team which is also

where you can update the team’s roster or

deleting a team. Keep in mind that if you

delete a team you will lose all stats for any

game the team was associated with.

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To add the next year to an already existing team, use the edit feature.

When you are in the team page use the + sign next to the year. You will be

prompted as to whether or not you want to bring over players. You can then

delete players that are no longer on the team. Do not just change the name

on numbers for new players if you want the career stats in the companion

Lax Book Stats app to be accurate. Delete the player that is no longer on

the team and add the new one.

Team Page

Team name - required

Head coach – optional

Select season year (In edit mode you can

switch between seasons. If you are adding a

year, you will be asking if you want to bring

over prior year’s players).

If HS/College is on, you will have the

option to set the player’s year in school for

reports.

If this is one of your teams, make sure

“My Team” is on. This feature is used in

reporting and controls setting the default

team for the application in case you run for

multiple teams (done under Settings).

If the team is set as one of your teams, you can set the colors for the

team. If turned on in settings, the app will use these colors for bars

and buttons.

+ to add new player

Swipe to the left on the player to edit or delete.

Press the save icon in the top bar to save

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Player Page

Jersey # - required (If a player changes jersey

number during the season, just modify the

number. You do not need to add a new player.

The stats will show under their new number).

Position – optional

First name – optional

Last name – optional

Grade - optional

Active – defaults to an active player, you can

turn off if you want to remove a player from

showing up while keeping stats during a game.

Press the save icon in the top bar to save. The

app will stay on this screen to allow multiple

player entry. Press the X in the top bar when

done.

Games Page

+ to add new game

Swipe to the left to edit or delete a game. All

stats will be deleted for the game.

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Game Page

Date/Time of game

Home team switch – on if your team is

the home team, off if your team is the

visiting team

Opponent

Use the switches below each team to

disable any stats you do not want to take or

report on for either team

Set any game specific items related to

period, time and running clock.

Game finished – this gets set when a

game is complete. If for any reason you

need to modify stats for a completed game,

turn this off, save and make any

adjustments under scorebook.

Press the save icon in the top bar to save

Scorebook Page

Select game for stats by tapping

Left swipe to upload game for “Lax Book

Stats”

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Stats Page

Press on FO label to set player taking

face off. The players who are selected for

taking FO during the game will appear in a

button list before all the other players.

Press on Goalie label to set player in

goal. Only players who have their position as

goalie during player setup are listed. You can

use the “Add” button if a player isn’t listed.

Press on team name to set starters and

in home player. You swipe to the left of the

player to set these.

Press on score to see a game summary

If the start time of the period is wrong

when you first start, make sure you have it

correct in the game setting page. This will only work if the game stats

haven’t been started.

Use the – and + around the time left to make any minor adjustments

to the time left in the period

When time has run out in a period. Double tap the period label to

move to the next period.

Start the timer using the “Start” button, which switches to a “Stop”

button when the timer is counting down. The timer will stop

automatically when “Score” or “Penalty” is pressed unless in running

clock. Timeout will always stop the timer.

Clear and Failed Clear buttons log the stat for the team. No other

screens appear.

The other buttons are defined in more detail below

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Shot button Ground ball/TO/CTO buttons

Start/Stop button available if the timer

status needs to be stopped or started

and not in running clock while entering

shot information.

If the shot missed the goal, press the

“Miss” button otherwise press the goalie

for a save or the goal if the shot hit the

pipe. Whatever is selected turns yellow.

Next press the player number who took

the shot, you can press the “Add”

button to add a player number not

shown or “Team” if you do not know

who took the shot.

Press the player number who the stat

goes to, you can press the “Add” button

to add a player number not shown or

“Team” if you do not know who.

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Face Off button

When the Face Off button is pressed the player defined as the FO player gets the

faceoff win.

Select the player who got the ground ball off the face off. If there was no ground ball

press the “No Ground Ball” button or if there was a violation by the other team press

the “Violation” button.

Score button

If the goal was either a man up or man down goal, turn on the appropriate switch.

Press the player who score the goal, then the assist screen will pop up.

Press the “Unassisted” button or the player who assisted the goal.

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Penalty button

Press type of penalty, use Other if not shown

Turn on switch for Personal or Technical

Turn on switch for Full-time if not releasable

Select length of penalty

Press “Select Player” to bring up player selection screen

The penalty will be shown above the “Time Out” button.

o Releasable penalties, the countdown will show in black and turn to red for the

last 10 seconds.

o Full time penalties, the countdown will show in blue and turn to purple for the

last 10 seconds.

o If there are multiple penalties for a player, the total time will show in the

countdown.

o If the penalties are releasable, a score by the opponent will clear the penalty

from the countdown.

o If in running clock, a new button will appear to start the penalties. Once play

starts you need to press this button to start the countdown on the new

penalties.

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Display/Edit Stats

Swipe from the left of the stats entry page to see a listing of stats starting with the

most recent. You can scroll be swiping up and down on this list.

Swipe to the left on a specific stat to delete

Double tap to edit a specific stat and you will see the second screen

o This screen is a sample of editting a score. This gives you the option of adding

an assist and also changing man-up/man-down. These options do not exist on

a normal stat.

o Press update when changes are complete.

o You cannot update penalties from here. Those are explained next.

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Display/Edit Penalties

Press on the Penalties label under the Score button to see a list of penalties

Swipe to the left to delete the penalty

Double tap to edit the penalty and you will see the second screen

o Press the update button after making any adjustments to the penalty

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Reports Page

Select game(s) to be reported on

Select either Summary, Player or Penalites

from the bottom bar for the report

You can email any reports using the email icon

in the header bar from any of the reports