2010 Womens Bracket Available

Once again, a helpful FreeTrak user (Paul G.) has provided us with a 2010 Women's Tourney bracket.  Until I get a chance to get a download link posted, please email me (freetrak@gmail.com) if you would like this XML file.  Thanks, Paul!

How to manage (export/import) picks

Currently, a FreeTrak administrator has two options for managing picks.  And you can easily use BOTH methods as needed.  (1) The long-handed way.  Participants give the administrator the old paper bracket (filled out), and the administrator simply enters them all by hand into the master copy of FreeTrak.  (2)  Participants download & install their own copy of FreeTrak, set up the tournament (downloading current config, importing teams for 2010), setting themselves up as the only player, and then make their picks. Picks (once made) can be exported into a file (e.g. JohnDoe.FTX), which can then be emailed to the FreeTrak administrator -- and the administrator can then import picks from that file by opening up a blank bracket for that participant and clicking the Import button (and selecting that person's .FTX file).  Once the participants have made their picks and exported them to the file, they can always uninstall FreeTrak at that point.

2010 Config and Team Import Files are AVAILABLE!

Sorry for the delay, but everything should be ready to go now.  Make sure and do Setup / Download Current Config to get the 2010 file.  THEN you should be able to do Setup / Teams/Regions and get this years bracket.  If you run into any issues, please send me an email at freetrak@gmail.com.  Let the fun begin!

Bracket & Team File Availability

As is usually the case, it will likely be around 8:00PM (CST) before I am able to get the 2010 team files (and bracket) posted.  Thanks for your patience.

Running FreeTrak on Vista and Windows 7

The only way that FreeTrak will work correctly on Vista and Windows 7 is if you change the shortcut to "Run as Administrator".  Unfortunately, the database engine that FreeTrak uses doesn't understand Vista (and later) file permissions properly, and thus you get "unable to access" error(s).  If I ever get around to rewriting this thing (using .NET), this won't be an issue.  Tomorrow is the big day (Selection Sunday)!

Welcome to the new FreeTrak home!

After struggling with keeping the old website manually updated several times a day for a 3-week period at tournament time (each year), I decided that a blog format would actually work MUCH better! So stay tuned over the next few days as I get everything moved over to this Blogspot site. But for now, there should at least be links (on the right) for the latest download (7.03) and our email contact info.  Don't worry -- FreeTrak is alive and well for 2010!