One thing that is really missing!

[beenutt]

Don's post asking what we would like to see in electric football made me think again of what I've been wanting for a long time. We need a miniature electronic football scoreboard! The board needs to be big enough to where a crowd gathered around the table (such as happens in the miggle championship) could see the time and the plays shown on the screen. The scoreboard should be programmable just like standard scoreboards and should have a replay screen that ties into a Camcorder for instant replays and such. Of course, the board should also show timeouts, time and the score. We need this badly for leagues, tourneys and the Miggle Championship! Anyone else agree?

I'll help to sponsor anyone who has the ability and the time to create this!

beenutt

You know what man, Anthony Burgess and I did some research last Spring into this. What we found were very expensive (real) scoreboards that can be purchased commercially and basically hung on the wall. Most are about several feet by several feet long (for example) and are operated by remote control.

I think this is a want more than a need but I confess that it would be great to have a real scoreboard up on the wall in my gameroom.

I know that you were meaning a scaled-down version of a real scoreboard, and I think that this is a good idea also.

I found this on eBay...It is a basketball scoreboard though. Anyway, take a look and add this to your research.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Portable-Tableto...QQcmdZViewItem

Beenutt,

I am doing the research for you. Take a look at this. I may have to get one of these.

Only $86.95. I'm the man baby! Let me see if I can find you a better one.

http://www.dowdlesports.com/catalog/...ic/PEequip.htm

Dang Beenutt,

The $86.00 was for the (stand) only. Well, I'm still searching...

[Treks1]

Beenutt...Check your PM...

[Michigan Joe]

Another thing that would be nice is a timer switch for the multi stop play methods. In Jimbo's big ten shootout tournament we played "timed" pass rushes based on a pre-play decision by the offense. It would have been great to have the on/off switch connected with a timer that could be accurate up to 1/4 of a second.

Anyone playing multi-stop play have anything like this? Have any of the guys playing in the MPFL might have inquired about this kind of a switch.

Joe

[NEW CASTLE HiTMEN]

I have a LCD Dell 21" computer screen that may fit the bill. I dont know how you can program a computer to show time or score but I'm sure you can hook up a recorder to it for replays.

[Anthony D Burgess]

I was thinking, if every person who plays this game were to put there name and signature on a statment of sorts requesting a scoreboard for our hobby, and pass it on to the right people then maybe we can get it done. We have I'm sure over one thousand coaches who would want one.

The Scoreboard could be done in your teams logo. name of the teams, down, yards to go, ball on, time outs, qtr, game time, who has the ball.

And can be operated by a remote. I think that the price should be between $300.00 - $600.00 . Now I know that may sound like a lot, but the quality of it is well worth it !

If we all get on the same page and not try to take over this idea then I know we can find some company who will do this.

So who is down for this ?

[RooMorgans]

Originally Posted by NEW CASTLE HiTMEN

I have a LCD Dell 21" computer screen that may fit the bill. I dont know how you can program a computer to show time or score but I'm sure you can hook up a recorder to it for replays.

Let me look into it. We have a programmed scoreboard that we use for Subbuteo. Let me see if I:

A) Can find a copy of it
B) Get permission to distribute it to the EF masses.

Ed

[RooMorgans]

And ... here ya go.

http://web.mac.com/bristers/iWeb/Sit...ard%202.2.html

You can download the file there. Get it extracted, and you are good. Open the program, and you can edit the scoreboard text and such however you like. He has versions for Windows and Mac. If you have a computer screen anywhere near your field, you're good.

What we do in Subbuteo is hook it up to a projector and put it big up on a wall.

Ed