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Sports Fan Widget Changelog

What's new in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.95

Oct 15, 2018
  • Correct date title and day switcher for NHL scoreboard
  • Fix issue with the hockey standings not loading

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.94 (Oct 15, 2018)

  • Correct week title for NFL scoreboard
  • Fix issue with the football standings not loading

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.93 (Aug 19, 2018)

  • Fix issue with the NFL scoreboard not loading.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.92 (Apr 2, 2018)

  • Fix display issue on MLB scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.91 (Feb 8, 2018)

  • Add Vegas Golden Knights to list of NHL teams

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.90 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • Correctly deal with the canceled TB/MIA game for the first week of the NFL schedule.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.89 (Sep 4, 2017)

  • Fix college football scoreboard filtering
  • Add UAB Blazers and Coastal Carolina Chanticleers to college football

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.87 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • Fix display of home team on NHL scoreboard
  • Additional fixes to show correct external game webpage for NBA games

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.86 (Mar 15, 2017)

  • Properly display postponed games on the NHL scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.85 (Mar 13, 2017)

  • Fix NHL scoreboard being stuck in loading forever
  • Update external game webpages for MHL & NBA games to the correct locations

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.84 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • Fix for switching between weeks for NFL postseason scores.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.83 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Fix NBA standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.82 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Fix issue with football scoreboard not loading for some NCSSF selections
  • Fix display for NCAAF scoreboards for weeks other than the current one

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.81 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • Fix issue with football scoreboard not loading.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.80 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Fix issue where the college football scoreboard would show "No Games Scheduled" unless "All Conferences" was selected
  • Update team affiliations for college football

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.79 (Sep 15, 2016)

  • Fix issue with the football scoreboards spinning forever and not showing any scores
  • Update name for LA Rams

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.78 (Nov 10, 2015)

  • Fix issue with the NBA scoreboard not showing any scores
  • Show correct date headers and correct date changes for NCAAB socreboard
  • Correct loading of minor league baseball standings and improve reliability and speed for parsing of all baseball standings

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.77 (Oct 4, 2015)

  • Fix football scoreboard goin into an eternal spin

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.76 (May 5, 2015)

  • Fix issue where some games were missing from the NHL scoreboard during the postseason

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.75 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • Fix issue where NBA scoreboard would show scores as "NaN" while games are in progress

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.74 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Fix scoreboard display for NFL ProBowl
  • Correct NBA scoreboard in order for it to not always shows all scores as 0

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.73 (Dec 3, 2014)

  • Update team affiliations for college basketball.
  • Update team name for Charlotte Hornets to fix NBA standings loading issues.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.72 (Oct 13, 2014)

  • Fix display and parsing issues with the NHL scoreboard and standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.71 (Sep 2, 2014)

  • (NCAAF) Adjust team affiliations for the current season. This fixes issues with conference standings and scoreboards not loading or displaying correctly.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.70 (Aug 28, 2014)

  • (NCAAF) Fix issue with the scoreboard showing no games

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.69 (Dec 28, 2013)

  • (NCAAF) Fix scoreboard loading issues for bowls week

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.68 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • (NBA) Fix scoreboard loading issues
  • (NBA) Update team name for New Orleans Pelicans - this also fixes issues with the Southwest division and Western conference standings not loading
  • (NCAAB) Update team affiliations
  • (NCAAB) Fix scoreboard issues for games with OT

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.67 (Nov 12, 2013)

  • Fix college basketball scoreboard not showing any scores
  • Fix issues with NFL scoreboard for games that went into overtime

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.66 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • Fix college football standings for AP Top 25, Coaches Poll, and American Athletic Conference

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.65 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Fix college football team affiliations to match new conferences
  • For college football, show the conference record rather than the overall record on the main standings view (overall records are still available in the popover)

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.64 (Oct 8, 2013)

  • Fix date display on NHL scoreboard

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.63 (Sep 30, 2013)

  • Re-write parser to fix "No games scheduled" for NFL and college football scoreboards
  • Fix NHL scoreboard spinning indefinitely
  • Update NHL conference affiliations

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.62 (Sep 4, 2013)

  • Correct date display for NHL scoreboards.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.61 (Sep 3, 2013)

  • Fix missing games on the college football scoreboard for weeks other than the current one.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.60 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • Fix missing games on the NHL scoreboard.
  • Reflect move of the Houston Astros to the AL West.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.59 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Fix display issues in the NHL scoreboard.
  • Correct incorrect statistics displayed for the 8th ranked team in NHL conference standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.58 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Resolve NHL standings loading issues.
  • Fix NFL scoreboard for Pro Bowl.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.57 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • Fix gibberish on the NHL scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.56 (Jan 15, 2013)

  • Correct date issues on NHL scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.55 (Jan 15, 2013)

  • Fix scoreboard display for NFL games with multiple overtime periods.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.54 (Jan 3, 2013)

  • Fix loading issues with College basketball AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.53 (Nov 10, 2012)

  • Fix College basketball team affiliates. This resolves team highlights not working and missing team logos.
  • Fix game statistics display in popover for completed NFL games.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.52 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • NBA team name change: New Jersey Nets -> Brooklyn Nets (this fixes the issue with the NBA scoreboard not loading for days where the Nets have a game).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.51 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Fix issue with the NFL scoreboard not displaying when games are currently under way.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.50 (Oct 27, 2012)

  • Fix issue with the NFL scoreboard not displaying.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.49 (Oct 10, 2012)

  • Adjust NHL scoreboard to deal with cancelled games.
  • Update MLB Wildcard standing titles (WCGB and WCE#).
  • Improve college football scoreboard display to avoid games being cut off.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.48 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • Fix favorite team selection in college football for PAC12, South Eastern, Sun Belt, Western Athletic, and part of Mountain West conferences.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.47 (Aug 28, 2012)

  • Fix web links when clicking on a game in the football scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.46 (Aug 28, 2012)

  • Fix display of football standings.
  • Update college football conference affiliations with changes for the 2012 season.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.45 (Aug 28, 2012)

  • Correct legend for NHL standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.44 (Mar 12, 2012)

  • Fix parsing & display of MLB standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.43 (Jan 11, 2012)

  • Fixed selection of previous/upcoming dates in NBA scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.42 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Update college basketball team and conference affiliations.
  • Fix parsing of polls for college football and basketball.
  • Make sure eliminated baseball teams are properly styled in the standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.41 (Sep 5, 2011)

  • Reflect college football conference affiliation and name changes.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.40 (Aug 22, 2011)

  • Fix issue with the college football scoreboard not updating correctly.
  • Minor league baseball team name updates:
  • West Tenn Diamond Jaxx → Jackson Generals
  • Visalia Oaks → Visalia Rawhide
  • Salem Avalanche → Salem Red Sox
  • Winston-Salem Warthogs → Winston-Salem Dash
  • Swing of the Quad Cities → Quad Cities River Bandits
  • Oneonta Tigers → Connecticut Tigers

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.39 (Aug 18, 2011)

  • Fix NFL pre-season standings display.
  • Team name updates:
  • NHL: Atlanta Thrashers → Winnipeg Jets
  • AAA Baseball: Omaha Royals → Omaha Storm Chasers
  • Portland Beavers → Tucson Padres

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.38 (Aug 11, 2011)

  • Restored the widget's appearance by working around a bug in WebKit shipped with Safari 5.0.5/5.1 which breaks support for alternate style sheets ().
  • Fix NFL scoreboard not loading correctly and not displaying any scheduled games.
  • Update all website references to point to the new URL.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.36 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • Improve reliability of displaying date arrows on the NCAAB scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.35 (Feb 19, 2011)

  • Fix NBA scoreboard not loading for games during All-Star series.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.34 (Feb 19, 2011)

  • Fix NBA scoreboard being stuck showing the games of Feb 4th.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.33 (Feb 19, 2011)

  • Fix NFL scoreboard display for Super Bowl week.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.32 (Jan 30, 2011)

  • Correct parsing of future scoreboard for NBA.
  • Fix failure to load NHL scoreboard during the All-Star Game.
  • Improve parsing of dates for date selector for NFL and NHL scoreboards.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.31 (Nov 30, 2010)

  • Fix missing team names for some games on the NCAA Basketball scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.30 (Nov 15, 2010)

  • Fix display of NCAA Basketball scoreboard and standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.29 (Sep 30, 2010)

  • Fix column labels in standings popup for minor league baseball.
  • Fix display of NCAA Basketball scoreboard to avoid spinning forever.
  • Improve in-game popover details for NFL games while the last play is in review.
  • Fix NHL display ('nNo games scheduled' in scoreboard and no display in standings).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.28 (Sep 6, 2010)

  • Fix missing 1st QTR scores for college football game detail popups.
  • Show last play information in game detail popups for college football games when available (AP Top 25).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.26 (Sep 3, 2010)

  • Fix in-game football scoreboard parsing and display.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.25 (Aug 30, 2010)

  • Fix football displays.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.24 (May 3, 2010)

  • Improvements/bug fixes:
  • Fix problem where some minor league baseball scoreboards would not load.
  • Update minor league team names and associations to reflect changes for the 2010 season.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.23 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Improvements/bug fixes:
  • Fix link for MLB wrapups opening in the browser.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.22 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Improvements/bug fixes:
  • Basketball: Fix for NCAA scoreboard loading issues.
  • Football: Fix scoreboard display of Pro Bowl.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.21 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Basketball:
  • Various fixes for NCAA scoreboard (NaN for scores and missing future games).
  • Football:
  • Adjust for 2010 NFL schedule (Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.20 (Dec 13, 2009)

  • Basketball:
  • Correct changing the date for NBA scoreboard display.
  • Properly display upcoming NBA schedules on scoreboard.
  • Football:
  • Fix display of week 16 and bowl schedules for NCAAF.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.19 (Nov 23, 2009)

  • Fix college basketball scoreboard (missing games issue).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.18 (Nov 12, 2009)

  • Fix football scoreboard display.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.17 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • Football:
  • Fix highlight of winning team for completed NFL games.
  • Fix missing display of bye week teams for NFL scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.16 (Sep 18, 2009)

  • General:
  • Properly show standings when previously selected after a reboot of the Dashboard.
  • Football:
  • Fix display of game leaders for completed NFL games.
  • Correct problem with missing games on NFL scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.15 (Aug 26, 2009)

  • Football - Fix missing games and lack of team tooltips on college football scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.14 (Aug 10, 2009)

  • Football - Fix NFL scoreboard display.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.13 (Jul 14, 2009)

  • Baseball: Fix continuously spinning reload indicator for the scoreboard during the All-Star break.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.12 (Jun 15, 2009)

  • Baseball: Complete update to minor league teams to reflect team name changes, league name changes, and league affiliation changes.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.11 (May 30, 2009)

  • Baseball:
  • Update team name for "Bowling Green Hot Rods" (formerly "Columbus Catfish", SAL Southern).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.10 (May 4, 2009)

  • Basketball:
  • Automatically update the game date picker in the scoreboard display with new game dates in the post season.
  • Fix scoreboard loading during the post season - games should update properly again during game days.
  • Fix display of game details for games with more than two over time periods.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.9 (Apr 21, 2009)

  • Fix standings for minor league baseball to show this year's instead of last year's data.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.8 (Apr 17, 2009)

  • Improvements/bug fixes: Fix loading of NBA standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.7 (Dec 22, 2008)

  • Fix NCAA Football scoreboard loading issue during Bowl weeks.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.6 (Nov 6, 2008)

  • Basketball:
  • Rename the former Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma Thunder - this also takes care of some scoreboards failing to load.
  • Hockey:
  • Correct column display for conference standings.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.5 (Oct 1, 2008)

  • Hockey - Fix parsing of NHL preseason scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.4 (Sep 15, 2008)

  • Fix missing games on NCAA football scoreboard when displaying only one conference.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.3 (Sep 8, 2008)

  • Fix NCAA football scoreboard (it no longer displays "No Games scheduled").
  • The error was actually caused by a bug in the current system's JavaScript implementation (non-greedy matching seems to have a limited length it can match) so I had to work around that.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.2 (Aug 12, 2008)

  • Baseball: Make sure to always highlight the winning team - the highlight might have been missing before for games that just ended.
  • Football: Fix display of standings during the pre-season.
  • Football: Some formatting improvements for last play/game summary in game detail popups.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.1 (Jun 28, 2008)

  • Make sure we properly remove dates with no scheduled games for multi-day scoreboards.
  • Fix minor issues with favorite team highlighting on the scoreboard observed in some cases.
  • Baseball: Change team selection popup to reflect the fact that Tamba Bay changed their name from "Devil Rays" to "Rays".
  • Football: Fix scoreboard parsing when selecting a different week from the popup.
  • Hockey: Display the correct date in the title for the last game of the season once the season is over.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.3.0 (Jun 2, 2008)

  • Major internal code reorganization to reduce memory footprint and keep our run-time variables well compartmentalized.
  • Baseball: Make sure we sort Game 2 after the first game on the scoreboard (if the second game is only listed as "Game 2" without an actual starting time).
  • Baseball: Properly update all internal variables when updating scoreboard data from a game popup - this way we won't re-display stale data when closing an re-opening the Dashboard and don't highlight scores as changed we already know about.
  • Baseball: Correct CSS path for spinner in game detail popup so that the spinner shows when loading current game data.
  • Baseball: Work around potential error when showing game details (file not found, network error) causing the widget to throw an exception in the console.log.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.9 (May 12, 2008)

  • Improve smoothness of widget resizing for small display sizes.
  • Properly highlight new scores on scoreboard with double-header games - the previous version would highlight scores in the completed game as changed.
  • Remove current mouseover highlights when closing the Dashboard to avoid display glitch when showing the Dashboard again.
  • Improve linescore display for games with more than 18 innings played.
  • Show the reason for rescheduling instead of the scheduled first batter for games postponed before the first pitch.
  • Fix loading of minor leagues scoreboards with no games scheduled.
  • Correct scoreboard and linescore display for games with multiple over time periods - such games showed up as ended by shootout before.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.8 (Apr 14, 2008)

  • Baseball: Fix links to MLB post-game pages - clicking on any completed game now correctly opens the page at mlb.com again.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.7 (Apr 6, 2008)

  • New: Baseball - Allow selection of individual leagues for the minor league scoreboard (this change will require to re-select your favorite league and team for minor league baseball).
  • Baseball - Show scrollbar on scoreboard for games with more than 18 games.
  • Baseball - Correct improper game highlighting for minor league scoreboards (even for teams with identical scoreboard codes we now only highlight the game(s) of the selected favorite team).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.7 (Apr 6, 2008)

  • New: Baseball - Allow selection of individual leagues f

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.6 (Apr 1, 2008)

  • Make parsing of MLB standings data more robust - the previous version would still display raw codes within the table in certain occasions.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.5 (Mar 31, 2008)

  • New - Baseball: Show pitch count (total pitches: strikes, balls) for current pitcher in detail popup.
  • New - Baseball: Show game venue, team records, and TV broadcast information (when available) for scheduled games.
  • Improved - Baseball: Fix display of standings so we no longer display seemingly random text.
  • Improved - Basketball: Improve parsing of NCAA schedule so we no longer display dates with no games when paging through dates on the scoreboard - this was especially annoying for the March Madness scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.4 (Mar 24, 2008)

  • Added support for NCAA March Madness - select "March Madness" from the conference popup on the back of the widget to display up-to-date scores.
  • Some minor CSS tweaks to improve item placement on college scoreboards.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.3 (Mar 20, 2008)

  • Correct conversion of game start times for baseball scoreboard.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.1 (Mar 19, 2008)

  • Fix labeling of teams that clinched a division in NBA standings.
  • Correct conversion of game start times for NBA & WNBA when daylight saving time is in effect.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.2.0 (Mar 9, 2008)

  • Improve aborting of current request when making a new selection - this should avoid spurious "Data Unavailable" messages and loading of the wrong data when making two different selections in short succession.
  • Fix time display on scoreboard for games starting between midnight and 1am local time.
  • Properly convert game times to local times when daylight saving time is not in effect (during spring training).
  • Correct typo which prevented the game details to show for active games.
  • Change some DOM names to take into account stricter CSS parsing for the latest version of Safari/WebKit - this fixes the base display in the game detail popup.
  • Fix automatic reload of the current day's scoreboard at the beginning of a new day.
  • Correct alphabetic sorting of team names for NCAA teams - Note: you might have to re-select your favorite team to account for the changed order of teams.
  • Correct standings display for NCAA if "Top 25" was selected - the displayed standings were different from the selection of conferences/divisions located at the lower end of the popup.
  • When going to the previous scoreboard, go to the last day of a completed season instead of the first day.
  • In the standings, highlight teams eliminated from the playoff race in red (NBA & WNBA).

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.1.3 (Feb 13, 2008)

  • CSS tweaks to account for changed text-shadow behavior in 10.5.2 and improve readability.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.1.2 (Feb 11, 2008)

  • Added scoreboard support for the NFL Pro Bowl.

New in Sports Fan Widget 1.1.1 (Jan 16, 2008)

  • General:
  • Improve loading of current date's scoreboard - the widget would have kept displaying the previous date before if the widget was shown at least once every hour.
  • Football:
  • Fix scoreboard loading for the conference championship games.