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DakStats Output Season XML Quick Start Guide

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Enabling Season XML Output

1. Open the DakStats program.
2. Go to Configure > Output Season Xml. A checkmark appears

next to the menu item to indicate it is enabled.

Setting the Default Team

In order to create the season XML file, there must be a default team for the
current open season. The current season is shown on the top of the screen
when the program is opened.


To set a default team, simply select the team from the drop-down
list and click Set as Default Team. Alternately, a default team may
be selected when creating a new season. To set a different default
team, you must go to Configure > System and Season Preferences,
select the season, and click Edit.

With Output Season XML enabled and a default team set, a Season
XML file will be created in the following location:
“C:\Daktronics\DakStats [Sport]\season.xml”

Note: For Baseball and Basketball, a “gamebygame.xml” file is
also created in the same folder.


The XML files are created and updated ONLY after performing one
of the following actions:

Closing a game (File > Close)

Closing the Configure Teams window (Configure > Teams)

Closing the Configure Rosters window (Configure > Rosters)


The “season” file is the NCAA/Stat Crew specification. The
“gamebygame” file provides a record of each game of the season.

The names of the XML files are always the same. They can be
parsed by a CSS or XLST file to display the stats on a website
however you want, with your own style and branding.


This guide will assist you with a feature of the DakStats software that allows you to output an XML file of the current season. This is useful when posting
up-to-date statistics to a website with your own style sheet applied. DakStats Baseball, Basketball, Football, Soccer, and Volleyball support this feature.