I've always been the kind of guy who puts up wallcharts of these big soccer tournaments in my room in order to track the matches, filling in all the results and entering the group positions during the event. Nowadays of course, people prefer to use computers to keep tabs on sporting events, and AceFixtures for EURO 2008 Online Schedule lets you do just this - using Excel.

Although it does come with its own installer, AceFixtures for EURO 2008 Online Schedule is essentially just an Excel spreadsheet file, in which you can enter the scores for each match in the tournament. As you enter the data, the program calculates the changes in the league rankings and calculates the fixtures for the knockout stages. It functions accurately, although it doesn't pop up an error message if you type a bad string (i.e. a letter instead of a number).

The creator of AceFixtures for EURO 2008 Schedule has made some effort to make it look presentable, including a background with the official logo, plus links to various Euro 2008-related sites. However, it's far from being the most graphically-rich tournament tracker I've ever seen.

If your team's involved in this year's European Championships, this app provides a novel way of tracking the schedule from your office suite.

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The program consists of a form on which you can see the 8 different groups and all 48 first round match ups. As you fill in the scores, group statistics and standings are automatically generated. Once your group matches are done, move on to the second round and keep entering scores till you come up with a winner. You can save or print out your score sheet and consult it during the World Cup to see how close you get to actual results. It only takes a few minutes to fill but you can come up with thousands of different possibilities.

When My World Cup 2006 starts up, choose your favourite team to highlight its name on the form and follow its results. My World Cup includes extra information on the international competition, like pictures for all of the stadiums in Germany and links to the city and stadium official websites. You can also check out the date and time each game will be played by going to the view and schedule menu.

Unfortunately, My World Cup 2006 completely overlooks the social factor by not letting you save multiple score sheets or sending your predictions to your friends. This is what usually makes sports pools an exciting and durable experience whether with work colleagues or friends.

My World Cup 2006 is nothing more than a score predictor and you’ll enjoy it if you have five minutes to waste. With an integrated schedule and stadium information it packs a bit more options than regular predictors, however it’s a shame that the program doesn’t let you interact with other users. Still, anybody excited by the upcoming World Cup will find it fun.

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SportsTracker helps you manage all the elements relating to the sports you practice: from the kind of sports to the amount of time dedicated to each one of them on a daily basis, including also results and distance as applicable to each kind of sport. Being based on Java, the program features a very simple, straightforward design which makes it handy and easy to use.

SportTracker's calendar-style interface enables you to check all the relevant information at a glance, plus has a series of statistics tools that can generate very complete reports and graphs according to your results. Surprisingly enough there's no way to export those reports to any format.

If you practice many different sports, you'll find in SportTracker the perfect companion to organize your practicing schedule and keep track of your results.

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Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner is a highly advanced Excel spreadsheet that allows you to input and track results, view current standings, check fixtures and get information about the venues and stadiums. Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner comes with a quick guide that explains how to use the spreadsheet. It's well worth reading this before you start because it can be difficult to figure out how to use the planner.

Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner does have primitive user interface, navigated using the icons at the top of the page. The Results section contains a list of all the matches from the group stages through to the final, for you to add the full-time and half-time scores for each as the tournament progresses. You can view current group standings and check the overall progress of the knockout phase. Remember, that everything is calculated based on the results you enter yourself, so if you make a mistake when typing scores in, this will affect the other permutations.

The Predictions area of Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner lets you set up up to four leagues of up to 32 different teams each. Here you and your friends can compete against each other to guess the scores of all the matches, predict who will win the tournament. League tables are kept of each player's performance.

Excel Soccer World Cup 2010 Planner will suit die-hard football fans with the patience to enter all the data themselves. Others may be put off by the sheer scale of data this spreadsheet app handles.

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Statbook is ideal for fans or athletes that want to monitor their performance. You can create a category for just about anything meaning its very flexible although templates are the best way to get going and then you can add your own categories afterwards. As you build your stats, you can share them in HTML format via e-mail although there are few other Export options such as Excel although you can export and import from Statbook to your iPhone.

Categories are very thorough in the templates. In the baseball and softball template for example, pre-defined categories include Lineup, Overall (All Games) Batting, Fielding & Pitching Statistics. There are also Box Scores (Batting, Fielding & Pitching), Individual Players Stats (Batting, Fielding & Pitching) and Pre-season and Post-Season statistics (Overall, Batting and Pitching). There are a number of "Styles" to change the colors, fonts, formatting and overall look of your reports.

Statbook has no way to dynamically update scores in real-time so you have to enter every new result manually which can be very time consuming if your following lots of teams or sports.

Overall, Statbook is a powerful application for sports stats fans to get detailed readouts of their own or their team's performance.

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If you're looking for a schedule to pin on your wall, the Envis FIFA World Cup 2010 Schedule is a very attractive option. Produced by a studio for interactive design, it looks absolutely great, and makes a nice change from the loud and in your face offerings from newspapers and magazines. It's the World cup schedule for the style obsessed!

Envis FIFA World Cup 2010 Schedule is an elegant and clear way to follow the games in South Africa

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Despite being an exhaustive source of information, F1X lacks what I would consider to be an outstanding feature: the ability to update information automatically online, adding new results and new data as the current championship carries on.
Oh well, at least you can manually add those new entries by yourself.
F1X is a comprehensive encyclopedia about Formula 1 with loads of information about drivers, races and speed records.

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