This site is a source for Stats & Stuff on the Kansas State Horseshoe Pitchers Association (KHPA)
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NHPA Kansas Regional Director - Melvin Jeardoe, 460 160th Rd
Concordia, KS 66901 Email: melvin@rhelectric.net Phone: 785-243-7184.
An annual KHPA meeting and State Championship
Tournament is held over Labor Day Weekend. KHPA is
an independantly organized Charter of the National
Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America (NHPA) with its
own rules and bylaws. Officers are elected for
staggered 2 year terms.
Adult Membership Fees - $17 NHPA & $ 8 KHPA = $25 total
Juniors Membership Fees - $ 5 NHPA & $ 2 KHPA = $ 7 total
(calendar years).
Both membership fees are paid to Charter Secretary/Treasurer
who issues combined membership cards.
The annual State Tournament crowns State Champions in Open Men, Open Women, Elder Men, Jr. Boy, Jr. Girl and Jr. Cadet divisions. Championship classes are generally 12-man size when conditions allow, to give an opportunity to everyone with a high ringer average to compete for the title.
All applicable NHPA Official Playing Rules are observed. Tournament results are recorded and used for determining individual "ringer averages". A pitcher's ringer average is based upon the 3 highest tournament averages pitched in the previous 12 months or last 10 tournaments, which ever occurs first. All ringers and shoes pitched from the 3 highest are totaled and total ringers are divided by total shoes. Result are multiplied by 100 to format averages (i.e. 130 ringers divided by 382 shoes = 0.3638743 x 100 = 36.39%). Averages are carried 2 places after decimal and rounded by standard practice.
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FREE ELECTRONIC SCOREBOARD
for Horseshoe PitchingTurn your old or new PC into an electronic scoreboard showing large counters for scores, shoes pitched, ringer averages, as well as counters for ringers pitched, scoresheet printouts, editing, recovery and more. This program is packaged as ENAUD3A.ZIP or ENAUD3A.EXE. The zipped file must be unzipped to use or alternately, the exe file is self extracting. Either file should be put in a separate folder before extracted. Only use one, as they are redundant (contain the same program). Download from the NHPA Website or from this website, enaud3a.zip or enaud3a.exe. Use the program but be sure to report back on how well it performed for you and what improvements you suggest.........NEW VERSION NOW AVAILABLE: Download ENAUD4a.ZIP which differs from enaud3a.zip only by the entry in Count-All scoring of one keypress instead of two for each pitcher each inning (ringer count is automatically calculated after you enter the points scored).
See enaud3a update info for additional viewing instructions and the means for keeping 2 or more games on the same computer screen. These features are available immediately to users! This can reduce the need for computers in half or even less.
Interesting info on yet another option, using dual video cards (dual monitors) can be found in this document or this document. Each monitor can run independant from the other on the same PC. Here is a screen view of four windows on one computer screen.
WindowsXP fails to print out scoresheets for the enaud3a/4a programs so it is easier to load a batch file or executable file before loading the enaud3a/4a programs which will redirect print commands to lpt1 to create a file instead of a print out. One way to do this is to put a batch or executable file in autoexec to load automatically. I know of two such programs (PRN2FILE and DOSPRN). Both can probably be found by search machines. Dosprn will create a new file called PRNspl. It can be loaded by XP to view on screen (as a text file in wordpad if you wish) and of course can be printed. It is an accumulative file, with each scoresheet you [P]rint simply added to the previous one. You can delete the PRNspl file when you printout all you need to have. The PRN2FILE must have a file name given at the same time you run the dos program (i.e.- [d:][path]prn2file filename). A good idea is to use "resultsA" as a filename for class A results. It too is accumulative. In XP, click start-programs- accessories-command prompt, to get into dos to run these programs as well as the enaud3a/4a "scornew3" program. WindowsXP tells you that it doesn't use DOS but they lie....haaaa Windows itself runs in DOS.
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