Scoreboard Best Practices

• Use Hotkeys at least for clock controls as you want your clocks to be as accurate as possible. Pressing a key is almost always faster then clicking with the mouse. Especially if your finger is already resting on the key.

• Enable Replace on Undo. Without Replace pressing the wrong one of the clock controls is a huge pressure situation as every second you don't fix it the clocks run further away and you will have to fix them manually, if that is possible at all. Plus you may have messed up other data, e.g created another jam, which will take more effort to clean up. With Replace you have the time to first think for a moment what just happened and what you can do to fix it and then fix it completely with two clicks/button presses.

• Don't enable Auto-End Jam. Simply reacting to the jam ending whistles when they happen takes less effort than checking the jam duration first. And if Jams are not called off on time (Jam Timers are human), your lineups will still last 30s from the end of the jam instead of being shortened (or requiring the jam timer to ignore the publicly visible lineup clock). When using CRG to time penalties, in case of a late call-off Auto-End Jam would also cause penalty clocks to stop early and thus skaters being released too late. (The setting was enabled by default in CRG 4.x and 5.x/2023.x because it had been this way for a very long time and there are a substantial number of people out there that have trained themselves to explicitly rely on it. The default changed in CRG 2025.)

• Delete old games from time to time. Each game will increase the size of the internal data notably which will eventually lead to performance impacts if the data grows too large. Note that deleting a game from the internal list does not delete any exported statsbooks or data files from the game (and there is no need to clean up those).

• When using a projector, consider not using Team Logos and instead have larger team names. Contrast on projectors is often not that great which can lead to neither logo nor name being very recognizable.

• Clearing browsing data is strongly recommended if you are upgrading from version 3.x to version 4.x or higher. It shouldn't be needed when switching between different releases of 4.x and above.

• If you are using a Windows system, leave it connected to the internet a day or two beforehand and manually run Windows Update to ensure that patches won't be automatically applied during the game. (Or alternatively, ensure you disable the device's ability to communicate with the outside world so it can't capture updates.)