SportsML 1.7: What's New in this Release

Core Adjustments

Added to name element:
	abbreviation attribute

Added to team-stats element:
       time-played-total attribute
       (already present in player-stats)

Added to associate-stats element:
       points attribute

Allowed standing element to be as an optional child of tournament-division

Adjusted references to namespaces, and other schema-related configurations

Baseball Additions

Added to stats-baseball-offensive element:
	games-played attribute

Added to stats-baseball-pitching
	batters-total-against (builds upon batters-at-bats-against tally, but counting ALL batters faced)
	sacrifice-bunts-allowed
	sacrifice-hits-allowed
	interferences

Basketball Additions

Added action-basketball-jump-ball and action-basketball-turnover elements
	children of event-actions-basketball

Added action-basketball-rebounding-player and action-basketball-blocking-player elements
	children of action-basketball-score-attempt

Added to action-basketball-score-attempt and action-basketball-score elements:
	shot-location attribute

Ice Hockey Additions

Add to stats-ice-hockey-offensive element:
       goals-shootout-attempts

Add to stats-ice-hockey-defensive element:
       goals-shootout-allowed
       shots-shootout-allowed

Add to action-ice-hockey-score-attempt element:
       shootout-shot-order

Soccer Additions

Added to event-state-attributes-soccer entity:
	minutes-elapsed

Motor Racing Additions

Added to stats-motor-racing-lap element:
	split-location attribute
		sample values: start | stretch | finish | marker-1 | marker-2

Added new associate-metadata-motor-racing element:
       Replica of player-metadata-motor-racing and team-metadata-motor-racing elements

Control File Additions

Add to associate-metadata element:
       associate-metadata-motor-racing

Added group-metadata-specific and group-stats-specific entities
	(mistakenly left out of SportsML 1.6)

American Football Additions

Changed model of action-american-football-drive from including:
	action-american-football-score?,
	action-american-football-score?

To having instead:
	action-american-football-score*

Because some DTD parsers complained that the former was ambiguous.

General Schema / DTD Improvements

Improve schema such that:
	all simpleTypes are included and referenced properly
	schema fully validates within tools like:
		http://apps.gotdotnet.com/xmltools/xsdvalidator/Default.aspx

Filled in more documentation