1.6.6
2026-04-09
Final 2026 season statistics. BEST, PTP, and AutoPick performance scores updated to include championship tournament results. Enhancement: when navigating to a conference details page from a team season page, select the conference season associated with the current team. Fix: populate the team's current conference when navigating from the Trends and Performance pages to the Team History Page.
1.6.5
2026-03-16
New Feature: Added yearly in-conference and overall records to Conference Teams Page -- provides conference standings and tournament berths for all seasons. Official 2026 Tournament bracket and all statistics updated for games through 3/15/2026. Now with full regular season game results and collated quad records, there are even more tools to help pick your bracket.
1.6.4
2026-02-25
Extended automatic berth data back to 1991 -- this is found on the newly enhanced Conference yearly history page, released last version. Projected bracket and statistics updated for games through 2/23/2026. Many performance improvements to interface responsiveness. Improvement to the 'Save Bracket As Image' save file dialog.
1.6.3
2026-01-31
New Feature: Enhanced Conference yearly tournament history presents all team berths, auto-bids, BEST, and PTP scores. Statistics and projected bracket updated for all games through 1/29/2026. On TeamSeason Page bold the font of the selected tab header text. On TeamSeason Page remove display of Apex Round when the bracket is only a projection.
1.6.2
2026-01-18
Statistics updated for all games through 1/15/2026. Bug fix to the Pick/Sim Pages to resize the bracket when using the collapse/expand control after having navigated away from the Page and back. Bug fix on the Picks Page with fresh unpicked bracket to allow tapping on First Four game winners for navigating to the Team Comparison Page.
1.6.1
2025-12-23
New Feature: Enhanced the Team Season Page to include regular season schedule and game results for all years since 2010. Added Team's current conference membership to the top-level Team Page. Reduced the size of toolbar icons for iOS 26. Statistics updated for all games through 12/22/2025. Performance improvements.
1.6.0
2025-10-27
Initial stat load for the 2025-26 season. Added team New Haven, effected conference membership changes. Many performance improvements, particularly to the bracket pages. These changes necessitate the deletion of your saved Picks. If you wish to keep a record of your old Picks, use the 'Save Bracket as Image" function before installing this version. Added Navigation Map to bracket pages. When Simulating a single round on the SimPage, the display will keep the current bracket line in focus as it advances from round to round. Fixed the expand/collapse button below the user controls on the MonteCarlo, Trends, and Performance Pages.
1.5.5
2025-07-02
Performance improvements. Improvements to the Scrutinous ratings and odds calculations. Fixed 2015 bracket seed numbers of Villanova and Kentucky in the second round. Thanks to Alex for this email bug report.
1.5.4
2025-04-08
Final 2025 championship results. BEST and PTP scores updated. PicksPage rating metric bracket scores calculated. New Feature: On the Seeds Page, added an option to exclude the First Four opening round games from the seed's cumulative record. Fix to preserve previous version saved Picks. Fixed small misalignment of bracket while displaying at least three horizontal rounds when the leftmost round is a partial (First Four) round. Fixed PicksPage/BracketImage team name coloring when one of the two teams selected has correctly reached a round and is picked to advance, while the other team has been eliminated, and the actual game has not yet been played. For bracket years 1983 and 1984, the opening round games were improperly placed.
1.5.2
2025-03-17
The official tournament bracket for the 2025 college basketball championship! Use this app to fill in your picks and print your bracket. Statistics updated for games through 3/16/2025. Added color-coding to the yearly records of the Conference-Teams Page for the conference team's apex round reached.
1.5.0
2025-01-28
New Feature: Save Bracket as Image. Save an entire bracket from the seasonal full tournament pages, the Picks page, or the Sim page as a .png image file for usage outside of the Bracket Master app. The saved image may be viewed using your pictures gallery, shared online, printed for examination in a larger format, or perhaps submitted to a bracket pool.
Statistics and projected bracket updated for games through 1/26/2025.
Minimum iOS version changed to 14.0, supporting all Apple devices since the iPhone 6.
1.4.8
2024-12-05
Statistics and projected bracket updated for games through 12/2/2024. Upon opening, the app will notify if an update package is available for download at your app store. Fix to Picks Page crash while auto-picking when no games have been played -- Thanks to Tom S for the email report. The name of the Texas A&M Commerce Lions has been changed to East Texas A&M. Inclusion of the first published NCAA NET ratings of the season.
1.4.7
2024-10-31
Initial release for the 2024-2025 college basketball season. Includes a pre-season prediction for the tournament field. Incorporated the conference moves of 23 schools. Added the new Division I programs of Mercyhurst and West Georgia.
1.4.6
2024-04-18
Added privacy declaration manifest to the app bundle. We avow that this app only uses API calls to deliver its core functionality and never accesses device features to identify the device or its user. Also updated third-party code libraries.
1.4.3
2024-03-18
Release of the official 2024 tournament bracket. Team statistics updated for games through March 17.
Added a Favorite Teams function. Your list of favorite teams is managed through the Settings Page and displayed at the top of the front-page Teams screen.
Added an in-app popup notification for when a data update is available for download. The app will periodically check for an update when navigating to the Teams Page.
Search bar performance improvements on Teams Page, Trends Page, etc.
1.3.11
2023-04-04
Official 2023 tournament final results.
1.3.10
2023-03-27
Official 2023 tournament results up to the semi-finals.
1.3.9
2023-03-20
Official 2023 tournament results up to the Round of 16.
1.3.8
2023-03-13
Official 2023 tournament bracket. Team statistics updated for games through Sunday, 3/12/2023. Revised team logos for Princeton, Northwestern.
1.2.12.20404
2022-04-05
Updated final 2022 tournament championship results for games through April 4. Updated the bracket scores of each of the team rating metrics, found at the (i) button of the Picks Page.
1.2.9.20313
2022-03-14
Official tournament field for the 2022 championship. Updated team stats for games through March 13.
1.2.5.0130
2022-02-04
Updated 2021-22 team stats and projected bracket for games through January 30. Created an adaptable layout of GameSearch page controls for wide screen devices. Fixed full screen display of Articles page. Fixes for when device dark mode theme is active. Fixes to Picks and Sim page button layouts.
1.2.4.0123
2022-01-25
Updated 2021-22 team stats and projected bracket for games through January 23. Fixes for when device dark mode theme is active. Fixes to Picks and Sim page button layouts.
1.2.3.0109
2022-01-10
Added the ability to search for tournament wins, losses, and margin of victory on the Game Search Page. Search results are now sortable by tapping on the desired column header. Added point differential to game search results.
Stats and projected 2022 bracket updated for games through January 9.
Changed logo of the Big West Conference. Improved the resolution of some other conference logos.
Changed 2020 team win-loss records to only include games against Division 1 opponents. This is consistent with all seasons from 1998 to the present.
1.1.11.0406
2021-04-06
2021 Tournament Championship final results.
Added an “Articles” menu option that will display tournament information, statistics, and trivia from the scrutinous.net web log. Internet connection required for this feature.
Calculated the bracket scores for each of the team rating metrics presented by the Bracket Master Picks Page. Our exclusive “Scrutinous Score” achieved the highest bracket game points this year. These scores are presented on the Picks Page using the (i) button to the left of the 'Scoring System' option.
1.1.1.0728
2020-07-29
Simulate past tournaments. Try to get your favorite team to win the championship!
The Picks and Simulation Pages provide several different display modes to allow a comparison of team ratings directly on the main view. The 'Scrutinous Odds' display mode presents our exclusive methodology for rating teams and determining their odds to win a particular game.
Fix for the simulation of tournaments prior to 2002.
Fix for the iOS deprecation of UIWebView.
1.0.11
2020-03-10
Projected Bracket for the 2020 Tournament can be viewed on the Picks tab or Years tab.
Team Rating statistics presented for the teams projected to receive tournament berths. Game matchups can be tapped on the Picks tab to display a team comparison.
Picks tab now supports the examination of championship brackets back to 1985.
1.0.9
2020-02-04
New app launch icon. Modified the Featured Teams to reflect the 2019-2020 season’s top teams. Updated all code libraries to latest version.
1.0.8
2019-04-09
2019 Final Tournament Results.
Added the 2019 bracket scores for the supported rating metrics to the historical record found on the Picks Page.
1.0.7
2019-04-02
Live 2019 Bracket updated with second weekend results.
1.0.6
2019-02-08
Live 2019 Bracket with first and second round results.
Small adjustment to the bracket layout for devices that can display more than three rounds at a time.
1.0.5
2019-02-08
Live 2019 Bracket and final regular season team stats. Stats include games through March 17.
1.0.4
2019-02-08
Updated Team Stats and Projected March 2019 Bracket. Stats include games through March 3.
Changes to ensure that user Picks will be retained after a version upgrade once the 2019 bracket goes live. Current version user Picks of the projected bracket are not retained after upgrade for data consistency purposes.
Ensure that temporary database files are deleted upon upgrade.