The Times, They are a Changin!

Probullstats - Jan. 14, 2003

Once again, here we are staring right at the fat middle of the first month of a brand new year. For most rodeo folks, that means vacation time is OVER. Hope you had a nice 3 weeks rest and are ready to burn up 3 more sets of tires before NFR 2003 in December. Wait a minute, you might be able to make it on 2 sets this year...

Ranch Headquarters (formerly known as the PRCA, henceforth to be officially referred to as "Prorodeo", "Ranch HQ", or "Those &%*#'s that still owe me $12") has a lot of changes in the books for this year. Most notable is the bull riding tour deal, of which there has been NO mention at RHQ's Official web site. The 75 rodeo rule will no doubt profoundly affect your entering strategy, as will the need to make the Tour rodeos -- if you are gunning for the NFR.

We've made some changes for this season as well, and here's a rundown of the new and improved Probullstats.com:

For 2003, you'll be able to access records from each and every rodeo we process, even if we only got partial results from that rodeo. We've revamped our database to allow for the viewing of each rodeo individually, and you can find the perpetually updated index of Oct, 2002-to-present processed rodeos on our new rodeo page.

We'll also have the data from 2002 available until about mid season in the 2002 version of the Bull Finder, and we've updated the regular Bull Finder

We've installed a new and improved forums, and also feature a simple read-only version of these forums.

In 2002, we processed more rodeos than ever, and we hope to be able to top that in 2003. We're going to try to keep up our previous pace with the bull notes articles as well, and we'll certainly try to keep you up to date with the latest news on the bull riding tour as it becomes available.

We'd like to thank those of you who donated your time or money to help us last year, and our advertisers, as both were a tremendous help with the task of keeping this site going. We were able to do much more than just "keep it going", we made it grow - thanks to you.

If anyone notices a part of the site that doesn't seem to be working correctly, or if I can help you in some other way, please let me know. I noticed that I had 140 unopened e-mails as of yesterday, so be patient with me if you are already looking for a reply from me on something.

Slade Long
Jan 14, 2003 -- Probullstats.com