Straight Pool Deluxe 5.1 — Merge Players

5.0 unified the way the app handles played and scored games, and now you can merge any duplicate player entries you may have from the old Play vs Scored days, where the two player lists were separate.

Merge Players

Because older versions kept the people you played and the people you scored in separate lists, a lot of users ended up with two entries for the same real person — one “Joe Smith” you played, another “Joe Smith” you scored. 5.0 brought both into a single list; 5.1 lets you actually merge them into one.

There are two ways in:

• Combine duplicates. When the app spots two local players with the same name, it offers a “Merge Duplicates” review. You confirm, and the app rolls both entries — and all of their games and stats — up under a single player.
• Merge into another player. Editing a player, you can pick another player to merge them into. (Offered only for players who actually have games — for an empty entry, just swipe to delete.)

Either way you get a clear preview of exactly what will happen — how many games move, which entry survives — before anything changes. Merging combines game histories and stats under one player and can’t be undone, so the app always confirms first.

Smoother multi-device sync

Under the hood, 5.1 tightens how merges sync across multiple iPads. If you merge players on one device, the others now converge faster and more reliably — including the tricky case where a second iPad hadn’t yet caught up to the merge. There’s nothing to do here; it just works more cleanly. As always, the safest path is to keep all your devices on the latest version.

What to do

Nothing required — Merge Players is there when you want it, and your existing players and games are untouched until you choose to merge. If you’ve been living with a couple of duplicate “two Joes,” this is the update that lets you tidy them up.

Thanks for playing — feedback@straightpooldeluxe.com if anything looks off.