 | Welcome to Diamond Mind Baseball |
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| What's new and different |
 | User Interface Tips |
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| Selecting Multiple Items in a List |
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| Popup Menus |
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| Tutorials |
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| Tutorials Overview |
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| Basic Tutorial |
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| Setting Up |
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| Game Options |
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| Managers |
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| Color and Text |
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| The Game Screen |
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| The Game Screen |
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| Lineups |
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| The Scoreboard |
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| Batters |
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| Pitchers |
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| The Diamond |
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| The Benches |
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| The Boxscore, Scoresheet, and Game log Tabs |
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| Sample Boxscore |
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| Sample Scoresheet |
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| Sample Game log |
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| Playing the Game |
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| Defensive Tactics |
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| Offensive Tactics |
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| When the Game is Over |
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| Saving Game Data |
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| Advanced Tutorial |
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| Advanced Tutorial Setup |
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| Game Day |
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| Scheduled Games |
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| Play Options |
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| Setting the Lineup |
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| Lineup Overview |
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| Starting Pitchers |
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| Batting Order |
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| Setting Up a League |
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| Introduction |
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| League Setup Overview |
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| Your Primary Tool |
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| Common Scenarios |
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| General Rules |
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| Preparing the Database |
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| Your First Database Decision |
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| Starting with an Existing Database |
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| Starting with a New Database |
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| Gathering the Components |
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| Introducing the Components |
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| Assembling Eras |
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| Assembling Teams |
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| Assembling Parks |
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| Assembling Players |
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| Putting It All Together |
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| The Big Picture |
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| Creating a League |
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| Creating an Organization |
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| Assigning Teams |
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| Assigning Players |
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| Generating a Manager Profile |
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| Creating a Schedule |
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| Managing DMB Databases |
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| What is a Database? |
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| Converting Databases |
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| Creating a New Database |
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| Changing the Active Database |
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| Copying a Database |
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| Adding a Reference to an Existing Database |
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| Removing a Reference to an Existing Database |
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| Installing a Season Disk |
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| Migrating a Database |
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| Backing Up Your Data |
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| Restoring Your Data |
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| Organizer |
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| Organizer Overview |
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| Teams |
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| Teams: Overview |
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| Creating a New Team |
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| Importing Teams |
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| Parks |
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| Parks: Overview |
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| Parks: General Information |
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| Parks: Physical Characteristics |
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| Parks: Image Files |
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| Parks: Weather Patterns |
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| Parks: Statistical Factors |
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| Creating a New Park |
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| Importing Parks |
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| Players |
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| Overview of Players |
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| Players: General Information |
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| Players: Player UID |
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| Players: Real-life Statistics |
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| Players: DMB Statistics |
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| Players: Ratings Overview |
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| Players: Offensive Ratings |
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| Players: Defensive Ratings |
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| Players: Pitching Ratings |
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| Players: Pitcher Profile |
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| Players: Injury Ratings |
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| Players: Injury and Usage Info |
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| Creating a New Player |
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| Modifying a Player |
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| Importing Players |
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| Player Profiles |
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| Leagues |
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| Overview of Leagues |
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| Leagues: General Information |
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| Leagues: League Teams |
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| Leagues: Rules and Options |
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| Leagues: Playing Time Limits |
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| Leagues: Post-Season Information |
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| Creating a New League |
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| Organizations |
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| Overview of Organizations |
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| Organizations: General Information |
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| Organizations: Rules and Options |
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| Organizations: Playing Time Limits |
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| Organizations: Post-Season Information |
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| Creating a New Organization |
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| Eras |
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| Overview of Eras |
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| Eras: General Information |
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| Eras: Rates |
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| Creating a New Era |
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| Importing Eras |
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| Schedules |
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| Overview of Schedules |
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| Creating a New Schedule |
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| Schedule Editing |
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| Adding Games |
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| Copying Games |
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| Scheduling Tools |
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| Generating Regular-season Schedules |
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| Generating Post-season Schedules |
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| Schedule Templates |
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| Importing and Exporting Schedules |
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| Editing Game Results |
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| Drafts |
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| Drafting: Overview |
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| Draft Preparation |
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| Creating a Draft |
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| Draft Window |
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| Setting the Draft Order |
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| Working with Draft Picks |
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| Manual Picks |
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| Computer Picks |
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| Drafting and Manager Profiles |
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| Resuming a Draft |
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| Deleting a Draft |
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| Notes |
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| Overview of Notes |
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| Editing Transactions and Injuries |
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| Editing Transactions |
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| Editing Injury Reports |
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| Rosters and Manager Profiles |
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| Roster/MP Window: Overview |
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| Manager Profiles |
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| What is a Manager Profile? |
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| Pitching Chart |
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| Saved Lineups |
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| Depth Charts |
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| Playing time limits |
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| Manager Tendencies |
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| Player Tendencies |
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| Roster / manager profile window |
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| Roster Management |
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| Pitching chart page |
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| Saved lineups page |
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| Depth charts page |
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| Manager tendencies page |
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| Player tendencies page |
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| Manager Profile Report |
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| Manager profile generator |
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| Playing Games |
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| Playing Games: Overview |
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| Exhibition Game Options |
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| Managers: Human or Computer |
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| Game view preferences |
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| Modify Weather |
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| Playing Scheduled Games |
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| Scheduled game window |
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| Starting scheduled games |
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| Scheduled game options |
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| Special Events |
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| Starting Lineups and Substitutions |
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| Overview of Lineup Selection |
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| Lineup Selection: Window Layout and Tools |
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| Lineup Selection: Using Real-life Lineups |
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| Lineup Selection: Choosing Starting Pitchers |
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| Lineup Selection: Choosing Starting Lineups |
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| Lineup Selection: Loading Saved Lineups |
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| Lineup Selection Making Substitutions During a Game |
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| During the Game |
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| Game Window |
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| Pitching Tactics |
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| Defensive Tactics |
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| Offensive Tactics |
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| Baserunning Decisions |
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| Warmups and Substitutions |
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| Other Options |
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| Saving a game in progress |
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| Resuming a saved game |
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| NetPlay |
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| NetPlay Overview |
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| Preparing to Host a NetPlay Session |
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| Finding Your IP Address |
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| Firewalls |
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| Opening a Port |
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| The NetPlay Control Panel |
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| NetPlay Options |
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| Connecting to the Host |
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| Chatting Before or After a Game |
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| Starting a Game |
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| Choosing Starting Pitchers and Lineups |
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| Playing a Game |
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| Quick Play |
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| Chatting During a Game |
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| Abandoning a Game |
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| When a Game is Over |
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| Disconnecting |
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| If the Connection is Dropped |
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| Trouble-shooting |
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| Reports |
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| Overview of Reports |
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| Generating Reports |
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| Displaying Reports on the Screen |
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| Printing Reports |
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| Saving Reports to a File |
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| Custom Reports |
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| Adding a New Column |
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| Memorized Reports |
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| HTML formatting |
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| Report Options |
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| Report Options Overview |
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| Batting Register Report Options |
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| Report Groups |
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| Report Groups Overview |
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| Two Ways to Use Report Groups |
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| Generating a report group |
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| Creating and Modifying a Report Group |
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| Adding a Report to a Report Group |
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| Generating a web site |
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| Overview of Web Site Generation |
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| Generating a web site |
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| Transfers |
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| Transfers: Overview |
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| Setting up the League |
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| Exporting a League Database |
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| Installing a League Database |
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| Creating a League Database |
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| Exporting Statistics |
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| Importing Statistics |
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| Rebuilding Database Indexes |
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| Updating Streaks and Usages |
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| Tools |
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| Restarting a Season |
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| Resetting player usage |
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| Trading Players |
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| Releasing Players |
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| Deleting team-specific player records |
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| Generating Manager Profiles |
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| Important Concepts |
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| Bullpen Warmup Rule |
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| Catcher fatigue |
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| Clutch and Jam Ratings |
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| Player Status Codes |
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| Playing out of postion |
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| Reading the Scoresheet |
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| Reading the Game log |
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| Real-life Transactions and Lineups |
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| Sacrifice Fly Rules |
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| Weather System |
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| Uninstalling Diamond Mind Baseball |
Assembling Teams
At this stage of the tutorial, we'll focus on gathering the teams you wish to use in your league. (We'll deal with their rosters later.) The fundamental choice you face is whether to use real-life teams or fictional ones.
Real-life teams
If your goal is to create a new league using real-life teams, your task is to get the right teams into your database. Once they're there, you can release their players for a draft, make trades, sign free agents -- or simply create a schedule and play.
If the team you want is already in your database but is committed to another league, you need to release it from the first league. That's because a team can only belong to one league in a single database.
One option is to delete the other league altogether by clicking on the Leagues tab in the Organizer window, clicking on the league to be deleted, and then clicking the Delete button. This releases all of its teams for use in the new league.
If you're only interested in one or a few teams from an existing league, you can release those teams from that league individually using the Modify League function in the Organizer window.
If the team you want is in another database, you can import it for use in your league. This function makes a copy of the team, so importing a team for your league does not remove it from the original database. When you import a team, its players come with it. You also have the option of bringing along its home park and the era in which it played.
Fictional teams
If you want to populate your league with fictional teams, you can either gather real-life teams as explained above and then modify their characteristics, or create new teams altogether.
The choice is largely a matter of preference, because either option can bring you to the same destination. If you modify the hometown and nickname of a real-life team to suit your purposes, for example, you can preserve its association with a ballpark. But this saves you only one step and a few keystrokes. So you may find that it's simpler to start fresh and create your teams from scratch.