Hi everyone, I just want to take a moment to mention what other add-ons are avialable for Tony LaRussa Baseball III and how they are packaged together. The Ultimate Utilities. ----------------------- Are made up of a series of add-ons that are integrated together through a point & click main menu. These include: 1 -The General Manager Plus utility will: - Allow you to trade players from team to team, league to league within a point & click environment. - Create a new player by cloning an existing player - Display individual player's real life and league stats. - As well as change some of the player's attributes. - allow you to SYNC an minor league teamset with your major league one for player development. - supports a "holding" team for free agents. 2 - TUTIL are a collection of programs designed specifically to be an addition to the Tony LaRussa Baseball game. These utilties will allow you to: - Produce scouting, comparison, draft 0and roster type reports. - Produce a league leaders report, check the standings etc. - Keep track of your team's current win/loss streaks and record against the other teams. Home/away record etc. - Create/Modify/Report default lineups - Adjust/Report on Player injuries. - See what games are scheduled today and the scheduled starter. - set up to 10 preset lineups for each team and dictate how often each lineup will be used. - use an 11 man pitching staff. - set a 'spot starter' and assign pitching confidence levels. - Print your teams line scores for the season so far. - See how your team faired against other teams your league. - a very flexible point and click ratings mass update program. - a mass update utility for player ratings - and much more. 3- League Scheduler (SCHEDULE). This utility will allows you to create schedules for TONY3 in three ways: - By hand, in a point and click environment. - From a text file - a variation of an existing schedule. - not to mention the improved reporting and league selection capabilities. - has the facility to enforce your wish on day game or night game. These together make up my "Ultimate Utilitles" collection. Once you register any one of these, you are registered for all and will recieve the most recent versions of them. I will also post notices of any significant releases or updates. Typically the cost of the new version will be just to cover postage & the price of a diskette, if you are unable to obtain it from an online service. See below: REMOTE MANAGER. --------------- Designed especially for those who organize a fantasy baseball league using TONY3. The remote manager will allow your managers to have more control over their teams without you doing the work. REMOTE MANAGER will: - Allow your team managers to change pitching rotations and lineups, move players from the active roster to the reserve list on their own computer. Your team managers can then upload a file which you can process using your part the REMOTE MANAGER to make their changes effective. - allow your team managers can also change the manager profiles. - When used along with the my ENHANCED utilities, it will give your team managers up to 10 lineups to use instead of the 2 limited by TONY3. - use an 11 man pitching staff. - set a 'spot starter' and assign pitching confidence levels. Computerized General Manager- RoboGM ------------------------------------ The Computerized General Manager is designed specifically to be an addon for the Tony LaRussa's Baseball game. This modest little utility will: - Allow you to negoiate/arbitriate trades with a computerized GM. Supports modes of Human GM, computer GM, rightside GM and arbitartor. - Have the computer controlled teams trade with you or have them trade with each other - Support a wavier list and a place for free agents - Allow you release players or demote/recall them from your reserves - Sophisticaed Player Search facility, lets you create a list of players you are interested in. - supports and team payroll limit This utility by far took the most effort to develop. Between the programming of the computer AI which will take into account General Manager profile settings for each team, to resoloving the player links after the trade has taken place. The latest version of RoboGM, now makes sure that rosters are full, no pitcher is in the lineup as a position player, all active bench players are registered and available. The initial RoboGM for Tony2, only took care of the GM part of it. Putting the player into the lineup or on the bench was the responsibility of the manager. However, this caused some confusion and complaints about pitchers batting and playing, say right field. This area has been vastly improved in RoboGM for for Tony3. Very few games allow you to trade a pitcher for a fielder. Boy, now I know why! . RoboGM lets TONY3 do this. How to get Evaluation Versions or Updates: ------------------------------------------ CompuServe ---------- In the SPRTSIM forum, Baseball Library. The file name would be GMPLUS.zip or EUPDTxx.zip You can also use 'KEREN' or 'TONY3' as a keyword. American Online --------------- Either in the main file system or in the 'Dugout libraries of the sports hobby section. Use file search and enter the keyword 'KEREN', or 'TONY3'. PC Sports Connection BBS ------------------------ If you are a memeber of this BBS, you can download from the Tony3 directory. INTERNET -------- If you have internet access you can obtain updated versions from the site pdomain.uwindsor.ca in the directory pub/nick/baseball Or, check out my homepage URL: http://bedlam.uwindsor/nick From Me ------- You can obtain the latest updates along with evaluation versions of other add-ons directly from me. You must include a cheque or money order for $5. This will cover the cost of a diskette and postage back to you. My address: Nick F. Keren 1078 Heritage Drive American Online: NickKeren Windsor Ont. Internet Address: NICK@uwindsor.ca Canada COMPUSERVE: 73113,2711 N9H 2E2 Phone Number: (519) 253-4232 ext 2750 How to Register ---------------- (See REGISTER.txt for details) Also.. For Season disks and other addons such as replacement sounds for both the new and old Tony LaRussa games see... Keith Jefferson PC Sports Connection 1341 S. Anaheim Street Anaheim, CA CA 92805 (714) 533-6728 SYSOP SPRTSIMS forum CompuServe.