    Welcome to the first ever Fantasy League Baseball Door! Something we 
proudly call Fantasy League Baseball (FLB)!! Fantasy Leagues have become a 
very popular means of entertainment, but the costs of joining a league can 
run about $200 to $300 or more to buy a team. The Fantasy League Baseball 
Door solves this problem for the ordinary BBS user who doesn't have that 
kind of cash to shell out each year. The cost of registering FLB is only 
$20, making it the most cost effecient Fantasy League Baseball game out 
there. The best part is that it is a one time registration fee allowing your 
sysop to run a Fantasy League for his users as many times as he wishes.

                   What does Fantasy League Baseball do?

    The Fantasy League Baseball Door allows the users to select their team 
players through a draft routine. Each team starts out with a set amount of 
"money" in which to bid on the players of their choice. The players 
available in FLB are the players you've grown to know within Fantasy League 
Baseball itself. All these players statistics has been painstakingly 
recorded and utilized within the game. Yes, Jose Canseco hits home runs, 
Rickey Henderson steals bases, and Wade Boggs will draw more walks than 
strikeouts. Nolan Ryan will strikeout 10 per game (on average) and Tom Henke 
will make saves look easy. It's all in there.

                   What do I have to do in order to play?

    You, as a user, are the manager of your team. You make all the decisions 
as to who is going to play in the game, who will play at each position, who 
will bat in what order, what your pitching rotation will be, who you will go 
to as your closer, when to change a pitcher and substitute a reliever, and 
when aggressive running should be used. After that, all you have to do is 
sit back and hope your team can win a few games. If not, you're back to 
changing your strategies, or... place those unproductive players on waivers, 
hope another team will buy the remainder of his contract and give him a 
chance on their team, work out a trade with another team, or even select 
players still available in a supplemental draft. Whatever it takes to win!

                                  THE GAME

                              Selecting a Team

    When the game is first intitialized, it will create the number of teams 
specified by your sysop and allow you to select any available team when you 
log in. At this stage, all teams are empty, so selecting a team comes down 
to choosing which league and division you wish to play in. If you choose to 
play in the American League, you will only play American League teams during 
you season. National League teams will only play other National League 
teams. There is no difference between the two Leagues, both use the 
Designated Hitter rule. This was done because only half the pitchers in 
baseball have batting stats and we didn't want to limit the National League 
to only choosing players from the National League. All players are open to 
bidding to all teams. If you join after the season has already started, 
porvided a team is available, you will be able to select a team based on 
their record and view any team and their players before you select the team 
you want to manage.

                            The Bidding Process

    The bidding process is implemented on a specified time schedule. Once 
the game is initialized, all players have 8 days to select their teams and 
place their first round draft bids. At the end of the 8 day intial start up 
period, the first draft round will be run on the sysop's nightly maintenence 
event. Any teams not claimed within this period will run a computer driven 
bid routine and bid on the 25 players of their choosing. The computer will 
create a list of the best players at each position and randomly select a 
player from these lists and then randomly place a bid on them. In this way, 
we have assured that ALL teams will participate in the draft round. If you 
haven't completed your bidding by this time, the computer will bid for you 
in any slot you haven't placed a bid in. The Automated Draft Routine ensures 
that ALL teams will have decent players in which to compete during the 
season. This way, if a player joins the league late in the season, he still 
has a chance to make it into the playoffs regardless of whether he drafted 
his players or the computer selected them for him.
    After the first draft round has been run, three more draft rounds will 
take place, one every other day over the next 6 nights. Each will also run a 
automated draft before assigning players to the highest bidding team. If two 
teams bid on the same player, the highest bid wins. If these two teams have 
recorded the same bid, then the team who bid on that player first will win 
the bid. So, make sure you record you bids as early as possible. The early 
bird really does get the worm!

                            Setting up your Team

    After the last bid round is completed, and all teams have 25 players, 
you have 2 days in order to set up your team before game play begins. This 
allows you time to inspect you players, select you batting rotation, your 
pitching rotation and configure you management options. After that, it's one 
game per day until the end of the season. Some players will so well, others 
will have to work at keeping their teams in contension. This might be simply 
juggling your batting rotation or pitching rotation, or something as drastic 
as releasing unproductive players and selecting others, or even working out 
a trade to get players that will fill the "holes" in your team. These 
options will be discussed later in this documentation. There is no other 
interaction but this, the games will be run during the nightly maintenance 
event and the results will be posted for viewing the next day.

                               THE MAIN MENU

    When you log on the first thing you will see, after recieving 
information about how many bids you have remaining and whether you have any 
trade offers pending, will be the Main Menu. The Main Menu looks like this:


                           Today is Game Day 17
 

                          [1] Game Play Actions
                          [2] Draft Bids Menu
                          [3] Trade Offers Menu
                          [4] The Waiver Wire
                          [5] Injured Reserve List
                          [6] View League Standings
                          [7] View League Leaders
                          [8] View Game Results

                          [Q] Quit to BBS

                          Selection:

GAME PLAY ACTIONS - This includes areas to set up your team's batting     
rotation, pitching rotation, viewing your players statstics and            
accumulated stats, and configuring your management options.

DRAFT BIDS MENU - This area will allow you to view and bid on any eligible
player that has not already been assigned to a team. Here is where you   
will be spending most of your time during the first 2 weeks of the game.

TRADE OFFERS MENU (R) - This area will allow you to view other teams and 
check out how well other players are doing during the season. This becomes 
very helpful in determining just who you want to make a trade offer on. 
Everything can be viewed from here. This area will even tell you how much 
each player has remaining on his contract so you can determine if you have 
enough available money left in order to buy his contract. Remember, you can 
only have a certain amount of money available to you during the season, so 
salary cap limits become important in here. It's always good to have a few 
extra dollars left after bidding on your 25 players just in case you need it 
to cover any difference between the contract of the person your trading away 
and the contract of the player you're trading for. If you don't have enough 
money to cover the trade requirements or if the other team doesn't, you will 
be told by the game that the trade was disallowed do to salary cap 
limitations.

THE WAIVER WIRE (R) - This area will allow you to waive a player on your 
team, that is release him from your team and allow the other teams 30 days 
in which to pick up his contract. If some does pick up you waived player's 
contract, the team will reimburse you the remainder of that player's 
contract, if not, then after 30 days he becomes available to any other team 
in the supplemental draft and you're stuck paying that player the remainder 
of his contract. So, the best thing to do is to take him off the waiver wire 
just before he clears waivers if no other team selects him... that is IF you 
still have an empty slot on your team to do so. This area is also the place 
to pick up recently waived players, sometimes you can get some really good 
deals if a team is looking for some extra cash in order to complete a trade, 
so check this area often just to see which players might be listed.

INJURED RESERVE LIST (R) - This area will list your players and tell you 
which ones are injured. Here is where you can place injured players on 
reserve and open up a slot on the active team roster to allow you to pick up 
a replacement player either on the waiver wire or through the supplemental 
draft. If you do place a player on the injured reserve it is for a minimum 
of 21 days. That means if the player is injured for less than 21 days and is 
placed on injured reserve, he will not be available again until 21 days 
later. If he is injured for more than 21 days than he will remain on injured 
reserve for the duration of his injury.

VIEW LEAGUE STANDINGS - This is just what it appears to be. This will show 
you all the teams in each division, their wins and loses and how many games 
back they are from first place... unless, of course, your team IS in first. 
:)

VIEW LEAGUE LEADERS (R) - This option will allow you to see which players 
are on the top ten lists in a variety of categories from Homeruns and 
batting averages, to pitcher strikouts and ERAs.

VIEW GAME RESULTS - This area will give you a menu that will show you 
anything you need to know about past games, standings, team breakdowns, 
schedules, and how your team is doing over the last ten days.

                             GAME PLAY ACTIONS

The game play actions menu looks like this:

                         [1] Lineup Card
                         [2] Coaching Options
                         [3] View Team

LINEUP CARD - This screen will allow you to view each player's statistics, 
edit your lineup (moving players on and off the starting rotation, pitchers 
in and out of the pitching rotation and changing you closer), and save your 
new configuration. It also has a very helpful RESET option in case you're 
not sure about how to set up a lineup. Doing a computer reset will have the 
computer set your lineup for you by moving the best players into the lineup 
and sorting them by their hitting abilities. Of course, the computer may not 
select the best players in any other category but hitting. That is, it isn't 
going to know which players are your best stolen bases runners or even which 
will hit more homeruns, just which can hit or pitch and which can't.

COACHING OPTIONS - This area will allow you to configure your management 
options like when to change pitchers and when to use aggressive running.

VIEW TEAM - Almost identical to the Lineup Card, except this area will not 
allow you to change your lineup, but it will allow you the option of viewing 
both the players stats and the player accumulated stats.

                                Lineup Card

When you go into the lineup card you will see a screen similar to this one:

                                 Rockies 24
          Batting Rotation           |             Reserve Players
15 Fred McGriff         3     0.278  |  4  Tom Lampkin          2     0.190
9  Kirby Puckett        8     0.319  |  14 Dave Howard          6     0.216
10 Paul O'Niell         9     0.256  |  17 Ernest Riles         5     0.214
1  Carlton Fisk         2     0.241  |  23 Ron Tingley          2     0.200
2  Ken Griffey Sr       7     0.282  |  25 Kevin Mitchell       7     0.256
18 Tony Fernandez       6     0.272  |
16 Billy Hatcher       10     0.262  |               Bullpen
8  Brook Jacoby         5     0.224  |  7  Bob MacDonald        13    2.85
3  Luis Alicea          4     0.191  |  11 Jesse Orosco         13    3.74
                                     |  12 Don Carman           13    5.25
         Pitching Rotation           |
20 Bobby Ojeda          25    3.18   |            Utility Pitchers
5  Luis Aquino          17    3.44   |  22 Scott Bankhead       1     4.90
19 Brian Holman         27    3.69   |
6  Jose Mesa            24    5.97   |
21 Scott Lewis          17    6.27   |
             Closer                  |
13 Steve Farr           4     2.19   |
                                     |
[E] Edit Setup   [V] View Player   [R] Reset Lineup   [S] Save Configuration

    Let's take a look at one of the players in the Batting Rotation...

                     15 Fred McGriff         3     2.78

RECORD NUMBER - The first number in the field is the players record number 
on his team. This number could be anything from 1 to 25.

PLAYER NAME - The next field is the player's name. Pretty simple to figure 
out. :)

PLAYERS ASSIGNED POSITION - This number is the player's position on the 
field. Here is a list of the ten positions and what they mean:

                      1 - Pitcher (not used here).
                      2 - Catcher
                      3 - First Base
                      4 - Second Base
                      5 - Third Base
                      6 - Shortstop
                      7 - Left Field
                      8 - Center Field
                      9 - Right Field
                     10 - Designated Hitter

    This should help out in determining who is playing where for those of 
you not quite familiar with the nuances of baseball. ;)

Now, let's look at a record in the pitching rotation...

                     20 Bobby Ojeda          25    3.18

RECORD NUMBER - The first number is the same as above.

PLAYER NAME - Same as above.

PITCHER ENDURANCE - This number (25 in this example) is the endurance rating 
for this pitcher on this day. In other words, this is the number of batters 
this pitcher can pitch to before getting tired and slowly losing his 
effectiveness. This DOES NOT mean that this pitcher will be changed upon 
reaching zero. If this were the case, no pitcher in FLB could pitch a 
complete game. What it means is that if this pitcher is pitching well, he 
will stay in, but if he gives up a hit after reaching zero or less, he will 
be replaced with a fresh reliever. If he tires in the ninth inning and you 
team is winning, he will be replaced with the Closer (if a save situation 
exists).

EARNED RUN AVERAGE - This last field is the pitcher's ERA. What this number 
represents is the number of runs this pitcher gives up during an average  
nine inning game. The lower this number the better. :)

On the other side of the card are your reserve players and relief pitchers. 
At this time the numbers are a little different. Here is an example of a 
reserve player...

                       4  Tom Lampkin       2   0.190

RECORD NUMBER - Same as above.

PLAYER NAME - Same as above.

PLAYER POSITION - This is a little different than the player assigned 
position. This number is the field position that this player plays most 
often. The numbers are slightly different in regards to the Designated 
hitter...
                       1 - Starting Pitcher
                       2 - Catcher
                       3 - First Base
                       4 - Second Base
                       5 - Third Base
                       6 - Shortstop
                       7 - Left Fielder
                       8 - Center Fielder
                       9 - Right Fielder
                      10 - Infielder
                      11 - Outfielder
                      12 - Designated Hitter
                      13 - Relief Pitcher

And finally, let's look at the relief pitcher's record (also includes 
Utility Pitchers)...

                    22 Scott Bankhead         1     4.90

RECORD NUMBER - Same as above.

PLAYER NAME - Same as above.

PLAYER POSITION - Same as Reserve Players. ( Note: 1 indicates starting 
pitcher).

EARNED RUN AVERAGE - Same as Pitching Rotation.

    Now here are a couple of rules and definitions to mull over...

BATTING ROTATION - This is a list of the nine players that will come to bat 
in the game. They will bat in the order they appear in the list.

PITCHING ROTATION - This is the list of starting pitchers and the order they 
will pitch in on sucsessive nights.

STARTING PITCHER - These are the pitchers on you team that will start games 
for your team. You can have up to 5 starters (recommended). The first 
pitcher in this group is tonight's starter and each other will start games 
on sucsessive nights. These places will rotate after each night's games are 
run. In other words, after tonight's pitcher pitches, he will be moved to 
slot 5 and work his way back up to the top slot and every other pitcher will 
move up.

CLOSER - This is the pitcher that will come in when your team is winning in 
the late innings and you need a reliable relief pitcher to come in and 
finish the game, saving your win. This should be you BEST relief pitcher!

SAVE SITUATION - The definition of a save situation in FLB is anytime your 
team is winning in the late innings (8 or above) and the potential tying run 
comes to the plate to bat.

UTILITY PITCHER - This is an option starter (the sixth starter, if you have 
one). His job is to come in and replace your starter if he is getting beat 
early (in the first 5 innings). His job is to take over for the starter in 
the early innings. He keeps you from having to use the Bullpen too early in 
a game and thereby keeping your relievers "fresh" for the later innings in 
the game.

BULLPEN - This is your list of Relief Pitchers.

RESERVE PLAYERS - This is the list of batters who are not active in the 
game, but can be called on to replace an injured player during game play. 
(This will also be the list of players pinch hitters and pinch runners will 
be selected from in future versions).

                              Coaching Options

When you go into the coaching options you will be met with a screen that 
looks like this...

                              FLB Game Actions
                                                   Inning
                             1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    X

Change a pitcher if he
gives up more than how
many runs in one inning?     3    3    3    2    2    2    1    1    1    1

Change pitcher if your
team is losing by what
margin and the pitcher
gives up any runs?           3    3    3    2    2    2    1    1    1    0

Allow agressive running
during what innings and 
when the difference in
scores is how much? *        N    N    N    N    N    N    3    2    1    Y

 * [Y] - Always On, [N] - Never On, [0-9] - On when difference in score is #

               These are pretty much self explanitory, but...

                           Change a pitcher if he
                           gives up more than how
                           many runs in one inning?

    This basically will change a pitcher if he gives up the specified number 
of runs you select. This also works in conjunction with question number two. 
It's an either or situation...

                           Change pitcher if your
                           team is losing by what
                           margin and the pitcher
                           gives up any runs?

    This will kick in if your team is losing by the specified margin. If a 
pitcher gives up any runs during this situation, he will be changed to try 
and keep the game as close as possible in hopes that you team can catch up.

                           Allow agressive running
                           during what innings and
                           when the difference in
                           scores is how much? *

    This will turn on agressive running under the specified conditions. 
Agressive running makes stolen bases more appealling to your fastest 
players. It basically gives them the green light to run. Also, it will allow 
these speedsters to stretch they're running. Example, if you have a runner 
on first and your batter hits a single, the runner may attempt to go to 
third base instead of stopping at second. Of course, turning agressive 
running on is not without its drawbacks. It is easier to hit into a double 
play with it on since most of your runners will be taking extended leads of 
their bases. :)
    If you place an "N" in an inning slot, agressive running will not be 
allowed in that inning. If you place a "Y" in the column, then agressive 
running will always be on. If you place a number in the slot, then agressive 
running will be activated if the difference in scores is this number or 
LESS. This works both ways. If you place a "2" in the slot and you winning 
or losing by 2 runs or less, agressive running will be on.

                                 View Team

    This screen looks almost identical to the Lineup Card, except you'll 
notice that the relievers are displaying their endurance instead of their 
positions, and the starters are also displaying their position in the 
pitching rotation. Eventually in future releases these two screens will be 
identical. The Fantasy difference in these two screens can be seen in the 
status bar at the bottom of the screen...

   [V] View Player Statistics   [A] View Acummulated Statistics  [Q] Quit

VIEW PLAYER STATISTICS - This will allow you to view the player's actual 
play statistics. That is the stats used during the game.

VIEW ACUMMULATED STATISTICS - This will allow you to view the players 
accumulated stats. That is the stats he's accumulated during season play. 
This will allow you to see how well your player is doing compared to how 
well he should be doing.

QUIT - This brings you back to the previous menu. :)

                              DRAFT BIDS MENU

When you select the draft bids menu options, you will be greeted by a screen 
that looks like this...

                            Manager:  The Sysop
                            Hometown: Colorado
                            Team:     Rockies
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 |   Money: 500               Max Bid: 476         Bids Remaining: 25     |
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             [1] Batters
                             [2] Pitchers
                             [V] View Recorded Bids

                          [R] Return to Main Bid Menu
                                 Selection:

MONEY - This is the total amount of money you have to spend on selecting 
your team. (Remember, it is a good idea to keep some money in reserve for 
unexpected circumstances that might come up during the season...).

MAX BID - This is the maximum amount of money you can bid on the next 
player. (Remember, don't put all your eggs in one basket!).

BIDS REMAINING - This is the total amount of bids you have left to make this 
draft round.

BATTERS - This will bring you to the batters bid menu.

PITCHERS - This will bring you to the pitchers bid menu.

VIEW RECORDED BIDS - this will allow you to view the bids you have made so 
far, how much you bid on them and what positions they play.

                                BID BATTERS

    Basically, this screen and the pitchers screen as the same as the screen 
mentioned above. The differnce is that this menu will allow you to view each 
batter in his position or view all eligible batters. All other functions 
work exactly as explained above.

                                BID PITCHERS

Same as described above, except it filters pitchers instead of batters...

                             BATTER BID SCREEN

Ahhhh! Now we're getting somewhere! This screen appears like this... 
(condensed due to extreme size of this screen!)

Num Player Name        Pos AB  Hit D  T  HR  R  Rbi SB CS SO  BB   BA    FA
7   Sandy Alomar Jr     2  184 40  9  0  0  10  7   0  4  24  8  0.217 0.987
15  Harold Baines       12 488 144 25 1  20 76  90  0  1  67  72 0.295 0.900
64  Mike Carreon        7  596 162 26 0  21 73  65  5  5  74  72 0.272 0.999
...
...

[P] Previous Screen  [N] Next Screen  [B] Bid  [V] View Player  [R] Return

    This basically gives you all the statistics you'll need to select your 
players in the draft. Here is an explanation of what these numbers 
represent...

NUM - This is the player's record number within the data files.

PLAYER NAME - Need I really say...

POS - This is the player's prefered playing position.

AB - At bats. This is how many times this player has come to bat (excluding 
times he has walked).

HITS - This is the number of times the player has hit.

D - Doubles. The number of doubles he has hit.

T - Triples.

HR - Homeruns.

R - Runs scored.

Rbi - Number of runs he has batted in. That is the number of times he has 
been responsible for another teammate scoring.

SB - Stolen bases.

CS - Caught stealing. The number of times he has failed to steal a base when 
he attempted to steal. That is the number of times he has been thrown out 
trying to steal a base.

SO - Strikeouts.

BB - Base on Balls or Walks.

BA - His batting average. That is the number of times he has hit compared to 
the number of times he has batted (AB).

FA - Fielding Average. This is the percentage of times he has handled the 
ball correctly in the field... or the percentaage of times he WILL NOT 
commit an error.

PREVIOUS SCREEN - this will back up one full screen of players. Since there 
are over 400 batters in the list, this could be handy. :)

NEXT SCREEN - Just the opposite of Previous Screen. Pages down.

BID - This will allow you to place a bid on a player appearing on the 
current screen. It will ask you which player you wish to bid on. Type in the 
Record number appearing in the Num column. It will then ask you how much you 
want to bid and tell you what your max bid is. If you have already bid on 
this player it will tell you that you already have a bid on this player, 
tell you how much you bid, and ask you if you want to change your bid.

VIEW PLAYER - This will show you a full screen breakdown of the selected 
player's stats. This will have more information than the bid screen. You 
will be able to see more info like On Base Percentage, and Slugging 
Averages. These will be explained a little later. :)

RETURN - Pretty obvious. This brings you back to the previous menu. :)

                             PITCHER BID SCREEN

Num Player Name       Pos GP CG  IP    BF  ER  H  HR  SO  BB  W  L  Sv  ERA
2   Paul Abbott        13 15 0  47.3  210  25 38  5   43  36  3  1  0  4.75
51  Tim Burke          13 72 0  101.7 421  38 96  8   59  26  6  7  6  3.36
...
...

[P] Previous Screen  [N] Next Screen  [B] Bid  [V] View Player  [R] Return

NUM - Pitcher's record number in the data files.

PLAYER NAME - Figure it out. :)

POS - The player's position. 1 for starters, 13 for relievers.

GP - Number of games pitched in.

CG - Number of complete games. That is the number of games the pitcher 
started and finished a game.

IP - Number of innings pitched during the season. (Note: .3 is one out in 
one inning, .7 is two outs in one inning. That means there are three outs in 
one inning... just in case you didn't know. :) ).

BF - The number of batters faced in the season. Just like the at bats (AB) 
for batters.

ER - Earned runs allowed. That is the number of runs the pitcher is 
responsible for allowing to score. A batter that reaches base on an error 
and then scores later in the inning is NOT concidered an earned run.

H - Hits allowed by the pitcher.

HR - Homeruns allowed by the pitcher.

SO - The number of strikeouts the pitcher has thrown.

BB - Ooops! The number of times the pitcher has walked a batter.

W - Wins.

L - Loses.

SV - Saves. This was explained earlier, but a save is recorded for a pitcher 
IF the tying run comes to the plate but the relief pitcher saves the game 
and doesn't allow the other team to tie the game or go ahead. If this 
happens the pitcher earns a save. If not, maybe you need a different closer. 
:)

ERA - Earned run average. Also explained earlier. This is the amount of runs 
the pitcher will allow to score, on average, in a nine inning game.

The status bar at the bottom of this screen is identical to the status bar 
in the batter bid screen and needs no furthur explaination. (One can hope, 
right. :) ).

                            VIEW PLAYER (BATTER)

    This screen is accessable from almost everywhere. It will give a more 
detailed look at a player's stats. The screen will look something like 
this...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            Fred McGriff  (15)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Record Number: 251        Primary Position: 3        Player Wages: 25
File Number: 2            Secondary Position: 3      Player Earnings: 2
Player Rotation: 1        Player Position : 3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Player Injury: 0          Player Endurance: 0        Player Heal: 0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

At Bats: 528              Singles: 96                Base on Balls: 105
Hits: 147                 Doubles: 19                Strikeouts: 135
Runs: 84                  Triples: 1                 Stolen Bases: 4
Runs Batted In: 106       Home Runs: 31              Caught Stealing: 1
                          Total Bases: 261           Fielding Average: 0.990
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Batting Average: 0.278    On Base Average: 0.477     Slugging Average: 0.494
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

RECORD NUMBER - This is the number of the player's record in the data files. 
(The number next to the player's name is the record number on the team.)

FILE NUMBER - This is not important. It is just an indicator so the program 
knows whether the player is a batter or a pitcher.

PLAYER ROTATION - This is what order the player will be batting in the 
rotation. If this number is a 26, then he is not in your lineup and is part 
of your reserve player list.

PRIMARY POSITION - This is the player's prefered position to play.

SECONDARY POSITION - This is the player's alternate position. He can play in 
this position with minimal effect on his fielding average (.5%). If he's 
placed in a position not listed in either the primary or secondary, his 
fielding will be adjusted by 5%.

PLAYER POSITION - This is where you have set this player to actually play. 
If this number is 26, then he is not active in your lineup.

PLAYER WAGES - This is the amount of money you bid on this player.

PLAYER EARNINGS - This is the actual amount of money you have paid this 
player out of his wages. If you were to trade him, then you would recover 
the difference between the Wages and the Earnings minus whatever the cost of 
the player you traded for.

PLAYER INJURY - This is the amount of days this player is injured for and 
how long he will be unable to play.

PLAYER ENDURANCE - This is used for pitchers and will be explained later.

PLAYER HEAL - Another pitcher category. Explained later.
 
The next grouping has been previously explained with these exceptions...

TOTAL BASES - This is the number of bases the player has accumulated. In 
other words, if the player hits a single, he has one base. If the player 
hits a double, it is two bases. A triple is three bases and a homerun is 
four. This number is the total number of bases the player has accumulated 
during the season. It is used to determine his Slugging Average.

ON BASE PERCENTAGE - This is the number of hits the player has plus the 
number of walks compared to the number of times At Bat. This number 
represents the total percentage of time this player will reach base.

SLUGGING AVERAGE - This is the Total Bases the player has against the number 
of At Bats. It is used to determine the percentage of extra base hits the 
player is capable of making. Compare this number to the player's batting 
average to see how well he can hit for extra bases. (Extra bases are any 
hits better than a single).

                           VIEW PLAYER (PITCHER)

    This screen is accessable from almost everywhere in the game. It is like 
the View Player option for batters, but displays the statistcs for pitchers.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           Bobby Ojeda (20)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Record Number: 240         Primary Position: 1       Player Wages: 19
File Number: 2             Secondary Position: 0     Earnings: 1
Player Rotation: 1         Player Position: 1
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Player Injury: 0           Player Endurance: 26      Player Heal: 8
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Games Pitched: 31          Hits Allowed: 181         Walks Allowed: 70
Complete Games: 2          Runs Allowed: 78          Strikeouts: 120
Innings Pitched: 189.3     Earned Runs: 67           Wild Pitches: 4
Batters Faced: 802         Home Runs Allowed: 15     Hit Batters: 3
ERA: 3.18                  Hit Percentage: 0.226     Balks: 2
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Wins: 12                                             Shutouts: 1
Loses: 9                                             Saves: 0
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Average Innings: 6.1      Batters per Inning: 4.2    Batters per Game: 25.0

Most of the Fields in the first part of this screen have been explained 
earlier and follow the same basic descriptions. The others are defined as 
follows:

PLAYER ENDURANCE - This is the amount of batters a pitcher can face before 
beginning to tire and lose his effectiveness.

PLAYER HEAL - This is the amount of Endurance a pitcher will regain each day 
he does not pitch.

GAMES PITCHED - This is the number of games that a pitcher has appeared in 
during the season.

HITS ALLOWED - This is the number of hits that a pitcher has allowed during 
the season.

WALKS ALLOWED - The number of times a pitcher has given up a walk to a 
batter.

COMPLETE GAMES - This is the number of games that the pitcher has started a 
game and pitched for the entire game without being changed for a reliever. 
This means that a complete game is if the starting pitcher is the only 
pitcher to appear in the game for his team (win or lose).

RUNS ALLOWED - The number of runs that were scored against this pitcher. 
This also means runs scored after the pitcher was changed if the run scored 
was by a person that the pitcher was responsible for putting on base.

STRIKEOUTS - The number of batters the pitcher has fanned during the season.

INNINGS PITCHED - The total amount of innings the pitcher has pitched in for 
the season.

EARNED RUNS - Similar to RUNS ALLOWED but it does not count runs that were 
scored by players that reached base on a fielder's error and not through the 
fault of the pitcher.

WILD PITCHES - The number of times the pitcher has thrown a wild pitch. This 
is important if there are baserunners on base, since they have the 
opportunity to advance in these situations.

BATTERS FACED - The total number of batters that the pitcher has pitched to 
during the season.

HOMERUNS ALLOWED - The number of homeruns that pitcher has given up.

HIT BATTERS - The number of batters that the pitcher has hit with the ball 
and thereby walking the batter.

ERA - Earned run percentage. (Explained earlier)

HIT PERCENTAGE - This is the average BATTING AVERAGE batters have against 
this pitcher. Compare this number to the Batting average of the batters to 
determine how well the pitcher pitches. The lower this number the better the 
pitcher.

BALKS - This one is a little tough to define for you neophyte baseball 
people. Needless to say if a pitcher commits a balk all baserunners will 
advance one base.

WINS - Number of games won.

LOSES - Number of games lost.

SHUTOUTS - The number of times the same pitcher not only pitches a complete 
game but also doesn't allow the opposing team to score any runs.

SAVES - The number time a relief pitcher came into the game during a save 
situation (i.e. in the late innings and the tying run comes to the plate to 
bat) and saves the win for his team.

AVERAGE INNINGS - The average number of innings a pitcher can pitch.

BATTERS PER INNING - The average number of batters a pitcher faces during 
one inning. The lower this number the better the pitcher.

BATTERS PER GAME - the average number of batters a pitcher faces during one 
game pitched. This is not the number of batters to come to the plate in one 
game, but the number this pitcher faces during a game appearance. This is 
also the same number as the pitcher's ENDURANCE.


                           TRADE OFFERS MENU (R)

    The Trades Offer Menu is where you can set up trades with other teams 
being run by other players in the game. Trades will not take place, at this 
time, with teams being run by the computer. When you select this option, you 
will access a screen that will look like this:

                   1  Orioles          15 Cubs
                   2  Red Sox          16 Marlins
                   3  Indians          17 Expos
                   4  Tigers           18 Metropolitans
                   5  Brewers          19 Phillies
                   6  Yankees          20 Pirates
                   7  Blue Jays        21 Cardinals
                   8  Angels           22 Braves
                   9  White Sox        23 Reds
                   10 Royals           24 Rockies
                   11 Twins            25 Astros
                   12 Athletics        26 Dodgers
                   13 Rangers          27 Padres
                   14 Mariners         28 Giants

 [V] View Team Roster   [T] Trade with Team   [R] Return to Main Menu

    Your team will appear in brown, but this does not mean you cannot view 
your team from this menu. Of course, you cannot select your team to trade 
with. :)

                              View Team Roster

    When you select the view team roster, you will be asked which team you 
would like to view. Type in the Team Number next to the team you would like 
to view and the team roster will appear. It will look something like this:

1   Carlton Fisk         2   $1     16   Billy Hatcher        7    $23
2   Ken Griffey Jr.      7   $1     17   Ernest Riles         5    $27
3   Luis Alicea          4   $1     18   Tony Fernandes       6    $40
......
......

[V] View Player Stats  [A] View Accumulated Stats  [R] Return to Trades Menu

    The first number is the player's team number. The second field is, of 
course, the player's name. The third field is the player's primary position. 
The final field, the dollar amount, is the player's remaining value. That 
is, the amount of money left on his contract to be paid. This is his total 
contract worth, or Wages, minus his earnings to date. This is the amount you 
must pay the player if you select him in a trade. Of course, this is 
subtracted from the remaining value of the player you are trading away, so 
if you trade for a player with an equal amount remaining on his contract, no 
actual money will trade hands. If you select a player that is worth more 
than the player you're trading away, you must have enough money to cover the 
difference. Same with the other team if you trade for someone with a smaller 
contract. If you do not have enough money to cover the trade, or the other 
team doesn't have the money, the commissioner will not allow the trade offer 
and tell you so. If you do have enough money the trade will be recorded and 
the offer made to the team you're desiring to trade with. If, during the 
time the trade offer is recorded and the actual deal closes, you or the 
other team spends money enough to be unable to cover the cost of the trade, 
the trade will be disallowed by the commissioner. So, be careful what you 
spend. :)

VIEW PLAYER STATS - Explained earlier. This is the same option available 
from most of the game menus.

VIEW ACCUMULATED STATS - This option is the same as above, but allows you to 
view how well a player is performing during the current season.

RETURN TO TRADES MENU - Need I say?


                              Trade with Team

    When you select this option from the trades menu, you will be asked wish 
team you wish to trade with. Select the team number next to the team you 
desire to trade with. You will get the same screen as described above and be 
able to view both accumulated stats and real stats from here also. You will 
also be able to select who you want to trade for. Once you select the player 
you want to trade for, your roster will replace the other team's roster and 
you will know be able to select the player you want to trade away to the 
other team. You will also be able to view your players stats in order to 
make this selection easier.
    Once a trade is recorded, both you and the team that you are trying to 
trade with will be prompted at log on that a trade offer exists for your 
team. Select the Trade Offers Menu to review the trade offer. You will be 
told who the players are involved in the trade and what team the trade is 
with. If you made the trade offer, you will see a screen telling you the 
status of the trade offer. The status could be one of the following:

Pending - This means a decision has not yet been made on the trade offer.

Refused - The other team has refused the trade offer.

Accepted - The other team has accepted the trade offer.

Completed - The trade offer was accepted and the trade was made.

Acknowledged - The other team has acknowledged the fact the the trade was  
               completed.

    At any time up until you Complete the trade, you have the option of 
cancelling the trade offer. Once the trade has been made, there is no way to 
cancel it. So, make sure you have checked the trade out completely, before 
you complete any trade.

                            THE WAIVER WIRE (R)

    The Waiver Wire will allow you to place a player you no longer want on 
waivers. This option is used if you have a player you want to release from 
your team, but cannot find someone interested in trading for. You will still 
be responsible for paying this player's contract, but it will open up a slot 
for you to pick up another player in a supplemental draft. Supplemental 
Drafts run throughout the season every two days and work exactly like the 
regular draft rounds. If another manager picks up a player you placed on 
waivers, then you will be compensated by that manager for the remainder of 
the selected player's contract. If the player is not picked up by another 
team within 30 day, then that player comes off the waiver wire and becomes 
available to any team through the supplemental draft. This is called 
clearing waivers. If the player clears waivers, the original team pays that 
player's full contract wage. The waiving team has the option of picking up 
the player before he clears waivers and placing him back on his team, but 
this requires that the team have an empty slot to place him back in. The 
Waiver Wire Menu looks like this:

                           Coach:       The Sysop
                           Hometown:    Colorado
                           Team:        Rockies


                    [1] View/Select Batters on Waivers
                    [2] View/Select Pitchers on Waivers
                    [3] Place Player on Waivers


                          [R] Return to Main Menu

                    
                       View/Select Batters on Waivers

    The View/Select Batters on Waivers screen looks something like this:

Num  Player Name          Pos    Team    Wages   Earnings  Injury  Days Left
315  Alonzo Powell         7      24      27        0        0        30
...
...

NUM - Batter's record number in the data files.

NAME - Batter's name.

POS - Player's primary position.

TEAM - The player's original Team number. (so the program knows which team    
       to compensate if the player is selected from the wire.)

WAGES - The player's total contract pay.

EARNINGS - How much the original team has paid this player to date.

INJURY - The number of days this player will be injured for and unavailable   
         to play.

DAY LEFT - The number of days left before this player clears waivers and      
            becomes available through the supplemental drafts.


                      View/Select Pitchers on Waivers

    This screen is identical to the Batter's screen except it will only show 
pitchers and not batters. Everything else is exactly as described above.


                          Place Players on Waivers

    Selecting this option will give you a view of your team roster that will 
look identical to the roster you can access through the Trades option. You 
will be able to View a players stats, both real stats and accumulated stats, 
but instead of being able to trade a player, the option here will be "waive 
a player". This option will ask you which player you wish to place on 
waivers and then remove him from your team and add him to the Waiver Wire.


                            INJURED RESERVE LIST

    The Injured reserve List will allow you to place an injured player on 
Injured Reserve (IR) instead of having to place the player on waivers. This 
will free up a slot on the active team roster, but you do not have to give 
up your rights to the player. The only requirements for placing a player on 
the IR is that the player must be injured. A player placed on IR must stay 
on the IR list for not less than 21 days. If the player is injured for less 
than 21 days he can still be placed on the IR, but he will not be available 
for reactivation for 21 days. This becomes a management decision as to 
whether it would be best to place the place on IR or to "ride out" the 
injury and keep him as an active player. If the player is injured for more 
than 21 days, then he will remain on the IR for the length of his injury.
    A player does not have to be activated as soon as he is healthy. He can 
remain on the IR indefinately, but this will tie up a slot on your IR list 
until he is moved, by either waiving the player or reactivating him. 
Remember, you can only reactivate a player IF you have a slot to place him 
into on the active team roster. You have 5 IR slots on your team. Here's 
hoping you never need to use them all. :)


                           VIEW LEAGUE STANDINGS

    This is one of the most commonly used features. It can be found on the 
Main Menu and in the View Game Results option off the Main Menu. View League 
Standings will give you a screen telling you the Wins And losses for every 
team, broken up by their divisions, and also how many games behind the first 
place team each team is. The screen looks something like this:


           American League                         National League
                East                                    East
2  Red Sox          32     17     ---    20 Pirates        33     17     ---
3  Indians          30     20     2.5    15 Cubs           29     22     4.5  
1  Orioles          30     20     2.5    16 Marlins        27     24     6.5
5  Brewers          26     23     6.0    19 Phillies       26     24     7.0
4  Tigers           26     23     6.0    21 Cardinals      24     27     9.5
7  Blue Jays        23     26     9.0    18 Metropolitans  23     27    10.0
6  Yankees          23     26     9.0    17 Expos          19     31    14.0

                West                                    West
12 Athletics        27     22     ---    24 Rockies        32     19     ---
10 Royals           24     26     3.5    27 Padres         28     22     3.5
13 Rangers          23     26     4.0    22 Braves         25     25     6.5
14 Mariners         23     27     4.5    23 Reds           25     26     7.0
9  White Sox        22     28     5.5    28 Giants         22     29    10.0
11 Twins            21     29     6.5    26 Dodgers        21     30    11.0
8  Angels           16     33    11.0    25 Astros         20     31    12.0


    The first column is the Team Number. The Second is the Team Name. The 
Third is the Team Wins. the Fourth is the Team Loses. The last is the number 
of games back the team is from first place. The "---" signifies the team is 
in first place or tied for first.


                          VIEW LEAGUE LEADERS (R)

    This registered option will allow you to view which players are leading 
in which catergories. This is divided up into batter's catergories and 
pitcher's catergories.

The Batting Categories are divided up as follows:

Hits, Doubles, Triples, Homeruns, Runs Scored, Runs Batted In, Stolen Bases, 
Batting Average, and Slugging Average.

The Pitching Categories are divided up as follows:

Wins, Loses, Saves, Games (pitched), Complete Games, Shutouts, Strikeouts, 
Hit Percentage, Earned Run Average.

    This is an example of how the screen looks. All screens look similar to 
the example:

                              Most Strikeouts

                  Omar Olivares              11   (Padres)
                  Pete Schourek              11   (Orioles)
                  Mike Moore                 10   (Reds)
                  John Habyan                8    (Angels)
                  Yorkis Perez               8    (Phillies)
                  John Smiley                7    (Cubs)
                  Zane Smith                 7    (Giants)
                  Dave Stewart               7    (Angels)
                  David Wells                7    (Astros)
                  Luis Aquino                6    (Rockies)


                             VIEW GAME RESULTS

    This option will bring you to the Game View Options Menu. Get used to 
pushing "8", because most managers will be living in this area. :) The Game 
View Options Menu looks like this:

                         [1] View Today's Schedule
                         [2] View Yesterday's Scores
                         [3] View Yesterday's Games
                         [4] View Past Games Library

                         [5] View League Standings
                         [6] View Last Ten Days
                         [7] View Team Breakdowns
                         [8] View Team Schedule


                           View Today's Schedule

    This option will give you a list of the games scheduled to run during 
the nightly maintenance event set up by your Sysop. It will list which teams 
are playing who and which teams are playing at home or away. There is a 
slight advantage to playing at home. The screen will look something like 
this:

                           Orioles at Royals
                           White Sox at Twins
                           Indians at Mariners
                           Angels at Red Sox
                           Brewers at Tigers
                           Rangers at Yankees
                           Blue Jays at Athletics
                           Padres at Expos
                           Metropolitans at Phillies
                           Braves at Pirates
                           Marlins at Cardinals
                           Giants at Reds
                           Cubs at Rockies
                           Dodgers at Astros


                          VIEW YESTERDAY'S SCORES

     This option will list the scores for the last set of games that were 
run. This provides a quick and easy way to see whether your teat won or lost 
without having to read through the play-by-plays. The screen looks something 
like this:

                          Orioles 8, Royals 7
                          White Sox 8, Twins 6
                          Indians 10, Mariners 1
                          Angels 1, Red Sox 0
                          Brewers 4, Tigers 0
                          Yankees 6, Rangers 4
                          Athletics 1, Blue Jays 0
                          Cubs 5, Astros 3
                          Cardinals 7, Dodgers 3
                          Reds 6, Marlins 4
                          Rockies 5, Giants 1
                          Padres 9, Expos 1
                          Phillies 7, Metropolitans 1
                          Pirates 5, Braves 0

The Home team will always show in blue, the visitors will always be in red 
and your team will always be in white.


                           VIEW YESTERDAY'S GAMES

    This option will give you a list of the last set of games run, similar 
to the screen you get when you view Today's Schedule. You will be given two 
options, to view the play-by-plays or view the box scores for the game. Once 
you select either play-by-play or box scores, you will be asked which game 
you wish to view. Just type in the number assigned to the game you are 
interested in seeing.


                          VIEW PAST GAMES LIBRARY

    When you select this option you will be told what the present game day 
is and asked which game day you are interseted in viewing. Remeber, today's 
games have not been run yet, so if the game day is 51 and you want to view a 
set of games played two days back, the game day will be 49 and not 50. 50 
would be yesterday's games. 51 will tell you the no records exist for that 
day because those games have not yet been played. How far back you can view 
past games will be up to the sysop. It takes about 250K of file space to 
store one day's worth of games, so how many the Sysop will keep on hand will 
be directly related to how much disk space the Sysop is willing to commit to 
Fantasy League files. Some sysops will archive games they no longer want to 
keep for viewing and place them in a downloadable area for managers to pick 
up for their records, but this the sysop's decision. Ask your Sysop if this 
is an option available to you.


                           VIEW LEAGUE STANDINGS

    This option is the same as the option accessable from the Main Menu. It 
is provided here also to make life easier. :)

                           VIEW LAST TEN DAYS (R)

    This option is exactly like the View League Standings option with one 
slight difference. It will only show you the wins and loses for the last ten 
days. This is useful in showing how well you team is playing over the past 
ten days. It is very useful in determining winning or losing streaks, and 
how much your team has caught up or fell behind the recent pace.

                          VIEW TEAM BREAKDOWNS (R)

    This unique little feature will show you how well you team is doing 
against the other teams in your league. It is broken down by divisions, 
teams, and whether you've played at home or away. The screen will look 
something like this:

                              National League
                                    East
   --- Team ---             HW   HL       VW   VL        TW   TL
Cubs                        2    1        1    2         3    3
Marlins                     1    2        0    0         1    2
Expos                       2    1        0    0         2    1
Metropolitans               2    1        0    0         2    1
Phillies                    0    0        0    0         0    0
Pirates                     0    0        0    0         0    0
Cardinals                   1    2        1    2         2    4
- Eastern Totals            8    7        2    4         10   11
                                    West
Braves                      0    0        0    0         0    0
Reds                        2    1        0    0         2    1
Astros                      3    3        3    0         6    3
Dodgers                     2    1        2    1         4    2
Padres                      0    0        2    1         2    1
Giants                      3    0        3    0         6    0
- Western Totals            10   5        12   3         22   8
- Team Totals               18   12       14   7         32   19

Remember, this is just the breakdown for you team, in this case the Rockies, 
It will show you your preformance against every team in your League.


                             VIEW TEAM SCHEDULE

    This option will show you your complete schedule for the entire season, 
who you are playing, where you are playing and when you will be playing that 
game. This is useful in determining just how you want to set up your batting 
rotation and your pitching rotation in order to play certain tougher teams. 
You don't want to have your weaker pitchers scheduled to pitch when you play 
those strong teams. Also, it will allow you to rest your good pitchers when 
playing those expansion clubs, but only if you know who you'll be playing 
ahead of time!

    Well, that's about it. I wish you all luck in managing your teams! :)

                                Mike Girard
                                 Shadow BBS
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