`bright cyan`The Game
        Franchise Basketball, is a basketball league simulator.  To the best
        of my knowledge, no other basketball game similar to this has been
        released.  This is the first of it's kind.  Franchise Basketball is
        not a basketball action game.  Each day you do not call up, play
        your game and leave.  Here, you are not the basketball player, but
        rather, the Franchise owner and general manager.  If you are looking  
        for up and down basketball action, I suggest a console or PC game
        not an on-line offering.  The action and graphics are much better
        there.

        In Franchise Basketball you draft, manage, and edit your team.  The
        team plays games at night, and you are notified of the results.  You
        do not have a play to play effect, only a game to game one.  Meaning
        once your team takes the floor, they play without your intervention.
        After the game, the next day, you can change aspects of your roster
        and effect the play for the next day.

        First you give your team a city, nickname, and home arena name.  
        Next you draft your team (see the Draft section of help for further
        information in this area).  Then you sit back and start managing 
        your team.

        The game has been broken down into two basic segments.  The player
        segment, where you train, trade, release and sign players, and the
        front office segment, where all of the financial events happen.

`bright cyan`The Player Segment
        Here you can do several things with your players (see Edit Players
        help for more detail).  Most options will of course cost money.
        So you want to have plenty of it to improve your team.  How do you
        get money?  That leads us to the front office.

`bright cyan`The Front Office
        The front office of every Basketball Team is responsible for gener-
        ating revenue (for the owners pocket, and the teams improvement).
        Here is no different.  You begin with a small Blacktop Court to play
        on, the maximum capacity is 250.  You may, with enough money up-
        grade the facility.  This increases the seating capacity and revenue.
        In addition you can sponsor a promotional give away, schedule
        advertising, upgrade concession stands and license merchandise to
        increase the publics knowledge of the team, attendance and money.
        That money may be used to improve nearly all aspects, including
        the players skills and the teams revenue generating items.  Remember,
        there are certain unseen costs in running a franchise (electricity,
        salaries, etc).  For simplicity, the players salaries are included
        in this number.  So you won't receive an increase of money = TICKET
        PRICE * ATTENDANCE, it will be less.

`bright cyan`Wins and Losses
        Your record affects attendance, and thus cash.  The better
        the team, the more people want to see them.  There is definitely a
        mix between factors to be truly successful.

`bright cyan`The Season
        Each day you should have more money in the coffers to use, since
        games are typically played once a night.

`bright cyan`Winning
        The object of the game is to be the Franchise Basketball Champion
        for the season (that's the object of nearly all sports).  However,
        to attain that goal, you as the Franchise owner must make decisions
        on how best to achieve that.

`bright cyan`Perpetual Season
        An extra feature in the Registered Version is the Perpetual Season.
        The Perpetual Season throws a different slant on the "object" of the
        game.  Yes, the goal is still to win the FBB Championship, but
        Perpetual Season games reset the league at the end of each season.
        All coaches retain their teams, players get a year older, some older
        players may retire, and younger ones improve naturally.  In addition,
        teams will all revert back to a Gym stadium, and their funds will
        diminish (costs of off season maintenance).  This option, however,
        allows lesser teams to build for the future, rather than focusing
        on the present.

`bright cyan`Franchise Basketball `white`is a product of `bright red`SnellaSoft`white`.
`white`(`bright yellow`C`white`)opyright 1995-96.
