Creating a New Team

To create a new team:

1. Click View  on the DMB menu bar and select Organizer. The DMB Organizer screen will appear. By default, you will be looking at the "Team" tab for the organizer.

2. At the top of the Organizer you will see a series of buttons, show below. Click on the button labeled New. The following screen appears:

Team information consists of:

• The City name where the team is located. You can enter the name of a state or region if it is more appropriate. Or you can enter a name that has nothing to do with geography.

• The team's Nickname. This is optional. All DMB windows and reports are designed to show the city if the nickname is blank.

• An Abbreviation of up to three letters for the team. This is used on displays and reports where there is no room for the city or nickname.

• The Year to which the team statistics and roster apply.

• The Home park for the team.

• The DH rule for this team's games. Normally, the use of the designated hitter (DH) is determined by the league. But if inter-league play is in effect, or if you are playing post-season games involving teams from leagues with different DH rules, the game needs to know whether games involving this team use the DH.

• The First name, Last name and Nickname of the team manager. This information will be available in various reports as well as being used in play-by-play commentary.

• A UID, or Universal ID. You can think of the UID as uniquely identifying a team. You need to assign every team a UID if you want to use DMB's Encyclopedia to maintain multiple years of stats.

If a team has a default UID of -1, click on the Search button to the right of UID input box in order to assign one from a list of historical teams. If you are using fictional teams in a DMB league, type in the input box to assign a unique UID.

• Selected team Statistics: wins, losses, ties, team shutouts, runners left on base, double plays, runs scored, and runs allowed.

The same form is used when you choose to Modify a team.