Draft Preparation
Before you begin drafting players, you may want to do some work
to prepare the team rosters and the list of free agents.
If you have used the Migrate command to carry your
league's structure forward from one Season Disk to the next,
everything should be ready to go. But if you are starting with a
standard Diamond Mind Season Disk, chances are that most of the
players you might want to draft are already on their real-life
rosters. So, before your begin the draft, you may want to release
players into free agency, delete team-specific records for
multi-team players, and set up the teams in your league.
Releasing Players
There are two ways to release players into free agency:
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many leagues limit the number of players you can carry forward
from one year to the next, so managers have to decide who they wish
to keep and who they wish to make available in the draft. To
release specific players, use the Roster / manager
profile window and choose the Release command.
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use the Tools>Release all players
command to quickly drop all players from one or more teams into the
free agent pool.
Deleting multi-team players
Most Diamond Mind Season Disks contain more than one record for
players who were traded during the real-life season. So you'll
often see the same player in the free agent pool three or four
times -- once for each team he played on (we call these
team-specific records), and once for his overall performance.
It's usually best to remove the team-specific records and leave
only the player's overall record in the database. The Tools>Delete team-specific
records command is an easy way to do this.
NOTE: This command will only delete team-specific records if
they are already in the free agent pool. If you have not used
Tools>Release all players and wish to delete only some
team-specific records, you need to make sure they are first
released from their team.
Setting up Your League
Before creating the draft, use the
Organizer commands to put together the league and/or organization
for which you are going to run the draft. When you create the
draft, you'll be asked which league or organization to use, so you
need to have this set up ahead of time.
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