Assigning Teams
It's time to create the divisions that will
give your league its internal structure and assign your teams to
their home. Diamond Mind Baseball provides you with great
flexibility in this respect, as in others. You may create up to
four divisions in a single league, and each division may have up to
16 teams. At the other extreme, you can place an entire league of
up to 16 teams in a single, unnamed division, just as in real-life
days gone by.
To create divisions and assign teams:
1. Click View on the DMB menu bar and select Organizer. The DMB Organizer
screen appears. Click on the "Leagues" tab at the bottom of the
screen.
2. Select the league you wish to work with,
and click on the button labeled Modify. Then click on the "Teams"
tab at the top of the "Modify League" window. The following
form appears:
3. To name a division, click on the first
empty column header field (starting from the left) and type
the division name -- for example, "Senior," or "Junior," etc. If you intend to
have only one division, you do not need to name it. Do not skip a
field and then add teams to a subsequent field. For example, if
your league is going to have two divisions, you must use the first
two division fields.
4. To assign a team to a division, look at
the Available teams list on the right side of the window. This window displays
every team in your database that is not currently assigned to a
league. Left-click on any team in the list to select it, and then
right-click. DMB displays a pop-up menu listing the
divisions:
Click the appropriate division and the team will be
assigned to it.
NOTE:
There are two common pitfalls in this process.
If you assign a team to the wrong division, you can reverse
yourself by selecting it, right-clicking and then choosing another
destination for it. If you a expect a team to be available and
don't see it listed, odds are it's still assigned to another league
in your database. Using the Organizer window, select that league
and choose Modify to open the Modify League window; then choose the Teams tab
and release the team from that league.
5. When your league is configured as you want, click
OK.
If you plan no changes to your teams'
rosters, you are ready to generate manager
profiles or create a league
schedule. But if you are tweaking or building your team
rosters, next you will want to assign players by holding
a draft, signing individual free agents, or making trades.
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