Creating a Schedule
It's time for your last step: the schedule.
If your league is not part of an organization, the league will
have its own schedule. If it is part of an organization, it's the
organization that has the schedule. An organization schedule can
include inter-league games, but it doesn't have to. An organization
schedule is necessary, however, for two league champions to meet in
post-season play.
Diamond Mind provides you with a powerful tool for generating a
schedule. The first step is to use the
View>Organizer command to open the Organizer window, click on the
Schedules tab, then
click on the New button. The follow window appears:
Enter a Name
for your schedule. Use the Scope pulldown to indicate whether
this schedule is intended for a league or an organization, then use
the Owner pulldown to link the schedule to your league or
organization. If the Owner is an organization, check the
Inter-league play box if you wish to play inter-league games during
the regular season or post-season.
When you have finished making your
selections, click OK. The new schedule appears on the "Schedules" tab of the
Organizer.
At this point, there are no games in the
schedule. The DMB scheduling tools give you several options
for filling it out. (The following links carry you elsewhere in the
Help file, so click on the Back button when ready to return to this
tutorial.) You can:
-
generate a regular-season
schedule by filling in a form that indicates how many games
each division should play against each other division
-
select a schedule template
that matches the structure of your league or organization and build
a schedule using that template
-
create a schedule outside of DMB (perhaps using a spreadsheet or
database product), save it as a comma-delimited text file, and
import that
text file into DMB
-
create a schedule by adding games one at a time, adding a group
of games, copying blocks of games, inserting and removing off days,
and using the other schedule editing
commands
With the schedule
completed, your league is ready for play. Enjoy!
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