Overview of Leagues
Click here to go
directly to creating a new league.
Click here to go
directly to the tutorial for setting up a league from scratch.
A League helps you organize a group of teams and choose the
rules and other options that govern play through the regular season
and (optionally) into the post-season.
You do not need to set up a league to play games with DMB. At
any time, you can play exhibition games between any two teams that
are stored in any database that you have installed. But when you
play games within a league structure, you have access to several
added features:
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League rules can be entered once and automatically applied to
all games
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Statistics are compiled for teams and players
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Playing time is monitored to ensure that pitchers and catchers
are not used more often than is realistic
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If you elect to use the injury system, DMB tracks how long
injured players are ineligible and reinstates them when they are
able to play again
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With DMB's optional playing time limits system, you can
discourage overuse by setting limits on a player use. When these
limits are exceeded a player will become a replacement level
performer.
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For faster results, you can autoplay one or more games from the
league schedule
When you purchase a DMB Season Disk, the leagues are already set
up as they were in real-life, so you do not need to add or modify a
league to begin playing games. But part of the fun of playing DMB
is the ability to modify these leagues or create entirely new ones
using teams, eras, parks, and players that you create yourself or
import from other DMB Season Disks. If you're interested in setting
up a league from scratch, we've created a tutorial to walk you through the
process.
League play is always conducted within a single DMB database,
and a DMB team can be involved in only one league at a time within
the same database. (A team can be involved in more than one league
if you create separate databases for each league.) To prepare for
creating or modifying a new league, you may wish to do the
following:
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If you want to use teams, eras, parks, and players from another
database, use the Organizer to import the items you wish to use in
your league.
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Remove some existing teams from their current league in order to
make them available to be added to the league you are about to
create or modify.
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