Overview of Reports
DMB comes with an extensive set of Standard
Reports that enable you to see league standings, league
leaders, player and team statistics, injury and transaction logs,
game results, and more.
You can also design your own Custom
Reports and save those reports for later use. Custom reports
allow you to change the structure of any of DMB's standard reports
-- adding/moving/deleting columns and entire sections, changing
sort sequences, and choosing how to format the columns in the
report. After you have saved a Custom Report, you can use it just
like a standard report.
Many of these reports include options
that allow you to control the content of
the reports. For example, you can specify which team's players
should display in the team batting report. Or choose the number of
players who appear in each category of your leaderboard reports.
And on the batting and pitching registers, you can use the options
to exclude players with small amounts of playing time. For a list
of all of the report options, see Reporting
Options.
If you chose to compile game-by-game statistics for your league,
you can choose any time period for DMB
statistics that are displayed on your reports. Choose from some
standard intervals -- each month, last 7 days, last 14 days, and so
on -- or select any start and end date you like. (Time interval
reports are not available for real-life statistics because the game
does not ship with real-life game-by-game statistics.)
And you can create Memorized Reports.
A memorized report defines both the structure and the content.
In other words, you can save the settings you would ordinarily
specify in the options window. When you generate a memorized
report, DMB doesn't need to ask you for the options, so it produces
the report immediately.
All reports, including Custom and Memorized reports, can be
displayed on the screen, sent to a
printer, or saved to a text file in plain-text or HTML format.
By creating Report groups, you can
generate a collection of memorized reports with a single command.
This can be a real time saver if you have a specific set of reports
that you like to generate on a regular basis. These reports can be
sent directly to a printer or saved to disk in plain-text or HTML
format.
You can also generate a complete set
of linked pages for a web site. The
contents of the web site are determined by a series of report
groups that you establish, so you have a lot of control over how
the web site is organized.
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