Overview of Players
In Diamond Mind Baseball, a
player record captures all of the information to define the
performance of a player, generate statistical reports, add him to a
roster, and so on.
In most cases, the statistics
and ratings represent that player's performance in one season, but
that is not always true. If a player was traded or released during
a season, he may have statistics for more than one team. In those
cases, you may find more than one record for that player in your
database -- one for each of his real-life teams (we call these
team-specific records) and one for his overall performance (we call
these combined or composite records).
DMB provides you with all of
the tools you need to create and modify players. With these tools,
you can quickly do simple things like changing a single statistic
or rating, or complex things like creating hundreds of real-life or
fictional players from scratch.
The
DMB database stores a lot of information about each player, far too
much to fit on a single form. So the process of creating a player
involves a series for forms that allow you to specify some options,
enter basic player information, enter statistics, and assign
ratings for various baseball skills. Later, if you want to modify a
player you created (or one from a DMB Season Disk), you choose
which category of information you wish to modify, and the form for
that category is displayed.
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