Basic Tutorial: Game Options
In this tutorial, we're going to play an exhibition game between
the 1935 Detroit team and the 1955 Brooklyn team. You'll be
managing Brooklyn at Ebbets field and the DMB computer will be
managing Detroit.
When you play an exhibition game in DMB, you can customize
virtually all of the features of the game including the teams,
where they play, the weather, boxscore format, and much more. We'll
keep things simple in this tutorial so you can start playing right
away.
1. From the DMB menu, select Game then
Exhibition. The following window will
appear:
Notice that this window has three tabs labeled "Exhibition Game
Options," "Managers," and "Colors/Text." We're going to look at
each of these tabs in turn.
Exhibition Game Options
The pull down lists under the heading "Database" allow you to
point DMB to datafile(s) containing information on teams, parks,
and eras. For this tutorial, leave these settings at the default
location.
The pull down lists under the heading "Selection" allow you to
pick specific teams to play against one another, specific parks,
and specific eras of play.
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For this tutorial select 1935 Detroit
as the visiting team and 1955 Brooklyn as
the home team.
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Notice that DMB automatically selects the field based on the
home team you select. Of course, you could select a different
ballpark for the game using this pull down, but for this tutorial
leave Ebbets Field as the location for
the game.
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Select 1955 N as the era for the game.
More information about eras is provided in the Eras section of this help file.
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The pull down labeled "Display" lets you set what level of
detail you want DMB to display while you're playing the game. You
can have DMB show every pitch, or show only the pitch that leads to
batted balls, baserunner action, or anything that determines the
fate of the current batter. For this tutorial, select Show all plays.
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Select Each play in the "Stop after"
pull down. This tells DMB to stop after the action for each play is
complete so that you can consider your strategy. If you wish, you
can have DMB stop after each half-inning, at the end of a specific
inning, or at the end of the game.
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Leave the boxscore setting at "Newspaper." We'll see how this works later.
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Select April from the pull down
labeled "Month." This tells DMB which month to use to determine the
weather at the ballpark you have selected.
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The checkboxes to the right of these pull downs let you tell DMB
whether or not to use the designated hitter rule, the bullpen warmup rule, use the weather
system, show the weather report for the game before the starting
lineups are chosen, and use the clutch/jam ratings. For this
tutorial, leave these settings to their defaults.
Now we'll look at the Managers
tab.
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