Lineup Selection: Choosing Starting Pitchers
When you choose to play a game, whether it be an exhibition game
or a scheduled league game, DMB looks at your manager settings. If
both teams are using the computer manager, the lineup selection
window is skipped and DMB displays the game window immediately.
Otherwise, the lineup selection window appears, with the roster and
lineup for the human-managed team (if there is only one) or the
home team (if both teams are human-managed).
See Lineup
selection: Window Layout and Tools for a description of this
window and the actions you can take to browse the information
displayed in this window.
There are four ways to choose a starting pitcher:
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right-click on the player in the roster and choose a command
from the popup menu
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right-click on the lineup and choose a command from the popup
menu
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left-click on the "Other actions" button and choose a command
from the popup menu
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use drag-and-drop to move a player from the roster to the
lineup
These options are described below. When starting pitchers have
been chosen for both teams, click on the OK button to indicate that
you are ready to move on to choose the rest of the starting lineups
for both teams.
The roster popup menu
When you right-click on the name of a player on the roster, the
following menu appears:
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Select Insert as starting pitcher to
take the selected player and put him into the lineup.
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Select Computer manager to ask the
computer manager to choose a starting pitcher and put him into the
lineup.
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Select Make ineligible to tell the
computer manager not to use this pitcher at any time in this game,
except in an emergency. This action has no effect if a human
manager handles this team for the entire game.
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Select Make eligible to reverse the
effect of previously marking this player as ineligible for this
game.
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Select Player profile to see a
complete profile of the selected
player. You can also see a profile by double-clicking on the
player's name.
The lineup popup menu
When you right-click on a lineup slot, the following menu
appears:
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Select Insert as starting pitcher to
take the selected player and put him into the lineup. Before doing
this, make sure that you have left-clicked on the desired starting
pitcher in the roster grid, so DMB knows which pitcher you are
trying to insert with this method.
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Select Computer manager to ask the
computer manager to choose a starting pitcher and put him into the
lineup.
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Select Player profile to see a
complete profile of the selected
player. You can also see a profile by double-clicking on a lineup
slot.
The
other actions menu
When you click on the Other actions
button, the following menu appears:
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Select Computer manager to ask the
computer manager to choose a starting pitcher and put him into the
lineup.
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Select Scheduled pitchers to view the
scheduled starting pitchers for the next 4 game days. This command
will only be enabled if Real-life transactions and
lineups are being used.
Using drag-and-drop
To put a pitcher in the
lineup using drag-and-drop:
1. Left-click once on the name of the
pitcher you want to start and release the mouse button.
2. Position the mouse near the top or bottom edge of the
pitcher's name. When the cursor changes from the normal arrow
cursor to the special drag-and-drop arrow (see image below),
left-click again, hold your mouse button
down, and drag the pitcher over to the
lineups area on the right side of the screen.
3. Release
the mouse button anywhere over the lineup. The starting pitcher
will be placed in the 9th position in the batting order if the
designated hitter is not being used for this game, and will be
shown only in the P slot if the designated hitter rule is in
effect. You can change his batting order position later (during
lineup selection) if you wish.
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