Lineup Selection: Choosing Starting Lineups
After the starting pitchers have been selected for both teams
and you have clicked on the OK button to move on, DMB displays the
lineup selection window again. It looks just about the same as it
did before, but the menu commands are different. And there are a
couple of additional drag-and-drop options at your disposal.
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 five ways to manipulate your starting lineup:
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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 insert a player from the roster into the
lineup
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use drag-and-drop to rearrange your batting order
These options are described below. When starting lineups have
been chosen for both teams, click on the OK button to dismiss this window and move on to start
the game. DMB verifies that your lineup complies with the rules of
baseball before proceeding; if not, an error message is displayed
and the window remains open.
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 Computer manager to ask the
computer manager to choose a starting lineup.
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Select Make ineligible to tell the
computer manager not to use this player 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 player to take the
selected player and put him into the lineup in the slot on which
you right-clicked. When DMB pops up a list of defensive positions,
choose one. Before doing this, make sure that you have left-clicked
on the desired player in the roster grid so DMB knows which player
you are trying to insert.
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Select New defensive pos to switch the
defensive position of the player in the lineup slot on which you
right-clicked.
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Select Insert pitcher for DH to insert
the pitcher into the lineup in place of the designated hitter. This
command is disabled if the pitcher is already in the lineup or
there is no designated hitter to replace.
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Select Move to move the player in the
selected lineup slot to another position in the batting order and
to shift the players in between by one slot. If, for example, you
right-click on the #3 slot and choose the #5 slot as his new place
in the batting order, the fourth hitter moves to third, the fifth
hitter moves to fourth, and the third hitter fills the fifth
slot.
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Select Exchange to exchange the
batting order positions of two players. If, for example, you
right-click on the #3 slot and choose the #5 slot as his new place
in the batting order, the third hitter moves to fifth, the fifth
hitter moves to third, and the #4 hitter stays where he is.
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Select Computer manager to ask the
computer manager to choose a starting lineup.
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Select Load saved lineup to choose one
of the saved lineups from this team's manager profile. DMB displays
a small window that allows you to choose which lineup to load. See
Loading Saved Lineups for
more information.
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Select Save this lineup > to manager
profile to store the current lineup in the manager profile
for future use. DMB displays a small window that allows you to
choose where in the manager profile to place this lineup. See
Saved Lineups for more
information.
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Select Save this lineup > to real-life
lineup log to store the current lineup as one that should be
used anytime this game is played. This assumes that you may want to
play the season more than once.
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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:
The first three commands on this menu are also on the popup menu
that displays when you right-click on the lineup. These commands
are described above.
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.
The fifth command is Undo all changes
and is disabled during pregame lineup selection. You are not
committed to use your pregame lineup until you hit the OK button,
so there is nothing to undo during this phase. Or, to put it
another way, everything can be redone anyway, so there is no need
for an additional undo command here.
Inserting a player using drag-and-drop
To put a player in the lineup
using drag-and-drop:
1. Left-click once on the name of the
player you want to start and release the mouse button.
2. Position the mouse near the top or bottom edge of the
player'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 player over to the lineups area on the right side of the
screen.
3. Release the mouse button over the
lineup slot into which you wish to insert this player. DMB displays
a popup menu so you can choose his defensive position.
4. Choose a defensive position from
the popup menu.
Moving a player using drag-and-drop
You can move players around in the batting order using
drag-and-drop. The technique is a little different from that used
for inserting a player:
1. Left-click once on the lineup slot
of the player to be moved and DO NOT
release the mouse button.
2. While holding your mouse button down, drag the mouse to the
lineup slot to which you would like to
move this player.
3. Release the mouse button.
If, for example, you drag the #3 hitter to the #5 slot, the
fourth hitter moves to third, the fifth hitter moves to fourth, and
the third hitter fills the fifth slot.
If you hold the Shift key down while
dragging a player to a new lineup slot, that player will swap
positions in the batting order with the player in the new slot,
leaving anyone in between where they are.
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