Tutorials Overview
If you have never used Diamond Mind Baseball before, or are
familiar with DMB but have not seen the new features of the latest
version, you can use these tutorials to learn more about DMB.
Basic Tutorial:
This tutorial assumes you have never experienced DMB before. In
this tutorial you will play an exhibition game against the DMB
computer manager. The computer manager will control everything
except the pitching and batting strategies for your team; you will
control these. When you are comfortable with the major features of
Diamond Mind Baseball covered in the Basic Tutorial, you can move
on to the Advanced Tutorial where you will play a scheduled game
and control more of the action.
Advanced
Tutorial: If you are familiar with Diamond Mind Baseball but
would like to see some of the features of the latest version, start
here. You'll play a scheduled game and control most of the game
options.
Setting Up a League: Many Diamond Mind Baseball
customers enjoy replaying real major league seasons. But DMB also
allows you to create and run your own league, right through the
post-season. This tutorial walks you through the steps needed to
bring your vision to life.
Managing Playing
Time: There are several help topics that deal with issues
related to playing time. See Playing time limits for an overview
of pitching, atbat, and pinch hitting limits. The Depth Charts topic covers those areas too
but also explains usage modes for bench players while the Pitching Chart topic deals with pitcher
usage modes.
Several topics describe the steps you can take to
have more control over player usage, including Depth charts page (setting up platoons,
defensive subs, utility roles, and spot start percentages and
choosing a usage mode), Pitching chart
page (setting up roles and spot start percentages, assigning
limits to games started or relieved, and choosing a usage mode),
Saved lineups page (assigning
atbat limits), and Manager
profile generator (generating playing time limits for each
player).
Playing the
Post-season: Upon completion of the regular
season, you can quickly setup post-season games by seeding teams
for a playoff round and generating a schedule
for that round. See Leagues: Post-season
Information and Organizations:
Post-Season Information for details on
seeding teams and choosing a post-season series
formats.
NOTE: You must seed the teams BEFORE generating
the schedule.
DMB's post-season
system supports four playoff teams per league. If your league uses
a more complicated system, you can modify the regular season
schedule to add post-season
games manually.
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