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TEAM HELP FILE -- Silicon Secretary V1.51 October 6, 1991 For a description of the menu options click on the SCREEN and press the HELP key or choose HELP from the menu. This window looks more complicated than it is. The main purpose is to enter the individual's scores and the team's wins/loses. Most of the gadgets are there to help you move around the various teams and weeks. At the upper left hand portion of the window you'll see a disk gadget. Selecting this (dark) will cause your current data file to be saved every 50 entries. Selecting this gadget will also cause the one on the Team Editor window to be selected - they do the same thing. The status of everything in this window is saved with the data file. *** STARTING FROM SCRATCH - BASIC RULES * Team #0, The SUB TEAM, is ALWAYS present and it is the place where you stick floating subs (substitutes that bowl for various teams). * All teams have at least one member, including the sub team. * Any bowler's name that starts with a '#' as the first character or is named will not print. There are a few options that will ask you if you want to print hidden bowlers. * Any bowler's name that starts with a '##' will never print. * You're limited to 100 teams and 50 bowlers on any team. ...sorry #51, we don't have room for you :-) * There can be a different number of bowlers on each team as long as each team has a minimum roister. Now that you know some of the rules let's set up a league... *** SETTING UP A LEAGUE 1. If you havn't already done so, open the LEAGUE INFO window and fill in the blanks about your league. 2. Press the ADD TEAM gadget to create a new team. 3. Press the ADD BOWLER gadget to create as many slots as there are bowlers on that team. Remember that one bowler is automatically created when a team is created. 4. Insert the TEAM NAME to the right of the team number. 5. Enter the LH (Last Half) WON and LOST if starting in the middle of a two part season, otherwise leave them blank. 6. Insert the BOWLER'S NAMES and OLD AVERAGE from the previous league, if any, for each bowler. If you're starting in the middle of a two part season enter the LAST HALF PINS & GAMES also, otherwise leave them blank. 7. Select either 'M' (male) or 'F' (female) from the gadget to the right of the bowler's name. The program keeps track of how many men and women are in your league. Whichever is greater is the default. Example- 15 Men and 18 Women on your league. The next bowler created will be a woman. After the second week you will be asked to verify any sex changes. This should help prevent clicking by accident. 8. Save your set-up now. *** SELECTING A TEAM On the left side you will see a proportional gadget. This allows you to quickly move between teams. The arrows above and below it move one team at a time backwards and forwards. *** SELECTING A BOWLER To the right of proportional gadget are two large arrows. They allow you to move to the different bowlers in a team. Only the center bowler is editable. When you are entering data and press RETURN (or ENTER) on the last game for any bowler the next bowler (or team) will automatically be displayed. *** SELECTING A WEEK At the top (about centered) you'll see two more arrows with a week number displayed between them. They allow you to move through the various weeks in your season. You can not display weeks greater than the number that are in your season. If you click on the gadget displaying the week number it will toggle you between the first week and next available week in your season. *** ENTERING A SCORE Once the team, bowler and week are selected just enter a score for the appropriate game and RETURN or ENTER to move to the next game. *** ABSENT/BLIND (see INDIVIDUAL FORFEITURES also) The easy way to do this is click the ABSENT gadget. All of the current bowler's scores that don't have any value will turn into 'A's. An ABSENT bowler will will give their team their AVERAGE-10 and their current handicap. If a bowler is ABSENT and no one is subbing for them enter 'A'bsent. If you are so bold as to click the ABSENT gadget again the 'A's will turn into 'B's. This is a forced BLIND and it's use is limited. EXAMPLE- Assume that you started a team with a blind bowler until a team member could be found. After four weeks Joe Bowler fills the slot. If Joe had a entering average from a previous league that average(-10) would be plugged in automatically for the first four weeks when actually it should be the BLIND score. And thus the 'B' was created to force a BLIND. Both the 'A' and 'B' may be entered from the keyboard. *** INDIVIDUAL FORFEITURES This is for when an individual's scores should NOT be counted towards the team's totals. To turn it on enter the bowler's scores and then click the ABSENT gadget. A thin border around the scores will turn white. Clicking ABSENT again or manually pressing return will turn it off (dark border). Here's two examples where it is necessary: *** EXAMPLE 1 A floating substitute bowled for team #2 weeks 1-3. On the fourth week he becomes a member of team #8. When you click SUB TO BOWLER a copy will remain in the sun team for team #2s use (remember weeks 1-3?) and the bowler will be added to team #8 with weeks 1-3 marked automatically as INDIVIDUAL FORFEITURES. This way the bowler keeps his average and individual stats but the team gets credit for a BLIND. *** EXAMPLE 2 If your league allows team subs (more bowlers on a team that can actually bowl any night) this would allow ALL members to bowl with the team only getting credit for the proper number. NOTE: True floating subs (on the SUB TEAM) may bowl as often as they like without needing INDIVIDUAL FORFEITURE, since the sub team isn't a real team anyway. *** SUBSTITUTING There are two types of subs: floating subs and team subs. Floating subs belong to no team and are free to bowl for any team that needs their services. Floating subs are entered in team #0 (the SUBTEAM). A team sub (for this program) would be the sixth man on a five man team and they are part of the team. FLOATING SUBS At the lower right there is a gadget called USE SUB. Use the arrows next to it to find your sub and then click USE SUB to enter the sub. As you move through the subs their scores for the current week will be displayed to the left of their name. If the sub is #4 on the Subteam a 'S4' will show up for the bowler's score. Subs only have to bowl the games that they will be used. It's possible (and legal) for a floating sub to bowl three games, each for a different team. Only the empty score will be filled in when USE SUB is selected. NOTE: The sub's scores MUST be entered before they can be selected. TEAM SUBS On a five man/woman team that has six+ bowlers leave the scores for bowlers that didn't bowl blank (NOT ABSENT!). As long as the proper number of bowlers bowl the program doesn't care which ones they are. *** ENTERING TEAM WINS If NO string gadget is active you may select the team's wins/loses/ ties/forfeits by using the function keys. F1 = GAME 1, F2 = GAME 2, F3 = GAME 3, F4 = GAME 4 (if active), and F5 = TOTAL PINS. You must* have a value for each of these gadgets or the program will yell at you. When you're done press F10 to move to the first bowler in the next team or use the gadgets. If you ever change a value on a week that has not been bowled yet use the menu option CLEAR WINS to reset it. *If you have the IGNORE SERIES WINS selected in the League Editor window you will not be able to enter series wins/losses. *** DELETE TEAM If you click this gadget you will be asked if you really want the CURRENT TEAM to be deleted. If you answer YES you can kiss that team and all of the bowlers on it goodbye. If you save the data after you delete a team there is no way to get it back. *** DELETE BOWLER If you click this gadget you will be asked if you really want the CURRENT BOWLER to be deleted. If you answer YES,that bowler is history. If you save the data after you delete a team there is no way to get it back. *** CHANGE BOWLER'S POSITION Moves the current bowler back one position (Bowler #2 would become bowler #3 and bowler #3 would move up to bowler #2). If the bowler is the last bowler they will be moved forward one position. You will be asked if you really want to do this. If the bowler is a floating sub there will be a slight delay while the Silicon Secretary readjusts all of the bowlers that are using the transposed subs. *** MOVE BOWLER TO SUB Moves the current bowler to the end of the SUBTEAM. A #SCORE HOLDER# bowler is created to replace the missing team member, otherwise the team's scores would be messed up. The #SCORE HOLDER# bowler will not print and should not be deleted. This is useful if a bowler cannot continue on a regular basis with the league but would like to sub when available. The bowler will be added to the end of sub team. You will be asked if you really want to do this. *** MOVE SUB TO BOWLER Moves the currently displayed sub after the current bowler. Any weeks prior to the current week with a score will be marked as an INDIVIDUAL FORFEITURE. If the sub was not used by any bowler the sub will be removed from the Sub Team. There may be a slight delay to adjust for the sub renumbering. If the sub is being used a #SCORE HOLDER# bowler will be created on the SUBTEAM to prevent any team that may be using the sub's past scores. *** LEAGUE SCHEDULE Creates a rotation of all teams using the lane data entered in the LEAGUE INFO window. This will be saved as a text file and NOT as part of the data file (with a one line exception for the next week). The number to the left represents the schedule being used (eg-'10' is for a 10 team schedule) The schedules are the same ones that ABC/WIBC hands out. At the end of each the half a 'unscheduled' week will exist to allow for whatever method your league uses to determine the final positions. Usually this is done by placing the first and second place teams against each other (third and fourth, etc.) Since some leagues have other ways of figuring positions I chose to leave blanks. If you have too few or too many teams this menu item will be disabled. *** SEARCHING FOR A BOWLER You may search for a bowler's name by entering a question mark followed by a unique portion of the name in the gadget where you would normally enter the bowler's name (either in the team editor personnel window). If a match is found it will be displayed, otherwise the original bowler's name will reappear. Regardless of where you start the search the computer begins with the first bowler in the Sub Team. The search string is NOT case sensitive and may be any part of the bowler's name.