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INTRODUCTION:
Thank you for purchasing Replay Professional basketball.
We wish you many hours of entertainment as you direct your favorite teams through many seasons of play.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
If you have a hard drive and the disks in this package fit into your A: drive, you will be playing basketball in minutes.
INSTALL:
Assuming your system is powered up and you have a DOS Prompt showing...
1. Put your disk entitled "Game System Disk" in drive A:
2. Log onto drive A: (type: A:)
3. type: INSTALL
4. When finished, put in your disk entitled "Replay Great Teams 1959-1990" in drive A:
5. type: INSTALL
You're finished. All files will be on the directory c:\REPLAY3
* If you have additional season disks, simply put each of these disks in drive A: and type: INSTALL
LET'S PLAY!
Log onto the diectory \REPLAY3 in drive C: ...
(type: C: then type: CD\REPLAY3 )
Start the program...
type: BASKET
***** IMPORTANT NOTE: Replay loads a TSR in order insure smaller file sizes and ease of operation. It is important that you always start the game in this fashion and terminate play from the main menu. This and other programs may not operate properly otherwise.
MAIN MENU:
If you have the main menu showing, all is well. The active league is the ALL 1959-1990, which is the league that comes with the game. We will use this league for now. You may switch to another league after you understand these instructions.
Use the cursor keys (up arrow, down arrow, end, home etc. ) to move around on the menu. You notice all the choices do not show at one time. This is true of many of the game's menus. The ENTER key will make the selction and the ESC key will exit the program. This is generally true thoughout most of the programs. As you can see, on screen instructions are usually given.
We will organize this manual according to the main menu, we will describe each option in terms of how to operate it only. The end of the manual will deal with the internal workings and the nature of the game.
PLAY BASKETBALL
Plays the regular game. Put the cursor on this option and hit ENTER.
Select teams as directed in the on-screen instructions. Hit ENTER when the correct Visiting and Home team appear.
Key to abbreviations on the game screen:
across the top:
PS = Position
MN = Minutes played per game
PT = Average points per game played
RB = Adjusted rebounds per game played
D = Player's defensive rating
The team on the left is the visiting team.
On the scorebooard:
TF: = Team fouls in this period
PER = Period
F1, F2 = shows that human coaches can make substitutions with the F1 or F2 keys
INT - The intensity level of play
PPG = will show team's potential points scored after a lineup has been set
DEF = The total defensive ability of the 5 players on the floor (0 the worst, 100 the best and 50 is average)
RPG = Adjusted rebounds per game of the lineup on the floor.
APG = Assists for the lineup on the floor.
Below this is the 24 second clock.
2/3 down the screen:
The team name is shown and their Replay won-lost record.
PF = Personal Fouls commited in this game
MP = Minutes played in this game
PT = Points scored in this game
RB = Rebounds in this game
A = Assists in this game
On the "floor" white on brown on color monitors, you are asked if you want the computer coach to manage your bench.
We'll try "Y"for now. Do this for both teams.
Watch them play for a while..........
O.K welcome back. Lets try the function keys.
[F1] and [F2] do not operate with computer coaches. They are used by humans to go to the bench. At the start of period 4 we will have the chance to switch to a human coach.
[F5] Slows down the play descriptions. Try it. You notice that a number to the left of the 24 second clock changed from 3 to 4 after a play was completed. Another press will change it to 5. This is the slowest speed.
[F6] Speed up the play descriptions. Try it. Back to 4. Now 3, now 2, now 1, now 0.
By now the game should by ready to start the 4th period!
The [F7] key freezes the action after each play.
Press it now.
Designate one of the teams as human coached by pressing "N".
The game goes pretty slow. Nice for the end of the game to savor the last few seconds. For now, lets get back to normal speed. Press [F5] three times so "3" appears again.
Press [F7] to turn off "Freeze action" Note the "*" to the right of the 24 second clock disappeared.
[F8] Shows the game stats for both teams. Try it now.
[F9] Shows the Replay stats [The ones you have saved from game play] and the player's Actual stats [Real-life totals]
Try it!
(HIT ANTY KEY TO MOVE ON)
[F10] Allows you to quit the game. Try it! Don't quit though. Press "N" Remember however, that quitting in this fashion takes you back to the main menu and cancels the game. This option does not work for games played from the auto-schedule.
Now, if you are coaching the visiting team press [F1] if you are coaching the home team, press [F2].
A check mark appears on the scoreboard and after the play, you are given instuctions for substitution. Make some moves.......
Arrow to a man on the floor. Hit ENTER to take him out.
Arrow to a man on the bench. Hit ENTER to put him in.
NOTE: If a player is shown in bright white on the lower portion of the screen, he is tired or in foul trouble.
If he is bright on top, he is a starter who is not in foul trouble and is rested enough to come into the game.
Play around with these functions, see you after the game.......
In the last two minutes of the 4th quarter or overtime, you have a chance to change your team's intensity level. Before this time, your team must play at "3" the normal level.
Here are the choices:
1 - Foul intentionally, throw up wild shots, go beserk! You're behind and something drastic must be done. You'll probably make matters worse, but it may be worth a gamble
2- Push things a bit. Gamble on defense and look for more shots. This is risky but much less so than option 1.
3- Let 'em play
4- Lay off. Shoot only good shots, avoid fouls. Your opponent's offense will shoot for a higher percentage, but you'll work the clock and keep them off the line.
5- Deflate the ball, don't foul, let them score. Avoids opponent's three point plays. You take all 24 seconds to shoot.
NOTE: The computer always employs double-teaming and three point shooting strategies for you. He knows what he is doing.
Press any key
You see the final stats. Keep going... Now the game end screen. You see a game summary. And you are going to be asked three questions.
1. Save results? " Yes" compiles the stats, "No" doesn't
2. Print scoresheet? Try "A"-printer If you have one, Press "A". If you chose option "B" you can print the boxscore later, or view it later. This is the choice of champions. If you hate boxscores press "C", you won't hurt anyone's feelings.
3. Play again? You make the call. After you've played enough games, I'll see you at the main menu.
STATISTICS
This program shows accumulated stats from your games. The "K" key toggles from Printed reports to Screen reports.
Printed reports differ from screen reports. Key [A-H] when in the printer mode will give league leaders in all categories on a two page report.
Hit any key to clear any screen report.
WARNING:Do not turn off printer until you are back to the main menu or switch to screen reports.
All stats will be at "0" until you save stats for this league.
PREGAME
This is an important program if you are playing from a league you created or want to alter our suggested rosters and starting lineups. You can even change our suggested ratings on defense and playing position.
OPTIONS:
OPTION 1: ROSTER MANAGEMENT
Select a team to work with. You will soon see the worksheet for roster management. This is where you make these decisions: Who will be on the active roster?
Who will start?
At what position(s) will my players play?
When finished you will have outlined your team roster and depth chart. The computer coach needs this information. You can set the team up for realism, effectiveness or just be silly to see what might happen.
You cannot save changes unless you have a legal roster.
You must have 8-12 players on the roster and a starter at each position. The "OK" sign will light in the lower right-hand corner if you have a legal lineup.
Following then on- screen instructions you not only can work with the players, but view real-life ratings of the players.
The arrow keys are used to view a player's stats and ratings. Try it! Players in bright white are on the active roster. Those in gray are deactivated.
Press "1" You see an arrow pointing to position 1 (point guard). Below the starting lineup is a list of reserves.
These are the players who have currently been designated as being able to play point guard. The ones in bright white play this position in a primary role. Those in gray can play the position only if no players are available who play point guard as a primary position.
"2" Shows shooting guards
"3" Shows small forwards
"4" shows power forwards
"5" shows centers
Just for conversation's sake, let's make a change. (We won't save these changes now.)
Press the letter of the player on the reserve list you want to start. Try it!. He's now a starter at the position indicated by the pointer to the left of the starting lineup.
If he was inactive, he now has become active and you might not have a legal lineup because 13 players are active. You only get a maximum of 12.
To deactivate a player, arrow to his name and hit the space bar.
See the reserves? You can determine who gets on this list by arrowing to a player and hitting the "P" key. You will change his playing position and in turn, his spot on the depth chart. It is true that on a different team, a player may assume a new role. Thus this feature exists. A player's position has no statistical effect on his individual stats, but be warned, a team with inadequate rebounding, scoring or passing will not win!
A player must play at least one primary position (he may play two). A primary position in the world of Replay means a position(s) that a player plays normally. Some players are point guards, and are seldom used elesewhere. This type of player would have "1" as his only primary position. Another player may play both guard positions on a regular basis. He would have "2" and "1" as his primary positions.
Most players can be called upon to play a second position, but only if other players are unavailable. This secondary position may also be designated. Perhaps the player above who was only used as a point guard could be called upon to play shooting guard in a pinch. He should have "2" as his secondary position. So his keystroke sequence would be "1";"0";"2".
NOTE: The computer coach generally follows this method of rotating players:
1. Starter plays all his minutes per game if he can.
if he is out of the game -
2. First sub in is player who plays this position as a primary position and has the most actual minutes played per game.
if he is not available -
3. From here we move to the second highest minute total of available players who play this position as a primary position. etc.
if all primary players and starters are unavailable -
4. We go through those with secondary ratings at this position, selected by minutes averaged per game
-if all else fails, the computer will pick whoever is available
A rule of thumb. No more then 3 primary players and no more than 6 secondary players should be listed at a position.
If you list more than 9 total, you can only select the first 9 listed in alphabetical order.
Inactive players are listed in the depth chart, but they are not available for games.
Activating and deactivating players: The space bar toggles this status. A player who is in the starting lineup and is deactivated will be removed from the starting lineup.
Be sure to press ENTER to save changes and ESC to cancel when exiting.
OPTION 2 -MAKE TRADES:
When you escape back to the general manager menu, option 2 lets you make trades. When you need to trade, simply arrow to the player and press the two-key number code to put him on that team. He is instantly on his new team. "33" puts him on a "reserve list".
Note that a player's stats travel with him but do not affect team totals. After trades, you should go back to roster management and redo your depth charts.
OPTION 3: DEFENSE WORKSHEET
If you really are annoyed at our evaluation of a player's defense, you can change it here. This rating is only part of a player's defense. It only reflects the shooting percentage of the player he defends. Steals and blocked shots also enter into a player's defense, but do not figure here. On stock teams, the total defense should reflect the field goal precentage of this team's opponents. Try it!
Pick option 3, and select a team. Play around. ESC when finished and changes won't be saved. Sure you can cheat for your team this way. But it's your game now, isn't it?
ESC returns you to the main menu.
SCHEDULE GAMES:
This allows you to schedule any quantity of games for playing either the quick or regular version of the game.
After loading in this season's schedule you may get to work.
Your choices:
[E] Edit / Schedule games.
Arrow to the game number you want to schedule or edit. If you hit ENTER it will become a game played automatically by the quick version of the game. if you press F1 it will be played with the regular version. If you press F2 the game will become a break in the schedule. That means no game will be scheduled and the quick version will stop playing games and return you to the main menu. The next session, it will pick up with the following game on the schedule.
ESC puts you back into the schedule menu.
Selections of ENTER and F1 will show you the list of teams in the league. Select a visiting and home team just like you did at the start of the regular game.
The small "s" shows the status of the game. As you play the season check marks appear by completed games. These cannot be edited. This insures you will not repeat games or skip games.
[W] will wipe out the entire schedule. All games will be erased and a blank schedule results.
[R] does not remove the teams from the schedule, but will take the checks off of completed games so you can replay the schedule again.
[S] This will save anything you did to the schedule in this session.
[X] will ignore all changes in the session.
[S] OR [X] returns you to the main menu.
AUTO PLAY
This is a quick version of the regular game, built for speed. A game will take a few seconds.
If no games are scheduled or a break occurs in the schedule, it will return you to the main menu.
If a manual game is scheduled, you must play it immediately. After the game you will be returned to the main menu, unless you chose to play a non-league game. To resume auto play, simply select the Auto play option again and continue.
Remember: Each season has its own schedule. You can play scheduled games from a season, switch to another season and play scheduled games and then return to the original season with no ill effects.
NOTE: You cannot quit a manual game scheduled with auto schedule.
If you have to play a manual game and you decide you'd rather not, here's what you should do: Selct the computer to play both teams, turn the speed to 0 with [F6] and blow it off.
Manual games played from the scheduler do not automatically save stats and do not add the game to the game summary file.
GENERAL MANAGER
This option is for those who want to alter existing leagues or create new ones. You might skip this section and come back later if you aren't interested in such things right now.
Selecting this option brings up a sub menu.
CREATE A NEW LEAGUE. You must do this if you want a seperate league with it's own schedule and stats. The other options work with existing leagues.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Keep your original disks safely stored and backed up. If you change an existing league through pregame or any other management program and want the league the way it originally came, simply reinstall the original season disk. You can reset stats and the schedule, however, without reinstalling. Also if you create a new league, you need to back the file up to floppy after it has teams, players, rosters, lineups and schedules on it.
Select this option. Read the warning screen. ESC if you aren't ready for this. ENTER if you are.
It's really easy. The cursor keys will move you around this data entry screen and will make it hard for you to make a mistake. Fear not. If the league isn't what you want, you can always delete it and start over.
The first three items name the file for you disk. Those familiar with DOS or their DOS shell can spot league files easily. They end in the extension .MDB.
What you are entering is a unique disk name for the league.
If my league is the American Basketball Conference of 1990-1991 I'd probably enter as such:
Three letter abbreviation: ABC
Starting year: 90
Ending Year: 91
The resulting disk file will be ABC9091.MDB
NOTES:The program will not let you duplicate league names.
Failure to enter three letters (a-z)and 2 sets of two numbers (0-9) will make this league unrecognizable to the PC and invoke errors.
The rest of these questions aren't too hard either.
Division and league names are simply for cosmetic purposes. But the number of divisions is important. You're locked into this and must eventually have at least one team in each division.
The bottom of this screen is easy too. Yes, it looks frightening. Simply hit ENTER for each of the League Statistical Info items. Just do it. Once again, don't worry about. Just hit ENTER until you are asked "Is this okay?"
See the technical and designer notes if want to know about why these items are here.
If all is well, you have created a league and are at the main menu.
**** If you want to continue developing this league. (It has no teams and players and will cause tons of problems for your PC ) you should select the "Change Active League" option. All other functions on these menus deal only with the active league.
Find your new league, press the correct letter.
IMPORT TEAMS into ACTIVE LEAGUE:
Here you can move an entire team from any league into any other league. Select the SOURCE LEAGUE (The league your new team is coming FROM) by picking the corresponding letter.
Then on the next screen, use cursor keys to find the SOURCE team. When the team you want to import has been selected, just hit 1,2,3, or 4 to put the team in the right divsion.
You can't put more than eight teams in a division or put a team in a divsion that doesn't exist. (division 3 in a two division league for example)
ESC puts you back to where you can select a different source league. ESC from here takes you back to the main menu.
CREATE TEAMS FOR ACTIVE LEAGUE:
Here you make names for teams primarily designed to accept players from a draft. These are teams that don't exist as stock teams. If you imported teams, they have a name and you don't need to do this. ESC at the TEAM CITY: item will take you out of this program.
If you want to have the ALASKA PIPELINERS in your league, you might do it this way:
TEAM CITY: ALASKA
TEAM NAME: PIPELINERS TEAM CODE: ALA (The program will accept this entry if another team in the league has the same code)
ACTUAL GAMES WON: 40 (You can put a higher number if this team has "intangibles" that make it win more games and a lower number if they are choke artists.) Put 40.
DIVISION: Will put the team in the appropriate division.
NOTE: Replay is completely flexible. You can have "created" teams play in leagues with stock teams. The Pipeliners could be created for the 1990-91 NBA and become an expansion team! But stocked with All-Stars from the ABA!
DRAFT PLAYERS INTO THE ACTIVE LEAGUE:
First you must press "T" to pick the team in the active league to recieve players. This is the "Target team".
The cursor keys and ENTER will acivate this team and list existing players in the window on the right side of the screen. To draft, highlight the player you want and hit ENTER.
An "*" appears by his name and he can't be drafted again in this session. It is important to complete a draft in one session so you can't duplicate players. If you do duplicate players, simply trade them to team "33" in the Pregame program.
Maximum on a team is 20.
NOTE: New Leagues need at least one team in each division. New teams need 8 players and a player rotation worked out in the pregame program. Failure to meet these requirements may result in system errors.
OTHER MAIN MENU CHOICES:
Change Active League: Remember the active league is the recipient of all the actions from the main menu. You must have at least one active league in the "Replay3" directory.
Set Options for Auto Play:
Tells how you want quick games to be handled.
Save stats: "1" toggles the answer from "YES" to "NO"
Save Game recap: YES -adds the game recap to the file "BOXSCORE.SUM" You can view or print these recaps from the main menu or your word processor.
Pause after quarters: YES - you have time to savor quick games. (They take as little as 8 seconds to complete)
Game-to-Game play: YES - You will be asked after each quick game if you want to play the next one or stop. If you say NO and have no manual games scheduled and no breaks inserted, the computer will play all scheduled games until finished.
VIEW BOXSCORES OR SUMMARY FILE
If any files exist you can view them. Use the on-screen instructions. Pretty easy situation.
PRINT BOXSCORES OR SUMMARY FILE
Same as above, except output is directed to your printer. Make sure your printer is on line before you chose this option.
RESET STATS TO ZERO
The current league will have it's accumulated stats reset if and only if you type "ZERO" any other 4 key strokes cancels the operation.
DELETE ACTIVE LEAGUE FROM DISK
The current league will be history if and only you type "KILL". Any other four keystrokes cancels the operation.
DELETE BOXSCORE OR SUMMARY
Just arrow to the boxscore and delete it.
The summary file can get really large. It is a good idea to print it, then delete it occaisionally. No play tester was brave enough to see how large it could get, so we have no idea what the limit on size is. Say 500 games is plenty. (that's 70+ pages!)
EXIT TO DOS
This and the ESC are the only way to exit Replay Basketball.
Never shut off you machine or reboot while in the middle of any program. It just isn't smart computing to do so.
DESIGNER NOTES, TECHNICAL INFORMATION ETC:
by Thomas Mink
Replay Basketball has evolved into a unique product. Fans of our earlier two versions have offered many valuable suggestions that have been realized in version 3. Players of Replay Basketball generally are more interested in realism in terms of the statistical accuracy of game results and the interaction of players and teams throughout a season than in graphics or controlling on-court action.
This game is directed at the fan who takes a passive approach to the game. You can't decide who shoots the ball
or do anything else about how your team performs. You can only decide who plays and blend your players for the best possible results. This in itself is quite a challenge.
Some fans like to play "what if" and quickly play out a season. What if Jordan played for the Nets? Here you can find you quickly and easily.
This version's computer coach is what makes this possible. He plays the tried and true pro basketball strategies employed by coaches throughout the history of the game. He knows when to foul intentionally, when to hold the ball for one shot, who to double-team, when to fastbreak and when to slow down the tempo. He will coach each team to its best advantage. When you coach, your challenge is to rotate your players and have them rested for the final minutes and keep a competetive team on the court at all times, the players do the rest.
Note these factors:
Players at home get to play more minutes before tiring than the road players. All players play at least their average minutes. All players are gooid for 18 minutes of tireless work.
The computer coach will bench players who don't play in many games. A tilden will appear by their minutes played.
Some players may take a three pointer even if they didn't during the year. This may result when a desperation shot is thrown up at the end of a period.
Your three point shooters will have an "*" by their points per game rating.
Your depth chart is a key factor in getting realistic replays. If you crowd a position, good bench players will be deprived of minutes.
No it doesn't matter where you put a player in the lineup, But you must support every 8 points scored with an assist or your offensive firepower is cut by 25%.
A tired player loses rebounding power and will shoot musch less than normal. All tired players recover somewhat for the last 5 minutes of a game, but not 100%.
Players are "normalized" in many ways. The information about their original league and travels with them when they are drafted traded or imported. Thus all facets of their game change as they move away from their team or league.
A good example is Jerry Lucas for the 1963-64 Royals.
He averaged 20+ rebounds a game back then. But the Royals missed many shots and then players on his team were not good rebounders. When playing in the All time great league, with 1990 standards, Lucas is a mere 13 per game rebounder.
If Jordan were put in a league with 1963 standards. He'd shoot more and rebound more, but would not shoot as well and would deal out less assists. This is why the numbers appear on the league create program. The active league becomes the standard when creating a new league. A future add-on product is under development that will allow you to rate your own players. In this case, the create league program would be needed to enter in the formula results listed to the right of the data entry section. Changing them now would bring on unpedictable results.
You will see how accurate the game is over time and can trust what you do with your players is pretty much what would happen in actual situations.
The timeout system of pro basketball doesn't fit well into the model of this game, thus it was scrapped. You can go to the bench anytime a play is completed. This offers you the chance you get your changes in the game when you want them. The computer coach aslo can "change of the fly". A bit unrealistic, but the advantages in playability and speed greatly outweigh this slight irregularity.
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