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                           NOTES ON MANAGER


CONTENTS

1. Baseball Today
 a. Page 2
 b. Page 3
 c. Page 4

2. Head Coach
 a. Training
 b. Defensive players
 c. Batting order
 d. Pitching
 e. Preferences
 f. Pinch hitters
 g. Position switches

3. On-field Manager


3. Baseball Today

  Baseball Today is the online sports section, where you can get all the stats
for the league.  The front page lists interesting game scores, either because
of upsets or huge wins.  Human-controlled teams are more likely to be listed
than computer-controlled teams.  Baseball week is organized like a newspaper,
and has three inside pages.  It is important to understand them all in order to
play Manager well.

Page 2
a. Standings.  Lists the overall and home records of every team.  Teams are
ranked by overall record, with ties broken first by division record and second
by rankings.
b. Human Box Scores.  A quick way to get your team's box scores.  See "Team
Stats" below for a description.
c. Players of Day.  Offensive and defensive stars from that game.
d. Leaders.  Lists league leaders in eleven categories:
 -Batting
  -Batting average
  -Home runs
  -Runs batted in
  -Doubles
  -Steals
  -Walks
 -Pitching
  -Strikeouts
  -Earned run average
  -On base percentage against pitcher
  -Wins
  -Saves

Page 3
a. Scores.  A listing of all the scores from the current game day.
b. Box Scores.  All box scores.  See "Team Stats" below for a description
c. Team Stats.  Asks for a team to select, and shows team stats and player
stats and attributes.  Player stats are as follows:
  -Position players:
    -At bats (does not include walks)
    -Hits
    -Runs batted in
    -Doubles
    -Triples
    -Home runs
    -Walks
    -Strikeouts
    -Stolen bases, SB attempted
    -Plays attempted, plays made, errors
    -Batting average
    -Position
    -Batting handedness
  -Pitchers
    -Batters faced
    -Hits
    -Home runs
    -Walks
    -Strikeouts
    -Innings pitched
    -Earned runs
    -Wins, Losses
    -Saves, blown saves
    -Earned run average
    -On base percentage against
    -Throwing arm
  -Attributes
    -Salary
    -Years on contract
    -Position
    -Age
    -Durability
    -Clutch
    -Speed
    -Contact hitting
    -Power hitting
    -Defense
    -Arm (pitching and throwing)
    -Control pitching
    -Injury: estimated days until recovered, severity (A=least, P=most severe),
     type of injury (A=leg, B=arm, C=both, D=concussion)
    -Play injured: Maximum injury serverity that the player will play under
d. Analysis.  This gives an overview of the performance of each position in a
team, looking at various aspects of the game.  For each, two numbers are given:
the actual value and the rating compared to other teams, from 1 to 10.  The
statistical categories are as follows:
  -Positions: batting average, RBI/AB, HR/AB, Plays/PA, Steals/SBA
  -Pitchers: on base avg, HR/AB, SO/AB, BB/AB, ER/game

Page 4
a. Schedules.  Schedules and past scores for all teams.
b. Rankings.  Two different polls, named AP and CNN.  The AP poll is based
entirely on who beat who, while the CNN is based entirely on scores of games.
c. Lines.  Projected favorites and spreads for the coming game, based on the
CNN polls.  Even if the spread is 0, the team listed first is the favorite.
d. Info.  You can get a listing of past champions, player and coaching
awards, league records, the hall of fame, and draft pick trading.


2. Duties of the coach

The coach takes care of the day-to-day preparations for coming games.  He
does nothing at all during the offseason except for running the training
camps.


a. Training

During training camps, and before each game, you get the option to train
your team.  The training options are hitting, fielding, and pitching.  In
training camps you get 15 days, which should all be used.  Before the games,
however, you get up to 3 points of training but do not need to use them all.
In fact, the more you train, the more fatigued your team will start the game.

The benefits your players get from training are dependant on the training
skills of the assistant coaches.


b. Defensive players

After deciding on your active rosters and BEFORE setting your batting order,
you will want to decide who will play at each position.  For all positions
except DH and pitcher, you will have a starter and two backups.  (Only one
backup for catcher of course.)  The backups will see play periodically as the
fatigue of a long season sets in for players with lower durability ratings.
When deciding on players, remember that a position player (1B for example)
will play his own position best, and a different position poorly, while a
utility players (IF and OF) will play all positions equally, but will not play
as well as a first baseman playing first base.

One thing that this method allows is platoons.  (And I'm not talking about
groups of 30-40 soldiers...)  Batters other than switch hitters tend to fair
substantially better against pitchers of the opposite hand, and therefore you
may wish to have two second basemen, one of whom is a lefty and plays against
right-handed starters, and the other vice versa.

Normally, if a player is injured he will not play.  But you can override that
to make them play.  Note that an injured player is more likely to get
injured than a healthy player, so you are taking a risk by doing this.  If
a player is injured, his attributes will get diminished according to the
injury level.  An injury level of A is a 6.25% penalty, B is 12.5%, three
is 18.75%, and so on.  Level P is a 100% penalty, meaning the player would
be useless.  You can set the maximum leg injury and maximum arm injury
the player will play with.  A player with both an arm and leg injury or
a concussion will not play unless his injury level is lower than both
settings you have given him.


c. Batting order

This is the order in which your players bat during the game.  The players
you see when choosing the batting order are the starters at each defensive
position, and either the next starter or the first pinch hitter that isn't a
defensive starter.  Thus, the actual players used in the game may be
different.

In all American league games, and all World Series where the AL has home
field advantage, at designated hitter (DH) is used instead of the pitcher.
This player is chosen at game time, and is the player nearest the top of the
appropriate pinch hit list who is not playing on the field.

In setting batting orders before games with a DH, the player shown as the DH
is the highest pinch hitter who is not a starter at a defensive position.


d. Pitching

There are four lineups of pitchers: starters, long relief, setup, and
closers.  The starters are used in a rotation, so they will all play about
equal amounts of time.  The other lineups will pick the most rested pitcher,
with the first listed being more likely than the second.  Each lineup must
have between one and five pitchers.  A five pitcher starting rotation is
recommended, while the others should have about two each.  It is possible to
use the same pitcher in two different lineups.


e. Preferences

Manager allows you to set the following options:
  -pinch hit for position player
  -pinch hit for pitcher
  -pinch hit in blowout
  -bunt
  -steal
  -hit and run
  -long relief usage
  -setup usage
  -closer usage
  -intentional walks
  -hold runners
  -infield in
  -outfield shift

A "1" means you are the least likely to do something, and a "5" means you
are most likely.  Setting these options is useless if you will be managing
your team on the field manually, since you would choose these yourself.


f. Pinch hitters

You should set the priority of your active players for pinch hitting.  The
program will choose a pinch hitter based on how close to the top of the list
the player is and what position he is.  (You would rather use a pinch hitter
who can take over defensively as well.)


g. Position switches

This is basically a way of shuffling around your players to get the best in
each position.  You can move a player from any infield position (not catcher)
to any other, or from any outfield position to any other.  It is best to make
all position changes before training camps if possible, as the changes are
free.  After training camps, a player whose position is changed loses any
defensive bonus from training camps, as well as 10% of his base defensive
ability.


3. On-Field Managing

If you selected play-by-play control, you get to act as the manager on the
field as well.  Before each at-bat, the following actions can happen:

a. Pinch hitter

If your team is at bat, and you want to use a different batter, you may opt
to bring in a pinch hitter.  If you are batting for anyone except a DH, you
will also have to choose the player who will replace the batter on defense (a
relief pitcher or a player of the appropriate position).

b. Relief pitcher

If your team is on defense, you can pull out your current pitcher, and bring
in any unused pitcher to replace him.

c. Defense

If your team is on defense, you can choose if you want an intentional walk,
if you want to hold the runners, bring the infield in, and/or shift the
outfield toward the side the batter would pull the ball to.

d. Batting

If you team is at bat, you can choose to steal or hit and run, and/or bunt.


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