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- Product: LineDrive Fantasy Baseball
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- Ever noticed that there are three things the average man figures that he
- can do better than anyone else? Generally those three things a barbecue
- a steak, run the company he works for, and manage a baseball team.
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- The last is the reason for Fantasy Baseball. Fantasy baseball is the
- game that has swept the national pastime over the last several yea
- Fantasy Baseball allows a student or college professor, a Chairman of
- the Board or a steel mill worker not only to manage a professional
- baseball team, but to "own" it.
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- With your own team made up of real-life major league stars you become
- owner, general manager, manager and chief talent scout. No lon do you
- have to agonize over the errors made by those mental midgets th are
- running your favorite team into the cellar. Now the day to day
- decisions are yours to make. Do you bench Canseco? Extend Fielder's
- contract? Trade Clark for Clemens? When you own the team it's all up
- to you.
-
- U.S.A. Today estimates the number of fantasy team owners to be about
- half a million (and growing!). The fantasy team owner is ridiculously
- easy to spot. He's the guy who can't get to work on time because the
- paper boy was late again and he ain't leavin' until he fin out how
- Stewart pitched last night. He is the guy sitting in the rear the
- divorce court watching ESPN's Sportscenter on his portable TV whil his
- wife is divorcing him for neglect.
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- Now LineDrive Fantasy Baseball brings Fantasy Baseball to your computer.
- Gone are the hours of pouring over the sports section, armed with reams
- of paper, several pencils and a five pound box of erasers as you try to
- get a handle on your league's statistics. LineDrive will organize your
- league in a manner that will reduce the time spent entering statistical
- information to about an hour a week.
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- LineDrive will conduct your player draft, keep track of team rost
- starting lineups, player contracts, league standings, fees & fines, and
- print out your league newsletter for you. The program allows rosters of
- up to 45 players per team and can be played for "big bucks" or "just for
- fun".
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- If the program is set up as an Auction League (the "big bucks" version)
- it can re-define the office pool. Players no longer need to s passively
- and watch the teams they drew in the pool but can build thei own team,
- wheeling and dealing their way to weekly prizes as well as t season end
- pot.
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- The basics of LineDrive are simple. Grab 2 to 15 friends to form a
- league. Decide on which of the 12 statistics you want to base your
- league standings on (see page 5) (you may use as many of the statistic
- as you like). Each team selects up to 45 real-life Major League player
- in a draft or auction. These players then become the "property" of the
- owner that drafted them and their real-life statistics become the basi
- for his Fantasy League standings. Each week the USA Today publishes th
- season total statistics for all players in the Major Leagues. These
- stats are entered into the program (either by hand or by using our
- AutoStat automatic update utility) and LineDrive determines the league
- standings based on each team's performance in each category. Points ar
- awarded based on the number of teams in the league. For example, in an
- eight team league, first place in each category is worth 8 points, sec
- place is worth 7 points, third is worth 6, etc.
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- While the basic of the game are simple it is loaded with nuances. the 45
- players on a Fantasy Team's roster, only 23 are "active" at any time. A
- LineDrive roster consists of 9 pitchers, 2 catchers, 1 first baseman, 1
- second baseman, 1 third baseman, 1 shortstop, 1 corner (can be either a
- first or third baseman), 1 middle infielder (shortstop or second
- baseman), 1 utility man, 5 outfielders, 7 reserve players and a 15 man
- farm team. Players who are not occupying an "active" position do not
- count toward league standings. Thus the trick a successful seas is
- building your team and then determining which players are "hot" and
- activating them at just the right moment. While luck will allow the
- casual owner to pick off an occasional weekly pot, the big winnings will
- invariably go to the owner who is a student of the game.
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- IMPORTANT NOTICE
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- LineDrive requires the following minumum require-
- ments:
- 1 MEG OF FREE DISK SPACE. This can be free space on
- a hard disk, one 1.44 meg 3.5 inch disk drive, or one 1.2 meg
- 5.25 disk drive.
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