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@echo off echo NOTES ON TONY LA RUSSA BASEBALL II FANTASY DRAFT echo echo USING THE FANTASY DRAFT echo The Fantasy Draft Expansion Disk alters options under the Baseball echo icon Menu and the Utilities Menu of TLB 2. To enter the Fantasy Draft echo Menu, select FANTASY DRAFT from the options under the Baseball Icon echo Menu. echo echo THE BASEBALL ICON MENU echo Once in the draft menus, you can load a previously saved draft by echo selecting LOAD DRAFT IN PROGRESS, from under the Baseball Icon menu. echo You can also save a draft by selecting SAVE DRAFT IN PROGRESS. echo Selecting EXIT DRAFT returns you to TLB 2's regular game menus and echo QUIT exits the draft and returns you to DOS. NOTE: Only one draft can echo be saved at a time per league. echo echo THE DRAFT SETUP MENU echo Choosing Draft Rules from this menu allows you to set the ground rules echo for the fantasy draft. echo echo Draft Order: You may choose whether the draft will CYCLE from first echo team to last team and then repeat the same sequence of teams from echo round to round; SNAKE from first team to last team, then last team to pause echo first team, and so on; or be in RANDOM order every round. echo echo Speed of Display: You may control whether or not an Enter prompt echo follows every computer draft pick. Human draft picks always have a echo prompt. echo echo Salary Cap: You may draft with or without a salary cap, which is echo simply a limit on the total amount any team can spend on its players. echo Your salary cap will vary to reflect whether your SALARY SCALE has echo been set to REAL WORLD or ROTISSERIE. echo echo Salary Scale: You may draft with a salary cap using real world dollar echo values or TLB 2 rotisserie salary values. echo echo Draft Rights: This allows you to draft in two very different ways. echo With STANDARD draft rights, the drafting team, human or computer echo controlled, simply adds the selected player to the team roster at the echo preset salary value. With AUCTION draft rights, a team selects a echo player on its turn, but all other drafting teams can bid on that echo player. Teams may bid any amount for a player, without any regard to echo preset salaries, subject to the amount of money your team has left. echo echo Edit Salary Cap: This option allows you to edit the salary cap, pause echo whether it be on the real word or rotisserie salary scale. echo echo TEAM POOL allows you to edit which teams will be pooling players to be echo drafted, and which teams will be participating in the draft. Check echo marks next to the team names will determine those teams involved in echo the draft.RESTART DRAFT will return all drafted players to the draft echo pool and the draft will restart at the first team's pick in round 1. echo CALCULATE PLAYER SALARIES will let TLB 2 assign salary values to all echo players based on the player's performance. WARNING: Once this option echo is selected the historical values will be changed permanently. echo EDIT PLAYER SALARIES allows you to set individual player salaries. You echo must first select the team the player or players are on, and then echo highlight the player whose salary you wish to edit. echo The RESET GENERAL MANAGERS option resets Manager Profiles for all echo teams participating in the draft to the default Tony La Russa echo management profile. echo echo THE DRAFT MENU echo Selecting DRAFT DAY from the DRAFT menu starts the draft. Select this echo option only after you are satisfied with the draft rules, manager echo profiles, and player salaries. From Draft Day, pressing any letter echo shows an alphabetical list of players, beginning with the letter echo pressed. For example, if you type a "G", you will see a list of pause echo players beginning with last names that start with "G". echo The Draft Meter shows how many players have been drafted per position. echo A black value indicates the position is not sufficiently filled due to echo a lack of healthy players. A blue value indicates the position is echo close to being filled; a green value indicates the position will be echo filled with an appropriate player throughout the season. echo The TRADES option in the draft works like that in the TLB 2 basic echo game, with a few exceptions. Not only can you trade pitchers and echo players, but draft slots as well. For example, in the third round of echo the draft, you may want to trade the pitcher you got in the second echo round for another player's fourth and sixth round draft picks. echo echo TEAM GENERAL MANAGER allows you to select which teams in the draft echo will be under computer control, and which teams will be under human echo control. echo echo The GENERAL MANAGER PROFILE option allows you to edit a computer- echo controlled team's drafting strategy. There are six different settings echo available: echo Tony La Russa: The computer drafts using Tony La Russa's personal echo drafting strategies. echo Power Hungry: The computer drafts looking for power first at all echo positions. pause echo Steal Bases, Steal hits: The computer drafts looking for blinding echo speed at all positions. echo Pitching Pitching Pitching: The computer drafts looking for echo overpowering starters, middle relievers, and closers first. echo Tough in the Field: The computer drafts with tough defense in mind. echo Custom: The computer drafts based upon custom settings which you echo create by editing seven basic characteristics: STARTERS, CLOSERS, echo MIDDLE RELIEVERS, SPEED, POWER, BATTING AVERAGE, and DEFENSE. You may echo distribute 100 points between the seven characteristics. You may echo assign 0 to 100 points for each characteristic. echo echo THE MANAGER MENU echo This menu works much like the Manager Menu of the TLB 2 basic game. echo From here you can view and edit the PLAYER ROSTER, PITCHING STAFF, echo PITCHING ROTATION, DEFENSIVE ASSIGNMENTS, and BATTING ORDER of the echo team thatÆs currently got the next pick in the draft. Selecting NEW echo TEAM from this menu will allow you to view the various management echo screens of the other teams participating in the draft. echo echo THE HOMEPLATE ICON MENU echo From this menu you can access the features assigned to the function echo keys. echo F1 Displays the highlighted player's batting statistics on pause echo screen. echo F2 Displays the highlighted player's pitching statistics on echo screen. NOTE: The draft introduces a new pitching stat, ratio. echo Ratio is hits plus walks divided by innings pitched. The lower echo the ratio the better. echo F3 Displays the highlighted player's fielding statistics on echo screen. echo F4 In Fantasy Manager this option is disconnected. echo F5 This key dumps all information on screen to the printer. echo F6 Performs a "print to file" command. This does essentially the echo same thing as [F5], except the screen data is compiled into a echo file that appears in your TLB 2 root directory as "PRINT.TXT". echo You can collect as many stat screens as you choose, and each echo is "appended" into this special file that you can edit or echo print in the usual ways. echo F7 Operates as a HELP key to get you through the more complicated echo parts of the draft should you require assistance. echo F8 This option displays the draft order for all teams acting in echo the current round of the draft. The team that is currently echo drafting is marked with a check next to its name. echo echo IMPORTING STATISTICS FROM ON-LINE SERVICES echo Your UTILITIES MENU in TLB 2 has been edited to give you the new pause echo option of importing stats from on-line services such as STATS Inc. echo These services provide up-to-date statistics for all professional echo baseball teams that can be translated into use by TLB 2. echo NOTE: You must already be a subscriber to the on-line services to make echo use of this feature. echo Use the F7 key if you need help. echo echo ABOUT STATS, INC. echo echo It all starts with the system. The STATS scoring method, which echo includes pitch-by-pitch information and the direction, distance, and echo velocity of each ball hit into play, yields an immense amount of echo information. Sure, we have all the statistics you're used to seeing, echo but where other statistical sources stop, STATS is just getting echo started. echo pause echo Then, there's the network. Out information is timely because our game echo reporters send their information by computer as soon as the game is echo over. Statistics are checked, rechecked, updated, and are available echo daily. echo echo Analysis comes next. STATS constantly searches for new ways to use echo this wealth of information to open windows into the working of echo baseball. Accurate numbers, intelligent computer programming, and a echo large dose of imagination all help coax the most valuable information echo from its elusive cover. echo echo Finally, distribution! echo echo For 13 years now, STATS has served over a dozen Major League teams. echo The box scores that STATS provides to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and USA echo TODAY have revolutionized what baseball fans expect from a box score. echo BASEBALL WEEKLY is chock full of STATS handiwork, while ESPN's nightly echo baseball coverage is supported by a full-time STATS statistician. We echo provide statistics for TONY LA RUSSA BASEBALL and many other baseball echo games and fantasy leagues all over the country. echo echo For the baseball fan, STATS publishes monthly and year-end reports on echo each Major League team. We offer a host of year-end statistical pause echo breakdowns on paper or disk that cover hitting, pitching, catching, echo baserunning, fielding, and more. STATS even produces custom reports echo on request. echo echo Computer users with modems can access the STATS computer for echo information with STATS On-Line. If you own a computer with a modem, echo there is no other source with the scope of baseball information that echo STATS can offer. echo echo STATS and Bill James enjoy an on-going affiliation that has produced echo the book you are now holding. We also administer Bill James Fantasy echo Baseball (BJFB), the ultimate baseball game, designed by Bill James echo himself, which allows you to manage your own team and compete with echo other team owners around the country. Whether you play BJFB or echo another fantasy game, our new STATS fax report can show you what your echo players did the previous night as soon as you can get to the fax echo machine in the morning. STATS also offers a head-to-head fantasy echo football game STATS Fantasy Football. BJFB The Winter Game is a brand echo new, totally unique, historically based fantasy baseball game for echo those who can't wait for spring. echo echo Always innovative, STATS has other exciting future projects underway echo for sports fans nationwide. It is the purpose of STATS to make the pause echo best possible sports information available to all interests: fans, echo play, teams, and media. echo echo For more information write to: echo echo STATS, Inc. echo 7366 North Lincoln Ave. echo Lincolnwood, IL 60646-1708 echo echo . . . or call us at 1-708-676-3322. We can send you a STATS brochure, echo a free information kit on Bill James Fantasy Baseball, The BJFB Winter echo Game or STATS Fantasy Football, and/or information on STATS On-Line or echo STATS fax. echo echo To maintain our information, STATS hires people around the country to echo cover games using the STATS scoring method. If you are interested in echo applying for a part-time reporter's position, please write or call echo STATS. echo echo For the story behind the numbers, check out STATS' other publications: echo The STATS 1993 Baseball Scoreboard: The first edition of this book in echo 1990 took the nation's baseball fans by storm. This all new 1993 echo edition, available in book stores or directly from STATS, is back with pause echo the same great writing, great graphics and stats you won't find echo anywhere else. The Major League Handbook's brother, the STATS 1993 echo Minor League Handbook, will add to your 1993 reference library, echo especially important for the coming expansion. STATS continues a echo tradition with The Scouting Report: 1993, available in book stores in echo the Spring of 1993. You'll find scouting reports on over 700 players, echo including team prospect reports, backed by statistical findings you echo can only get from STATS, Inc. Last, but certainly not least, the new echo addition to the STATS Publishing family, the STATS 1993 Player echo Profiles Book, is full of breakdowns and situational stats for every echo Major League player, identical to the few we offer in this book. echo echo FANTASY DRAFT CREDITS echo Designers: Mark Buchignani, Stormfront Studios echo David Bunnett, Stormfront Studios echo Don Daglow, Stormfront Studios echo Hudson Piehl, Stormfront Studios echo Programmers: Hudson Piehl, Stormfront Studios echo Mark Buchignani, Stormfront Studios echo Mark Manyen, Stormfront Studios echo Graphic Designers: David Bunnett, Stormfront Studios echo David Clemons, Stormfront Studios echo Producer: Nicholas Beliaeff, SSI pause echo Project Coordinator: Jason Ray, SSI echo Product Testers: Joshua Cloud, SSI echo Lee Crawford, SSI echo Test Support: Kym Goyer, SSI echo Special Thanks To: Katie Jack, Stormfront Studios echo Sean Carson, Stormfront Studios echo echo NOTES AND ERRATA ON TONY 2 echo echo The following is a list of rules errata and clarifications based on echo what SSI has heard from its customers since the release of Tony 2. echo echo Instant Replay: echo echo The close-up replay animation sequences do not necessarily show the echo actualplay as it occurred on the field. Instead, it shows a simulated echo replay based on the type of play that occurred. echo echo Standardized Stats: echo echo Due to the limited amount of material and the lack of credible echo sources,many of the players' ratings have been standardized. The echo editing of thesestats has been left up to you, so feel free to make pause echo any adjustments that youwish. Standardizing stats keeps the the stats echo from affecting the game. The1992 teams' disk will have a broad range echo of numbers for these stats. echo echo The stats that have been standardized are: Balks, wild pitches, echo passed balls, day/night, streaks, morale, and leadership. echo echo Play-by-Play: echo echo Some sound boards have Ron Barr announcing the play-by-play. echo Occasionally, the accuracy of the announcer can be affected by an echo extraordinary play in the field. For example, Barr may call a "line echo drive to centerfield," yet an alert and capable infielder can rob the echo ball before it leaves the infield. Remember, Ron Barr is calling echo approximately where the ball will go if unobstructed from its flight echo path, and not necessarily calling the player the ball is hit toward. echo echo Hard Drive Compressors: echo echo THe data files for Tony 2 are kept in compressed format to take up echo less space on your hard drive. Because of this, we do not recommend echo that you use this program with Stacker or SuperStor. Similar problems echo may occur with DOS 6's DoubleSpace(although none have been found so pause echo far). The game can probably be installed to a machine utilizing a echo compressor, but the game may run slowly and crash periodically. echo echo The Boot Disk echo echo To limit compatibility and memory problems, it is highly recommended echo that the following boot disk be used. These instructions are based on echo DOS 5. Use of any other DOS, including DOS 6 should consult their DOS echo manuals to make a boot disk. Be aware that Tony 2 came out before the echo release of DOS 6 and was not tested on it. echo echo 1. From the c: prompt, type, "format A:/s" [enter] echo 1a. Follow the on screen prompts. echo 2. Place a blank disk in your "a" drive (it MUST be your a drive) and echo label it, "Tony 2 Boot Disk." echo 3. Go to the A: prompt by typing,"A:" [enter] echo 4. Type, "edit" [enter] echo 5. This brings up a blue screen where you can type. Type in the echo following text just as it appears below: echo echo Files=30 echo Buffers25 echo Device=c:\DOS\himem.sys pause echo Device=c:\DOS\emm386.exe noems echo DOS=high,umb echo echo echo 5a. Now go up to File and Save this document as,"CONFIG.SYS" echo 6. Go into File again and Open a New document. Type in the following echo text exactly as it apears below: echo echo Path=c:\;c:\DOS;c:mouse echo prompt $p$g echo loadhigh mouse echo c: echo cd\tony2 echo tony2 echo echo 6a. The "cd\tony2" assumes that Tony 2 is installed to its default echo directory which is tony2. If you install Tony 2 to another name, echo use the new name instead. For example, if you install Tony 2 into echo a directory called T2, the line would read, "cd\t2" echo echo 6b. Now go up to File and Save this document as, "autoexec.bat" echo To use your Tony 2 Boot Disk, place the disk in your A: drive (It echo MUST be your A drive) and reboot your machine. Tony 2 will pause echo automatically come up and you'll be ready to play. echo echo ERRATA: echo echo Tony 2 has a huge database which is referenced with every pitch. Given echo this, Tony 2 still completes the season with a historical accuracy of echo about 90%.Starting a second season using simulated stats compiled from echo the first season will result in only an 81% accuracy (90% of 90). A echo third season would have a 72% (90% of 81) accuracy and so on. The echo tendency is for players to hit like their simulated stats so there is echo a build up of doubles, triples, homers, etc..., for hitters, and echo strikeouts and walks for pitchers. echo echo Importing Teams: echo echo A common problem when importing teams from Tony 1 is caused by not echo selecting a league from Tony 1. Tony 1 only allowed one league to be echo used at a time. When importing a league from Tony 1 only one league pause echo will be present to choose from. You must left click with the mouse on echo this league for it to be imported. echo echo Tony La Russa's name and likeness are used under license from Sports echo Advisors Group. @echo off echo echo echo echo echo WARNING (to customers with high scoring games) echo echo Due to the data structure, whenever upgrades are made to echo Tony2, whether by patch, team disks, stats downloading, echo or expansions, high score games will occur when first echo playing exhibition games. To alleviate this, just select echo Start New Season under the Season menu, select a season, echo and follow the on-screen prompts. Once this is done, echo games will have normal scores both in exhibition and echo league play. echo echo echo 1993 Strategic Simulations, Inc. All Rights Reserved. echo 524191 echo