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LEAGUE EDITOR
NOTE: You must be in Commissioner
Mode to use the League
Editor.
Baseball Mogul comes with a league editor, which allows you to redesign
the world of baseball almost any way you choose. The League Editor
is available from the Tools
Menu.
For help creating a new team, click
here.
Editing the League
The game comes preset with
the 30 teams divided into three divisions in each of the two leagues.
You can only edit the league before a season starts; not while games
are playing.
League Names
The A League and the N
League are the preset league names in Baseball Mogul.
Division Names
Next, you can alter the
names for the divisions within each league. Mogul can handle up
to three divisions per league, but you don't have to have all three.
You can have two or one division(s) per league, and you could have
2 divisions in the N League, and only one in the A League.
Designated Hitter Rule
The DH box in the upper
righthand side of the League Editor (above each of the two league
areas) allows you to turn on and off the DH rule for each league.
You can make both leagues use the DH rule, or neither. The designated
hitter is a player on your team who can be from any position who
bats on your team instead of the current pitcher.
Games Per Season Edit Box
This box allows you to
determine how many games are played per season. The game comes preset
with 162 games per season.
Teams can be edited to have different
fan loyalty, farm systems, names, divisions
Interleague Play
Checking this box informs
the computer scheduler that you'd like to have teams from different
leagues play each other during the course of the season.
Trading
Deadline
Checking this box disabled
trades after July 31st.
Unbalanced
Schedule
In an "unbalanced"
schedule, teams play opponents in their own division much more than
they play teams outside their division. In a 162 game season, teams
play each division rival 18 times.
In a "balanced" schedule,
teams play league opponents roughly the same number of times, regardless
of division.
Once you've made all your changes
to the league, hit Refresh to update the display and register your
changes.
Start
Year
This specificies the year
your league starts. For example, you could create a league that
starts in 1930 and then add players from that era. Changing this
value will erase any simulated seasons, and is only recommended
for use in creation of a Universe.dat
file.
Women
Enter Majors
This specifies the first
year that women will enter the league as AAA rookies. If you wish
to play without female rookies, set this value to 0.
Editing Teams
Using the team list in
the upper left, select the team you want to edit. You can do this
by either scrolling down through the names using your mouse, or
by selecting the box and hitting the up and down arrow keys.
Team Home and Nickname
The first box, marked 'Home',
designates what region your home games are played in. The second
box is the nickname of your team. Combined, these create your team's
full name.
For example, you might call a team
the Colorado Cornhuskers. Although the team's home city is actually
Denver the 'Home' field should contain the word 'Colorado' and the
nickname field will be 'Cornhuskers'. Typing these correctly helps
the SportsWriter technology write coherent news stories about your
team.
Three Letter Abbreviation
This three letter code
will be used to mark your team in various displays throughout Baseball
Mogul 99. This is especially important for teams like New York and
Chicago, which have two teams apiece. We use NYN for the New York
Team in the N League, and NYA for the New York team in the A League.
Home City
You can select one of over
seventy major cities using this drop-down box, or you can use the
City Editor to enter your own. Select the city for your team - this
helps determine the income of your team, population around your
home stadium and other factors.
Division
This allows you to place
the team in one of the divisions. Select a division from the drop
down box, and hit refresh to update the league structure.
Fan Loyalty
The loyalty of a team's
fans is rated on a scale of A to F (A is the best, and F is the
worst). The more loyal, the more money you'll make from ticket sales
and broadcast contracts in the short run. Over the years, fan loyalty
can be damaged by high prices, pay TV and poor performance. Similarly,
a team's fans will become more interested as the team performs well
or management lowers ticket prices.
Farm System
The quality of a team's
farm system is rated on a scale of A to F (A is the best, and F
is the worst). The better the quality of a farm system's prospects,
the easier it will be to find quality talent without resulting to
the free agent pool or trades. The quality of a team's Farm System
changes over time in proportion to the continued investment made
in the team (in the Expenses dialog). To maintain a quality pool
of fresh minor leaguers every year, a team needs to stay among the
top spenders of money on their farm system.
You can also Create New Teams through
the league editor. See Creating New Teams.
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