------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | International Replay Baseball League - Founded October 30, 1973 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ***************** IRBL NEWSLETTER # 815 ***************** 1-3-09 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...................................... IRBL Menu Program 2009 Update When you installed this LRD, the IRBL Menu Program should now indicate 2009 and the following three directories should have been created: C:\IRBL\LEAGUE.Y09 C:\IRBL\RESULTS.Y09 C:\IRBL\SERIES.Y09 Please exit and restart the IRBL Menu Program, select menu option <5> and verify that you see this new version and date: Program version: 9.00.01 Last update: 3-28-06 Then verify that the listed values for the Windows operating system, Hard drive letter or DMB game directory matches what is on your computer. If not, then select options <1>, <2> or <3> to change the setting to match what you have. NOTE: The IRBL DMB files require the installation of DMB version 9c. Please be sure that you have that version installed (select "Help-About" in the DMB main screen to see the version). NOTE: The league schedule that is currently included with the DMB IRBL player files and IRBL Menu Program is not the actual 2009 IRBL schedule. I just copied the 2008 schedule just for convenience (if you want to play some practice games). The 2009 IRBL schedule will be loaded into the files before the start of the season. If you encounter any other problems, let me know. ...................................... Final 2008 Post-season results: NL Division Series: PIRATES defeated GIANTS, 3 games to 1 NL Division Series: ROCKIES defeated BRAVES, 3 games to 0 AL Division Series: TIGERS defeated RED SOX, 3 games to 2 IRBL # 815 1-3-09 2 AL Division Series: DEVIL RAYS defeated ATHLETICS, 3 games to 0 NL Championship Series: PIRATES defeated ROCKIES, 4 games to 0 AL Championship Series: TIGERS defeated DEVIL RAYS, 4 games to 2 World Series: TIGERS defeated PIRATES, 4 games to 3 The TIGERS have won the AL Pennant the last 4 years (their first AL titles in the team history) but this was their first World Series victory. Congratulations to George C. Widenor for managing the TIGERS to the 2008 IRBL World Championship! You can see the boxscores, scoresheets and series statistics at the IRBL website. ...................................... These are the teams without permanent managers. Please let me know if you can continue to handle the extra team in the same manner in 2009. These teams were being run as a temporary general manager (TGM) only by the indicated person and they did not play those team's home series: DIAMONDBACKS : Jim Lee (TGM) BLUE JAYS : Chip Hopkins (TGM) MARLINS : John Parker (TGM) ANGELS : Matt Cummings (GM) ATHLETICS : Gerry McDonald (GM) These teams were being run as a full temporary manager (TM) only by the indicated person and they played those team's home series: DODGERS : Pete McClymont (TM) NATIONALS : Don Tobin (TM) RANGERS : John Mattfeld (TM) ORIOLES : Ricky Diaz (TM) DEVIL RAYS : Marc Schlotthauer (TM) You will get a credit LSP for the off- season player management and drafting and another credit LSP for preparing the season instructions and monitoring team usage. I have included an updated IRBL IRBL # 815 1-3-09 3 Manager Address List. ...................................... 2009 IRBL dues: All managers have submitted their 2009 IRBL dues except the following: John Parker (PHILLIES) Matt Cummings (ANGELS) Mike Aleprete (ROYALS) Dave Manel (TWINS) Pete McClymont (MARINERS) The IRBL dues for 2009 is $10 (payable in U.S. funds). If you have not done so already, you can pay via PayPal to bkoopers@optonline.net (selecting a bank account as a funding source), by check, money order or cash. The team draft order will be finalized once all managers who have any LSP's or PUP's have officially signed up. The trading season is open. A manager is not eligible to make trades until I receive his dues payment. ...................................... 2009 IRBL PLAYER TRANSACTIONS: The ORIOLES traded GRANT BALFOUR, DARREN OLIVER, ORIOLES' 9TH round pick to the BREWERS for CLAY BUCHHOLZ, BRIAN STOKES, BREWERS' 4TH round pick. The BREWERS traded KEVIN CORREIA, HUSTON STREET, BREWERS' 1ST round pick to the WHITE SOX for BRAD LIDGE, DAVID WEATHERS, WHITE SOX' 7TH round pick. ...................................... UPDATED ROSTERS FILES: During the 2008 Major League Season, 1290 players (642 batters and 648 pitchers) appeared in at least one game. There are 12 more players this season than last season (24 more batters and 12 less pitchers). According to IRBL Rule # 13B1, all 30 teams will be allowed to draft until they have 43 rated players. Once the IRBL dues status of all managers is settled, the team draft order will be finalized. ...................................... All teams are below the rated player limits but if you do want to release players to increase the number of players you can draft, you must release the players by the trading IRBL # 815 1-3-09 4 deadline. Please note that if you release too many players, you may end up drafting worse players than you released. Please remember that the 43 rated player draft limit is affected by trading draft picks. Please also remember that the maximum roster size at any time is 60 players. You must release enough non-rated players to make room on your roster for any players that you draft or trade for. At the end of the final pre-season trading deadline, the maximum roster size is 50 players. ...................................... I have included files of the current cross-referenced IRBL rosters and the DMB Game rosters. Please notify me immediately if you find any errors on the IRBL or DMB rosters. ...................................... The players who played for more than one team are listed on the DMB Roster team that they played the most for. ...................................... The players on the DMB Game Rosters without cross-referencing numbers will be eligible to be drafted (263 total players: 129 batters and 134 pitchers). This total will increase by any additional rated players that are released. ...................................... I have included a file containing the Player Usage Forms for all teams plus a file containing the Player Usage limitations for all the players eligible to be drafted. To print out your own teams Player Usage Form, you can edit and paste your section using your text editor or Word Processor. I have included two information files of the players eligible to be drafted. One file, DRAFTINF.Y09, contains more information than the the other file, DRAFTPUF.Y09. Depending on your preference, you may find one or the other file more useful. You can also download a "2009 IRBL Draft Player Information Microsoft Excel file" from the "IRBL Documents" page on the IRBL web site. ...................................... Please let me know if you find any mistakes in the Player Usage Form IRBL IRBL # 815 1-3-09 5 season limits. If there are any errors, the correct calculation will override these information sheets. ...................................... The year 2009 IRBL Rookie / Free-Agent Draft will start on Sunday Feb. 15th at 8 am until 9 pm, Eastern Time. At 9 pm, I will make a determination if I can complete the draft that night or to postpone the continuation of the draft until 8 am on the following Sunday. ...................................... An email will be sent to all IRBL managers requesting that you respond answering a "Method Of Participating In The 2009 Draft" questionnaire. ...................................... I strongly recommend that you email me a draft instructions list even if you plan to participate by IRC or telephone just in case you are not available unexpectedly. Refer to IRBL Rule # 13C for details about the draft procedure and draft instructions. ...................................... In order to avoid any mis- understandings, please specify your draft picks (in this order) by indicating batter or pitcher, the DMB roster team name or number, and then the full first and last names for each player. ...................................... IRC (Internet Relay Chat): I strongly recommend that everyone participate in the IRBL draft using IRC (Internet Relay Chat). You can download the mIRC program from the www.mirc.co.uk web site. The latest version is 6.35. You can try the program for 30 days and then they expect a $20 registration fee if you want to continue using the program. IRBL Rule # 37 details how to participate using IRC, but here is a summary: After installing and starting the mIRC program, in the setup screen, you would add the irc.ibl.org server name and then type in the #irbl channel. You will then be logged into that channel and you will see who is currently logged in. Then you can just type messages that everyone else logged into the channel can see. During the draft, I will post each IRBL # 815 1-3-09 6 draft pick on the IRC and I will update the IRBL web site. Please note that at times, Internet connection problems sometimes prevents sending updates to web sites so there may sometimes be a delay in keeping the IRBL web site up-to-date during the draft. NOTE: If the irc.ibl.org server is not working at the start of the draft (as what happenned last year), switch to the "Galaxynet - random server" (which you will find in the pull-down list of servers). ...................................... DMB player files: I have prepared a set of DMB player files sorted to the IRBL teams. Please follow these directions to install the files into DMB: Start the DMB game and do the following: o Select "File-Add reference to an existing database" o Navigate to this directory: C:\IRBL\LEAGUE.Y09 o Click "OK" o Select "Game-scheduled" o Verify that the white "Org" box in the upper left corner states the following: IRBL League (1/3/09) (Org) o Close the "Scheduled Game selection" window o Select "File-Add reference to an existing database" o Navigate to this directory: C:\IRBL\SERIES.Y09 o Click "OK" o Select "Game-scheduled" o Verify that the white "Org" box in the upper left corner states the following: IRBL Series (1/3/09) (Org) You will find all the IRBL players sorted to the appropriate IRBL teams and the players on the free agent list (not assigned to teams) will be eligible to be drafted in the upcoming IRBL draft. ...................................... DEADLINES: Jan. 25 - Trading and player release deadline (6 pm, EST) Feb. 15*- 2009 Draft (start 8 am, ET) IRBL # 815 1-3-09 7 Mar. 8*- Trading deadline (6 pm, ET) Mar. 22*- Team instructions to be received by League Office and all managers within your league Apr. 1*- First series of 2009 season *will slip one week for every Sunday the draft continues beyond Feb. 17 ...................................... Results of rules change proposal detailed in IRBL Newsletter # 811: The proposal was to revise IRBL Rule # 20G3 to read: "A pitcher who had both <40 actual IP and <40 actual GP (do not use IRBL statistics) is limited to 1 GP in each post-season series. Use the "Ineligible" option for such a pitcher after the 1st relief appearance." This would, in effect, override the <40 IP limit if the pitcher appeared in at least 40 games. The rule change passed (all 19 managers who voted approved the change; one manager did not vote). Of the 18 who voted, 10 wanted in to take effect in 2009 and 8 in 2008 so it will take effect in 2009. An updated set of IRBL Rules is included. ...................................... DMB 2008 Season Disk: Please confirm to me that you have purchased the DMB 2008 Season Disk. ...................................... DMB version 10: Since DMB version 10 has not been released yet, even if it is released sometime in 2009, I think it is best to wait until 2010 to use it in the IRBL. Once it is released, I would need time to transition the IRBL and the IRBL Menu program to work with v10. ...................................... Files included on LRD # 815: --------------------------- DRAFTINF.Y09 --> Player Usage Form for all players eligible to be drafted (extra details) DRAFTPUF.Y09 --> Player Usage Form for all players eligible IRBL # 815 1-3-09 8 to be drafted IRBLROST.TXT --> IRBL Rosters IRBLRULE.TXT --> IRBL Rules MANAGERS.TXT --> Manager Address List NEWSL815.xxx --> Newsletter # 815 PLAYERUF.Y09 --> Player Usage Forms for all teams File Extension Legend (xxx): --------------------------- T1C --> Viewable one column newsletter text format TXT --> Viewable text format ...................................... BK