------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | International Replay Baseball League - Founded October 30, 1973 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ***************** IRBL NEWSLETTER # 867 ***************** 1-1-11 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...................................... IRBL Menu Program 2011 Update When you installed this LRD, the IRBL Menu Program should now indicate 2011 and the following three directories should have been created: C:\IRBL\LEAGUE.Y11 C:\IRBL\RESULTS.Y11 C:\IRBL\SERIES.Y11 Please exit and restart the IRBL Menu Program, select menu option <5> and verify that you see this new version and date: Program version: 10.0.00 Last update: 1-2-11 Then verify that the listed values for the Hard drive letter or DMB game directory matches what is on your computer. If not, then select options <1> or <2> to change the setting to match what you have. NOTE: The IRBL DMB files require the installation of DMB version 10. 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 2011 IRBL schedule. I just copied the 2010 schedule just for convenience (if you want to play some practice games). The 2011 IRBL schedule will be loaded into the files before the start of the season. If you encounter any other problems, let me know. ...................................... 2010 Post-season results (still in progress): NL Division Series: CARDINALS vs PHILLIES NL Division Series: GIANTS lead NATIONALS, 2 games to 0 AL Division Series: INDIANS defeated RAYS, 3 games to 2 IRBL # 867 1-1-11 2 AL Division Series: ANGELS defeated RED SOX, 3 games to 0 NL Championship Series: (to be determined) AL Championship Series: INDIANS defeated ANGELS, 4 games to 1 World Series: INDIANS vs (to be determined) You can see the boxscores, scoresheets and series statistics at the IRBL website. ...................................... Manager resignation: Kevin Nascene (DIAMONDBACKS) ...................................... All managers have confirmed they are remaining in the IRBL in 2011 and are eligible to make trades except the following: Kenji Nozaki (ANGELS) ...................................... These teams are being run as a temporary general manager (TGM) only by the indicated person (they do not play those team's home series): MARLINS : John Parker (TGM) ATHLETICS : Gerry McDonald (TGM) TWINS : Andrea Cristiani (TGM) BLUE JAYS : Chip Hopkins (TGM) These teams are being run as a full temporary manager (TM) by the indicated person (they play those team's home series): REDS : Bill Mattfeld (TM) NATIONALS : Don Tobin (TM) RANGERS : John Mattfeld (TM) ROYALS : Don Tobin (TM) ORIOLES : Ricky Diaz (TM) RAYS : Marc Schlotthauer (TM) These teams need a volunteer to handle them either as a full temporary manager, or as a temporary general manager or to just handle trades and the draft: DIAMONDBACKS DODGERS You will get a credit LSP for the off- season player management and drafting and another credit LSP for preparing IRBL # 867 1-1-11 3 the season instructions and monitoring team usage. I have included an updated IRBL Manager Address List. ...................................... UPDATED ROSTERS FILES: During the 2010 Major League Season, 1249 players appeared (622 batters and 627 pitchers) in at least one game. There are 17 less players this season than last season (11 more batters and 28 less pitchers). According to IRBL Rule # 13B1, 19 teams will be allowed to draft until they have 42 rated players and 11 teams will be allowed to draft until they have 41 rated players. Once the IRBL dues status of the last manager 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 deadline. Please note that if you release too many players, you may end up drafting worse players than you released. Please remember that the 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 (234 total IRBL # 867 1-1-11 4 players: 115 batters and 119 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.Y11, contains more information than the the other file, DRAFTPUF.Y11. Depending on your preference, you may find one or the other file more useful. You can also download a "2011 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 season limits. If there are any errors, the correct calculation will override these information sheets. ...................................... The year 2011 IRBL Rookie / Free-Agent Draft will start on Sunday Feb. 20th 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. ...................................... After the trading deadline, an email will be sent to all IRBL managers requesting that you respond answering a "Method Of Participating In The 2011 Draft" questionnaire. ...................................... 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" IRBL # 867 1-1-11 5 o Navigate to this directory: C:\IRBL\LEAGUE.Y11 o Click "OK" o Select "Game-scheduled" o Verify that the white "Org" box in the upper left corner states the following: IRBL League (1/1/11) (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.Y11 o Click "OK" o Select "Game-scheduled" o Verify that the white "Org" box in the upper left corner states the following: IRBL Series (1/1/11) (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. 30 - Trading and player release deadline (6 pm, EST) Feb. 20*- 2011 Draft (start 8 am, ET) Mar. 13*- Trading deadline (6 pm, ET) Mar. 27*- Team instructions to be received by League Office and all managers within your league Apr. 4*- First series of 2011 season *will slip one week for every Sunday the draft continues beyond Feb. 20 ...................................... Files included on LRD # 867: --------------------------- DRAFTINF.Y11 --> Player Usage Form for all players eligible to be drafted (extra details) DRAFTPUF.Y11 --> Player Usage Form for all players eligible to be drafted IRBLROST.TXT --> IRBL Rosters IRBLRULE.TXT --> IRBL Rules MANAGERS.TXT --> Manager Address List NEWSL867.xxx --> Newsletter # 867 PLAYERUF.Y11 --> Player Usage Forms for all teams File Extension Legend (xxx): --------------------------- IRBL # 867 1-1-11 6 T1C --> Viewable one column newsletter text format TXT --> Viewable text format ...................................... BK