ICBL and Baseball for Windows

* A. PLAYING CONVENTIONS o The ICBL uses APBA Baseball for Windows (BBW) in full League Manager (LM) mode with Advanced Injury Management (AIM) activated. Virtually all league business, including transfers of files, is conducted by e-mail in order to hold down costs. * B. SEASON DISK 1. Each year the Commissioner will provide all teams with the official ICBL Organization Disk. However, all owners are legally and morally required to purchase the APBA-copyrighted season disk even though a league disk is provided. 2. Traditionally, the ICBL uses a "wizardized" version of the actual disk, with pitchers' grades and hitters' numbers generated by The Wizard and grafted onto APBA-supplied fielding, speed, etc., grades. The Commissioner will implement these adjustments or not at his sole discretion. * C. TRANSFER OF INFORMATION IN FILES 1. Default instructions in the form of franchise files (f-files) will be sent to the Commissioner before the season starts and throughout the year within a weekly time frame determined by the Commissioner. The Commissioner will compile these files and distribute Commissioner files (c-files) to the league on a weekly basis during the regular season and as necessary during the offseason. 2. Each manager will have the opportunity to override his default settings, rosters, and rotations in League Manager each week during the default file phase. If no default instruction overrides are received by the scheduled weekly date, League Manager automode will handle the team in the upcoming series. 3. All games will be completed on time. If the results for a particular series are not in by the deadline, the games will be played in automode to keep the season on track. * D. MICROMANAGERS 1. All teams should have available for use by their opponents all of the "official" 1990s managers,available by free download at various websites. They should be unzipped into the main BBW directory (where the actual game program is located). Required micromanagers are: Buck Miller, Butch Kelly, Felipe Hernandez, and Tony Anderson. 2. A manager who wishes to use a different micromanager is responsible for sending that micromanager to his opponent (or otherwise confirming that his opponent has him) before each series he wants that micromanager used. * E. DEFAULT PLAYING INSTRUCTIONS 1. Default instructions will be created through Advanced Draft (AD) and League Manager. In AD, managers will set their rosters, moving players between their active and farm team rosters in accordance with league rules. In LM, managers should do the following: o a. Assign lineups versus RHPs and LHPs. o b. Designate a micromanager for road games. The default micromanager for teams that do not indicate one will be Buck Miller II. o c. Establish a pitching rotation (which can be for the upcoming series only or for any number of games in the future). None of the LM settings are required. If a manager chooses, he may let the game choose rotations and lineups for all games. However, he still needs to review the team status reports (in AD or LM) to monitor the fatigue levels of his players and adjust his roster as needed. 2. During each series, LM will handle pregame fatigue and injury substitutions for the visiting team (so that AIM injuries will be avoided) and the designated micromanager will handle in-game strategy moves. * F. PROVISION FOR LOSS OF MANAGER o Should a manager drop out of the ICBL in the middle of the season, his team will be monitored by the Commissioner for player fatigue and the automode of League Manager will handle the team until a new manager is found.