Running a League

One of the many ways to enjoy Digital Diamond Baseball is to participate in league play.  In league play, several users form a league, draft teams, and play an entire season.  During the season, users build a team profile, play games, negotiate trades with other managers, and execute roster moves.  Each league has a  commissioner that is responsible for coordinating the playing of games, trades, roster moves, and manager profile changes.

Digital Diamond Baseball has several features that make it possible for users to participate in a league.  The following describes the typical process used by leagues and highlights how this process can be followed using Digital Diamond Baseball:

1. Once the league is formed and the commissioner is chosen, a new library is created and the players that will be used for the league are imported into the library. 
   
2. Teams are created and assigned to each manager and then organized into divisions by the commissioner.
   
3. If this is a draft league, a draft is run so that each league member can draft their team.  Otherwise the teams are played using their real-life rosters.
   
4. After the draft, the commissioner creates a schedule and then backs up the master library file.  The backup file is emailed to all of the league members so they can restore the library file and create their team profiles.
5. Once the profiles are created, managers export their profiles and email them to the league commissioner.  The league commissioner is responsible for importing the profiles into the master library file.
6. For each series during the season, the commissioner sends a backup of the master library file to all league members.  League members restore the library file and each series is played by the home team's manager.  Managers must check the Allow games to be played out of order check box in the General Other Options dialog box before playing their games.  This allows them to play the games in their series before the other games in the scheduled have been completed.
   
7. When the home manager finishes the series for their team, they export their games and send the exported files to the commissioner.  The commissioner is responsible for importing the files into the master library file in the order in which they were played.
8. If the league members make any changes to their team profile during a series they can export their new team profile and send it to the commissioner.  The commissioner is responsible for importing the team profile changes into the master library.
   
9. In-between series, if team managers want to make trades or roster moves they can notify the commissioner via email so that the commissioner can make the changes in the master library file.
10. The league members repeat steps 4 - 7 until the season is over.