2000 Season Disk support page

Last updated: May 11, 2001

This page answers questions that are specific to the use of the 2000 Season Disk. For answers to general questions about the game, our player ratings, and company policies, see FAQ -- General.

Player info corrections

We have discovered and corrected a few errors in the 2000 Season Disk:

- we omitted Robert Fick's ratings at catcher. They should be Range: Av, Error: 119, PB: 6, Throw: Fr.

- Raul Gonzalez was given range and error ratings in center field. Those ratings should have been given for left field instead.

- three player salaries are incorrectly listed. Trace Coquillette's salary should be 202. Tony Batista's salary should be 1400. And Chan Ho Park's salary should be 3850. (If you're not doing anything with the salary data, you can ignore these changes.)

The easiest way to make these corrections is to use the player modification feature of the game. Here's how:

1. Choose View > Organizer to open the Organizer window
2. Click on the Players tab
3. Scroll down to the player and click once to select him
4. Click on the Modify button
5. From the popup menu, choose the information you wish to modify. For ratings changes, choose Ratings. For salary changes, choose General player info.
6. When the modify window displays, make the change and click on OK

Schedule correction

Cleveland played two different opponents on September 25th. If a home team plays two games on the same day, those game need to be differentiated by a game number (1 for the team's first game of the day, 2 for the team's second game of the day). These game numbers were not included in the original 2000 season disk schedule, and it is important that they be added now.

If you try to edit the 2000 schedule, perhaps to add post-season games, you won't be allowed to save that schedule without adding game numbers for those two Cleveland games. And if you have already played those games, you won't be allowed to add those game numbers because you cannot edit scheduled games that have already been completed. So you're stuck unless you add the game numbers for those two Cleveland games before playing those games.

We strongly recommend that anyone using the real-life 2000 schedule take a moment to add game numbers for these two games. It will only take a minute, and you'll only need to do this once. Here's how:

- open the Organizer window, click on the Schedules tab, and double-click on the Inter-League schedule to open the schedule editor

- scroll down to the games on September 25, then use the Modify command to change the game number for each of the Cleveland games. Enter a game number of 1 for the game against Chicago and 2 for the game against Minnesota.

- save the schedule

Manager profile correction

The manager profile for St. Louis has Mark McGwire listed as a utility player at second base, shortstop, and left field. He didn't actually play those positions, but he shows up in the profile because he was listed in the starting lineup at those positions in several road games last year. Because his injury didn't permit him to play defense, he was used as a hitter in the top of the first inning and was immediately replaced by the regular 2B/SS/LF when his team took the field in the bottom of the first. Nevertheless, he was listed as the starter at those positions for those games, so our manager profile generator allocated him an appropriate percentage of the starts at those positions. We recommend that you take a moment to remove him from those utility roles if you plan to autoplay the season or have the computer manager choose the starting lineups for any St. Louis games.

You may already have some or all of these changes

Depending on when you purchased your copy of this season disk, you may already have some of the corrections. We made the correction to Fick's ratings about a week after we began shipping the 2000 Season Disk. The Coquillette salary correction was made in mid-January. The other player changes were made in early February. The changes to the 2000 schedule were made May 4th. The manager profile changes were made May 11th. Each time, we updated our master copy of the 2000 Season Disk so any new shipments would include these changes.