Version 8B Patch

Last updated: April 25, 2001

This page summarizes the changes that were made in this patch. Because a more recent patch is available, there is no longer any need for you to download the version 8B patch. The latest version 8 patch includes everything that was in this one. In other words, you need only install the latest patch to get all of the enhancements and corrections that have been made since version 8 began shipping in December, 2000.

For general information on downloading and installing version 8 patches, and for links to pages describing the changes in other patches that have been released to date, please see the Version 8 Patches page.

Enhancements in the version 8B patch

- the Team vs Team report has been added

- when exporting a league database at the beginning of a play cycle, you now have the option to export all boxscores or only those boxscores that have been added since the last play cycle, thus providing a way to reduce the size of the transfer files for leagues that share all of their boxscores

- when importing players from another database, the game now displays each player's full name and affiliation; previously, only the last name was shown, making it difficult to know whether you were choosing the right player

- the injury log editor and transaction editor windows now remember their size and location and are automatically restored to those positions when next accessed

Bugs fixed in the version 8B patch

The following list describes most of the corrections that have been made in this patch. In addition to these items, we have also cleaned up a few other things that have been reported by only a few customers, such as making sure the tab sequence on certain dialogs is correct, handling some error conditions more gracefully, correcting minor problems with some reports, and fixing a few glitches in the play-by-play commentary.

- it was possible to cause the game to skip a batter by pressing the 2, 3 or H keys at a time when the game was NOT asking you where to throw the ball; these keys are now processed only when they are supposed to be

- for catchers who are used very heavily (140+ starts per season), the catcher fatigue system was causing them to tire a little too quickly

- when playing league games using the Injury rule of "Injury Rating", the game is supposed to limit any single injury to the number of games that player missed in real life. This limit was not being correctly enforced, so players were sustaining longer injuries than they should.

- the computer manager was not inserting platoon pinch hitters as often as it should. (Please keep in mind that if you are using the "Limit bench playing time" rule for your league, the computer manager won't use a platoon pinch hitter who is ahead of his playing time pace for the year. So if you see a situation where a pinch hitter seems to be called for but wasn't used, this might be the reason.)

- the computer manager was not inserting defensive subs as often as it should

- we corrected three bugs related to the bullpen warmup rule. Pitchers who were warmed up at the beginning of an inning were taking one batter too long to be ready. It was possible to warm up more than two relievers. And the time needed to warm up was being incorrectly determined for pitchers who had warmed up previously in the same game.

- previously, the Backup command would exclude certain DMB files if those files were being used by open DMB windows; now, you are instructed to close all open windows before making a backup, thus ensuring that the backup file includes everything you need to completely restore the database later

- we corrected an error in the formula for computing Secondary Average

- previously, it was impossible to create a pitcher who had more than 2000 batters faced; certain 19th century pitchers faced more batters than that, so we have raised the limit accordingly

- we corrected an error that was sometimes preventing hitting streak information from being updated correctly when importing statistics. Note that if your league is compiling game-by-game statistics, you can use the "Update streaks and usage" command on the Transfer menu to recreate those streaks from the game logs at any time.