The APBA Organization
Transfer Wizard will help you transfer an organization from one data disk to
another. While the most likely scenario is moving from one year to the next, there
is nothing to prevent you from moving organizations between any two seasons where there is
an overlap in the players available. This easy-to-use utility will make it simple to
handle moving between years in draft leagues with keepers, or replaying seasons keeping
players in their original organizations.
This utility only works
with DOS disks at the moment. It expects to find the data disks in a directory with a name
ending in .DDR. It also expects to find a year.dat file containing the year of the
data disk.
Here's how to use the
utility:
The first time you use the
APBA Organization Transfer Wizard, you will be asked to pick the directory that is the
parent directory for your DOS data disks. If you are playing the DOS computer game,
this directory will normally be C:\BB\GAME. The program will look for your data disks in
this directory in the future.
The first step is to
select which data disk you want to transfer from. Select the data disk by clicking
with your mouse or by using the up and down arrow keys to select a data disk. Press
"Next" to move to the next step. Select which disk you want to transfer to
from the list or remaining data disks. If the data disk you select isn't the year
following the data disk you are transferring from, a warning message will appear. A
data disk can have six (6) organizations on it at most. If the target disk does not
have a free organization slot, the program will be unable to transfer to that year.
Draft 2.0 can delete an organization to free space if required.
Next pick the organization
you want to transfer and press "Next". The program will match all players
whose names are spelled the same on both data disks. You will see a list of names
from each disk. You can now pick a name from each disk to match it up. For
instance, if one disk lists "GRIFFEY, Ken Jr." and the next lists "GRIFFEY,
Ken", you can tell the program that these are really the same player. Similar
situations occur when a player changes how he wishes to be called (e.g. Joey to Albert
Belle), an initial is added to distinguish a player from another with the same first and
last name (e.g. Pedro A. and Pedro J. Martinez), or a player has a fake name due to not
being in the Player's Association (e.g. Rich Loiselle/Frankie Nina*). Once you have
matched up all the players, you can save the list out for later use. If lists are
created, they can be shared by copying the file to the source directory. (The list
for moving from the 1996 data disk to the 1997 data disk will be stored in 1996.ddr as
To1997.s96.)
Press "Next" to
move to the final step. Enter the new name for the organization. If you want
to transfer another organization between the same years, check the appropriate box to
return to step 3. Press "Finish" and the organization will be transferred
to the target disk. All players will be set up on the same teams in the new
organization. Any lineups will be transferred as well. If a player isn't
available in the target year because he isn't on the target disk, a blank will appear in
his former spot.
If you have VB6 run-times
and Internet Explorer 4.0 on your machine, download this:
If you get the first
download, just unzip it to a directory. The second file contains a full install
which will create a Start Menu shortcut for the program.