1.) Fill in how many wins and loses the players team has during the current season
2.) Fill in �First Year� if the player was a Rookie within the last 5 years, and fill in �Second Year� if the player was in his second year five years ago
3.) Click on the link at the top of the sheet to access MLB.com (must be connected to the internet), search by the players last name, and then copy the past three years of that player�s stats
a.) if the player was traded in a previous year, his statistics for that year will be split for each team. If this is the case you will need to use the Reduction Tool to combine those two stat lines into the one year. Once you have done this:
4.) Return to the Program and paste the stats you just copied on that Red Box in the upper left hand corner of the STAT SET. The steps I just listed are actually more complex to read and write then the steps actually required to fill in the proper data, it�s quite easy once you get the hang of it. Again, if help is needed, just ask.
Just so you are all aware of how the program works once the data is entered by you. Basically it filters all the data through a process and figures out three categories � 1.) Total Fantasy Points Earned � 2.) Total Games Played � 3.) Total Possible Games Played (over a 162 game season). Once the program has figured out this data, it then adjusts for such factors as, whether or not the player was a rookie, or second year player at any point within the last three years; whether or not the player (if a pitcher) switched from a reliever to a starter or a starter to reliever, and whether or not the player is in the middle of a season. These things all adjust the �Total Possible Games Played.� Once this has been adjusted, the program calculates the price.
APPENDIX (added 04.12.2007): In the event that a pitcher has pitched as both a starter and a reliever the following set of circumstances will determine whether to price the player as a starter or as a reliever. 1.) If the player has pitched more than 75% of his games as one or the other, than the player will be charged as that regardless of what he is currently listed as. 2.) If the division between starter and reliever is less than 75% whichever price is HIGHER must be used.