Topic:  MySchedule MLB 2003 By: Toysoft, Inc. Date: 26/03/2003
	MySchedule MLB 2003 By: Toysoft, Inc. This weekend is the beginning of this year’s major league baseball season here in America. Many folks here and abroad sit in eager anticipation of hearing our national Anthem followed by the umpire yelling, "Play Ball!" Still others can’t wait for the taste of that $2.00 hot dog or bag of peanuts that somehow tastes better when eaten in the stadium watching your favorite team. Yes, springtime is here and, just like years past, it brings us a lot of new things. New faces on the team, new schedules, and a fresh race to the play-offs and World Series. How can we keep track of it all? Toysoft, the developer of MyWorkbench, has come to the rescue with mySchedule and their MLB 2003 database. (They also offer databases for the NFL and NHL.) This program, still being tweaked in preparation of this years season, is a comprehensive yet surprisingly easy to use database of all the information you need to know about any or all of the major league teams – all conveniently stored in the palm of your hand. With this simple interface you can access the team schedules and standings for either league. For example, by tapping on the National League schedule you get the next screen from which to choose the team you want. Each team's schedule has it's own file so, even though a menu option will let you move all databases to the memory stick, you only have to load the ones you want to. When you select the icon for the team that you want, that team's schedule is displayed. It doesn't stop there, however. Drop-down options at the bottom will allow you to choose the time zone the schedules are displayed in or move through the schedule by month. Best yet, you can choose to display the schedule, or information on the players, coaches, or even payroll information. (Note: the screen shots shown contain last year's data. This year's data, including the standings, will be updated every week as soon as the season starts.) The statistics on the players is just as thorough. By returning to the main screen and tapping on the "Stats" icon, you can pull up the stats on the top 50 players in each category. I've shown a copy of the Pitching stats to give you an idea of the layout. The screens for the Batting and Fielding are laid out in the same manner. Arrows below the stats allow you to scroll back and forth between literally pages of stats on the players. The information displayed in the stats fields are as follows: Pitching: Player, Team, ERA, Wins, Losses, Saves, Games, Innings Pitched, Hits Allowed, ERA, Runs Allowed, Walks, and Strike-Outs. Batting: Average, Games, At bats, Runs, Hits, Doubles, Triples, Home Runs, RBIs, Strikes, and Walks Fielding: Fielding Percentage, Games Played, Put Outs, Strike Outs The Game Day icon is just that. By tapping on it you will get a list of all the games played that day (at least from the scheudles you loaded) along with their start time and each team's win/loss record. In a release expected very soon you will be able to select a game day of your choice. The program fully supports OS 5 and hi-res screens but will also run on greyscale screens as long as they're using OS 3.0 or above. It uses 180-300k of memory (depending on what databases you choose to load) with the added ability to store the stats and schedules on the MS. It takes a little while for the game Day feature to query all scheduled loadd on the MS but it's worth it to me to save valuable RAM. The program comes in 3 flavors: one for OS5 (including Clie's with OS5) devices, one for Sony Clie Hi-Res devices, and all others. Like I said before, this program has gone through some last minute tweaking but, as you can see, offers everything you need to know about this year's baseball season. Also, the cost is only $14.95 and covers free updates (programs and stats) for the entire season. Wow, what a deal….
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