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MLB 2003 By: Toysoft, Inc. |
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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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