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Appendix C

Sample Ratios

You can create more than 500 ratios to use in your list requests.
Here are some to try.

Batting

batting average................................................................

 

BA or H/AB

home run frequency ...............................................................

 HR/AB

runs scored frequency...............................................................

 R/AB

RBI frequency ........................................................................

 AB/RBI

RBI percentage ......................................................................

 RBI/AB

triple frequency........................................................................

 3B/AB

double frequency.....................................................................

 2B/AB

stolen base frequency .............................................................

 SB/AB

Pitching

earned run average ....................................................................

 ERA

won-lost ratio ...............................................................................

 W/L

strikeout frequency ...................................................................

 SO/IP

walk frequency .........................................................................

 BB/IP

strikeout to walk ratio..............................................................

 SO/BB

strikeout to hit ratio ....................................................................

 SO/H

Biographical

Home runs per pound ............................................................

 HR/WT

Runs batted in per pound ......................................................

 RBI/WT

Strikeouts per inch .................................................................

 SO/HT

Summary of Contents for HRS-100

Page 1: ...atistics 10 Single Season Totals 10 League Standings 11 World Series Results 12 Making Requests With MAX and MIN 13 Best and Worst Ever List Requests 13 Requests With Ratios 14 Requests With Numeric Limits 15 Requests With Team and Year Limits 17 Requests With Qualifiers 18 Typing Requests at the Request Line 19 Appendixes 20 Troubleshooting Guide 20 Statistical Categories 21 Sample Ratios 22 Limi...

Page 2: ...ar and Cy Young Award winners and the Hall of Fame players Find team statistics such as single season batting and pitching totals individual player statistics won lost records over many years and league standings Find winning and losing World Series teams as well as games played Make your own list requests to find all time bests and worsts in 23 statistical categories Focus and fine tune your requ...

Page 3: ...rrent screen Other Keys ____________________________________________________________________ A to Z Type letters player and team names as well as commands Limiters and Qualifiers Backspace Erases characters in the Request line End Zooms to the last line in a list Enter Starts searches for statistical lists Escape Pressed once it returns screen to the Request line Pressed twice it clears the Reques...

Page 4: ...n Big League Baseball In that case before installing Big League Baseball you should disable the memory resident program ____________________________________________________________________ 1 Insert Disk 1 into drive A or B 2 At the DOS prompt type A or B 3 Type HRSETUP 4 Press the Enter key You re asked to select a drive 5 Press the up and down arrow keys to select a drive 6 Press the Enter key Yo...

Page 5: ...type or enter next Beneath the Request line is the Request menu It displays the requests you can make You ll learn about them later At the bottom is the Function Key line It tells which function keys you can press Adjusting the Display Color You can select the best background color for the display by pressing F9 Monochrome and some color monitors work best at the monochrome setting _______________...

Page 6: ...hows you a batter s battings statistics and a pitcher s pitching statistics To see the player s other statistics if any press F5 ____________________________________________________________________ Let s find a player s career statistics 1 On the Request menu highlight Player Statistics 2 At the Request line type a player s name Press the spacebar to type a space between his first and last names 3...

Page 7: ..._____________________ 1 At the Request menu press the arrow keys to highlight Hall of Famers HOF and then press the Enter key If you like you can type HOF directly on the Request line instead 2 Press the Enter key again You see the Hall of Fame players 3 Press the page down key You move down the list screen by screen If you want to move up the list press the page up key To zoom to the beginning or...

Page 8: ...te The Most Valuable Player Awards began in 1931 the Rookie of the Year Award in 1947 and the Cy Young Award in 1957 ________________________________________________________ 1 At the Request Menu press the down arrow key to highlight Awards 2 Press the Enter key If you like you can type AW directly on the Request line instead 3 Type a year 4 Press F1 or the Enter key You see the award winners for ...

Page 9: ...rs may take a few minutes ________________________________________________________ 1 At the Request menu highlight Rookies by Year 2 Type a year For this example try 1876 3 Press F1 or the Enter key You see career statistics for the first rookie listed for that year For batters you see batting statistics For pitchers you see pitching statistics If you want to see if the batters have pitching stati...

Page 10: ...n see career statistics for any player on the team Just highlight the player s name and then press the Enter key ____________________________________________________________________ 1 On the Requests menu press the down arrow key to highlight Team Statistics 2 Type a team name or city 3 Press the space bar once 4 Type a year 5 Press F1 or the Enter key You see the team and individual battings stat...

Page 11: ...ll always include statistics for the terminal years In other words 1945 includes statistics from 1945 and 1900 includes statistics for the1900 season ________________________________________________________ 1 At the Request line type AL or NL Or press the down arrow key to highlight a league on the Requests menu and then press the Enter key 2 Type a year or year range For this example try 1991 Be ...

Page 12: ...ics for the World Series Also League Championship Series are not recorded ________________________________________________________ 1 At the Request menu press the down arrow to select World Series WS 2 Press the Enter key 3 Type a year or year range For this example type 1922 or just 22 If you do you see WS 1922 at the Request line 4 Press F1 or the Enter key You see the Series results If you type...

Page 13: ...manual you ll learn how to focus your requests with Limiters and fine tune them with Qualifiers ____________________________________________________________________ 1 At the Request menu press the down arrow key to highlight Maximum MAX Then press the Enter key You see MAX at the Request line You also see the Statistics and Qualifiers menus 2 Press the right arrow key You see the Batting Statistic...

Page 14: ...1 On the Request menu press the down arrow key to highlight Maximum MAX Then press the Enter key 2 On the Statistics menu press the down arrow key to highlight Pitching Statistic 3 Press the right arrow key You see the Pitching Statistics menu 4 On the Pitching Statistics menu press the down arrow key to highlight a statistical category Then press the Enter key For this example select Strikeouts S...

Page 15: ... LT 100 Remember that the numeric Limiter must be preceded by its own statistic For example MAX HR GT 30 is not a valid request But MAX HR HR GT 30 is Note You can type or enter no more than two numeric Limiters in a list request For example MIN BA HR GT 30 SLG GT 400 SB LT 50 is not a valid request because it contains three numeric Limiters ________________________________________________________...

Page 16: ...d now display MAX SO IP IP GT 3000 This request asks for the pitchers with the most strikeouts per innings pitched MAX SO IP who have pitched greater than 3000 innings IP GT 3000 8 Press F1 or the Enter key You see the most efficient strikeout throwing starters in baseball 9 When you re done press the Escape key twice ...

Page 17: ...ote You can use only one team and one year Limiter in a list Request You can however use the numeric Limiters GT and LT with team and year Limiters in your requests _________________________________________________________________ 1 At the Request line type MAX W MAX W asks for the all time winningest pitchers 2 Press the space bar once 3 Type DODGERS 1980 89 Be sure to leave no spaces around the ...

Page 18: ...imum MAX 2 Press the right arrow key You see the Batting Statistics menu 3 At the Batting Statistics menu highlight Slugging Percentage Then press the Enter key The Request lineshould now display MAX SLG 4 On the Focus Your Request menu highlight Select Qualifier s 5 Press the right arrow key The highlight bar should now be in the Qualifiers menu You select Qualifiers by pressing the arrow keys to...

Page 19: ...st You can type only one team and one year Limiter in a request You can combine numeric team and year Limiters You can type as many Qualifiers as you like in any order You can also type requests that begin with AW for Awards or WS for World Series Simply type a space and year after them For example AW 1990 or WS 1903 You ll learn more these requests later in this manual ___________________________...

Page 20: ...e Enter key I see a Bad Request message 4 Make sure that you type a space between every element of your requests between the command and the statistic or ratio between the statistic or ratio and the Limiters and Qualifiers 5 My lists have no well known players in them 5 You probably have entered a request with a ratio in which the denominator is not limited by GT or LT GT and LT limit the range of...

Page 21: ...ng AB at bats BA batting average HR home runs RBI runs batted in H hits 3B triples 2B doubles R runs scored SB stolen bases TB total bases SLG slugging percentage Pitching IP innings pitched ERA earned run average W wins L losses SV saves ER earned runs BB walks SO strikeouts H hits allowed Biographical HT height WT weight AGE age Note HT and WT provide career averages ...

Page 22: ...d frequency R AB RBI frequency AB RBI RBI percentage RBI AB triple frequency 3B AB double frequency 2B AB stolen base frequency SB AB Pitching earned run average ERA won lost ratio W L strikeout frequency SO IP walk frequency BB IP strikeout to walk ratio SO BB strikeout to hit ratio SO H Biographical Home runs per pound HR WT Runs batted in per pound RBI WT Strikeouts per inch SO HT ...

Page 23: ...SS single season bests and worsts only QUAL players who qualify for league leader lists P pitchers only use only after H HT WT or AGE BR BL BS bats right bats left or switch hitter only TR or TL throws right or left only HOF or NHOF only Hall of Fame players or not AL or NL American or National League only Notes 1 You can use as many Qualifiers in your list requests as you like and in any order 2 ...

Page 24: ...least 1 5 megabytes of free space on a hard disk drive a monochrome or color monitor Search and Retrieval Technology The HR 61 features Franklin s proprietary search and retrieval technology spelling correction and user interface Copyrights 1991 Peter Palmer All rights reserved Programs screens displays are copyrighted by Franklin Electronic Publishers Inc 1992 Franklin Electronic Publishers Inc A...

Page 25: ...ust at the same time either transfer all copies whether in printed or machine readable form to the same party or destroy any copies not transferred 4 Restrictions Against Copying or Modifying the Licensed Product The Licensed Product is copyrighted and may not be further copied without the prior written approval of FRANKLIN except that YOU may make one copy for backup purposes provided YOU reprodu...

Page 26: ...gram is provided as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose The entire risk as to the quality and performance of their program is with YOU Should the program prove defective YOU and not FRANKLIN assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing repair or correction Some s...

Page 27: ... Limiters function of 15 17 GT and LT 15 list of 23 team and year 17 List requests structure 19 MVP award winners 8 Page up and page down keys 3 Pitching statistics 20 also finding by player 6 finding by team 10 use of P as a Qualifier 23 Players names misspellings 6 options 6 Q Z Qualifiers function of 18 list of 23 using in requests 18 19 Ratios list of sample ratios 22 illegal ratios 14 Right h...

Page 28: ...rs with the most career home runs To limit your requests to a statistical range In your requests type or enter a statistic to limit GT or LT and a number limit MAX HR BA LT 225 ENTER This requests asks for players with the most career home runs who have career batting averages less than 225 BA LT 225 To fine tune your requests In your requests type or enter other Limiters and Qualifiers MAX HR BR ...

Page 29: ... Version ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Software Version HRS 100 HRS 100 HRS 100 User s Manual and Quick Reference Guide User s Manual and Quick Reference Guide Franklin Electronic Publishers Mount Holly NJ 08060 P N 9801780 Printed in the USA ...

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