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League Standings
5. To view a previous year hold
✩
and press
UP
. To view
the following year’s stand-
ings hold
✩
and press
DN
.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
➤
More About Standings
You can find teams’ won/loss
records and winning percentages
over seasons by entering their
league and a year range.
For example, enter NL 1970-1984.
➤
Bad Requests
If you see the “Bad Request”
message, check the following:
•that you typed correct stat
abbreviations and spaces between
each element in your request.
•that your ratio doesn’t mix batting
and pitching stats or contain a ratio.
•that your request contains no
more than one limiter.
Finding Winners
You can find awards and achievements
with the Total Baseball Encyclopedia.
1. Type one of these requests:
To See....
Select...
World Series Results
WS
All Award Winners
AW
+ year
Hall of Fame Players
HOF
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press
to move down the
list.
4. Press
ENTER
to view a player’s
career stats.
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.
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Adding Qualifiers
Other Qualifiers
You can also narrow your lists by adding
one or more qualifiers to your requests.
Qualifier
Meaning
AL, NL
American or National League
BR, BL, BS bats right, left, or switch
HOF, NHOF Hall of Famers or not
QUAL
qualifier for league leader title
P
pitchers
SS
any single season
TR, TL
throws right or left
1. Press
MAX
or
MIN
, type a stat
or ratio, and then type other
qualifiers.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press the arrows to view more
stats.
4. Press
CLEAR
when done.
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Putting it All Together
To see highly specific lists, add a lim-
iter
and some qualifiers to your re-
quests. You can add a limiter, a team
qualifier, and as many other qualifiers
as make sense up to 48 characters.
Your qualifiers can be in any order.
Advanced list requests often will be
longer than one screen and will pro-
duce a list of fewer than 50 players. In
this example, we’ll find pitchers with
the lowest earned run averages (MIN
ERA), who pitched more than 500 in-
nings (IP GT 500), played for the Cubs
(CUBS), played from 1980 through
1989 (80-89), and threw right-handed
(TR).
1. Type the following request.