Dombrov Baseball Program Update

Important! The program update should only be used if the game is already installed on the computer being updated.

If you have already installed Dombrov Baseball Sim you can download the program update using the button below. If you haven't installed the game then one of the following should be done first; either with the Purchased Download Edition or by Purchasing the CD. It also applies to the Free Edition.

Be sure to select the correct download for the computer where it is being installed (Windows or macOS).

Dombrov Baseball Sim - Program Update for Windows

Updated March 26, 2024. Download file size: 139 MB

Click the button below to download the program update for Dombrov Baseball Sim 2024 Windows. Save the setup file to a typical download folder, making note of where the file was saved.

Note: The program update should only be used if Dombrov Baseball Sim has already been installed on your computer.

Double-click the saved file to run the setup program, following the installation steps shown on the screen.

Note: If prompted by Windows security message, click More Info, then click Run Anyway to install the Dombrov Baseball Sim program/package.

It is highly recommended that you install the program into the default folder destination that is provided by the setup program. (C:Program Files/Dombrov Baseball Sim)

Dombrov Baseball Sim - Program Update for macOS

Updated March 26, 2024. Download file size: 119 MB

Click the button below to download the program update for Dombrov Baseball Sim 2024 macOS. Save the setup file to a typical download folder, making note of where the file was saved.

Note: The program update should only be used if Dombrov Baseball Sim has already been installed on your computer.

The saved file is a disk image file (DMG) used for the macOS installation. Double-click the DMG file to run the installation program, using the following steps.

Note: For most macOS users the disk image will appear on the desktop. It may be necessary to double-click the disk image icon.

From the disk image folder, Drag and Drop the Dombrov Baseball Sim icon to Applications folder. This will copy the program to your macOS Applications folder.

From the disk image folder, Drag and Drop the Help folder to the Dombrov Baseball Sim folder. This will copy Help file updates from this update so that they can be used with the updated Dombrov Baseball Sim application.

Note: If you are not able to use the drag and drop steps listed above on the Mac here are some alternative steps to copy the Dombrov Baseball Sim update to your Mac computer.

From the disk image folder, right-click the Dombrov Baseball Sim icon and select Copy. Then double-click the Applications icon, right-click and then select Paste Item.

From the disk image folder, right-click the Help folder and select Copy. Then double-click the Dombrov Baseball Sim Folder icon, right-click and then select Paste Item.

Dombrov Baseball Sim Release Notes

Version 2024 Build 482 (inclusive of Builds 462-482)

Improvements were made to the game play animation, especially with hesitation that sometimes occurred during ball movement. Also, reduced possibility of erratic ball movement for some play results.

Additionally, animation is improved for certain play results during game play, with additional updates pending in future program updates.
Fixed the animation for a HBP result during game play.
Enhancement: improved granularity between standard and full screen display during game play.
Enhancement: added option to minimize select objects on screen when using full screen mode during game play. This provides better visibility of the play result animation, and minimized objects can still be displayed by hovering mouse over the object thumbnail.

Improved the placement of screen objects on the game play screen, especially with Team Chart or Player Card modes.
Corrected the display of vsL and vsR columns for batters when using Player Card mode for game play.
Fixed the game flow to indicate a strikeout when consecutive 2K results (foul) occur with a bunt attempt.
Improved placement of manual dice dropdown when using this option during game play.
Fixed display of game play screen when returning from the Settings screen. This was primarily applicable to macOS.
Made tweaks/fixes to the Import Teams function on the Profile tab from the League Rules/Setting screen.
Corrected the error handling process with the Import Retrosheet Schedules function on the Scheduler tab from the League Rules/Setting screen.
Fixed error handling process for various other functions, i.e., team lineup errors during Quick Play and displaying Reports.
Slightly increased size of the player list on the Game Lineups screen for pitchers or position players to alleviate truncation issues on some computer models.
Added a Pitcher Type column (starter or reliever) when listing available pitchers from the Game Lineups screen.
Minor enhancement – display the position that made a fielding error when an Error play result occurs during game play.
Improvements and minor enhancements to the Import Teams from Excel screen, including optional support for certain ratings, i.e., BB/SO, Pitcher Stamina, etc.
Corrections made to screens for viewing Team Charts, Probability Charts, Statistics, when clicking the View buttons from various screens in the program.
Better handling of lineup errors that occur when using Quick Play for a range of scheduled games.
Updated the function to import Retrosheet schedules, from the Scheduler tab on the Leagues/Season Tools screen to a somewhat more streamlined process.
Added new Getting Started and About Dombrov Baseball sections to Help files.
Added information for the optional add-on rules to the Legacy Docs Help section. These options are set from the Rules/Settings tab on the Leagues/Season Tools screen.

Improvements and clarifications were added to various Help sections throughout the program.
Made corrections to the content of the Normalization Dropdown menu used when importing Lahman data during the Create Season Workflow.
Ensure that DH is properly applied when DH Rule for Entire League is set from the Rules/Settings tab on the League/Season Tools screen.
Ensure that pitcher fielding stats get collected when importing teams/players from the Lahman database.
Include all active roster players when perusing the team for a specific position from either the Game Lineups screen or the Lineups tab on the Team Management screen.

Made a correction to determining starting pitcher name while importing scheduled lineups from RetroSheet (only happened in certain conditions).
Revised the diagnostic message that occurs if an unexpected application error occurs from the program (hopefully a very rare event).
Added a ding sound to various error or warning messages throughout the program.
Improved the handling of displaying various errors or warning messages throughout the program.
Improved screen navigation in various places throughout the program.
Improved the process of assigning teams to leagues or divisions during the Create Season workflow.
Added flexibility/functionality for making changes to League or Division alignments within existing seasons from the Profile and Leagues/Divisions tabs in the League/Season Tools screen.

Added ability to paste data into text field screens throughout the program.
Ensure that the program accepts the enter (return) key whether the standard keyboard or keypad is used.
Fixed a bug with the Reports screen where it was sometimes not returning to correct previous screen.
Added a warning prompt when entering the Player Data tab and the Active Season is a chart only season (i.e. doesn’t use actual player statistics).
Added a warning prompt when entering the Player Lahman Import flow and the Active Season is a chart only season (i.e. doesn’t use actual player statistics).
Clear data fields when toggling between batting and pitching data in the Player Data screen.
Enhancement! Added a Print button to Help pages (Windows only).
Enhancement! Added a Print button to the Reports screens (Windows only).

Version 2023 Build 461 (inclusive of Builds 444-461)

Enhancement – new feature! Added tournament setup for 6 or 12 teams. This allows the tourney to have first-round byes (2 bye teams or 4 bye teams, depending on number of tournament teams).

Added option to the Rules/Settings tab from the League/Season Tools screen to activate the Automatic (Ghost) Runner during extra inning play.

Added option to the Rules/Settings tab from the League/Season Tools screen to allow the starting pitcher to also be the starting DH. (Shohei Ohtani rule). The player can stay in the game as DH even if they are no longer the pitcher.

Added option to the Rules/Settings tab from the League/Season Tools screen to set a minimum batters faced for all pitchers – the value can be one to five.

Made applicable changes to the Lineups and Game Play when the settings above are active for the Active Season.
Made corrections to Tournament Setup, especially when the setup screen is called after completion of all scheduled games for a season.
Fixed Bug with tournament setup for two-team tournaments.
Enhancement – added option to indicate one or four player cards per worksheet with the Export Player Cards function (Called from the View Player Cards screen and is available from several different screens in the game.

Improvements made to game play animation, more so to full screen game play but also applies to standard Game Play screen.
Made minor modifications to distribution of hit cells for batters to generate slightly more Doubles and HR results during the Create Season workflow (importing Lahman data).

Made minor modifications to pitchers to generate slightly more BB and SO results during the Create Season workflow (importing Lahman data).
Fixes/improvements made to Game Play screen on animation for some specific plays, i.e., stolen base attempts, and plays involving middle of the field (P, 2B, SS and CF).

Various fixes/improvements made to toggle between standard display and full screen display from the Game Play screen.
Improvements made to Color Picker functions from the Settings and Preferences screen to the Game Play and Screen Settings tabs.
Improvements made to Color Picker functions from the Team Management/Profile screen to the Profile tab.
Fixed display issues (truncation) that was occurring from some display modes in various places on the Settings/Preferences screen.
Corrected display issues from the Lineup tab from the Team Management/Profile screen.
Resolved truncation issues from various places from the Player Editor screen.
Ensure that the correct result chances are shown from the Editor tab on the Player Editor screen when toggling vs Left and vs Right (appliable to Batters).

Improved formatting of cells when exporting Team Charts to Excel (i.e., when the cell is a numeric value).
Improved formatting of cells when exporting Player Cards to Excel (i.e., when the cell is a numeric value).
Made minor corrections to exporting player cards to Excel, mostly for pitchers.
Fixed bug with Trade Player function from the Roster tab on the Team Management/Profile screen, where the trade wasn’t saved if the Active Season didn’t have Lahman data.

Ensure that the P checkbox gets checked when a pitcher is selected from the Game Lineups screen (it wasn’t set correctly for games where the DH is being used).

Do not show the lineup slot of P from the lineup slot dropdown on the Game Lineups screen unless the position selected is a Pitcher (applicable for games where the DH is being used).

Set a more visible text color when a row is selected on the lineup grids from the Game Lineups screen.
Set a more visible text color when a row is selected on the lineup grids from the Game Play screen.
Shift the Home Lineups grid slightly to the left from the Game Play screen.

Version 2022 Build 443 (inclusive of Builds 430-443)

Enhancement – changes made to ensure better screen fit and alleviate truncation on computers using larger display scale than default setting. Noticeable in a few screens but especially during Game Play.

Enhancement – added option to export player cards to Excel from the View Player Cards screen, available from several different screens in the game.

Enhancement – added option to save box scores and score sheets to Excel format.
Enhancement – added option to export tournament results to Excel format.
For macOS users, a one-time process when starting the game to move all Dombrov Baseball Sim data to a new location (User/Library/Application Support). This was done to resolve permissions issues for some users at the old location.

Fixed intermittent bug that sometimes-displayed wrong player labels when batting and fielding teams changing during half-inning. The bug mostly appeared when going from visitor team batting to home team batting, although the reverse was also possible.

Made fixes to Import Season to correct an error that seemed to occur primarily with seasons where RetroSheet splits data was available.
Improved display of lineup grids from Game Play screen when using Team Chart or Player Card mode. (Lineup grids with Player Card mode only available if computer is using the standard display scale).

Improved process for associating Year Effect data with a Normalization Data range. (i.e., ensures that a 1968 Year Effect is easily associated with the Normalization Data for that era).

Fixed errors that sometimes occurred when using the Restore Season function on the League Tools tab.
Enhanced the player’s name-matching criteria when importing RetroSheet lineups into a team or season, resulting in a few more players being included from RetroSheet lineups.

Modified the Ballpark editor and Year Effect editor to use a chart click to indicate which result cell is being changed (much better accuracy than the previously used drop-down menu).

Enhanced push button appearance on the League Rules and Tournament Setup screens.
Improved processing when building website for a season, especially noticeable when there are lots of game results, i.e., when more than half of a season has been played.

Ensure that all available ratings are shown when using Player Card view for batters or pitchers.
Changed Game Results tab on the Reports screen to use computer default to view a box score or score sheet. So an HTML result file will use the computer default browser, or an Excel result file will use the Excel app or a default viewer if present.

The Tourney Setup screen was adjusted to ensure that all tournament variations are shown without truncation on rounds further into the tournament.

Updated Player Images to use a 96 DPI to ensure display consistency for different places where the image file is used. This update is included with the Image Files installation.

Version 2022 Build 429 (inclusive of Builds 417-429)

Enhancement – new major feature! Added tournament functions, including tourney setup for 2, 4, 8, or 16 teams. Double-elimination available with 4 or 8 team tournaments. Can be used concurrently while a regular season is in progress. Note: this is considered phase I of tournament play features.

Enhancement – post-season play! A new workflow for setting up a post-season tournament at completion of the regular season schedule. (Related to new tournament features as noted above).

Improved formatting of reports and building websites for your season by use of CSS style sheets on HTML pages.
Added options for setting reports colors and text (font) size.
Added option for type of box score to generate (condensed or expanded).
Program will use separate folders for scheduled games vs. tournament or post-season games, i.e., Reports/ReportsT, Game Results/Game ResultsT, Website/WebSiteT).

Modified the tab/report names on the League Reports screen based on whether the Active Season is playing in scheduled games mode or tournament mode.

Fixed scenarios where save wasn’t being credited to relief pitcher. This was mostly applicable to long-relief scenarios.
Ensure that an AB is tabulated when batter reaches based on a fielding error.
Fixed column 39 cell when manually creating (or editing) pitcher results on the Player Editor tab.
Fixed various walk-off win scenarios, including scoring and updating of batter/pitcher stats from the walk-off event.
Fixed baserunner results where a fielding error occurred on a SB attempt. (This is the white E result on legacy charts). Baserunner should be safe in these scenarios although doesn’t get credited with SB.

Fixed baserunner results where a fielding error occurred on a Manager Decision attempt. (This is the white E result on legacy charts). Baserunner should be safe in these scenarios.

Ensure that player gets assigned to correct league when being added to a team, either via import or manually created. This is mostly to ensure that league leaders get reported correctly.

Modified program so that play result of H or HBP mean the same thing on player charts/cards.
Fixed certain message prompts that were missing player names, i.e., mostly pertaining to confirmation messages for Computer Manager lineup changes.

Do not allow apostrophe (‘) when creating a new season name. (In accordance with Windows/macOS conventions for file names on their respective OS).

Fixed display on Scheduled Games screen to show next game date after completing a range of Quick Play games.
Removed Twitter link on About box and replaced with link to Dombrov Baseball forum on Delphi.