Norwood Career Database
Norwood Career Database, an essential tool to fans of Baseball for Windows
What is the Norwood Career Database (NCD)? The Norwood Career Database is an application that works with statistical records from the “Baseball For Windows”© product, or with manually entered (via Excel) data, and is oriented to multi-year record keeping. It provides the user with a means of collecting multiple years worth of statistical data from BBW's StatMaster, and querying that data in many ways.
There are two components to the NCD: the Importer program (a.k.a. BBW2ACC2K.EXE), and the Access Database (a.k.a. BBEMPTY.MDB).
The Importer
The Importer is the program that actually does the job of examining the BBW files and then placing data into the NCD. The Importer is not intended to be executed separately; instead, you indirectly invoke it from within the NCD Main Menu via the “Import BBW Data” button on the main menu.There are two choices for downloading the Importer. If you’ve never previously installed the Importer, you’ll first need to download the "Full Setup" package and run the setup. This is one-time only. For later versions of the program, just download the “Program Only”. See below for installation instructions.
The Access Database
If you have Access 2000+ installed on your PC, you only need to download the “Database Only” file.If you have only Access 97, it is uncertain what it will do to your Access version if you ask for and install the Access 2000 Runtime.
If you don’t have ANY versions of Access, you can contact Phil Murray at bbwfan928 at comcast.net and arrange for a run-time only installation CD for Access 2000. A small fee, about $3, for materials and postage will be requested. Warning, install this only if you do not have Access 97 or later on your system. If you already have the A97 runtime, consider 'removing' it through normal Windows procedures. After Access 2000 runtime is in place, download the latest version of NCD from below.
Guidelines for downloading:| Access 2000 runtime setup | Contact Phil Murray if you don't already have Access. |
| NCD Database Only | Norwood Career Database V4.13a (3/05/2008 - Database Only - @4,000 KB) in Access 2000 format. |
| Importer Setup |
Companion Importer Program (Full Setup 1,958K). You only need this one time; afterwards just keep current by downloading the Importer-only item. |
Importer Only
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Companion Importer Program V2.00.7 (Program Only - 260 KB) |
Documentation and Sample:
- Download NCDDocs4.02.zip for the documentation in Microsoft Word format.
- Download ALAN.zip for the sample database with Alan Berger replay data. About 12 MB.