Head Office

Head Office is a Macintosh fantasy and pool baseball application that lets the user run a Rotisserie-style fantasy league or a simpler office baseball pool from a single Mac front-end. Written by Mel Patrick of Intergate (British Columbia), it covers the full season-management workflow from drafting through trades, injuries, and weekly stat updates.

About the program

The submission casts Head Office as an effort to deliver "maximum enjoyment with a minimum of effort" for league commissioners. Built-in tools handle free-agent lists, trades, reserving and waiving players, injury reserve, and reactivation, all through a custom user interface designed for the volume of roster operations a Rotisserie season generates.

Stat updates and Quick Stats

The author identifies stat entry as the heaviest time sink in any fantasy-baseball package and addresses it directly: Head Office can either accept manual entry or ingest preformatted Quick Stats baseball files. Once a weekly Quick Stats file is downloaded from the Quick Stats BBS or via the Internet, a full week of league stats can be applied in minutes.

System requirements

The README lists the requirements as "any Macintosh using System 7" plus a printer for league reports. A modem and an external Quick Stats subscription are listed as optional, needed only if the commissioner wants automated stat downloads rather than typing scores in by hand.

Author and provenance

Head Office was written by Mel Patrick (mel@intergate.bc.ca), with a project page at intergate.bc.ca/business/mel/. The submission was offered for inclusion on Info-Mac CD-ROMs. All descriptive text above is taken from the BinHex submission header embedded in head-office-201.hqx; no Macintosh Garden or MobyGames page was located.