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The K-ForCE v3 tutorial has over 1700 animated screen images. The tutorial takes you through an imaginary fastpitch softball game. The tutorial is broken into six parts.

Pre Game (4-6 minutes): Starting K-ForCE for the first time, registration information, preferences, team information.

Inning 1 (4-6 minutes): Starting lineup, basic scoring, hit charting.

Inning 2 (6-8 minutes): More lineup, scoring hits, RBIs, advancing base runners, earned runs, caught stealing, double play and more.

Inning 3 (4-6 minutes): Ground rule double, unassisted double play, sacrifice bunt, stolen base, sacrifice fly, catcher's obstruction, fielder's choice and more.

Inning 4 (4-6 minutes): Defensive substitution, dropped 3rd strike, wild pitch, wild pitch no stat, intentional walk, mid-inning pitching substitution and more.

Pre Game (4-6 minutes): Starting K-ForCE for the first time, registration information, preferences, team information.

Inning 5 (3-5 minutes): International tie breaker, error on a sacrifice attempt, earned run or unearned, correcting an out comment.

How do I enter a DH for the pitcher?

Enter the batting lineup as you normally would. Then switch your view to the other team's scoresheet. From there select View | Inning Totals. Make sure the horizontal scroll bar is all the way to the left. This is where you enter the pitchers. If a player in the batting order is already the pitcher, (s)he will show up here. If no pitcher is entered in the lineup, here is where you'd enter the non-hitting pitcher. This is also where you make pitching substitutions (whether you are using a DH or not).

Alternate method: you can use the method below to DH for the pitcher as well as any player in the field but not batting.

How do I enter a DH for a player other than the pitcher?

Enter the batting lineup as you normally would. Then for the player being DH'd for, leave a blank spot after the last batter (the 10th batter usually), and enter the non-hitting player after that (as the 11th batter). K-ForCE will see the blank spot and jump to the top of the order when looking for the next batter. But when K-ForCE looks for fielders, the player will be detected; and the correct fielding stats will be generated.

I run Setup for Rakonza K-ForCE but it doesn’t install to my device. What do I do?

Setup interacts with Microsoft ActiveSync to install K-ForCE. There are known issues with older versions of Microsoft ActiveSync and K-ForCE’s setup program. The solution is to upgrade to the latest version of ActiveSync.

Is there a guide to help me if I’ve never scored a game before?

There is a tutorial containing over 1700 screen images. It is focused on how to score using Rakonza F-ForCE; but is a good tutorial for paper scoring as well.

I’ve made a mistake, how do I undo it?

Most scoring in Rakonza K-ForCE can be undone with a single screen tap. If you score a ball when it should have been a strike, tap the area where you scored the last ball and it will be undone. K-ForCE PC Edition contains an undo feature which allows for multiple levels of undo. Just click the undo menu repeatedly to undo multiple scoring mistakes.

I’ve credited 2 RBIs instead of one. How do I undo that?

It is only possible to be credited with 4 RBIs in a single at bat (grand slam home run). So tap RBI 4 more times. The RBI counter will count up to 4 then start over at 0.

Why is it that I can start scoring in the third inning even though I haven’t scored the first or second inning?

We wanted the software to be flexible. We have tried to make is very much like scoring on paper. It’s perfectly OK with the paper scoresheet if you arrive late to the game and start scoring it in the third inning. Of course K-ForCE won’t be able to display the scoreboard properly. And the ‘Batter Up’ feature may get a bit confused at first. But this shouldn’t stop you from scoring the rest of the game.

How do I handle a team that has batted around in an inning?

Tap 'Batter Up' and the inning headers will be updated to indicated two columns for the same inning. Or from the main window, click on the inning column at the top and change the value. For example, if the team bats around in the 4th inning, go to the main window, click on the number 5 at the top, change it to a 4. On PC Edition, right click on the 5 at the top and a menu will popup allowing you to insert a column. The other inning columns will be updated automatically.

What happens if I have more substitution than there is room for?

The scoresheet shows three places for player information (per at bat row). Once the third player is entered on the scoresheet, two small triangles appear. Tap the bottom triangle and the player information scrolls up one space, leaving an empty player row. Enter the fourth player in this new place. You can continue to scroll up and down. There are enough rows to accomodate up to eight players per at bat row.

What is "Batter Count" in the "Substitution Details" dialog box?

It is the number of opposing players who have finished batting in the inning. If the relief pitcher enters the game at the beginning of the defensive part of the inning (in other words, the other team hasn't started batting in the inning yet), this value is zero. If the relief pitcher enters the game after the first batter has already batted, the value is one.

I’m a little league coach and we move players around each inning and substitute a lot. How does K-ForCE deal with that?

K-ForCE does not have a special lineup option for this kind of substitution in little league. But the normal substitution mechanism works OK. There is room for the starting player and eight substitutions. So if you wanted, you could use each player substitution slot for a different inning. And since there are only six innings in little league and a time limit, I doubt you’ll need more than sixteen.

How do I indicate that an inning is over because of a run rule?

Some leagues have rules which cause an inning to be over before three outs are scored. K-ForCE has support for 'last batter'. This indicates to K-ForCE that even though there were not three outs scored for the inning, the inning is over.