Lead Story - 12/17/2025

Off Season Schedule

Update Spreadsheet ✔️
Fire blue blood coaches who do not meet requirements ✔️
Hire new blue blood coaches ✔️
Update blue blood contract status ✔️
Deadline to request redshirt Friday noon EST ✔️

Set draft order (final four followed by blue bloods) ✔️
Close adds ✔️
Add a year to league description ✔️
Move season to historical archive ✔️
Award Team trophy ✔️
Award Team stars (final four, and conf. Champ) ✔️
Award Championship Ring ✔️
Award winners added ✔️
Clear Compiled Stats ✔️
**do not clear team rosters** ✔️
Clear game results and schedule after day 31 ✔️
Make sure users cannot sim ✔️

Run player progressions DO NOT PROGRESS LOW MINUTE PLAYERS ✔️
Note: Stats only adjust if player has at least 720 real-life minutes played.
Retire 22 year old players and NBA bound players ✔️

Create Freshman class ✔️
Import historical players, 50 minimum games played
50 PG, SG, SF, PF, and C
1980 or later, fictional names, C potential

Clear draft rank lists ✔️
Turn on pre-rank three days prior to first draft deadline ✔️

Draft schedule: (slow draft but catch up as scheduled)
Round 1 picks 1-8: 8pm day 1
Round 1 picks 9-16: noon day 2
Round 1 picks 17-24: 8pm day 2
Round 1 picks 25-32: noon day 3
Round 1 picks 33-40: 8pm day 3
Round 1 picks 41-48: noon day 4
Round 1 picks 49-56: 8pm day 4
Round 1 picks 57-64: noon day 5
Flip draft order
Round 2 picks 65-80: noon day 6
Round 2 picks 81-96: 8pm day 6
Round 2 picks 97-112: noon day 7
Round 2 picks 112-128: 8pm day 7
Make sure draft order is still reversed
Turn on drops
Round 3: Supplemental noon EST
Round 4: Supplemental noon EST
Supplemental draft to fill teams to 14 immediately after round 4
Adds open after supplemental draft
Turn on users can sim (Tip off) on opening day
Drops close on opening day which between 8am and 10am EST
Notre: plan to try to keep games at 2 sims/ day and have them fall between 8am-10am and 8pm-10pm Eastern time

League Chat Box

12/8/2025

Sweet Sixteen through Championship

Schedule

Five days of rest ✔️
Round 3 (Sweet Sixteen): Wednesday noon EST ✔️
Round 4 (Elite Eight): Friday noon EST
Five days of rest
Final Four: Sunday noon EST
Championship: Tuesday noon EST

Bracket

12/6/2025

Round one and two schedule

Schedule

Five days of rest ✔️
Round 1: Saturday noon EST ✔️
Round 2: Monday noon EST ✔️

Bracket

11/11/2025

Post season reward lottery

Using the national Powerball lottery red ball on:

Wednesday 12/3 result 26, teams will have a choice

Upgrades are based on the results of the red ball as follows:

1-4 add 80 DRB
5-8 add 40 STL
9-12 add 40 BLK
13-16 remove 40 Turnovers
17-20 add 1 DWS
21-26 choose from any five options

PLAYER UPGRADES
Prior to each post season a lottery will be held to decide what upgrades are available. Rewards are used the following season. Unclaimed rewards are lost after the season ends.

Teams will be awarded one upgrade for the following:
1. Winning conference tournament.
2. Reaching the sweet 16.
3. Cinderella teams earn an upgrade for each win in the tournament of 64.
4. Upgrades do not carry over to multiple seasons and must be spent or will be lost.
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Sweet 16 rewards
UCLA... Dukes
Utah
Ohio State... Wheelock
Kansas...Hyde
Iowa State
USC... Carl Johnson
Marquette... LeSure
Kentucky... Leverette
Indiana... Cesaire
St. Johns... Little
Duke... Phillipe
Villanova... Chavous
Auburn... Nunez
Pittsburgh... Quinn
Arkansas... Condon
Purdue... Trufant

Conference Champions Rewards
Duke
Georgetown... Nunally
Arkansas... Kelly
UCLA... Riley
Kansas... Bork
Saint Joseph's

Cinderella wins rewards
Ball State... Laettner

12/12/2025

Redshirts

Season 7
Notre Dame: Davis
Indiana: Dorney
West Virginia: Hedgpeth
Ball State SG Torrey Laettner
North Carolina Grantham
Michigan SF Jake Keefe
Villanova PF Donie Purdy
Wake Forest Iman George
Pittsburgh Luke Murray
Purdue Terrance figgins
Florida State SF Felix Martin
UNLV C Robert Avery
Arkansas Scott Kelly
Creighton PG Jrue Epps
Florida SG kelso
Michigan State SG Bill Williams
Houston PF Geno Foor
Ohio State SG Joe Pierce
St Johns Ceballos
Providence Ramiro Raible
Auburn A Davis
Gonzaga B Smith
Florida Gulf Coast Nagle
Kansas State Doleman

11/2/2025

Coaches Corner

Blue Blood Contract Status

Blue Blood programs demand Blue Blood results. Failure will result in termination.

Contracts are extended three seasons when a coach reaches the final four or when they win a conference championship.

Duke (evilpuppy56) hired S1 signed through season 10
Indiana (TmcArthur72) hired S7 signed through season 9
Kansas (dash) hired S1 signed through season 9
Kentucky (Tacomaboy) hired S8 signed through season 10
North Carolina (gs93) hired S8 signed through season 10
UCLA (dgtedford) hired S1 signed through season 10
UConn (Lordehawke) hired S4 signed through season 10
Villanova (chexmix) hired S1 signed through season 10

League Settings

Year Range of Stats	1980 - 2024
Roster Size	14
Min Active Players	8
Max Active Players	13
Keepers	(14 keepers)
Change Stats Allowed
Free Agency
Drops
No-Drop List
Injuries	(10 games max)
Player Training	(6 schedule days)
User Sims