League Rules

?1990: I Love the 90s?

Commissioner - potholes
Vice - bhicks42, gbacci
Trade Committee - ScottCornelius, bobknightrules, bhicks42
All-Star Game Director-JoshBonds25
This goal of this league is to rewrite history with your team. We will try to stay as accurate as possible with expansion and changes made by the real life NBA.

FIRST OF ALL, if there?s a problem with another owner, the commissioner, a vice, a league problem, a complaint, etc. SEND ME (commissioner) YOUR CONCERN IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE. The chat box is not there for drama and complaints. It?s a shame that this has to go in the rules as everyone should have manners.

1. TEAM CHOICE-- We will choose teams as soon as the league fills. Draft order will be chosen at random. We will start with 1990 and progress through time with real life progressions.

2. TEAM DETAILS -- Team logos and details will be edited to reflect what they had during the time frame. If we can?t get a decent logo to look good we may make an adjustment when the time comes.

3. SEASON START -- Be sure to set your lineup, strategy and team details if you haven't done so already. We will play an 82 game season. We will not have a pre-season.

4. FINAL ROSTER SIZE -- When the games begin, the roster limit will be set to a final 13 which 1 will be inactive reserve. You MUST HAVE AT LEAST 8 PLAYERS on your active list to sim games. If you do not, the commissioner must make changes to your roster in order to play the season.

5. STARTING LINE-UPS-- You must have five starters, one at every position. You are encourage to take advantage
of the wave list. This is how your team will substitute during the game.

6. TRANSACTIONS, FREE AGENCY, ETC -- There is little to no free agents in year 1. We will use the waiver wire to pick up guys from Free Agency. This is an import league. No contracts, real life progressions . In the event that we do not expand on time, Free Agency will contain those players that would have been on the expansion team. Please act responsibly. Heavy unfair trading or dropping star players could get you banned from the league or possibly other sanctions against your team. ?Protected Picks?- protected picks are ok, if you trade and protect a pick, your pick for the following year will be held until your protected pick has been decided. You can protect a pick as a ?Top 3?, ?Top 5? ?Lottery? or anything within reason.

7. DRAFT ? After the playoffs each season, we will import the rookies who came into the league for that season. They will be added to Free Agency and we will have a live draft to place the players. Draft order will go from worst to first. We will draft as many rounds as we can, based on the amount of players available. If you choose to trade draft picks, you can do so but only the round 1 & 2 picks can be traded. You can only trade draft picks for the next 2 seasons out. Ex: 1989-90 season you can trade the picks from 1990 & 91 drafts. The league office may substitute the live draft for a slow draft or a slow/live draft combination. For a slow draft, the time between picks has been established by the league ownership at 8 hours for Round 1 and 4 hours for Round 2.

8. DRAFT LOTTERY ? To help prevent tanking we will implement a draft lottery. Obviously this is an experimental feature so we will give it a try and see how it works. Before the draft, the top 11 picks, 1-11 will be ranked on Draftpicklottery.com and the results will be posted. It will be a weighted lottery and odds will look like this:
Team 1 (last place team)-11 balls
Team 2- 10 balls
Team 3 - 9 balls
Team 4 - 8 balls
Team 5 - 7 balls
and so on, down to Team 11 which has 1 ball

9. TRADING DEADLINE -- At the end of day 120 before the post-season, the Trade Center will close.

10. PLAYER HEALTH -- Players can get injured, but they will not fatigue, the maximum days of injury will be 10 games. The CPU will swap this player at game time if you haven't made adjustments to your lineup. Players may play injured, but will be reduced to a minimum of 15%. You can see the percentages of your players on your team roster.

11. SANDBAGGING/TANKING -- Do not attempt to place players outside of their primary or secondary positions, or you will see a high error rate. Don?t lose on purpose or ?Tank?, there will be repercussions to tanking up to being booted if it?s a reoccurring thing. If you have a question as to whether you?re tanking or not, you probably are. Let?s have fun and don?t make my job any harder than it already is.

12. POST-SEASON -- At the conclusion of the regular season, a 16 team playoff will be played.The Divisionwinners will be ranked 1 & 2 (best record as the 1) teams ranked 3-8 will fall in according to rank. All series are best-of-seven in the 2-3-2 format. Team with the better seed will be the home team. In any tie situation, we go to the tiebreaker rules.

13. EXPANSION- I plan to follow expansion just as the NBA did it.
1995?2004 29 (Raptors, Grizzlies)
2004?present 30 (Bobcats)

*When an expansion team is added to the league, they will get a spot in the draft for that season. The pick will fall just after the lottery picks. When there?s more than one expansion team, they will pick in alphabetical order. (Heat,Hornets)
*If you have a player that?s to be drafted to an expansion team, they will leave your team when the expansion team starts playing.

14. TRADE COMMITTEE? We have formed a trade committee that will help to police trades that seem to be collusion or if someone has been taken advantage of. If you take issue to a deal that?s been agreed on, please don?t rant in the chat box. Contact a member of the trade committee ( ScottCornelius, bobknightrules, bhicks42) the trade committee can discuss the deal and go from there. The deal may be brought to a vote. If necessary, we will pause sims and have a league wide vote. If 80% of the league votes to overturn the trade it will be done. This is for cheating, not for the case that you just don?t agree with what someone decided to do with their team. I hope this never happens. No one should dissect every deal someone makes. It?s not for me to decide how you run your team. Don?t take advantage of someone and don?t team up with another owner. That?s basically all I?m asking here.

15. TIEBREAKERS- We will settle a tie using 1. Head-to-Head 2. Points for 3. Points Against

16. ALL-STAR GAME-We will vote on the starters of the all-star game. All owners who want to vote need to send their choice of starters (5 from each conference) to Joshbonds25, starting with day 40 and we will take votes through day 60.
The backups will be picked by last years conference champions owner/coach. We will limit the amount of all-stars per team to 2 so everyone has a shot at making the team.

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