After seeing the issues that arose the other day, when only eight people registered for the hockey pool, I decided to alter the Rules for this basketball pool. I think the result is an improvement, even if we only managed to get 6 people to sign up.
Here are the basic rules, as have been previously laid out in two posts on the baseball league message board (msgs # 262, 273).
1. There will be two Conferences of 6 teams each, whereby each team is restricted from using players from the opposite Conference.
2. Scoring will be counted under a H2H Roto format (meaning the same scoring type as the baseball league, hockey leagues, and regular season basketball league).
3. Managers will be required to dress at least one player from each of the Conferences' 8 NBA clubs, with room for an additional 4 players from that Conference.
4. Managers are required to enter TWO rosters (an East and a West).
5. Each roster shall consist of 12 active players and 5 players on the Inactive List (to be activated after Round One).
6. The Yahoo position-eligibility will apply to lineups consisting of: PG, PG, G, SG, SG, SF, SF, PF, PF, Big, C, C, with an IL consisting of: PG, SG, SF, PF, C.
7. As for the scoring categories, basketball is a high-scoring game, so I don't want any 4-4 or 3-3 scores. Managers will be challenged to either choose well-rounded players or else to choose a balance of specialists, to compete in the 25 disciplines: GP, GS, Mins, MPG, FGM, FGA, FG%, 3PM, 3PA, 3P%, FTM, FTA, FT%, +/-, OREB, DREB, REB, RPG, AST, APG, STL, STL/TO, BLK, PTS, PPG.
8. Scoring will accumulate throughout the playoffs (meaning a player can score all his points in Round 1, but they will still be used to count a manager’s Round 4 score).
9. Each manager will have picked two independent teams, so our tourney will consist of 4 Rounds of eliminations.
10. Six Eastern teams, seeded 1-6, will face off in the usual 1 vs 6, 2 vs 5, 3 vs 4 Round One. At the same time, the Western Conference will feature three series.
11. The winners of these six series will advance to Round 2, along with the highest scoring of the three losing teams (so if you're gonna lose, make it a 13-12 loss and you'll still advance).
12. As a tie breaker for the Wild Card, when two teams lose by the same score, those two teams will be compared h2h to determine the winner. In a rare case where this is also tied, the winner will be the team with the best PPG (then Pts, if necessary).
13. A tie breaker in the case of a regular h2h tie game (i.e. 12-12), shall be used the same way as in the hockey pool. Compare the teams h2h for only the final day of Round 1, as the final period of the OT game. If necessary, he double overtime would be the second last day of Round 1, and so on.
That should just about cover everything. I’ll be posting the Official Rosters soon, so look for that in the next day or so.
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