Hello Coaches!
Well, we are finally here! After two drafts and jumping through some
administrative hoops, it is time to start playing some games! I have
attached our updated league backup and workbook. Please review your rosters
for accuracy. While I have not compiled our constitution yet, I did spend a
few hours typing up the rules that I believe are related to our schedule,
gameplans, and playing games during the regular season including our
gameplay restrictions. If I have missed anything that you feel is important
for me to cover or if you have any questions on anything, please let me
know. I will continue shore up our constitution as soon as I can, but until
then, please read through the following rules below.
Here are the details for block 1:
Email List: somiba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Days 1-16.
Gameplans Due = 12.10.2021
Game Results Due = 12.31.2021
Required Game Files (read below for details):
1. .GFL Gamefile
2. .HTML Boxscore
3. .TXT Play-By-Play
Thanks,
Jason
Schedule:
A. The schedule is setup with 82 regular season games - with 41 home and
41 road games - played over five monthly blocks.
B. Coaches create game for their road gameplans that are due on the tenth
day of every month of the regular season.
C. Coaches play their home games that are due on the last day of every
month of the regular season.
D. Teams play two games against each non-conference opponent (24 games),
five games against conference opponents not in their division (40 games),
and six games against opponents in their division (18 games) for a total of
82 regular season games.
E. The fifth block has a lower proportion of non-conference to conference
games as teams prepare for the playoffs and fight for playoff seeding.
F. Teams are assigned random numbers during the schedule creation process
to assure teams cannot predict their opponents from season to season.
G. Based on thes random snumber, teams are entered into our generic
schedule after the Games Missed Lists have been received.
Gameplans:
A. Road coaches must create a single gameplan for each opponent during a
block.
B. Gameplans will use the following nomenclature to name the files:
aaahhh##.gpl. The "aaa" is the three letter abbreviation for the road team,
the "hhh" is the three letter abbreviation for the home team, and the ## is
the day that the game is scheduled.
C. After a coach has created all gameplans for a particular block, he or
she compress (zip) them together into one file naming it AAAgpl#.zip ("aaa"
is for the three letter abbreviation for your team and the "#" for the block
number).
D. If a home coaches does not have a gameplan for a particular in the
compressed file, he should notify the road coach and commissioner (or as a
league-wide email). If the road coach does not provide a gameplan in a
timely manner, the commissioner will create by setting the eligible players
for the day and then autocreate it using the "Let Computer Pick
Instructions" button.
E. Gameplans are made up of the Computer Manager (offense) and the
Defensive Profile (defense).
F. A coach selects the eligible players on the Eligible Players tab based
on referencing the Games Missed column on the Roster sheet in the workbook.
G. Coaches can make changes to the Player Profile tab with the following
restrictions:
1. Do NOT change the GP (games played) column as it will crash the program
while attempting to play a game.
2. You cannot change the INPCT for players that are rated "0" or "100" by
Strat-O-Matic.
3. You cannot add minutes to a position (PG-SG-SF-PF-C) that is rated "0"
by Strat-O-Matic. company.
4. The sum at all five positions should not be more minutes than the
player's Minutes Per Game (0.5 rounded up).
H. Coaches can make any preferred changes to each of the five positions,
the offensive style, and players positioned inside in the Computer Manager
lineup grid. There is NO restriction in positioning at least one of your LF
or C inside in computer managers. You are free to position all five players
outside in your computer manager if you want.
I. There are no restrictions in adjusting the defensive profiles.
J. The league recommends that all coaches spend the time setting up their
opponent's defensive profiles to be more competitive in the league. It will
make a big difference in your team's overall defense.
K. All defensive profiles get reset to zero at the start of each block.
Therefore, when you import the backup make sure to import without changing
the defensive profiles if you want to maintain your defensive profiles.
League Settings:
Coaches can change league options except for the following static game
options and rules:
Static League Options:
A. Save Game Files
B. Box Score Always
C. Expanded Box Score/Play Acct
D. Show Game Story on Box Score
E. Save Summary & PBP Files
Static League Rules:
A. No Injuries
B. No Auto-Rest
C. Static Fatigue
D. Neutral Court
E. Draft League Mode
F. NBA 2018-19 to Current Rules
G. Other Rules - Allow Some 3-Pointers on Fastbreak
Gameplay:
A. Before starting a league game, download and find the road team's
gameplan and then import it as you are setting up the game.
B. Reference the Games Missed column on the Rosters sheet in the workbook
for the game to make sure you and your opponent are using the correct
eligible players.
C. Coaches may use any game strategy when playing their home games with
the exceptions in the next section titled, "Gameplay Restrictions."
D. If there is a game crash while playing a game, do not restart the game
as a new scheduled game (i.e. completely starting the game over). This is
strictly prohibited.
E. If the program freezes while playing a game, then you will need to exit
the program by holding down Ctrl-Alt-Del ete, select Task Manager, select
the Processes tab, then highlight the SOMBKW, and then press "end task."
Then reopen the basketball game, select Game from the main menu, select Open
Game from the drop down menu, and select "autosave.gam." The game will
continue from where the game froze. Finish this game before continuing on
with a different new game as the autosave.gam file would be overwritten with
the new game.
F. At the end of the game you will be able to save the boxscore and play
account. You may do so, however, both of these will automatically be
auto-saved.
G. After the game is finished and you have chosen not to save any of the
files, you will need to grab each of the three required game result files to
send out to the league.
1. Gamefile - named using the following nomenclature: 202021$ VVV@HHH
12.1.GFL and located in the Export/202021/ folder.
2. Boxscore - named using the following nomenclature: 201$0001.HTML and
located in the Print/202021/ folder.
3. Play-By-Play - named something like 201$0001.TXT and located in the
Summary/202021/ folder. The Summary file (i.e. 201$0001.SUM), also located
in the Summary/202021/ folder is not a required file, but it does not hurt
if you include it with the three require files.
H. After playing a game find the three required files and compress them
into a single file and name that compressed file with the same name as the
gamefile (i.e. 202021$ VVV@HHH 12.1). To do this easily simply make sure to
highlight the gamefile last, then right click on the three files, and then
select to send to a compressed file. Do not rename any of the required three
files.
I. In order to prevent any mishaps in files from one game overwriting
files from another game or simply not finding the correct files, it is
important find the results after playing a game and compress them into a
single file or at least placing them into a single folder.
J. Game results without the three correct required files will not be
accepted, unless approved by the commissioner, and may need to be replayed.
Notify the commissioner if you are not able to located on of the require
files.
K. Send the compressed zip file with the three game result files to the
league email list along with a short recap if you have time.
L. Alternatively, you may play all of your games first and then zip up all
the files for all the games into one compressed zip file naming it
"HHH_B#_Games.zip" where HHH is the home team abbreviation and # is for the
block number.
M. Game results will not be imported into the league backup for at least 24
hours from when there were received to allow for your opponent to review the
results and present any objections to the results.
N. Games not received by the game result deadline will be autoplayed.
Gameplay Restrictions:
A. After you have received a gameplan for a game you may analyze it as
much as you want, but you may not play a "practice game" with it until after
you have used it in a completed league game. After a gameplan has been used
in an official game you may use it in as any unofficial games as you desire.
B. You may not start a game, stop it, and then restart the game from
scratch. If you want to view the lineup or defensive profile shortly before
playing a game use the following procedure: From Game, New Scheduled,
highlight the game setting it to manual, hit continue on the Game Preference
Screen, and then enter the Computer Manager for the away team. When you hit
OK the game will take you to the home team Computer Manager. At this point
hit Cancel and you will be taken to the Main Menu. From the Team Menu you
can view the gameplan and defensive profile.
C. A Player must be rated at a given position in order to play that
position on offense. The position each player is able to play will be listed
on the roster tab in the workbook (a PG may not play SG and a SG may not
play PG unless rated to do so).
D. If a player is rated a "1" or higher at a position he may play there as
many minutes at that position up to the entire game. Minutes are only
limited to 110% of their NBA minutes over the entire season and this is
listed under Minutes Allowed on the Roster sheet in the workbook.
E. A player with 100% as rated by the game company under INPCT in the
Computer Manager/Player Profile is only eligible to be positioned inside on
offense. This player cannot be positioned outside. A player rated 0% under
INPCT is only eligible to be positioned outside on offense. This player
cannot be positioned inside.
F. While you may adjust the minutes in the Minutes Grid under Computer
Manager, Player Profile, you cannot place minutes in a position that a
player is not rated to play. Also, the total minutes in the grid cannot
exceed a player's minutes per game listed on the roster file (0.5 and over
rounded up). Other than the GP (games played) which may not be changed in
the Player Profile, you may change the GS, INPCT (except players rated 100%
or 0%), STLSHT, BK (now should be working in the V9), Minutes Grid, Outside
Shot preference, and Switch preference.
G. Players must be rated at a given position in order to defend that
position. The only exceptions to this are the following: a player positioned
at PG on offense may defend the SG and the SG on offense may defend the PG
while a player positioned at the LF on offense may defend the C and the C on
offense may defend the LF. Be careful as many times when you use "Let the
Computer Suggest" these restrictions won't be recognized and need to be
manually adjusted or corrected.
H. A team may not press when holding a 10 or more point lead in the game.
If after scoring the lead becomes 10 or more points, you must call a timeout
at the next available opportunity to take the press off by calling a
timeout.
I. The press may only be used in 12 of the 48 game regulation minutes and
2 minutes of every overtime period.
J. In home games against a gameplan a team must have either the LF or C
(or both) positioned inside on offense during the whole game. This is to
prevent home teams from eliminating the block man for the road team. This
restriction does not apply to games played by netplay or face-to-face.
K. If it can be shown that a coach has not used these game play
restrictions, the coach will be asked to replay the game. Habitual abuse of
these restrictions can lead to expulsion from the league.
Playoffs:
A. Eight teams from each conference will make the playoffs.
B. Winning of each division will be guaranteed a top four seed.
C. Home and road team will be determined by team records regardless of
seeding.
D. Playoff will not be reseeded after each round.
E. Players are limited to playoff games in a series based on their games
played using the following:
a. 1-14 games played = 1 playoff game
b. 15-23 games played = 2 playoff games
c. 24-32 games played = 3 playoff games
d. 33-41 games played = 4 playoff games
e. 42-50 games played = 5 playoff games
f. 51-59 games played = 6 playoff games
g. 60-82 games played = 7 playoff games
F. In order to be eligible to play in the playoffs, a player must meet
either the following minutes or games requirement:
a. Played 160 minutes and 160 games
b. Played 300 minutes with no games played limit
G. If a playoff team cannot field a valid team during any playoff series,
the commissioner will assign the worst available free agent(s) to that
roster.
