Rules Add-Ons and Updates

Playoffs:
The top 4 teams from each conference enter the playoffs. Top seeds have tie-breaker advantage should the scoring for the week come up even.

The final Championship Week is (possibly) more than seven days. Traditionally, the scoring goes more than the allotted seven days to make up for the last few days of the NBA regular season.

Toilet Bowl:
The remaining four non-playoff teams participate in a toilet bowl playoffs. The winner of the Toilet Bowl gets the first overall pick, the loser of the Toilet Bowl gets the second pick, and so on.

Teams for this playoff compete first within their own conference and then move into the Toilet Bowl against the winner/loser from the opposing conference.

This Toilet Bowl playoff insures that all 12 teams compete for something until the very end of the season.

Roster Lock:
As soon as a team is eliminated from post-season contention, their roster is locked until the supplemental draft (see below).

The reason for this is so that nobody can pick up players during the summer and pre-season (and after they've been eliminated from the playoffs) before we have our supplemental draft.

Supplemental (Yearly) Draft:
The new draft will occur as close to the start of the next regular season as possible. It will be 2-3 rounds (undetermined for now).

The draft order will be as determined by the Toilet Bowl, then in reverse regular season standings BUT with the two Finals contestants receiving the last two picks.

This yearly draft is not in snake order.

Keeper:
We keep all fifteen players on our roster, up till and including, the Supplemental Draft players. We'll then have a set date by when owners have to release players to get down to 15 men, and those players cut after the supplemental draft will go through the normal waiver wire process.

There have been suggestions that we should cut before we draft, but that might compromise the youth or injury players that most teams have at the end of the bench.

So, we'll have 15 keepers, draft 2-3, then cut back down to 15 players before the start of the season.

Next Year:
We will try to get off NBA.com next year since their interface sucks. Ideally we'd use Yahoo if they can do conferences.

We'll revisit the scoring (not the way we score, but perhaps moving to averages if we can) and the weekly versus daily lineup debate.

Be assured that any new rules will maintain roster and scoring integrity and concept from the original rules.

Original Rules