The rules of these leagues will be treated like the US Constitution were you can refer to them when ever you like for any means. It is your rights. Read all the everything because it is extremely important. If you ever ask me about anything that has to do with the GBA Constitution, I will simply copy and paste that part of the constitution. If you have questions about the Constitution or any questions about the league, you can instant message me on AIM at RDizzle3 or email me at commssioner@glorybasketball.ht.st.
Article 1: League
Council
Section 1- Commissioner
(President)
The commish of the league runs everything. He updates everything on the site
and controls everything. What you see on the site is done by him. He is in charge
of the simulations, drafts, etc.The commissioner will write some/most articles
that are seen around the league. The commissioner will give credit at the end
of the article to whoever wrote it, ex Written By Commssioner He has the power
to fire or hire a manager at anytime. The commissioner is the main person of
the league, any questions, complaints, or anything that has to do with the league
goes to the commissioner. He can select a new co-commish or select a new person
in The Others group. He can veto trades. The commissioner has all rights and
may make any actions as he likes.
Section 2- Co-commissioner
(Vice President)
The co-commish helps the commissioner on doing his jobs. The co-commish will
write articles and do some of the work around the site. He will write things
such as Power Rankings, recaps of games, and many more. At the end of the article,
there will be a line that will state that the co-commish wrote it, ex. Written
By Co-Commish. You can go to the co-commish if you cannot contact the commissioner
at that time. He will also be simulating along with the commish. The co-commish
will also update the site along with the commish. The co-commish can also make
emails to the league stating special announcements such as the commissioner
will be sick for the rest of the week and there will be no league actions. He
can report violations of GM’s or suggest GM’s. He cannot fire or
hire any GM’s without the commissioner’s permission. The co-commish
can also veto trades. His position in the League council is right below the
commissioner.
Section 3- The Others
The Others is a group of people who work as a team to make suggestions for the
league. This group contains 3 or 5 people. They will also write articles. If
the commish don’t like the articles, the commish will either make changes
or not put the article up. If the commish makes change, he will give credit
to the write.
Article 2: Simulations
(Season Progression)
Section 1- The Regular Season
The regular season consists of 82 games in 120 days that the commish will be
simulating on Season Ticket Basketball 2003. He will simulate one of the 120
days each day of the week besides 1 or 2 depending on the schedule and time
frame of the commish. The commish could simulate a game each day of the week
if he could or wanted to. The most sims in a day will only be 1 or if the commish
had to change it on a special event or occasion. This is a slow and realistic
sim league. Therefore, the finish one season might take longer than other leagues.
Section 2- The All Star Weekend
The All-Star weekend marks the mid-point of the season. It will be over the
weekend and take 2 days to simulate the whole weekend. The following events
will occur on the first day: Rookie Challenge, 3 Point Shootout and Slam Dunk
contest. The second day will be the simulation of the All-Star game. There could
be a GM Challenge that the Commish or Co-Commish will host, depending on whose
online and who wants to play, on the second day of All-Star weekend. There will
be no sims for 1-3 days after the All-Star weekend, depending on what the commish
decides on, although since he has all rights and all the power, he could sim
right after the weekend.
Section 3- The Play-offs
This is at the end of the season and the reason why all the teams play 82 games.The
top team in each division as well as the next 6 teams in each conference advance
to the playoffs. The Playoffs consist of four rounds. First round playoff series
are best out of 5 games. All other rounds are best out of 7 games. The two remaining
teams will be in the finals and it is a best out 7 series. Winner of the finals
is the champions of GBA that season. Next to their name on the rosters page
will be a little championship trophy and there will be a big article on the
front page. If you win the championship, you may relocate your city if you like
but not rename your team.
Article 3: GM Rights
Section 1- Owners Rights
This will be the only section in this article. GM’s have the right to
make a complaint about another GM. They also have the right to ask why they
are being fired. Those are the two main points of this section. The rights GM’s
don’t have in this league are, changing the site, spamming the message
boards, blocking any manager, or post for another manager.
Article 4: Trading
Section 1- Trades (During
season and off-season)
You can make trades whenever you like. This is not a big trade league where
you have to trade 24/7. A manager must trade at least 3 times a season and it
does not have to include a star. If there is a trade that has been confirmed,
post it on the message board on the Official Trades section. Both managers must
type in “I accept”. The commish will post “Approved”
if the trade went through. If you agree to the trade and you want to take it
back before I put it in, both managers must post “I don’t want this
trade to go through anymore”. I will either post, “Request: Granted”,
which means didn’t put it through, or “request denied”, which
means I already put the trade through. If the trade is vetoed by the game, I
will post “Trade Vetoed” and then I will post the reason. The only
reason why a trade will be vetoed is because the game will not let it go through,
or it is an obvious that it is a one sided trade. If it is a one sided trade
in my eyes, I will ask the manager that is getting ripped off why he wants to
do the deal. If he gives me a good answer, I will let it go through, if he doesn’t
, I won’t. Simple as that. The trade deadline is day 100.
Section 2- Trade Rules (Regular
Season)
1) Each team may give up a maximum of five players and/or picks in a trade.
2) A team must always own at least one first round draft pick in the two years
following the current season.
3) A team that is over the salary cap can receive up to 115% in total salary
of the salaries it is trading away.
4) Can’t trade injured players
*Website that will help with salary cap rules: http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#2
Section 3- Trade Rules (Off-season)
1) Each team may give up a maximum of five players and/or picks in a trade.
2) A team must always own at least one first round draft pick in the two years
following the current season.
3) Salary Cap rule doesn’t take place.
4) Can’t trade injured players
*Website that will help with salary cap rules: http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#2
Article 5: Free Agency
Section 1- Regular Season
Free Agents
You may sign any free agent during the regular season. Just post which player
you want to sign and the computer will automatically sign the player for you.
You can’t control the salary of the player. If you cannot afford to sign
the player, than you can’t sign him.
Section 2- Player Resignings
At the end of a players contracts, they will go for free agency, but before
that, you will have a chance to resign him before the season ends. You can’t
choose how much you want to sign him for, you are only allowed to choose if
you want to resign him or not. You will have 2 weeks before the season ends
to post your resignings. Post the players you want to resign in the Off Season
Resignings section on the message boards. After everyone makes their posts,
in a certain amount of time, I will make a chat at the end of the season and
read off the players who want to resign and their offers and the players who
don’t want to resign. This will all be right before the season ends. I
will also post and/or make a web page for the resignings.
Section 3- Free Agency Period
The Free Agency Period consists of five days of contract offers and signings.
During the first four days, players will evaluate their offers and decide whether
or not any of the offers are worth signing. On the final day, the players will
always accept what they rate as their best offer. If you want to bid for a player
you must bid in this form, Number Of Years: % of Increase Each Year:
Amount First Year: , OR you can do this.... Number Of Years: Amount Each Year:
, or the last way is
Number of Years: Year1: Year 2: Year 3: ........etc. If you don’t understand,
please contact the commish before you post.
Article 6: The Rookie
Draft
Section 1- The Rookies
I will have the real rookies that are leaving college and high school in the
draft. There will be realistic players. During at anytime of the season, you
CANNOT, I REPEAT CANNOT, bench your players, put them on IR or do anything to
your depth chart to purposely make your team lose for a good pick. If the commish
sees you do this on a constant basis, you will get a warning, than if you continue,
you will get kicked out.
Section 2- The Draft
The draft will be live in a chat room. If you are not on, too bad, the cpu will
pick for you. The draft rules are pretty simple, when its your pick, name the
player you want and I will put him in. I will tell you if it is your pick, than
you name.... do not name a player if I don’t call out your team. I will
try to make a web page with the picks after the draft.
Article 7: The
Old
Section 1- Retiring Players
At the end of the season, there will be some players who will retire from the
game. There is no way that you can try to talk a player out of retirement yet.
There will be a page of players that have retired.
Article 8: The Forums
Section 1-Registering
*Revised
When you register, you must register a screen name that has to do with your
team. Not that hard.
Section 2- Posting
PLEASE CHECK THE FORUMS DAILY. You can post whenever you want and post us much
as you can because this will keep the forums up with a lot of posts.. You can
cuss if you want, but don’t go crazy. If you wanna go crazy, go in the
Trash Talk thread to talk shit to another manager if you want. You can also
get in an argument in here. I will not kick you out of the league for what ever
you say in here unless it is against me or the co-commish and it is way to offensive,
but usually, like men, we will argue back. This is the forum to go to if you
wanna talk shit to another manager or start something. For all the other forums,
follow the rules that are stated under the Thread.
Section 3- Avatars
You may use any avatars for your screen name but when you are in the chat, you
must change your avatar to your team logo. You can find that at one of these
two sites:
1. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/index and choose your team on the right side. The avatar should be a square. I’m not sure if this will work but you can try.
2. http://www.nba.com/teams/teamIndividualLinks.html?title=Team%20Roster&file=roster/
You can find your team’s logo here to. This will definitely work. This
is what I suggest.
Section 4- Banning
*Revised
You will be banned if you are kicked out and you cause a big problem with the
commish or cocommish. You screen name will be deleted and you IP will be blocked.
Article 9: Stay Active
Section 1- Staying Active
The Commish and CoCommish will keep
an eye on all the GM's to see if they are active. If you aren't for a while,
you will be kicked out.
Section 2- Using Points
The object of the points is for people to stay active in the league. Every once
in a while, I will make the story as checking for points and I will set an amount
of points you must use to stay in the league. If you don’t, you are out.
I will make it fair so don’t panic. Say you have 40 points and my mark
for amounts is 30.. You must spend 30 and now you have 10. If you have 25 and
my mark is 30, you are out. I will make a page with the points.
Excuses: I will allow people to reason out why they don’t have enough
points if they are within 10 points. If I don’t like your reason, than
you are out. If I think it is reasonable, than I’ll let you stay in. Simple
as that.
Article 10: Violations and Consequences
Section 1- Violations
*Revised
Violations will not be put up with in this league. Here is a list of things
that are violations of this league:
1. Block a GM, unless the Commish or the CoCommish gives you permission
to.
2. Talk a lot of shit in a threads. Except Trash Talk.
3. Lie.
4. Talk shit about the league and the Commish or Co-Commish finds out.
5. Be caught unactive.
6. Be caught having 2 teams ( The commish and co-commish have an IP Checker)
And whatever else the commish or co-commish wants to define as a violation.
*You can’t block a manager because the won’t be able to trade with
you.
Section 2- Consequences
*Revised
If you make a violation, the commish and/or the co-commish will decide what
it will be. It can be as many as 4 things Which are:
1. Little warning, nothing happens. Just telling you not to do it again.
2. Make you spend some of your points.
3. Say that you can’t trade or do any transactions for 1 or up to 7 days
depending on what you did.
4. Kick you out of the league
Article 11: Hiring/Quitting
Section 1- Hiring
If you want to register for the league, instant message me or email me saying
that you want to join and why. You must give me your name, email address and
AOL Instant Messenger (a.k.a AIM S/N). If the league is full I will put you
on the waiting list and depending where you are on the waiting list, I will
contact you when there is a free spot. If I can’t contact you without
you answering me within a day, I will go to the next person on the waiting list.
Section 2- Quitting/ Firing
If you wish to quit the league, just email the commish or co-commish or instant
message the commish or the co-commish telling one of them why you want to quit.
We will still take you off the managers list but we want a reason because we
want to fix the problem for the future. If you are fired, we will contact you
by emailing or instant messaging you telling you that you are fired and the
reason. If you can argue back with a good reason why you shouldn’t be
fired, than we won’t fire you. If it is a shit reason, that we will just
fire you and tell you it was a shit reason. The commish or the co-commish can
fire
Section 3- Waiting List *New
The waiting list is a list where there a
managers who want to join the league but there are no spots open. First come
first serve basically. Email the commish or commish or instant message one or
both of them if you want to join the list.
Article 12: Chats and
Extra
Section 1- Where The Chats Take
Place
They will take place online, in an AIM/AOL chat room. Simple as that.
Section 2- Depth Charts
You must set your depth chart when asked, if you want to keep it the same, just
email the commish or IM him saying that you want to keep it the same as last
time. Do not email the commish creating your own form of a depth chart, just
fill in the form that is provided for you. Put one player in each box at most.
Fill in every single box on the depth chart page. The only part you don't need
to fill is all is the IR boxes. You must also choose a Pace,Trap Frequency,
Pass Frequency, and Offensive Strategy. If any of those aren't chosen, the Commish
will just ramdomly choose one for you. All the instructions are on the page
so there shouldn't be any problems, but if in case there are any problems just
contact the commish or post it in the forums.
Section 3- EMails
Alot of the league news will be through email. If I send out an important email
I will update you on the front page. You must still check your email daily.
Section 4- AIM Buddy List
Please keep in mind that you can't block any managers. You will have committed
a violation. The Commish will put an AIM buddy list that you can download on
the site. This will be updated everytime there is a change in managers. You
can updated your own buddy list, but downloading it from the site is the most
recommended way because it might be more updated. The buddy list will only be
compatible with AIM users. Any version of AIM will work. AOL users will not
be able to use this buddy list.
Please contact us if there is something that you think should be changed/added
to the GBA Constitution or if there are any errors such as typos.
Contact Info
Commish AIM S/N: RDizzle3
Co-Commish AIM S/N: CBizzle101
Commish Email Address: commissioner@glorybasketball.ht.st
Co-Commish Email Address: GBACoCommish@glorybasketball.ht.st
Last revised : January 20, 2003
