LGBA Season 12 Rules and Guidelines

LGBA Rules & Guidelines

1. Schedule Basics:
   1. Season begins
      
      
   2. 4 Week season
      
      
   3. 4 nights a week : Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday
      
      
   4. Game times : 9 & 10 pm est
      
      
   5. Trade deadline : Day before Week 4 begins.
2. Team Management Breakdowns
   1. Owners : As an Owner you are the True Manager of your team. All decisions should be brought to you before being enforced by your Managerial team. You are in charge of making sure the Managers are acting in the interests of your team, it's members, and the LGBA as a whole entity. General Managers and Owners should be doing scouting games up until the draft. League Management will keep you informed and you will make sure your team stays informed, and is informed of how leaguegaming works. Must have the Groupme App before signing up. Must have open communication with League Management and other owners.
      
      
   2. General Managers : As a General Manager you are the man all members should come to first. You are expected to help your Owner enforce the league rules and guidelines and make sure all members are following the rules. You should be keeping track of member issues and listening to the needs and concerns of your AGM. Should be running scouting games up until the draft. You're in charge of ensuring that your team members are knowledgeable in LGBA's rules. General Manager’s are chosen before the bidding/draft window.
      
      
   3. Assistant General Manager : As an Assistant General Manager you are expected to be responsible for game day issues. Your primary responsibility is to make sure that game days run smoothly and you bring issues to your General Manager. The Assistant General manager is chosen after the bidding process is fully completed and you have a team. You choose this player from your team’s pool of players.

1.Bidding:

1. Sign-ups are open until an hour before the assigned date/time for bidding to begin.
   
   
2. 3 Scouting games are required by owners.
   1. This is to give new players a chance to be seen and new owners a chance to see other guys play.
      
      
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      1. Scouting games can be found on the leaguegaming.com home page, under the shout box.
         
         
      2. Creating a Scouting game/Pickup Game:
         1. click the orange “LG PickUp Games” tab.
            
            
         2. Click the green “Create PickUp Game” tab.
            
            
         3. Fill in the information as needed to set up your game.
            
            
         4. An hour before game time you should confirm the players that you want to have participate in these.
            1. Follow the “joining a scouting game/pickup game” tab steps 1-3.
               
               
            2. during step 3 you simply click the players you want to try out in event there are multiple guys at same position.
      3. Joining a Scouting game/Pickup Game:
         1. Click the orange “LG PickUp Games” tab.
            
            
         2. Check the box for LGBA to eliminate all other league games.
            
            
         3. Click in a game that you would like to participate in.
            
            
         4. Owner’s will confirm you before the games begin so you know that you are expected to be there
            1. missing these games may affect your ability to participate in this league
   3. Upon completion of a scouting game you will need to post it in the owner’s forum.
      1. This is to prove that you are giving guys a fair shot and helping the league improve its pool of players.
         
         
      2. You will click on the “Scouting Reports” tab.
         
         
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      4. Once you click the xbox button a list of all your recent screenshots and videos will appear below the text box.
         
         
      5. Click the Player Stats from the scouting game you just finish.
         
         
      6. Hit Post reply and you are finished.
3. Bidding Info:
   1. Salary Cap will be set at 15 million.
      
      
   2. Bidding will run 7 days or until we are left one team and one bid open. Whichever comes first.
      
      
   3. Management Salaries:
      1. Owner automatically receives a 1 million dollar contract.
         
         
      2. General Manager automatically receives a 2 Million Dollar contract.
         
         
      3. “Cornerstone Players” are not required but are an option for a team.
         1. If an Owner utilizes this option the player will be automatically placed on the team with a 5 million dollar contract.
            
            
         2. If an owner declines this option they will save $5 Million dollars in salary to be used during the bidding process.
      4. Assistant General Manager’s will keep their winning bid salary.
   4. Team’s must have a full 10 man Starting Roster at the end of the bidding process.
      1. failure to fill your roster by the end of bidding will result in forfeit losses per night depending on how many players are missing.
         1. Punishment will be enforced on the 8:45 pm games of the season. This is to keep your team active for at least one game a night and not effect your team’s activity levels.
            
            
         2. i.e., 8 players on roster = 1st Monday and Tuesday nights, the 845 pm games are automatically forfeited.
      2. Rosters should include 2 point guards, 2 shooting guards, 2 small forwards, 2 power forwards and 2 centers.
         1. players can be adjusted after bidding to fall into the required categories.
            1. Manager Tab
               
               
            2. Front Office
               
               
            3. Change Position
         2. Players may only play one up/down of their signed up positions:
            1. i.e., sg can play pg, sg, sf...c can play pf or c.
4. Once bidding is completed you will need to “Issue Contracts.”
   1. Manager Tab
      
      
   2. Front Office
      
      
   3. Issue Contracts
      1. all contracts should only be 1 season in length for the time being.

2. Game Night Set-Up & Expectations:

1. Basics:
   1. Game Nights : Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
      
      
   2. Game Start Times : 9pm and 10 pm est.
      
      
   3. Difficult : Hall Of Fame
      
      
   4. Game Style : Simulation
      
      
   5. Quarter Length : 6 Minutes
2. Lineups must be set by 8 pm est on the night of games.
   
   
3. Members may participate in a maximum amount of games of 4.
   1. This includes management positions.
      
      
   2. There is no position lock. You can play any position but it might affect awards due to some positions getting larger numbers in other categories than what you usually play.
      
      
   3. Special cases may arise where an exception can be made but League Admins must be informed and permission requested before continuing.
      1. If we have complaints from training camp players regarding their involvement with team lacking, you will not be allowed to play an extra game.
         
         
      2. Only the Owner or General Manager may play an extra game. Regular members may not exceed their limit.
   4. Training Camp(TC) players may play in a maximum of 4 games a week.
      1. If a TC player plays 4 games in one game week that player must be moved into the Active Roster.
4. You must have an accurate “MOC.” This member of management is responsible for:
   1. Having the opposing MOC on his Friends List so he can send the invite in a timely manner.
      
      
   2. Having a lobby up by 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.
      
      
   3. Having all players in that lobby.
      
      
   4. Handling TC fill-ins if needed.
      
      
   5. Making lineup adjustments and filing action centre reports on players who did not show up for games.
      
      
   6. Taking pictures of post game stats.
      
      
   7. The MOC is not solely responsible for stat input. It is the Owner’s responsibility to make sure they get done either by them, or whoever he delegates.
      1. It is the Owner’s responsibility to hold members accountable.
5. Games are required to start by the scheduled time. You should be getting your team rounded up earlier than the 9 pm and 10 pm times.
   1. at 5 minutes after the hour, the game is deemed unplayable and is either a forfeit or a reschedule.
      
      
   2. Pictures should be taken of your lobby to show you have done your part.
      1. If you do not take a picture of the lobby it becomes very difficult to prove who did their part.
         
         
      2. Both teams should make a lobby so they can show that they had 5 guys.
         
         
      3. Pictures of a party will not be enough. A lobby picture shows that you have guys and they are IN the game waiting.
   3. A reschedule may decided on at any point in the night.
      1. If you choose to reschedule you must both inform a commissioner that you will be playing that game at a later date. Preferably include that date so we know when to expect a resolution.
         
         
      2. Rescheduled games must be played by Sunday night.
         
         
      3. If you are rescheduling a game it CAN NOT impede on another game.
         1. “we chose to reschedule it for 930 the same night” is not acceptable because it than impedes on the 10 pm game and can impact 5-10 other members.
      4. We want to see 100% of games played and expect effort to be made to reschedule games.
         
         
      5. Commissioners may require a reschedule. These games have 4 days to be scheduled and completed.
6. Lag-Outs/Players Dropping:
   1. If a player is having connection issues during lobby set up immediately begin to find a replacement player(s) to be prepared if needed.
      
      
   2. If a player lags out in the 1st 2 minutes of the 1st quarter, all players will quit and the lobby will be restarted.
      1. Hit the “start” button on your controller and take a screenshot of the players still in game for proof they dropped.
   3. After 2 minutes, games will be played out if a player lags out.
      
      
   4. If 2 players lag out that team forfeits. Games can be played out for stats but if any players want to quit they may do so without without league discipline.
      1. Hit the “start” button on your controller and take a screenshot of the players still in game for proof they dropped.
         
         
      2. Teams from the forfeiting loss team and/or winning team may utilize this.
         
         
      3. Players who quit due to the game already being a forfeit may request that the winning team not enter stats.
7. Stats :
   1. Stats must be entered by 9 pm est the following day. Failure to do so will result in progressive discipline.
      
      
   2. Winning team is responsible for inputting all stats and also inputting the team comparison stats.
      1. We tried doing stats with each team entering stats and it was too much for management to track
         
         
      2. It’s always recommended for both teams and multiple members to take photos.
   3. 3 pictures are required.
      1. Team Post Game stats
         
         
      2. Gamertag Associated stats.
         1. This is the screen after you leave the team-up game and it shows the gamertag breakdown. Box Score will also be found here.
   4. Stats are ultimately the Owner’s responsibility to be completed.
      1. He may assign them to whichever manager is on call or willing.
         
         
      2. If this player fails to input stats it is expected the owner do an action centra on them.
         
         
      3. If an owner has no proof showing that a certain player was responsible for them, the action centre falls on themselves.
   5. Forfeits:
      1. If a team forfeits for any action the winning team will enter a score of 2-0 for that game.
         
         
      2. All players need to be set to “DNS” so it does not affect per game averages.

3. Playoffs :

1. All Regular Season expectation are to followed in the playoffs.
   
   
2. Playoffs will begin immediately the week after the regular season ends.
   
   
3. 80%(or as close to) of teams will be included into the playoffs.
   
   
4. Series will be 5 game series. 2 home 2 away 1home
   
   
5. Series games will be scheduled the same as regular season schedule
   1. while these are guidelines for times we do not want “sim champs” so all games are expected to be played.
      
      
   2. Any missed games must be rescheduled for the following night
6. Maximum amount of games allowed in the playoffs is 3.
   1. Owner’s may play in 4.

4. Rosters :

1. No member may be waived before week 1 of the season without Admin Approval first.
   
   
2. Random Assignments are scheduled for Saturday and Wednesday.
   1. No player will be placed on a team per request.
      
      
   2. Random Assignments will begin their season in TC.
      
      
   3. Random Assignments will be processed up until the Friday before playoffs begin. Sign-Ups will be closed at that time as we prepare for the next season.
3. Trade Window
   1. Trades may be submitted at any time during the week.
      
      
   2. Trades approvals begin Friday at 9 pm est to allow for all stats to be entered.
      
      
   3. Trade window closes Sunday Night at 10pm est. Trades posted after this time will wait until the next window is open..
      
      
   4. If a player requests a trade and submits his request to his Owner and League Admins that player must be traded during the next window or he must be waived.
      1. Picture message informing both Owner and Admins are required.
   5. Trades may include any number of players and/or teams.

5. Gameplay, Sportsmanship & General Conduct

1. Leaguegaming.come Code of Conduct
   1. http://leaguegaming.com/forums/index.php?threads/updated-code-of-conduct.229481/
2. Gameplay
   1. Isolation “zig-zagging” is not allowed. The abuse of this to get an open shot is not allowed for the team-up league.
      
      
   2. You are not allowed to take charges from the area between the 3 point lines. If a charge is taken the ball must be given back immediately.
      
      
   3. Fast Breaks Offense
      1. You may only leak out after your team has rebounded the ball. You may not start to run downcourt while the ball is still in the air.
         
         
      2. You may leak out after missed free throws. You're opponent is standing right next to you. If he doesn't follow you from a standing dead ball possession that is on him.
         
         
      3. An occasional leak out may happen from time to time as it would in the real nba. We will not punish 3-4 leakouts a game. You still have a responsibility as a player to pay attention to what is happening in the game.
         
         
      4. Video evidence must be provided for any disciplinary action to take place.
         
         
      5. If we have multiple complaints about the same team/player(s) than we will not need video evidence.
3. Sportsmanship
   1. LGBA is a Defamation-Free zone. Trash talk is allowed until it becomes a negative towards league morale. Complaints may be filed if received through : Leaguegaming.com, xbox messaging, ShoutBox, or groupme.
      
      
   2. If a team is winning by 20 after the halfway mark in the 4th quarter
      1. The ball must be passed to the pg or sg(on the same side of the court and that player must dribble the ball upcourt and regular offense may resume. No full court or ¾ court passes will be allowed once this point plateau is hit..
         
         
      2. No full court, ½ half court , or ¾ court press is allowed unless the other team turbos across the half court line.
         
         
      3. If the losing team crosses the ½ court line and tries to dribble the clock down/out the defense MUST respect the players space and defeat. DO NOT try to steal or push a player back court.
         
         
      4. Any points scored from a violation of these rules will not be accredited to the player or team. Video evidence is required.
   3. Issues with league members including team management and league management must be handled via pm.
4. Complaints / Due Process / Punishments
   1. Complaints
      1. Must be filed through the action centre.
         
         
      2. Must have physical evidence (video or photo) for it to be investigated.
         
         
      3. Do not post complaints of rule violations into the forums. This will not help your case and may hurt your case.
   2. Due Process
      1. Suspensions = not be able to play in the most recent upcoming games, Blacklist = Removed from all leagues at Leaguegaming.com and inability to sign up for any leagues until lifted.
         1. Forfeits do not count as games towards your suspension.
      2. 1st Infraction - Written Warning
         
         
      3. 2nd Infraction - 2 game suspension
         
         
      4. 3rd Infraction - 4 game suspension
         
         
      5. 4th Infraction - League Removal and Blacklist(Rest of season and possibly longer)
   3. Miscellaneous Punishments
      1. Not communicating with Upper management or willfully ignoring league actions.
         
         
      2. Team Management quitting = Current and following season Blacklist
         
         
      3. Players not signing up for games.
         1. 1st Week - Warning.
            
            
         2. 2nd Full week - 6 month blacklist.
            
            
         3. Must inform Team or League management as soon as it’s known if you know that you have a significant period of time to be missed.
      4. “Rage Quitting” =
         1. 1st offense : (Management) 6 game suspension, (Player) 4 game suspension
            
            
         2. 2nd Offense : (management) 12 month Blacklist, (Player) 6 month blacklist.
      5. Conduct Unbecoming.
         1. Conduct unbecoming of a member may provide grounds to be charged with an Offense, based on sufficient evidence being provided within a filed complaint
      6. Issues may arise where actions are happening that affect a team/league morale. League admins reserve the right to take any step necessary to correct any issues.

Rules and Guidelines are subject to change at anytime. A Leaguegaming post will be made if rules are edited.


Last Edited by Bingo King 2/18/16