Post by ohhaithur on Nov 3, 2010 14:07:06 GMT -5
The league
Rosters – Every team’s rosters
Injuries – Who is hurt and how long are they out?
Free Agents – Who can you pick up?
Draft – Next year’s class
Potential Free Agents – Who is at the end of their contract in the league
Standings – Check the playoff race
League Leaders – Top 10 individuals in statistical categories
Weekly-Monthly Awards – Players and rookies of the week and month
Team Stats – Sortable team statistics on offense and defense
Historical Team Performance – How has your team done throughout the years?
General Board – This board has all the important parts of the season. Season discussion will have simulation results, resignings, free agency, training camp, preseason, etc… will be in here.
Depth Charts – Here you set your team’s depth chart for the season. You set your three-deep lineup and special traits your lineup needs. You pick your top scoring options who generally will take more shots. Pace is the speed your team looks for a shot. Generally, defensive stud teams go slower while run-and-gone go faster. More trapping and pressing create turnovers but also risk fouls to your players. Balance will determine whether you go to the hoop, play outside or a combination. Play to your team’s strengths.
Articles and Sigs – Here you can write an article about the league (read a few examples to get what we look for) for a chance to improve one of your players. If you do well, you can get a “+5”, a five point addition to one of your player’s attributes. You can write two articles a year. Some teams (i.e. the Jazz) do this every year to give their team a better chance to win. Others find it too time consuming. It’s up to you.
Training Complex – Here is where you use your “+5”s to improve your player. To see what attributes affect what grades, click here. Also, before each year you can add height to teenage players or weight to players to bulk them up.
Off Topic – Shoot the shit.
General Managers – A list of who owns what team. Soon you’ll know everyone by their team and you won’t need this. Until then, use it to tell who is who.
Trade Talk – Post who you’re looking to trade, who you want or view other teams’ trade blocks.
Completed Trades - For trades that have been officially completed. Post the team names in the title and the trade in the post. DO NOT COMMENT on a trade until both parties have posted they have accepted. That’s when it becomes official. Then watch people blow up at trades they think are unfair. This forum also has a list of all future picks that have been traded.
Signings and Cuts - Sign free agents during the season or release players from your squad. You will be on the hook for their remaining salary if you cut, though. You can also buyout a players here. Click here for the rules on buyouts. When you sign a free agent during the season you can do it regardless of your cap situation. You will sign them to a one-year minimum deal.
Position Changes – Move guys on your roster to a different position. Their defensive rating is possibly going to change so be on the lookout for that.
Past Draftboards – Look at old draft boards, discussions and prospect profiles
Drafts – View profiles of future draftees, the draft order and make your draft picks
ShoutBox
It’s that chat box under the links at the top of the page. It’s where the league congregates. Talk about wanting to fire dump, the most recent trade, irush’s freshman girlfriend, cable movies, etc… I highly suggest hanging out in there. It’s a nice community.
Your team
Players – A list of all the guys on your squad. Their ages, heights and weights and ratings are there.
Ratings:
Inside scoring: How well they go to the hoop
Outside scoring: How well they shoot from the middle and from 3
Handling: How well they pass and handle
Defense: How good they lock down the opposing player. Post defense helps inside guys, drive defense helps wings, perimeter defense helps guards, etc…
Rebounding: Self explanatory
Potential: This is their SCOUTED potential. Generally the better the grade the more likely they are to grow. But there are mistakes. Just like Darko was a lock star in real life and he busted, “A” potential in here does not necessarily mean success.
Salaries: The players’ salaries are listed at the bottom of the page. This has the length of their contract with a year-by-year breakdown of future salaries. You can see who will be free agents for you when and this will help shape your squad.
The season
Training camp – Seems like everyone’s favorite part. See how your team improved from one year to another. You can watch teams go from
; to ;D with a few big improvements at key positions. If a player improves from a B+ to an A in a certain category people call this a “+2”. When people talk about a guy “+5”ing in TC it means that the sum of their letter grade changes is +5.
Pre-season – just a quick run-through. Nobody puts much stock in this
Season- Every afternoon we have a sim. It alternates between 5- and 10-day sims with the exception of the end of the year, in which we have a 15-day sim to end the year.
Key dates
Day 99 – Draft declarations
Day 100 – The trade deadline. We stop the previous sim at Day 99 (so a 4 day sim instead of 5) and day this is the last day you can trade.
Day 120- The season ends, draft lotto is conducted after
Playoffs: Best of seven series to determine the winner. We sim the first three games. Take a break to fix depth charts, finish the series. Even if you're out of the playoff hunt, you can make a bracket prediction to win more points for your players.
The off-season
Retirings: Watch the old guys hang it up. Or the 33 year olds who have severe depression (happened once).
Resignings: Resign your players. NOT all players will request to resign.
Draft: The draft takes place over two days with time limits. Read the draft thread to read the updated order/timelines. You can see the scaled draftee contracts here. All first-rounders get four year deals. You can choose to have your second rounders have two or three year deals.
Draftee stashing: You can send players overseas to get better. They are off your team for a certain number of years (you pick one-four years) and when they come back there is a lotto to determine their statistics. You can have a player come back a stud or a bust. You can only send international players overseas if you take them in the first round or any player you take in the second round.
Free Agency: Sign free agents that aren’t resigned or drafted. If you have salary cap room this is more fun since you can bid until you go over soft cap. There are exemptions, which you can read about here. You can place up to 15 bids for “days 1-2”, then results are posted. Some players will sign, others will not. Same deal for days “3-4”. Then finally “day 5”. Then we’re off to the next season.
Now read all the rules, listed here.
This thread is now diamonds.
Rosters – Every team’s rosters
Injuries – Who is hurt and how long are they out?
Free Agents – Who can you pick up?
Draft – Next year’s class
Potential Free Agents – Who is at the end of their contract in the league
Standings – Check the playoff race
League Leaders – Top 10 individuals in statistical categories
Weekly-Monthly Awards – Players and rookies of the week and month
Team Stats – Sortable team statistics on offense and defense
Historical Team Performance – How has your team done throughout the years?
General Board – This board has all the important parts of the season. Season discussion will have simulation results, resignings, free agency, training camp, preseason, etc… will be in here.
Depth Charts – Here you set your team’s depth chart for the season. You set your three-deep lineup and special traits your lineup needs. You pick your top scoring options who generally will take more shots. Pace is the speed your team looks for a shot. Generally, defensive stud teams go slower while run-and-gone go faster. More trapping and pressing create turnovers but also risk fouls to your players. Balance will determine whether you go to the hoop, play outside or a combination. Play to your team’s strengths.
Articles and Sigs – Here you can write an article about the league (read a few examples to get what we look for) for a chance to improve one of your players. If you do well, you can get a “+5”, a five point addition to one of your player’s attributes. You can write two articles a year. Some teams (i.e. the Jazz) do this every year to give their team a better chance to win. Others find it too time consuming. It’s up to you.
Training Complex – Here is where you use your “+5”s to improve your player. To see what attributes affect what grades, click here. Also, before each year you can add height to teenage players or weight to players to bulk them up.
Off Topic – Shoot the shit.
General Managers – A list of who owns what team. Soon you’ll know everyone by their team and you won’t need this. Until then, use it to tell who is who.
Trade Talk – Post who you’re looking to trade, who you want or view other teams’ trade blocks.
Completed Trades - For trades that have been officially completed. Post the team names in the title and the trade in the post. DO NOT COMMENT on a trade until both parties have posted they have accepted. That’s when it becomes official. Then watch people blow up at trades they think are unfair. This forum also has a list of all future picks that have been traded.
Signings and Cuts - Sign free agents during the season or release players from your squad. You will be on the hook for their remaining salary if you cut, though. You can also buyout a players here. Click here for the rules on buyouts. When you sign a free agent during the season you can do it regardless of your cap situation. You will sign them to a one-year minimum deal.
Position Changes – Move guys on your roster to a different position. Their defensive rating is possibly going to change so be on the lookout for that.
Past Draftboards – Look at old draft boards, discussions and prospect profiles
Drafts – View profiles of future draftees, the draft order and make your draft picks
ShoutBox
It’s that chat box under the links at the top of the page. It’s where the league congregates. Talk about wanting to fire dump, the most recent trade, irush’s freshman girlfriend, cable movies, etc… I highly suggest hanging out in there. It’s a nice community.
Your team
Players – A list of all the guys on your squad. Their ages, heights and weights and ratings are there.
Ratings:
Inside scoring: How well they go to the hoop
Outside scoring: How well they shoot from the middle and from 3
Handling: How well they pass and handle
Defense: How good they lock down the opposing player. Post defense helps inside guys, drive defense helps wings, perimeter defense helps guards, etc…
Rebounding: Self explanatory
Potential: This is their SCOUTED potential. Generally the better the grade the more likely they are to grow. But there are mistakes. Just like Darko was a lock star in real life and he busted, “A” potential in here does not necessarily mean success.
Salaries: The players’ salaries are listed at the bottom of the page. This has the length of their contract with a year-by-year breakdown of future salaries. You can see who will be free agents for you when and this will help shape your squad.
The season
Training camp – Seems like everyone’s favorite part. See how your team improved from one year to another. You can watch teams go from
; to ;D with a few big improvements at key positions. If a player improves from a B+ to an A in a certain category people call this a “+2”. When people talk about a guy “+5”ing in TC it means that the sum of their letter grade changes is +5.Pre-season – just a quick run-through. Nobody puts much stock in this
Season- Every afternoon we have a sim. It alternates between 5- and 10-day sims with the exception of the end of the year, in which we have a 15-day sim to end the year.
Key dates
Day 99 – Draft declarations
Day 100 – The trade deadline. We stop the previous sim at Day 99 (so a 4 day sim instead of 5) and day this is the last day you can trade.
Day 120- The season ends, draft lotto is conducted after
Playoffs: Best of seven series to determine the winner. We sim the first three games. Take a break to fix depth charts, finish the series. Even if you're out of the playoff hunt, you can make a bracket prediction to win more points for your players.
The off-season
Retirings: Watch the old guys hang it up. Or the 33 year olds who have severe depression (happened once).
Resignings: Resign your players. NOT all players will request to resign.
Draft: The draft takes place over two days with time limits. Read the draft thread to read the updated order/timelines. You can see the scaled draftee contracts here. All first-rounders get four year deals. You can choose to have your second rounders have two or three year deals.
Draftee stashing: You can send players overseas to get better. They are off your team for a certain number of years (you pick one-four years) and when they come back there is a lotto to determine their statistics. You can have a player come back a stud or a bust. You can only send international players overseas if you take them in the first round or any player you take in the second round.
Free Agency: Sign free agents that aren’t resigned or drafted. If you have salary cap room this is more fun since you can bid until you go over soft cap. There are exemptions, which you can read about here. You can place up to 15 bids for “days 1-2”, then results are posted. Some players will sign, others will not. Same deal for days “3-4”. Then finally “day 5”. Then we’re off to the next season.
Now read all the rules, listed here.
This thread is now diamonds.
