Rules
Overview:Players select teams from NCAA D-1 Men's Basketball in a draft before the season begins. Points are earned by winning games, tournaments, conference standings, and by beating other players. The goal - to have the most points at the end of the season.
Scoring:
- A team earns 1 point for every 1 D-1 win
- A team loses 2 points for every loss to a non-D-1 team (because that is a sorry loss)
- A team earns 2 extra points for a vicory over another player's non-AP top 10 team (3 total)
- A team earns 2 extra point for a victory over a non-player AP top 10 team (3 total)
- A team earns 4 extra point for a victory over another player's AP top 10 team (5 total)
- A team that wins a pre / in-season tournament receives points as follows (subject to change each season):
Coaches vs. Cancer (November 18-19) - 3 points
CBE Classic (Nov. 22-23) - 3 points
NIT Tip-Off (Nov. 15-26) - 5 points
Charleston Classic (Nov. 18-21) - 3 points
Puerto Rico Tip-Off (Nov. 18-21) - 4 points
Paradise Jam (Nov. 19-22) - 4 points
Cancun Challenge (Nov. 23-24) - 2 points
Legends Classic (Nov. 26-27) - 3 points
Maui Invitational (Nov. 22-24) - 4 points
Great Alaska Shootout (Nov. 24-27) - 3 points
76 Classic (Nov. 25-28) - 4 points
Old Spice Classic (Nov. 25-28) - 4 points
Chicago Invitational (Nov. 26-27) - 2 points
South Padre Invitational (Nov. 26-27) - 2 points
MSG Holiday Festival (Dec. 20-21) - 2 points
Las Vegas Classic (Dec. 22-23) - 2 points
Cancun Governor's Cup (Dec. 22-24) - 3 points
Hawaii Diamond Head Classic (Dec. 22-25) - 4 points
Cable Car Classic (Dec. 29-30) - 2 points
- A team that wins a major conference (6) regular season earns 9 points
- A team that wins a mid-major conference (9) regular season earns 7 points
- A team that wins a non-major conference regular season earns 6 points
- A team that wins a major conference (6) tournament earns 7 points
- A team that wins a mid-major conference (9) tournament earns 5 points
- A team that wins a non-major conference (16) tournament earns 4 points
- A team that completes the regular conference season undefeated earns +3 points.
- A team that makes the post-season NIT final 4 receives 2 points*
- A team that makes the post-season NIT championship receives 4 points*
- The team that wins the post-season NIT championship receives 7 points*
- Each team that makes the NCAA tourney receives 3 points
- Each team earns 2 points for a NCAA tourney play-in game win*
- Each team earns 4 points for a NCAA tourney round 1 win*
- Each team earns 6 points for a NCAA tourney round 2 win*
- Each team earns 8 points for a NCAA tourney round 3 win*
- Each team earns 11 points for a NCAA tourney round 4 win*
- Each team earns 14 points for reaching the NCAA final*
- The team that wins the NCAA tourney earns 17 points.*
- * Each post-season win over another player will also include +2 points
Preseason Draft:
- Each player will draft 8 NCAA D-1 Men's Basketball Teams
- No team can be drafted by more than one player
- Round 1 draft order is chosen randomly and videotaped
- Draft will follow snake draft method (team A picks 1 and 10, team B picks 2 and 9, etc depending on the number of players)
- No player can draft more than 1 team from the same conference in the first 4 rounds
- No player can draft more than 2 teams from the same conference (in preseason)
Interim Draft and Release:
- The last week of January, each player must draft 2 additional teams.
- Draft order will utilize snake method, with pick 1 going to last place point earner
- A voluntary third round will take place following the 2-round draft, in which one team from the original roster can be dropped and a new team picked up. All existing points from original team will remain. Order will continue snake method from round 2.
- Points will begin to be earned by the new teams on February 2, and new points will no longer be added for the discarded team effective February 2.
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- Major Conferences include: ACC, Big 10, Big East, Big 12, Pac 10, and SEC
- Mid-Major Conferences include: Atl 10, MWC, MVC, CUSA, Horizon, WAC, WCC, MAC & CAA
- Winner receives highly coveted & valued prizes from the BabblemurVault & ProgressMedia
- Winner also receives a place in the honorable Babbleball Hall of Fame
- Re. Playing your own team. A victory over your own team does not produce the +2 effect, nor the +4 effect if it is a top 10 team. You would still earn 1 point for a victory.
- While the CBI or any other post season tourney itself isn't worth anything, a team will still earn 1 point for each victory, and +2 for a victory over another player's team throughout CBI play
- Only the preseason tourneys listed are worth additional points for winning.
- AP poll is effective 2:00pm on each Monday throughout the pre and regular season, and lasts through the end of conference tourneys. Following the conference tourney, you will no longer receive a +2 bonus for defeating a "top ten" team
- If two teams tie for conference regular season champs, head to head winner is awarded the points. If still a tie, both teams are awarded full points.
- Winning a division within a conference does not produce additional bonus points under the conference champion rule. If a conference is divided into divisions, only the overall conference champion will be awarded the bonus points, with no bonus points for winning a division but not the overall conference
