2010 - 2011 Rules

Reposting this so as to come to a final agreement on the new rules. Please take a look and comment on your thoughts. Note in the NCAA tourney point section, I added ( ) around numbers. Based on past commentary, numerous folks didn't like the small decrease in NCAA points, so the ( ) represents a possible option for adding back a few points.

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 assigned by babblemur here

- 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 (16) 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 videotapped
- Draft order will follow snake draft method (team A picks 1 and 10, team B picks 2 and 9, etc)
- 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.


Additional Rule Elements:

- Major Conferences include: ACC, Big 10, Big East, Big 12, Pac 10, and SEC

- Mid-Major Conferences include: Atl 10, Mountain West, Miss Valley, CUSA, Horizon, WAC, West Coast, MAC, & CAA

- Winner receives highly coveted & valued prizes from the BabblemurVault

- 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 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

Penn State Wins NIT, Musa climbs to 11th

Penn State defeated Baylor in the NIT, a crushing blow for NotaTurtle that boosted the ailing Musashisan out of the basement and into 11th place, just a few points ahead of HippieD. HippieD, however, still has UCONN in the Final Four, and thus his fate is in his hands.

Musashisan also has a chance to win the CBI best of 3 finale when Oregon State faces Turtle's UTEP tonight in the tie breaker.

But the big games are Saturday! Final Four Baby

Michigan State (Babblemur) long shots to reach the final game and give Babs the win;

UCONN (HippieD) the giant killers with their own giant wade into the final four ready to reek havoc as HippieD tries to stay out of last place;

North Carolina (Jaybird) everyone's choice for National Champs at the beginning of the year is finally giving Jaybird, who has never led this competition, a crack at winning it all;

Villanova (The CEO) unlikely rise out of the brutal Big East, maybe the only team that can beat UNC at this level and potentially give The CEO, who has also never led this competition, a crack at winning it all;

ITS ON!

Boaris Cracks, Musa Blast Off, Aka Rising

Points are stacking up as we approacheth the end of regular season and beginning of tournaments, and the big winners last week were...

1. MUSASHISAN! That's right, cellar dweller Musa nailed 36 points to shoot from last to 10th place, and that was without any of the four conference champs dolled out to others. How did he achieve this amazing feat? Lowly Oregon St beat California and Stanford (Boaris)... Lowly St. Louis beat St. Joes (Boaris) & Dayton (Akaoni)... Florida St beat Miami (Turtle) and Virginia Tech (Boaris)... Iowa over Michigan (Akaoni), Wash St over UCLA (Turtle), Penn St over Illinois, even Western Kentucky beat conference rival Arkansas Little Rock (Progress) to lead to the only decent week Musashisan has had all year. Congrats!

2. AKAONI! No conference champs here, he took 34 points the hard way: Purdue over Mich St (Babs), Texas A&M over Texas (Progress), Florida over Alabama and Vandy, Drake over UNI and Austin Peay... Akaoni is likely the one player that doesn't stand a chance of winning a conference so he needs the points. These 34 points put him just 7 points behind first place Boaris, who turned in a second slumpy week of play.

In fact, lets take a closer look at Boaris' week, since he is the team to beat: Oklahoma lost to Texas, Kentucky lost to Vandy, Virginia Tech dropped two games, Stanford lost to both Oregon and Oregon St which is really sucky, Butler lost to Milwaukee, St. Joes lost two straight in the A-10, Miss St fell to Alabama, Providence dropped two in the Big East, and Austin Peay lost to Drake in the Bracket Buster. Boaris' 6-13 record would make even last place NotaTurtle cringe (Turtle went 10-9 last week). But... can anyone beat Pitt?

The rest of us:
Phunmunki - 30 points to jump from 9th to 6th place
The CEO - 28 points to climb to 5th place
ProgressMedia - 26 points moves into 7th place
Jutdog Millionaire - 23 points
Jaybird - 22 points
Notaturtle - 20 points
HippieD - 18 points falls into 11th place
Babblemur - 17 points falls from 2nd to 3rd place
Boaris - 16 points to show signs of weakness and vulnerability
Gunz - 11 points to drop from 5th place to 9th place

Team of the Week: Morgan State (ProgressMedia) who won 3 games this week to seal the conference championship of the MEAC, nice job!

Conference Champs:
So far 4 conference championship points have been doled out so far. Champs get 7 points for Majors, 6 for Minors. We have:
Big Sky - Weber St (Jutdog)
MAAC - Siena (The CEO)
MEAC - Morgan St (Progress Media)
West Coast - Gonzaga (Phunmunki)

This week we will likely see a dozen or more conferences sealed up, which is a lot of bonus points flying around. Look for the leader board to shake up even more.

Week Two Recap: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Week Two is really like the first "real" week, and the pace setters were Phunmunki, Musashisan, The CEO and Boaris.

The Good:

Phunmunki, who celebrated her birthday on Sunday, brought in the most points this week carried by Xavier's remarkable championship in Puerto Rico. They beat a tough Missouri, then beat Boaris' Virginia Tech with a half court buzzer beater, followed by a close win over Gunz' Memphis to take the Puerto Rico Classic. Also for Phunmunki Wisconsin played themselves into the Paradise Jam Finals to be played Monday, and BYU went 3-0 in one of those Basketball Travelers things.

Musashisan drove into first place with 22 points, spread over his entire 8 team force. He also carries the best overall record at 24-2. Tennessee and Clemson took 4 pts each, Iowa, Florida State and St. Louis took 3 pts each.

The CEO was carried by Duke who won the Coaches Versus Cancer Classic, taking down Southern Ill (Gunz) and Michigan to do it. Siena's defeat of Cornell added some points and made up for Mid. Tenn. St and Mt. St. Mary's losses. The CEO finished the week in fourth place.

Boaris, who started the week in first, fell to second place. Pittsburgh and Oklahoma brought home some points, but frankly not a lot of games for Boaris this week. Virginia Tech got shot down in Puerto Rico, Kentucky got smeared by North Carolina, etc.

The Bad:

Gunz choked hard on a pretzel. He lost seven games, including every head to head game against another player he had, won eight games total for the week. Southern Illinois got the double smack down from Duke and UCLA. Memphis lost to Xavier in the Puerto Rico finals, BC lost to St. Louis, etc. Bad.

Jutdog held down last place all week, with the bottom half of his teams losing game after game. San Diego showed some promise, and Louisville, Wake, and OSU have barely started, but until something changes Jut holds onto Cellar Dweller for the Second Week Straight.

Babblemur, however, shouldn't be talkin, given a lackluster week against other players and no significant wins. Charlotte, San Diego State and Tulsa all failed to upset this week.

The Ugly:

• Green Bay (Jutdog) losing to Rollins (Div. II)
• Alabama State (Jaybird) three losses in one week
  
• Arkansas (Gunz) loss to Missouri State
• Morgan State (ProgressMedia) three losses in one week (plus 2 wins)
• Western Michigan (HippieD) still sucks from last week

Standings after week two (ending 11/23):

• 1. Musashisan (24-2) - 32
• 2. Boaris (19-5) - 31
• 3. Phunmunki (21-4) - 30
• 4. The CEO (20-4) - 28
• 5. HippieD (20-9) - 26
• 6. Akaoni (19-6) - 23
• 7. Jaybird (17-6) - 23
• 8. Notaturtle (15-7) - 21
• 9. Babblemur (16-5) - 20
• 10. ProgressMedia (16-8) - 20
• 11. Gunz (17-8) - 19
• 12. Jutdog (13-7) - 15