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

Jutdog Rebounds, Turtle Scores

Well Jutdog bounced back after that scathing score last week to lead the pack this week with an astounding 33 points off 17-3 record. All 8 of his original teams won every game, only his expansion teams tripped up although Marquette came through against Cincy on Sunday. Jut can now claim to be "back init" just 68 points down from first place.

NotaTurtle dished out some damage as well this week - 30 points, 12-5 record, BIG wins for Purdue, UCONN, UTEP, and even Penn State won two games over other players to supply 6 points to the cause.

Points rundown for Week 15:
Jutdog +33
NotaTurtle +30
Babblemur +25
Akaoni +25
Gunz +22
Boaris +21
Jaybird +19
The CEO +18
Some Guy in Illinois +16
Phunmunki +11

Standings after Week 15:

• 1. Akaoni - 312 (166-58)
• 2. Gunz - 269 (157-71)
• 3. Jaybird - 268 (159-65)
• 4. Boaris - 266 (166-58)
• 5. Babblemur - 247 (159-65)
• 6. NotaTurtle - 245 (137-82)
• 7. Jutdog - 244 (153-65)
• 8. The CEO - 234 (150-75)
• 9. Phunmunki - 225 (140-80)
• 10. Some Guy in Illinois - 205 (145-82)

HOT GAMES FOR WEEK 16:

• Monday: Turtle's hot UCONN faces off with Jutdog's West Virginia. UCONN needs a good show to keep their conference hopes alive.
  
• Tuesday: Some Guy in Illinois may be wondering if he'll have ANY at large bids to the Big Dance! Louisville might be his best shot - and a win over Georgetown (Jaybird) would help.
  
• Wednesday: San Diego St (The CEO) needs to beat BYU (Boaris) to prove they are worthy.
  
• Thursday: Jacksonville (Babs) locks up 6 points IF they can beat Campbell...
  
• Thursday: Charleston (Akaoni) locks up 6 points IF they can beat Wofford...
• Saturday: Syracuse (Akaoni) vs. Villanova (Phun) = Big East
• Sunday: Richmond (Babs) vs. Xavier (Phun) = A-10
  

Slow and Steady Wins the Race...?

At this point in the season, every player is looking at 15-20 games a week, many of them against other players, with 25-30 points possible. Lets face it - those who win the big games are going to win the big points.

Take last week for example. Babblemur's teams went 14-5, most wins of anyone. Value = 14 points. Sure, only three games against other players, but all losses.

On the other hand, NotaTurtle suffered 8 losses last week, with only 11 wins, but led the league in scoring last week with 23 points. 5 points for knocking off West Virginia, 3 each for four other wins over other players, and this despite 6 losses to other players!

The top 3 players last week were:
NotaTurtle (23) who rose from the bottom dwellers to the playas division.
Gunz (22) who went 5-1 against other players, 12-4 over all, and passed Boaris to move from 4th place to 3rd in the standings.
Akaoni (21) who claims it was a "miserable week" - he went 11-5, 5-2 against other players.

Least amount of points earned: Some Guy in Illinois, who lost all three games against other players (including a loss to UCLA) but went 10-6 overall for...10 points.

Best W-L record of the week: Jutdog, turned in an 11-3 performance for 17 pts, his only losses to #4 Purdue, New Mexico St, and Maine.

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If we assume that 20+ points is a "good week", and 10 points is about as bad as one can get, any movement on the leader board will involve a slow and steady series of good weeks, average (15) at worst, while other teams turn in a slow and steady series of bad weeks. Am I just trying to make the case that I can catch Akaoni? Sure! But I would have to have 5 good weeks of 20+ points per week while he would need 5 bad weeks. (Note: There are only about 9 more weeks of the regular season...)

So what this is really saying is that while slow and steady wins the race, time is running out for the sleeping rabbits who aren't knocking down the big games. That includes Babblemur, Some Guy in Illinois, Phunmunki, and The CEO.

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Week Nine Preview

Best chance anyone has to knock of a Top Ten Team:
Wisconsin (Gunz) vs. Purdue (Turtle) on Saturday - Purdue is going to a tough road game in Mad-town, where the Badgers knocked off Top 10 Duke earlier (as well as Ohio State and Marquette).

Potentially fun games to watch:
Tuesday: #2 Texas (Akaoni) vs. Arkansas (CEO) - this one is at Arkansas, and I just have a feeling that the Razorbacks just might come out to play ball.
Wednesday: #1 Kansas (Boaris) vs. Cornell (Jutdog) - lets just all admit that Cornell has been playing some pretty good ball this year. Beating Kansas at Kansas? I'm just expecting a fun game!
Friday: Butler (Babs) vs. Wright St (Some Guy) - this is the first of the two match ups between the only two player owned Horizon League teams. OK it might not be fun to watch, but if you do you might see why Butler was ranked in the top 12 in pre-season polls...
Saturday: Gonzaga (Turtle) vs. Portland (Babblemur) - first of two matchups between two very good WAC teams. Gonzaga: beat Wisconsin, Illinois, Oklahoma, & Cincinnati. Portland: beat Minnesota, UCLA, and Oregon.
Saturday: Illinois St (Gunz) vs. UNI (CEO) - Showdown for the Missouri Valley, both teams have exceeded expectations so far...
Saturday: Siena (Boaris) vs. Niagara (Phun) - Showdown for the ______ Conference, Siena comes very highly recommended, Niagara comes with a cool nickname, the Purple Eagles.
Sunday: #1 Kansas (Boaris) vs. Tennessee (Jut) - Gotta love inter-conference play! Tennessee better be packing heat for this game! Ha ha ha!

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Standings after Week Eight

# 1. AKaoni - 147 (87-18)
# 2. Jaybird - 126 (81-22)
# 3. Gunz - 124 (84-25)
# 4. Boaris - 122 (84-24)
# 5. Jutdog - 113 (78-24)
# 6. NotaTurtle - 111 (73-32)
# 7. The CEO - 104 (76-32)
# 8. Some Guy in Illinois - 102 (78-33)
# 9. Phunmunki - 101 (70-34)
# 10. Babblemur - 100 (70-35)