ABA Constitution

1.ABA will be a head to head basketball league using the latest dks nba disks.  ABA will consist of 24 teams.

2.Playing Games. All games will be played in week intervals and a schedule will be emailed as well as posted on the website.  It is the home teams responsibility to contact the visiting team to play their games.  The Games that teams are required to play on a weekly basis are highlighted in yellow  .  You are required to play atleast those games every week.  You may play as many games on the schedule that you like and the more you play the better, but as long as you played your required weekly games then that will be fine.  Games for each week must be completed by Saturday at midnight, all games not sent in by then will be simulated by me.

3.Playoffs. Playoffs will be 8 teams in each conference seeded by won-loss record and is formatted just like the NBA.  Each division winner will get the top 2 seeds.

4.Trades.  Trades are allowed and approved by the comish, you may also trade 1 year in advance draft picks as well as players.

5.Draft.  Each team will keep 10 players each year, the rest will go in the next years draft with the rookies.  Each years draft after the first will consist of 6 rounds.

6.Yahoo Group.  I will place all members of the ABA in a Yahoo newsgroup to make it easier for all of us to be contacted.  If you quit the league it is your responsiblity to unsubscribe from the group, not mine. 

7.Rosters.  Each team will have a roster limit of 16 players, once again at season end this list will be cut down to 10 and there will be a 6 round draft at the conclusion of each season.

8.Playing Limit.  Players are limited to the actual number of NBA games they played during the season.  Penalties will occur for all players used over their limit.  Every game you use a player over his nba limit is a game he misses in the playoffs.  If you use all his available playoff games then it costs him a game for the following season and you risk possible withdrawal from the league depending on the player and the circumstances. 

9.Playoff Playing Limits.  Playoff game availability is determined by the % of games the player played in the NBA Season.  The following chart is used to determine how many playoff games a given player can play.

7game series
nba games  Playoff games allowed
70-82           7
59-69           6
46-58           5
41-45           4
30-40           3
18-29           2
1-17             1

5 game series
nba games  playoff games allowed
66-82           5
50-65           4
41-49           3
25-40           2
1-24             1

10.League Files.  League files are sent out every night after 10pm eastern time.  The times vary on when they will be sent out and all files (coaching or game files) that are sent to me before i send out the file will be included.  But if you want a certain Coach or Game file to go on the next days games then please, just to be safe, turn it in before 10pm eastern.  League Files should be sent in .coa or.bks format and not zip format please.