The "ORIGINAL DRAFT LEAGUE" 58th SEASON

The Ultimate $47M Challenge in SIM Basketball entering it's 58th season.

Salary Cap - $47M

Rules

I. No clones, rookies or waiver wire.

II. The team owner is responsible for drafting and managing a team that remains in compliance with the league rules and is not forced into any rules violation. 

III. Each owner is responsible for verifying compliance with league rules of their opponent. If a rules violation takes place, it must be reported to the league commissioner by sitemail within 3 games of the violation taking place. Violations greater than 3 games back are not subject to review by the commissioner.

IV. 7 exclusive drafted players, plus 5 non-exclusive undrafted players. The 5 non-exclusive undrafted players may be any player not selected in the draft. (non-exclusive undrafted players cannot be used as starters)

V. *** 5 of your 7 exclusive drafted players must be used in your starting lineup in all games*** violation of rule-V will result in the loss of all games that are in violation or loss of draft position in next seasons draft, where appropriate.

VI. ***At the end of the regular season, your top five players in 'total minutes played' must all be exclusive drafted players*** violaton of rule-VI will result in the loss of any 'Play-Off' seeding and 'Draft Selection' position for the next ODL

VII. Draft Sequence..ABABAB. 1 pick rounds 1-5 and 2 picks in round 6.

VIII. Draft order:  The returning owners that did not make the playoffs will be in a NBA-style draft lottery. The other returning owners will then be placed behind them in order of regular season record from worst to best. New owners will be placed behind them in order of who joined first. 

Owners will now have the option to choose their draft slot. This will be done in draft order. So if the owner with the top pick chooses to draft in the 24th spot, the 2nd overall pick can choose any draft spot besides #24. This will continue until all the spots are filled. 

Tie breakers are decided by head to head, then conference record, then division record, then point differential for head to head.  New owners are seeded after returning owners by order of entry. It is assumed that an owner wants 'closer to 1', unless stated otherwise.

IX. A posted pick is final. No editing or removing posted picks. A second, separate, post should be made to correct any and all errors. Violation of rule-IX will result in the loss of selected player and the owner must select again from the remaining player pool.

X. Divisions.  Once the league fills, I will do a random realignment ONE TIME ONLY.  If you have a championship caliber team, you will win the title regardless of who is in your division, right?

XI. During the draft sitemail the next 2 owners on the schedule after making your pick..or state that you cannot sm and somebody will take care of it.

XII. The "Commissioner" may take control of any team refusing to comply with the ODL league rules. A warning will be issued in the league forum and a sitemail, after which the owner has 3 games to comply. All games in violation are 'losses'. Any owner invoking rule XII will be banned from future ODL's.

XIII. Commissioner: slymonium


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