5/31/1999 Draft Lottery -- based upon a die roll of 4 MIL will have the first pick of next season's rookie/free-agent draft followed by NOR and then BUF (of returning teams); this lottery result is not official and will not at all count unless at the date of the beginning of the 1999-2000 administrative season (approximately a few weeks after sombk releases the team disk) all three of those teams still fully intend to play in the upcoming season. June Dakota playoffs After approximately mid-June Jason was not available to play in any playoff games so he sent to Ed a gameplan to use in all playoff home games (which were autoplayed with also the away team's gameplan) and autoplayed games (with all defensive settings set to zero). May/June WALDAK playoffs After winning the series 3 games to 2, Ed noticed that WAL had used McCarty in game 2 (a road game) for 6 very good minutes -- in Ed's gameplan he had unintentionally listed McCarty as eligible and while McCarty was not in the lineup grid the computer did put him in the game when players were in foul trouble; since Mike was scheduled to play Ed in round 2 both Mike and Ed were disqualified from ruling in this situation; Rick decided that it was up to Jason if he wanted a replay of the game; Jason had mostly stopped reading e-mails (due to the fact that he had thought himself out of the playoffs) but after about a week he declined to make a decision and instead asked Rick for a league vote; Rick put the issue up to a league vote which ended up in a 7-6 vote in favor of replaying the game in an autoplay; using gameplans sent by Ed and Jason game 2 was replayed with DAK winning, however Ed noticed that Divac was used in this replay but was supposed to be ineligible in this game due to regular season overuse; Rick decided that another replay was in order and also decided that since he would be out of town for awhile he would have Frank (a former league officer) handle the situation; using gameplans sent by Ed and Jason another game 2 was replayed (by Frank) with DAK winning; prior to either replay Rick had said that if both Jason and Ed wanted to replay the rest of the entire series (after game 2) then that would be done but at that time Ed did not want to do that so DAK wins the series 3-0; the situation for game 2 was resolved in a 3-week period of time. May WILMAD playoffs For MAD due to regular season overuse K.Gill was ineligible to play in games 1 and 2 though Tom had decided before the series that Gill would be eligible for the WILMAD playoff series and C.Crawford would not; however, Tom played game 2 (a home game) with C.Crawford playing 12 very good minutes and indicated that he decided to make C.Crawford eligible for the series while making K.Gill ineligible; Ed ruled that while this is not an acceptable thing to decide without league approval it is not a problem for this particular case since Crawford for 4 games is not as good as Gill for 3 games, Mike and Rick agreed while Allen did not choose to comment (until much later when he said that having his opponent play with his 12 best is fine with him). REGULAR SEASON OVERUSES DAK Divac played 65 games but was eligible 64 games -- must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs WIL Donyell Marshall played 72 games but was eligible 71 games -- must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs KAU Nordgaard played 75 minutes but was eligible for 50 minutes -- must miss the first 12 games of the playoffs and may only play in 2 minutes of the 13th game MAD K.Gill played 82 games but was eligible 81 games -- must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs FRE Brandon played 51 games but was eligible for 50 games -- must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs; B.Grant played 62 games but was eligible for 61 games -- must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs; E.Gray played 32 games but was eligible for 30 games -- must miss the first 4 games of the playoffs; Milic played 195 but was eligible for 171 minutes -- must miss the first 9 games of the playoffs and may only play in 3 minutes of the 10th game; Mike indicates that regarding the game overuses he had been using the "games missed list" (which was still up on this news page) rather than the "days missed list" on the rosters. BUF C.O'Bannon 31/30 games HAR none (Gugliotta's stats were adjusted, was a stats mistake on a manual gamefile creation) IND Recasner 60/59 games IRO J.Howard 65/64 games; Harrington 1062/948 minutes; Pollard 373/333 minutes NOR Foyle 56/55 games; Blount 71/70 games SOU Mayberry 80/79 games; Horry 73/72 games MIL Sprewell 575/574 minutes; McGrady 1262/1238 minutes; Rhodes 1250/1124 minutes; E.Snow 1112/964 minutes; Mi.Williams 222/169 minutes; J.Vaughn 447/440 minutes; L.Green 180/130 minutes WOO M.Stewart 1557/1527 minutes (second year in a row of M.Steward overuse by WOO) 5/2/99 4th quarter autoplayed games madwoo79, nordak75 4/21/99 wilkau79 Peter e-mailed Allen and me that he had not received this gameplan; 4/24/99 late evening I sent a default gameplan to Peter. 3/26/99 Ironton Michael hasn't made any contact with the league (including having missed legal gameplan and game result deadlines) since 3/1/99 despite league efforts to contact him; team Ironton is vacated; gameplans will be default (let computer decide) and games will be autoplayed. 3/21/99 3rd quarter autoplayed games (*=with away gameplan): souiro44*, suniro46*, noriro48, indiro49, wiliro50, lakiro52*, bufiro58*, freiro61, waliro62*; iromil56, walmil61*, normil62, woomil63; kausou54; wilwoo61; milmad50. 3/21/99 milmad50 Tom today notified me that Frank had not sent a gameplan (as they usually play face-to-face); Tom was unable to get from Frank a gameplan by the deadline so Tom sent me a gameplan and the game was autoplayed. 3/19/99 kausou54 Default gameplan sent for kau as Peter hadn't sent this gameplan; as it turned out, game was autoplayed. 3/12/99 q3 Ironton Haven't heard from Michael since 3/1/99; will begin to send default gameplans as requested 3/14/99; default gameplans. 3/1/99 q3 Ironton Michael pointed out that he accidentally set Hurley and Pollard in away gameplans and sent the league an e-mail about the situation; in the meantime, in irohar51, irokau45 (played 3/5/99), irowoo60 (played 3/20/99 even though Jim had a default gameplan from me) and in irobuf53 both players were used while in irofre57 Hurley was used; Hurley will miss irobuf75 while the remainder of the additional missed games will be applied next season on a one-for-one basis (for a different but similar player if one of these players is not on the team next year). 2/27/99 bufwoo44 Jim pointed out that he accidentally used D.Strong in bufwoo44 so Strong must miss the next bufwoo game which is bufwoo70. 1/31/99 2nd quarter late game results and gameplans: Jason didn't send dakhar43.gpl by the 2nd quarter deadline (not realizing that it was a 2nd quarter game) and then sent it after being notified, game had to be autoplayed Jason didn't send game results woodak24 and sundak35 (he had forgotten to attach the files to the e-mails) until 1:30 p.m. PST the day after the deadline Don didn't notify me about the missing dakhar43.gpl until two days before the game result deadline - game dakhar43 was autoplayed with default gameplans Michael didn't play and send me any 2nd quarter home game results until 1:30 p.m. PST the day after the deadline at which time he successfully sent me all game results Aaron didn't successfully send me daksou23, irosou39, and madsou42 (he tried to send them to me 1/31 but the file attachment was unreadable) so these games were autoplayed Allen's PC couldn't read either gpl sent by Aaron for souwil41 (though I could on my PC) so game was autoplayed with gpl's from both coaches - no problem 01/24/99 wilhar24 When Don manually recreated the lost gfl file from the prt file for this game Michael Jordan's stats were mistakenly given to Tom Gugliotta; this stat mistake will be corrected on the final season stats but currently the league stats show one extra game played for Gugliotta and one fewer game played for Jordan than was actually the case. 01/17/99 wooind26 and wooind43 JJ reports that he didn't receive these gameplans and Jim acknowledged that he had sent them to the wrong address and resent them to the correct address tonight. 01/14/99 team Ironton Michael noticed that Ed had made an error transcribing J.Howard's games missed onto the days missed list; J.Howard's days missed should have been 33-41,79-95 but was instead mistakenly listed as 48-77 (accidentally duplicating J.Thomas' days missed list); since J.Howard has already played in hariro34 and madiro38 J.Howard will need to miss irohar51 (there are no hariro games remaining this season) and madiro74, in neither game is another star forward scheduled to miss; J.Howard's days missed has been updated on the rosters of the web page. 12/22/98 team Madison For an apparently technical reason Tom is unable to create all of the gfl files manually from the prt files; to finally end the first quarter Ed has decided that Ed will autoplay all of the nine Madison home games affected with 9 away gameplans forwarded by Tom. 12/20/98 team Madison Tom accidently didn't save the gfl file game results of his first quarter games so the evening of 12/21/98 he will create each of the gfl files manually from the saved prt files. 12/20/98 team Woodridge Jim accidently mis-named his first quarter zip file game results but they were close enough to be easily renamed by Ed. 12/19/98 madfre14 Fremont played madfre14 with a default gameplan sent by Ed since Tom never sent a gameplan to Mike's new address. Reminder had been sent to Tom 12/17/98. 12/16/98 team Dakota Corrected mistake made by Ed noticed by Jason on D.Harper's missed games. 12/04/98 team Fremont Notified league that old e-mail address hasn't been working and gave new e-mail address (see rosters). Deadline for sending gameplans to Mike extended several days due to e-mail change. 12/04/98 walind21 IND pointed out that IND accidentally used J.R.Reid so J.R.Reid must rest for walind35. 11/13/98 soubuf05 BUF pointed out that BUF accidentally used Kittles instead of Billups (thinking that it was day 02) so Kittles must rest for soubuf49. 11/10/98 Trade DAK receives V.Divac, KAU #4, and KAU #6; KAU receives K.Thomas, DAK #1, and DAK #3. 11/1/98 Trade WIL receives Donyell Marshall, K.Reeves, and SEA #4; WOO receives C.Williamson and V.Askew. 10/30/98 Trade FRE receives S.Walker and MIL #3; MIL receives D.Garrett and FRE #2. 10/26/98 Trade (approved by league 8-4-1) SOU receives R.Horry; MIL receives A.Carr and SOU #1 (1999). 10/25/98 Trade SOU receives S.Kemp; WIL receives G.Rice, SOU #2, SOU #3. 10/25/98 Trade IRO receives B.Knight; SUN receives Stoudamire. 10/25/98 Trade DAK receives SUN #6; SUN receives DAK #6 (1999). 10/25/98 Trade SUN receives Mullin; WAL receives K.Johnson. 10/25/98 Trade DAK receives Porter, Mullin, MIL #4, SUN #3 (1999); SUN receives M.Strickland, Elliott, H.Davis. 10/25/98 Trade DAK receives SUN #6; SUN receives DAK #6 (1999). 10/25/98 Trade DAK receives WIL #5; WIL receives DAK #5 (1999). 10/18/98 Trade WAL receives Mullin and Lake K's 3rd round pick; LAK receives J.Smith and E.Perry. 10/18/98 Trade BUF receives L.Wright, Lake K's 1st round pick, and Lake's 2nd rd pick; LAK receives Buffalo's 1st round pick and Buffalo's 2nd round pick. 10/17/98 Trade SUN receives K.Johnson and Milwaukee's 4th round pick; MIL receives Fremont's 2nd round pick. 10/7/98 Trade MIL receives Ostertag, Fox, Spencer, and Bal #1 pick (#8 overall); FRE receives Coleman and A.Henderson. 10/2/98 Trade WOO receives Jerry Stackhouse and Derek Strong; FRE receives Terrell Brandon and Rick Fox. 1998 PRE-DRAFT ROSTER CUTS: Buffalo: Dudley Lake K: Dehere, M.Rose, E.Perry, Watson Sunnyvale: Hoiberg, Causwell, Gamble, Livingston, Legler Milwaukee: Gary Grant, Gheorghe Muresan, Donald Royal, Felton Spencer Harlem: Szabo, Pack, T.Mills R.Brown Willamette: S.Vrankovic,R.Walters, Ha.Grant, J.Robinson Woodridge: Potapenko, J.Allen, A.Lister, J.Barry Norton: Cliff Rozier, Lionel Simmons, Wayman Tisdale, John Williams Fremont: John Crotty, Mitchell Butler, Michael Hawkins Ironton: Owes, T.Fuller, Wingate, Moten South Bend: None Indiana: None Kaukauna: Carlos Rogers, Lloyd Daniels, Donny Marshall, John Long Walnut Creek: Bueschler, Dare, L.Green Madison: Augmon, Geary, Feick, Mashburn Dakota: L.Williams, Askins, Aa.Williams, Recasner Player overuses from last year: WIL Williamson was overused 25 minutes so will be allowed to play 50 fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster; WIL D.Fisher was overused 20 minutes so will be allowed to play 40 fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster; WIL Keefe was overused 31 minutes so will be allowed to play 62 fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster; WIL Keefe was overused 1 game so will be allowed to play 2 fewer games this year than currently listed on the roster; WIL S.Nash was overused 2 games so will be allowed to play 4 fewer games this year than currently listed on the roster; WIL Ha.Grant was overused 40 minutes but is no longer on the WIL roster and so J.O'Neal will be allowed to play 80 fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster; SEA Slater was overused 17 minutes so will be allowed to play 34 fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster; SEA Garnett was overused 1 game so will be allowed to play 2 fewer games this year than currently listed on the roster; SEA Fox was overused 1 game but is no longer on the SEA roster and so Donyell Marshall will be allowed to play 2 fewer games this year than currently listed on the roster; SEA Lister was overused 161 minutes but is no longer on the SEA roster and so M.Stewart will be allowed to play 322 fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster (remember that Lister had a good card last year as a monster rebounder); IRO D.Curry was overused 1 game so will be allowed to play 2 fewer games this year than currently listed on the roster; NOR McIlvaine was overused 1 game so will be allowed to play 2 fewer games this year than currently listed on the roster; MAD Piatkowski was overused 135 minutes but missed 60 minutes in the playoffs (12 min/g x 5 games) so will be allowed to play 210 (270-60) fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster; MAD R.Geary was overused 137 minutes but missed 35 minutes in the playoffs (7 min/g x 5 games) but is no longer on the MAD roster so L.Harris will be allowed to play 239 (274-35) fewer minutes this year than currently listed on the roster; MIL Horry was overused 2 games but missed 4 games in the playoffs so will not need any further adjustment; HAR R.Pack was overused 2 games but missed 4 games in the playoffs so will not need any further adjustment. [In some cases the overusage was probably due to setting 0 minutes in the fatigue grid on a road game but forgetting to set the player as ineligible.]