5/5/2002 WALGAL playoff game 3 The zip file sent by Steve/GAL contained the correct prt file for the game but the gfl file was for another game; after searching, Steve could not find the correct gfl file and so the result could not be imported; this would have been a problem (and the game likely replayed) if GAL had won but this game was won by WAL 5/2/2002 NORLAK playoff series After game 3 of this first round playoff series Kyle/NOR noticed on the League News web page that his player T.Hill was supposed to miss games 1 and 2 due to regular season overusage, NOR had lost game 1 and won game 2; the EC ruled 4-0 (minus Rick/LAK) that the Constitution Amendment is clear in that game 2 must be replayed with no T.Hill, games 1 and 3 will stand, and T.Hill will miss game 5 of the series (since that's the next NORLAK game) or if there is no game 5 then he will miss the first NORLAK game next season 4/18/2002 MIC playoffs I have not heard from Tim (see 4/11 entry below for further details) and the EC has voted 4-0 to proceed without him; Brian has agreed to take over team MIC for the playoffs 4/15/2002 player overusage X/X indicates minutes or games used/allowed, adjustment is always double the overusage Playoff teams: adjustments made during the playoffs * GAL -- Vaught 600/576 minutes, Vaught must miss his first 48 minutes of the playoffs which since he averaged 11 minutes per game is the first 4 games which leaves 4 minutes of eligibility in game 5; Slater 743/720 minutes, Slater must miss his first 46 minutes of the playoffs which since he averaged 12 minutes per game is the first 3 games which leaves 10 minutes of eligibility in game 4 * MIC -- Lenard 81/80 games, Lenard must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs; Billups 76/75 games, Billups must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs * NOR -- T.Hill 77/76 games, T.Hill must miss the first 2 games of the playoffs Non-playoff teams: adjustments made to 10-man roster of next pre-season * BRO -- E.Barkley 86/40 minutes, E.Barkley or equivalent must miss an additional 92 minutes; J.McCoy 757/702 minutes, someone must miss an additional 110 minutes * SOU -- D.McKey 811/770 minutes, someone must miss an additional 82 minutes; T.MacCulloch 476/471 minutes, someone must miss an additional 10 minutes * HAR -- A.Goldwire 241/211 minutes, someone must miss an additional 60 minutes; Q.Lewis 433/422 minutes, someone must miss an additional 22 minutes * LOS -- Av.Johnson 56/55 games, someone must miss an additional 2 games * CEN -- Medvedenko 46/41 minutes, someone must miss an additional 10 minutes 4/14/2002 autoplayed games I did not receive the following huge number of home results (see below for details on most of those); home team lineups were set by the computer after setting the proper eligible players from the roster sheet and road team defensive profiles all set to 0 AaronK: brolos70 (los won), gallos72 (gal), sunlos74 (los), norlos75 (los), davlos81 (los), cenlos82 (cen), laklos83 (lak), soulos87 (sou), harlos89 (har), lexlos91 (lex), millos93 (los) Tim: pormic70 (mic won), harmic71 (har), indmic74 (mic), lexmic75 (lex), walmic82 (mic), soumic84 (mic), cenmic88 (cen), losmic92 (los) Scott: micmil79 (mil) 4/14/2002 no mil gpl In Scott's 4th quarter gpl's he did not include one for game millos93 so when I autoplayed the game I had to set eligible players and let computer set lineups 4/11/2002 Tim/MIC Tim has not been responding to e-mail for several days, one e-mail sent 4/4 and one sent 4/8 both unanswered; Tim if you are reading this please send me an e-mail; 4/14 update, MIC's playoff status is in question if I don't hear from Tim 4/9/2002 AaronK/LOS AaronK's e-mail was coming back undeliverable until today; Aaron sent me an e-mail that he is still working on his new PC (see below) and may or may not be able to get sombk running by the q4 deadline 4/8/2002 gpl's incorrectly created michar73.gpl (see below) and losnor71.gpl were incorrectly created by accidentally choosing the away team's own team as the opposition; I have successfully imported each of these gpl's (bypassing error messages) and then set the defensive profiles of all opposition players to 0 and created new valid replacement gpl's and sent them to the home team to use; the lineup and offensive settings should be the same as designed but with no defensive settings 3/30/2002 MIC missed gpl deadline e-mail reminder sent 3/31, e-mail received from Tim 4/3 with gpl file attached and no text within the e-mail; 4/4 Don was not able to import michar73.gpl and I verified that importing it caused error messages, e-mail sent to Tim requesting replacement gpl was not responded to (yet) 3/30/2002 LOS computer problems AaronK has indicated that due to a computer crash he had to wipe out his hard drive and install Windows XP which will not run sombk (this is a known issue); early in April Charles has offered to create a boot disk for Aaron but I have not heard whether Aaron will be using this to install sombk; Aaron's q4 home games may be autoplayed if Aaron does not install sombk by the deadline; it was found after the computer crash that Aaron had incorrectly created losnor71.gpl (see above) 3/13/2002 missing prt file milsou78 2/24/2002 sunsou63 (entry corrected 2/25/2002 Charles/SUN sent out his 3rd quarter gpl's a couple of weeks before the deadline and those were posted to the web page as usual. Several days later Charles sent to 3 coaches (with cc to Ed) who had not yet played their 3rd quarter home games against SUN replacement gpl's which had additional minutes for P.Sanchez and also had Geiger explicitly set as ineligible (Geiger had been appearing in some q3 road games as a fatigue or foul replacement). These replacement gpl's were not posted to the web page as it was not realized that this was a zip file containing all of the gpl's (it would be too much trouble to post every replacement gpl to the web page unless they are zipped up with the others into a single file). About a week after that AaronM/SOU played sunsou63 and Charles found that Geiger appeared in that game. AaronM indicated that he simply downloaded the gpl from the web page apparently ignoring or not remembering the e-mail Charles had sent. Sou won the game by approximately 12 points. The EC (minus Charles) agreed 4-0 that AaronM should have heeded Charles' e-mail with the replacement gpl although the mistake was not a big one. The EC agreed 4-0 that as a penalty in the game sousun93 (which is the only remaining game between the two) Charles will have the "home court advantage" setting and in addition P.Sanchez will become eligible for that game (if he has any minutes of eligibility remaining at that time). Possibly replaying the game came up in conversation though it was rejected for the time being as this is not allowed for regular season games per the Constitution. The EC also informally agreed that the issue of replacement gpl's as well as replaying regular season games under certain circumstances of mistakes made (as long as the game has not been imported into the official league file) and the timing of importing game results should be discussed next preseason to avoid future misunderstandings of this type. 2/19/2002 Team MIL This entry is very lengthy because I like to have this sort of thing "documented" to avoid misunderstandings. Last season Ed noticed a walmil result in which Webber played only 28 minutes despite being set for 40 minutes in the gpl and not being in foul trouble; both Scott and Ed expressed the opinion that they had no idea how this occurred and the issue was not pursued at that time; this season Scott has indicated that he made a new player mistake by not importing a gpl for that walmil game last season. This season in game lakmil35 Rick noticed that Payton was used for only 8 minutes despite being set in the gpl for more than 36 and that V.Carter played 10-16 minutes fewer than expected based upon the gpl and lack of foul trouble; Scott indicates that he noticed that Payton was scheduled for very few minutes even after importing the gpl twice; it can be seen that downloading and importing the gpl from the web page shows that Payton was scheduled for 36 or more minutes; Charles has noticed that when he takes the start-of-third-quarter league file and then let's the computer suggest the lineup it will schedule Payton for only approximately 8 minutes. This season in game walmil56 Ed noticed that neither R.Patterson nor especially Christie were used as many minutes as indicated in the gpl and neither were in foul trouble; Charles further noticed that players were indicated in the play account (within the prt) as being in the game when not scheduled to be and that this was not due to foul trouble; Charles was able to successfully re-create the minutes played results by setting dynamic fatigue; Scott acknowledges that he uses dynamic fatigue in another league and that it's possible that this occurred though likely in only one game. Charles found an example of a sunmil game and Brian found an example of a davmil game both from this season in which it appears probable that the dynamic fatigue setting was used. The Executive Committee (EC) agreed that it is likely that these cases were due to negligence in game settings and importing gpl's. The EC also agreed that it is likely that there are more games affected by these problems than what is listed above and that it is not reasonable for anyone to have to go through detailed prt and gpl files to find more discrepencies; the EC therefore agreed that any penalties assessed should compensate the league as a whole and not individual teams (unless further examples come to light). After a couple of days of discussion the EC came up with the following list for voting: A) No playoffs this season; B) Home court advantage setting for opposition in remaining season road games; C) Take away next season 1st round pick; D) Reduce the # of games of eligibility by 5 of his top 6 players (to be determined next pre-season); E) Limit the # of keepers next season to 9; F) Limit the # of keepers next season to 8; G) Combination of B and C; H) Combination of B and D; or I) Combination of C and D. Other combinations were not desired by the EC in the list. Consistent with the league Constitution amendment for such types of votes each EC member listed 3 choices in order of preference: Ed chose GIH, Rick chose IFE, Charles chose HGB, Brian chose GHB, and Dale chose DHI. With no one choice receiving a majority of #1 votes a runoff was held between H (which had the most voting points based upon 3 points for a #1 vote, 2 points for a #2 vote, and 1 point for a #3 vote) and G (which had the same number of voting points as I and was chosen using Ed's vote as the tie-breaker); with Rick giving an additional specific vote of G over H it was the case that G was higher than H on 3 of the 5 vote lists and so G wins the runoff. All league members are asked (e-mail sent 2/19 7:00pm PST) to set the home court advantage in all remaining regular season games against MIL (and to make sure to set it back to neutral court for all other games); in addition, MIL has lost its first round draft choice next season. Scott has been asked to note any irregularies he may see in anyone's gpl before the game. All league members are advised to check the prt file of their road games. If anyone has any questions please do not hesitate to ask. 2/3/2002 days missed adjustments Fortunately, all of the teams who made trades at the end of the second quarter of the season have played the same number of games so there's not as much adjusting needing done; I have made the few days missed adjustments on the roster page 2/2/2002 Trade approved 5-0 by EC (effective for second half of season) MIL receives C.Carr, K.Dooling MIC receives V.Lenard, Z.Wang, MIL #3 2/1/2002 Trade (effective for second half of season) SUN receives J.Caffey, DAV #2, DAV #3 DAV receives M.Harpring, SUN #3, SUN #4 1/20/2002 Trade approved 5-0 by EC (effective for second half of season) MIC receives T.Ratliff, B.Grant, C.Billups, C.Carr, LOS #4, and LOS #5 LOS receives E.Davis, T.Gugliotta, L.Ellis, J.Smith, MIC #1, and CEN #1 1/6/2002 missing prt file normil29 12/30/2001 q1 autoplayed games I had not received the following game results so I autoplayed these games with "let computer suggest lineups" for the home team and using the away team's gpl created by the away team's coach: porgal02 won by por, cengal03 won by cen, hargal08 won by gal, and losgal12 won by gal Steve e-mailed me 1/2: "I have been sick with the flu the last week and just now checked my e-mail. I did not receive instructions for any of these games!" I then reminded Steve that all gpl's are posted on the main web page and if there are any difficulties please let me know 12/29/2001 days missed adjustments Since the teams which have made trades in the break between q1 and q2 (see below) have not played an equal number of games and the teams miss different days, adjustments need to be made to each player's days missed listings: GAL: Maggette has played in 20 games for BRO and so may play 47 more which means that he must miss 13 of GAL's 60 remaining games, he was originally scheduled to miss games 30-44 so games 43-44 may be removed from that -- Maggette will miss days 31-46 BRO: Kukoc has played in 2 games for GAL and so may play 63 more which is more than the 62 BRO has remaining on its schedule -- Kukoc need not miss any more games MIC: Brandon has played in 22 games for CEN and so may play 56 more which means that he must miss 5 of MIC's 61 remaining games, he was originally scheduled to miss games 58-61 but game 62 must also be added; Brandon would therefore miss days 62-70 however that would leave MIC with only 1 PG during those games so Brandon will instead miss the first 5 games of q2 instead -- Brandon will miss days 23-27 CEN: Bibby has played in 21 games for MIC and so may play 61 more which is more than the 60 CEN has remaining on its schedule -- Bibby need not miss any more games 12/6/2001 Jared jcmiller@midway.uchicago.edu has expressed an interest in joining the league next season and may be available to take over a team this season if one becomes available 12/5/2001 Trade (effective at the start of the 2nd quarter of the season; approved 5-0 by the EC) MIC receives T.Brandon and CEN #1 CEN receives M.Bibby and MIC #3 11/30/2001 Trade (effective at the start of the 2nd quarter of the season) GAL receives C.Maggette and BRO #2 BRO receives T.Kukoc and GAL #1 11/10/2001 Tim pilarlopez@military.com has expressed an interest in the league 11/7/2001 EC ruling on last season overusage, see news2000 link for those details, player games/minutes adjustments are made to players on the 10-man roster MIL: L.Ellis' overusage has already been accounted for in the playoffs; as for Workman he missed only one playoff series which is 20 minutes of playing time for him (see news2000 link) so that accounted for 10 minutes of his overusage already taken care of, leaving 22 minutes of overusage * K.Anderson will miss an extra 44 minutes GAL: * P.Miller's overusage has already been accounted for in the playoffs BRO: * T.Thomas will miss an extra 2 games; * Sh.Williams is no longer on BRO so A.Daniels will miss an extra 4 games and 481 minutes; * Maggette will miss an extra 2 games; * Tabak and G.Foster are no longer on BRO so J.McCoy will miss an extra 4 games and 498 minutes (which includes his own overusage) LOS: * Ratliff will miss an extra 4 games; * Billups will miss an extra 2 games SOU: * Camby will miss an extra 26 minutes; * Cage is no longer on SOU so T.MacCulloch will missn extra 156 minutes; * Longley is no longer on SOU so Doleac will miss an extra 154 minutes; * K.David and R.Hughes (PF/SF's) are no longer on SOU so McKey will miss an extra 266 minutes (which includes his own overusage); * B.Sundov will miss an extra 20 minutes 11/5/2001 Trade (approved 5-0 by EC) NOR receives T.Hill and Jeff #1 Jeff receives R.Wallace 11/2/2001 Sean sean_patrick46@yahoo.com has expressed an interest in joining the league next season and may be available to take over a team this season if one becomes available 10/31/2001 Cut deadline SUN cuts H.Davis, O.Ekezie, E.Murdock*, O.Miller*, D.Ellis*, K.Reeves*, K.Johnson* SOU cuts D.Brown, M.Cage*, K.David, T.Legler*, L.Longley, C.Ward WAL cuts E.Bohannon, J.Feick, F.Lopez, K.Ollie, L.Williams*, D.Gray* NOR cuts E.Boykins, T.James, B.Price, M.Ruffin, O.Thorpe, T.Murray BRO cuts C.Cheaney, G.Foster, D.Manning, O.Polynice, Z.Tabak, Sh.Williams HAR cuts J.Crotty, P.Ellison, S.Jacobson, T.Knight, E.Strickland, S.Perkins MIL cuts E.Dampier, D.Ham, H.Hawkins, S.Kerr, T.Lue, D.Rodman*, H.Workman* DAV cuts C.Carr, D.Causwell, T.Hamilton*, C.Herren, D.Martin, C.Mills, S.Padgett LOS cuts C.Blount, M.Curry, W.McCarty, D.Scott*, R.Walters* GAL cuts C.Antsey*, T.Farmer*, D.Fortson, D.Glover, P.Miller, J.Wallace LEX cuts N.Anderson, D.Strong, C.Ceballos, R.Brown, K.Kittles* LAK cuts M.Davis*, Ch.Jones*, M.Strickland, L.Vaught, W.Williams IND cuts R.Chapman*, P.Chilcutt*, D.Simpkins*, J.Reid, J.McIlvaine, Ja.Jackson * = player did not appear in an NBA game last season and so may not be drafted 10/31/2001 Trade (with new league member involved; approved 5-0 by EC in 20 hours) MIL receives Mic.Smith, K.Anderson, E.Robinson, Tim's #2 Tim receives T.Langdon, L.Ellis, T.Gugliotta, MIL #4 10/30/2001 never owned players Charles points out that the following players have never been taken in our league except by the computer auto-draft: ?C.Brown, ?M.Bryant, Campbell, Coles, ?DelNegro, Elie, Ho.Grant, ?Hammonds, Hunter, Ji.Jackson, L.Johnson, ?Kersey, Majerle, Oakley, Richmond, Cl.Robinson, G.Robinson, Rod.Rogers, Weatherspoon, ?D.West (the ?'s indicate that the player is available in the upcoming rookie/free-agent draft) 10/24/2001 Trade LOS receives C.Atkins MIL receives R.Traylor, T.Lue 10/23/2001 Trade SOU receives M.Doleac LEX receives Mark Jackson 10/19/2000 Trade LAK receives DAV #3 DAV receives M.Palacio 10/19/2000 Trade SUN receives M.Moore, LEX #4 LEX receives SUN #2, SUN #4