NBA & college online league

[BigDirty]

I'm the co-commish of a NBA & a college basketball online league and since it seems some of you people are interested in those kinda games I thought that maybe some of you would like to join one of the leagues. A little problem might be that we're using a german message board but we're all able to speak english so there shouldn't be too many language problems (of course we would make fun of you in german all the time ) and I think it would be fun if we had some members from the USA who know a thing or two about basketball, cause usually our new members are quite young people that often don't have any real basketball knowledge and leave after a short while, but luckily the majority of the GMs have been there for quite a while, so it's really always the same 2-4 teams that have often changing GMs.

NBA sim

There are currently three teams without a GM: Sacramento, Memphis & Seattle

For simming purposes we use Total Pro Basketball 2005 from Grey Dog Software, you don't have to own the game, because you can get all the important things from the website and extra files that we upload. Each player is rated in many categories and you as a GM are able to set your lineup, sub matrix und tactics, you can make trades, sign free agents, draft, etc..

You can take a look at the teams via the standings page, the players have their own sites here, there is also an extra file with some extra information about the players.

During regular season we sim three times a week and each time we sim 1 week game time. You send in your lineup & tactics via mail using this form or if you own the game you can simply send in your exported team file.

We're currently in our 6th season (two with the first TPB, then we restarted with TPB 2005) so you don't have to be afraid that the league will vanish anytime soon.

We're currently ~68 games into the season, but you can immediately step in anyway.

college sim

Only six teams are taken: Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Maryland, Temple, Texas & Georgetown

We're simming with Total College Basketball from Grey Dog Software. For the college sim you have to own the game cause the html export contains only the team pages. Players are rated in almost the same aspects that the TPB 2005 players are rated in and the senior class (+declaring underclassmen) are used for the NBA sim's draft. You as the coach first make your own coaching profile where you set your strengths (e.g. offense, recruiting, scouting, defense, develoment) and character aspects (e.g. calm/hotheaded, discipline fanatic). During the course of the season you will be able to recruit, make lineups, sub matrix, tactics, set your training, redshirt players, get transfer players, etc..

The college website is located here. You send in your lineups & recruiting via the export file the game creates.

We're 1-3 games away from the conference tourneys, you'll have to wait till the end of the season to take control of your team.

If you'd like to join one of the leagues you can contact me via:

mail: ScorpiGol@aol.com

MSN: bigdirty410@hotmail.com

AIM: ScorpiGol

ICQ: 219473469

[shug94]

I may be interested in joining up as the Seatlle GM.

I have one question. Are some of the players in this league imaginary? Or are they all real, it's just that different marginal NBA guys made the teams in this reality?

[BigDirty]

We started with a roster set from the 2004-05 season so people from that draft year are a little misrated (e.g. Smoove can't really block, Ivey is a very good backup PG, etc.). Overall some players are rated too high, some too low, but that will always be the case with theses kinda games. Since that season every draft contained players from the college sim, so these players are all fake. CPU teams seem to like to fill their rosters with veterans so the Rogers', McCoy's, Glover's always have a chance to get a roster spot as long as there are CPU teams.