NBA 2K World Franchise League for XBOX 360

[vince15]

Welcome to NBA2K World!

First, let me explain what we are all about here. We have seen a lot of leagues be productive, active, and overall successful, but we’ve wanted to bring you all something different, something special. NBA2K World is a Franchise League, which means the team you pick on season one will be your team until you retire!

You will choose your team and make as many transactions as you want during the season, but the following season you must draft the same team you ended the previous season with. We are bringing you a unique experience, but something I am sure you all will enjoy!

The only thing we ask from you is that you are active on our site, play your games and follow all the rules! Our rules are made so we can all enjoy this game and so we can all have the opportunity to have fun while playing a clean game.

Frequently Asked Questions:

What is a Franchise League?
A Franchise League simply means you will be taking over an NBA team and you will be in control of that team for as long as you stay in the league. The same applies for your roster; at the end of the season you will carry over your team and your roster and try once again to win a championship, defend the title or simply try to get the missing pieces to compete for a title in the upcoming season(s).

What rosters are we using?
The league will use real roster for season one.

Can I still make trades during the season or am I forced to play all my games with the team I have?
You can make as many trades as you want, but the following season you will draft the same team you had at the end of the previous season.

How many trades can I make during the season?
We do not have a limit. You can make as many trades as you want after your first three games played.

How many teams advance to the Playoffs?
The best 16 teams advance to the Playoffs.

The Transition into the next season…
Once we are done with season one, you will draft the same team you ended season one with and move right into season two, and so on…

Basic League Information

All members must sign up on the forums and stay active at our site, forums and chatroom: http://www.NBA2KWorld.com

Difficulty: Hall of Fame
Number of Teams: 30
Playoff Teams: 16
Season Length: 82 Games
Quarter Length: 12 minutes
Sim Quarter Length: 12 minutes
Fantasy Draft: OFF
Trading: ON
Trade Deadline: ON
Playoffs: Best of 7
Finals: Best of 7
3-5 games per week Maximum! Your three to five games will be due every Sunday.

Points in the Paint
50% Cutoff on a game by game basis. No Exceptions!

Checking Stats during the Game
No checking game stats during the game or during the halftime show.

Offense
A player cannot exceed 50% of team’s total shots.
Run plays, move the ball around.

Fast Break
No fast breaking after a made basket, period. If your opponent makes a shot you must walk/jog the ball up court (no sprinting or taking a shot in less than five to seven seconds.)

You may fast break after a defensive rebound, steal, block and air ball.

Pump Fakes
Once you receive a pass you are allowed to pump fake once and follow that pump fake with a drive to the basket, shot or pass.

Player Positions
Players are only allowed to play the positions listed on the console rosters. There will be no arguing on this.

** Another source you can use is 82games.com; if the player has played less than 10% in a particular position he can come off the bench and play that position. If the player has played more than 10% of the time in that position he may start. ***

Defense:
You must always, always play on ball defense!
On pick and rolls, you may switch to the big man temporarily to prevent a drive to the basket.
You may only double team an opponent in the post.
You cannot intentionally foul your opponent to stop a fast break.
You may play any type of defense you want, at your own risk.
No excessive swiping at the ball when going for steals.
You must allow your opponent to cross the half court line before applying any pressure. If you bump your opponent resulting in a back court violation you must give the ball back immediately.
Deny ball defense is not allowed.

Game Disconnects
20 point lead in the first half is an automatic win.
15 point lead in the third quarter is an automatic win.
10 point fourth quarter lead is an automatic win.
9 point lead with less than two minutes is an automatic win.
6 point lead with less than 30 seconds is an automatic win.
Any other circumstances will result in a replay by default, unless both parties agree to the outcome of the game

Injuries
All the injuries occurred in a game will count. We will not reset any injuries unless the game got disconnected and results in a reset.

As an owner here in NBA 2KWorld you must complete the following requirements!

Agree to the rules
Play at least 3-5 games per week.
Post an availability report in the forums.
Install an AOL Instant Messenger
Post your Contact Information (AIM, XBL, Email and Text Number)
Stay active in our own website.
Keep your team’s trade block and salary up to date.
Complete a weekly write up on the status of your team.
Post at least one video and one picture of every game you play.

Here is how I want you all to post your Contact Information.

Please follow the following format:

Contact Information Example:
GAMERTAG: vc15dunker15
AIM: vc15dunker15
EMAIL: alvaro.grullon@gmail.com
Phone:
Best way to contact: XBL or AIM


Here is how I want you all to post your Availability Information.
Availability Information:
Time Zone: ET
Mon: 4:30 - midnight
Tue: 4:30 - midnight
Wed: 4:30 - midnight
Thur: 5:30 - midnight
Fri: 8:00 - midnight
Sat: 2:00 - midnight
Sun: All Day

Salary Cap & Collective Bargain Agreement Information

History
The NBA 2K World Salary CAP was established in an attempt to level the playing field among all of the teams and ensure competitive balance for the League in the future.

Salary Cap
The NBA 2K World Salary Cap in 2010-11 is $58.0 million.

Luxury tax
The NBA 2K World Luxury Tax in 2010-11 is $70.0 million.

There are consequences for exceeding the salary cap by large amounts. A luxury tax payment is required of teams whose payroll exceed $70,000.000. The GM must pay the league Commissioner a $5 fee via PayPal which will go to cover league costs and prices.

What is included when calculating a team's Salary Cap
1. Salaries of all active and inactive players
2. Salaries of waived players

What is NOT included when calculating a team's Salary Cap?
1. Salaries from summer league contracts.
2. Salaries of players drafted in an expansion draft and later on waived before the season starts.

Are there exceptions to the salary cap?
Yes. Teams are not allowed to be over the salary cap, unless they are using one of the following exceptions. In season one we will follow some, not all of the exceptions required by the NBA, we will use the basic ones:

Mid Level Salary Exceptions
this exception allows a team to sign any free agent if the team is over the salary cap. This exception is worth $5.7 Millions in 2010-11 and might be split to sign different players. It may be used for contracts of up to five years in length. If the player is a restricted free agent with one or two years of service and receives an offer sheet from a new team, the player's prior team may use the Mid-Level exception to match the offer sheet.

One Million Exception
This exception allows you to sign a free agent if you are over the cap. This exception is worth $1.7 Millions in 2010-11 and might be split to sign different players, but cannot be combined with the Mid Level Exception to sign a player.

Larry Bird Exception
The Larry Bird exception allows teams to exceed the salary cap to re-sign their own free agents, at an amount up to the maximum salary. To qualify as a Bird free agent, a player must have played three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. It also means that when a player is traded, his Bird rights are traded with him, and his new team can use the Bird exception to re-sign him. Bird-exception contracts can be up to six years in length.

Rookies Salaries:
First round picks have guaranteed contracts while second round picks can be signed for the league minimum for a rookie of $450,000.

Here’s a breakdown of Rookie Contracts.

1st Pick | $4.3 million – 3 Years
2nd pick | $3.8 million – 3 Years
3rd Pick | $3.4 million – 3 Years
4th Pick | $3.1 million – 3 Years
5th Pick | $2.8 million – 3 Years
6th pick | $2.5 million – 3 Years
7th pick | $2.3 million – 3 Years
8th pick | $2.1 million – 3 Years
9th pick | $1.9 million – 3 Years
10th Pick | $1.8 million – 3 Years
11th Pick | $1.7 million – 3 Years
12th Pick | $1.7 million – 3 Years
13th Pick | $1.6 million – 3 Years
14th Pick | $1.5 million – 3 Years
15th Pick | $1.4 million – 3 Years
16th and 17th Pick | $1.3 million – 3 Years
18th and 19th Pick | $1.2 million – 3 Years
20th and 21st Pick | $1.1 million – 3 Years
22nd and 23rd Pick | $1 million – 3 Years
24th Pick | $960,000 – 3 Years
25th Pick | $920,000 – 3 Years
26th Pick | $890,000 – 3 Years
27th Pick | $870,000 – 3 Years
28th Pick | $860,000 – 3 Years
29th Pick | $850,000 – 3 Years
30th Pick | $850,000 – 3 Years
2ND Round Picks
All Picks | $450,000 – 1 year

Salaries and Length of Contract
Real life salaries and contracts apply for the first season. For the following season your player salary will increase by one million dollars

Example:

Vince Carter is currently earning 17,000,000 and is under contract for two years. For the 2010-11 season Vince will earn $14,000,000, but for the 2011-2012 season his contract will increase by $1,000,000 so he will earn $15,000,000 during the 2011–2012 season and so on…

Example:
The Bulls sign Janero Pargo to a three year $2,000,000 deal.
Here’s the breakdown of the contract:
2010-11 | $2,000,000
2011-12 | $3,000,000
2012-13 | $4,000,000

Trading Rules
*** Before you plan a trade you got to make sure you are on the league pace and within three (3) games of the team you are trading with. If you are not within three games or behind the league pace your trade will be rejected. ***

When and where can I send my trade offers?
All trades are to be posted in the Trades Approval Forum and put through the 2K Site, that way once the trade is approved in the Forums we can go to the 2K Site and approve it there so you can have your players in the game.

2K World does not conduct transactions on Sunday, so if you submit a trade on Sunday you will have to wait until Monday for a response.

Can cash be included as part of a trade package?
Players can be traded for cash, and cash can be included in trade packages. The amount of cash is limited to $3,000,000. Only teams under the CAP can trade cash.

Balancing Trade Rule
Teams below the salary cap may trade without regard to salary, as long as they don't end up more than $100,000 above the cap following a trade.

Teams above the cap cannot acquire more than $500,000 of the salary they trade away. There is no lower limit—teams may divest themselves of as much salary as they wish in a trade.

Example:

The Lakers trade Kobe Bryant ($25,000,000) to the Magic for Vince Carter ($17,000,000). Both teams are over the cap, so this trade would be rejected because the Magic would be taking in $8,000,000.

The Lakers trade Andrew Bynum ($5,500,000) to the Lakers for Marcin Gortat ($5,700,000). Despite the fact that both teams are over the cap the Lakers are only receiving $200,000 in the trade, which is OK according to our Balancing Trade rule.

What happens after I acquire a player?
After a trade has been accepted by the Commissioner of the league you have 24 hours to trade that player to another team. If you decide not to trade the player then the "Two Week Rule" comes into effect, which means you will have to keep that player on your team for two weeks before that player can be traded again.

Are draft picks worth money in a trade?
A draft pick has no value. You cannot use a draft pick to match a salary. You also cannot have consecutive years without a first round pick. For Example:

New Jersey Nets own a 2006,2007,2008,2009 1st round pick. They can trade their 2006 draft pick in a trade, but they cannot deal their 2007 pick. They could choose from 2008 or 2009, but if they deal the 2008 pick they cannot trade the 2009 pick. You cannot go through two seasons without a first round pick.

Waiving a Player

What are waivers?
It's a temporary status for players who are released by their team. A player stays on waivers for 48 hours. A player released at any other time stays on waivers for seven days. During the waiver period other teams may claim a waived player. If more than one team tries to claim the player, the team with the worst record gets him. If a player on waivers is claimed, the new team acquires his existing contract and pays the remainder of his salary. If a team trades a player and the player is waived by the receiving team, the player's original team cannot re-sign that player for 15 days (during the season) or 20 days (during the offseason) following the date of the trade.

*You can release a player from your team at any time, but you still have to follow the contract of that player until another team picks him up or until the player becomes a free agent.

Free Agency
Free Agency begins three days after the 2K World Draft and runs through the end of the regular season. As explained above you may sign any free agent if your team is under the salary cap. In the other hand if your team is over the salary cap, your team will need to use the Mid Level Exceptions or the One Million Dollar Exception.

A team over the cap can also choose to sign a free agent to a minimum contract:

NBA 2K World Minimum Salaries

Years in NBA | Salary

0 | 473,604
1 | 762,195
2 | 854,389
3 | 885,120
4 | 915,852
5 | 992,680
6 | 1,069,509
7 | 1,146,337
8 | 1,223,166
9 | 1,229,255
10+ | 1,352,181

Offering Contracts to Free Agents

Just like in real life players have a certain amount of money they feel they deserve and that is called their “asking price”. As a General Manager you can offer a Free Agent as much or as little as you want, the asking price just let’s you know the amount of money the player would like to get paid, it is up to you to please him or try to get lucky and offer less money and still get that player.

In NBA 2K World the players asking price depend on their overall rating and here is how we break it down.

Overall Rating | Asking Price
95 to 100 | 20-25 Millions
90 to 95 | 17-20 Millions
80 to 89 | 12-17 Millions
70 to 79 | 7-12 Millions
60 to 69 | 2-7 Millions
50 to 59 | 1-2 Millions
40 to 49 | 850,000 – 1 Million
39 or less | Minimum Salary

Unrestricted Free Agents vs. Restricted Free Agents

Unrestricted Free Agents
Are free to sign with any team.

Restricted Free Agents
Are subject to his current team's Right of First Refusal, meaning that the player can be signed to an offer sheet by another team, but his current club reserves the right to match the offer and keep the player.

How do I send my bid for a Free Agent?
Go to the Free Agency section in the forums and submit your offer in the Contract Negotiation thread.

League Agenda
League Schedule / Agenda

Season:
In NBA 2K World Season we will play a total of 82 games. We require all of our gm's to play a minimum of three (3) games per week to five (5) games per week. We follow the NBA schedule; our regular season starts in November and ends in April.
If a GM falls behind on games played he will be dismissed from the league.

* In case of a tie-breaker, who ever won the season series or the game played in the season advances to the playoffs.

Trade Deadline
The NBA 2K World trade deadline is on February (TBA), 2011. This is the last day you have to make any trades.

Playoffs:
1st Round: 2-2-1-1-1 (7 Games)
2nd Round: 2-2-1-1-1 (7 Games)
N2KW Conference Finals: 2-2-1-1-1 (7 Games)
N2KW Finals: 2-3-2 (7 Games)

NBA 2K World Lottery Draft
The NBA 2K World Lottery Draft takes place right after the NBA 2K World Finals. In the Lottery Draft the 16 teams that did not make the Playoffs will try to find some luck and land the top draft pick in the NBA 2K World Draft.

NBA 2K World Draft
During the Draft you will be trying to land the next LeBron James or simply a prospect that will take your franchise to the next level. We will be selecting prospects from the upcoming NBA Draft. Our draft will be taking place in June and will follow the draft order will depend on the Lottery and the team records the previous season.

Free Agency
The Free Agency period beings on July (TBA); in this period you will be trying to land the best free agent or simply acquire the pieces needed for your team to compete the next season. Free Agency runs from July until the end of the regular season.

Pre-Season
shortly after the release of a new NBA 2K game we will be opening up a Pre-Season league where we will as a team try the new game and come up with any rule changes needed or simply to get a feel of the new game. We require all GM’s to play at least three (3) games.

[vince15]

If you're interested in joining head over to www.nba2kworld.com and sign up in the forums and post the team you're interested in... or contact me via PM, AIM or XBL.

[vince15]

Hey people,

We're still looking for about 15 more owners to join. If you're interested head over to www.nba2kworld.com and follow the instructions in the homepage.

Thanks,

VC

[vince15]

Guys we still have 14 openings in the league some great teams still avaliable... check out the site www.nba2kworld.com