2002 Hoops Overview

1. Defending Champion: PowerWave

2. Draft Order
The draft order has been set*. The results are:

#	Team/Manager	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
1.	Lethal Lobsters Larry Reed	Dirk Nowitzki	Karl Malone	Mike Bibby
2.	Red Storm Rising Larry Bruder	Tim Duncan	Gary Payton	Allen Iverson
3.	Crying Loons Roman Lubynsky	Paul Pierce	Baron Davis	Rasheed Wallace
4.	Reckless Drivers Pavani Kamalpuram / Amy Lin	Kobe Bryant	David Robinson	Predrag Stojakovic
5.	PowerWave Xin Bi	Kevin Garnett	Shawn Marion	Rashard Lewis
6.	Silent Assassins Al "Ace" Cunningham	Shaquille O'Neal	Ray Allen	Reggie Miller
7.	Phat Pharm Greg "White Chocolate" Venne	Antoine Walker	Ben Wallace	Jason Terry
8.	Beachtown Bobos Mark Bazell	Marcus Camby	Jason Kidd	Eddie Jones
9.	Slammers Al Tarbous	Chris Webber	Vince Carter	Jermaine O'Neal
10.	BigV Wei Li	Tracy McGrady	Pau Gasol	Elton Brand

* - 10 slips of paper
- random number guess to generate the person that picks out of the hat
- 1st piece of paper gets pick #10, 2nd gets the 9th pick, etc.

3. The Draft
Live draft is set for Thursday, October 24 at 6:45 pm CDT. Please arrive ten minutes early as your draft will start promptly at the assigned time.

Auto-Draft.... just pre-rank your players and let the system draft for you. It will do a very good job. Hint: You can just use the default rankings if you like.

4. Roster Moves
You have 40 moves from the Player Pool. That is about 2 per week. Use them wisely.

5. League Overview
- 13 Categories,
- Head-2-Head w/Category Totals
- Mon-Sun, Daily Changes Allowed
- Al Gore Award

5.1. Lineup
13 players per team. (6 Starters + 7 Bench).

Slots
1	-	SG	1	-	PF
1	-	PG	1	-	C
1	-	SF	1	-	Util

Note: There is one IL slot available. A player on the IL slot does not count toward your 13 man roster.

5.2 Championship Playoffs
The top six teams will make the playoffs.
- #1 and #2 receive a first round bye
- Teams 3-6 begin playoffs in week 23.

5.3 Games/Format
20 Regular Season games total.

You will play each team twice.	18 Games
You will play two other teams a third time	2 Games

5.4 Stat Categories

FG	Field Goals Made (2PT + 3PT)	OR	Offensive Rebounds
FG%	FG Percentage (2PT + 3PT)	DR	Defensive Rebounds
3PT	3PT FG's Made	ASST	Assists
3PT %	3PT FG Percentage	ST	Steals
FT	Free Throws Made	BLK	Blocks
FT %	Free Throw Percentage	A/TO	Assist to Turnover Ratio
PTS	Total Points

6. A warm welcome to.....

Reckless Drivers	Pavani Kamalapuram / Amy Lin
Silent Assassins	???
Slammers	Albert Tarbous

7. Some tips.....

7.1 Head-To-Head Play

Your Won/Loss record doesn't really count in the league. What you want to do is win as many categories as possible throughout the year. You play an opponent each week and, at the end of the week, you the total are tallied up and the categories are awarded (you can tell on a day-to-day basis how you are doing).

Your strategy and tactics will change based on your weekly opponent, your strengths and the status of your players (healthy/injured, suspended, in a slump/red hot).

Note: We track the W-L records of each team for ceremonial purposes (Al Gore Award).

7.2 Utility Slot
Use the Utility slot to maximize your line-up and to manage those 'toss-up' categories against your opponent.

7.3 IL Slot

There is one Injured List slot available for your them. To place a player on the Injured List slot:

-	The player must be on your roster and then moved to the IL slot.
-	The player must be designated as 'injured' by Yahoo (really the NBA first, then Yahoo makes the update).

If the little red IL tag appears. You can click on the players position and move him to the IL slot.
-	This will open up a roster spot for you so that you can field a full team.

Notes:

-	Once the player comes off of the Injured List........ you will have to 'cut a person' from your roster to allow the IL player to rejoin your roster.
-	If you have 2 or more injured players......well, you have one IL slot. You have to decide who to keep or you might decide to keep them all and simply have an injured player or two take an active roster spot while they heal. It really depends on the player and the severity of the injury.

7.4 Tiebreakers
1. Most team points scored.
2. Most team rebounds.
3. Highest team FG percentage.

7.5 Roster Moves
a. Limited..... You have 40 moves from the Player Pool. That is about 2 per week. Use them wisely.

b. Trades...... There is no limit on trades. The trade deadline is: Thu, March 6, 2003.

c. Tomorrow..... All player additions/drops take effect "tomorrow". That is, if you pick up a player
today.....he is available to your team "tomorrow"

7.6 Have Fun
After all, that's what it is all about!