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[hoopmom]

Hoopmom waives Taylor Hill and adds Brionna Jones
I had already waived Theresa Plaisance and picked up Marie Gulich

Hoopmom lineup
G Chelsea gray
G odyssey Sims
C Maria Valdeva
F Natasha Howard
F Candice Dupree

[Mojo]

Mojo/Myrtle

J Thomas, Con, g
A Quigley, Chi, g
E Meesseman, Was, f
K Thornton, Dal, f
B Griner, Pho, c

[NYSports56]

It looks like Azura Stevens has a concussion, and will not play opening night. I will substitute Natalie Achonwa in her place, so here is my new lineup:

G - Tiffany Hayes, G, ATL
G - Ariel Atkins, G, WASH
F - Jessica Breland, F, ATL
F - Natalie Achonwa, FC, IND
C - A'ja Wilson, C, LV

[J-Spoon]

line up for week one

C-Cambage Aces
F-E. Williams Dream
F-Clark Storm
G-Deshields Sky
G-T. Mitchell Fever

betting that Mitchell does better against NY than Plum does against LA

no other moves yet but having some second thought about keeping Jefferson and Stokes

[NYSports56]

Sadly, Spoon, I think we'll see a lot of people starting their backups when they're matched up against the Liberty this year.

Isn't Jefferson going to miss the whole year?

[J-Spoon]

[J-Spoon]

[NYSports56]

Just a nit-picky thing, but please enter in your lineups guards on top, then forwards, then the center on bottom. There will be less chance of mistakes by me if you do it that way.

[calbearman76]

Pick up Theresa Plaisance FC Dallas
Drop Alaina Coates

[NYSports56]

EDIT 6/3/19: When posting the latest version of the rules today, I overwrote these rules by mistake. The original text has been restored.

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This is the latest version of the rules. I corrected the wording of the rules relating to players who don't play in their first game of the week.

Changes since the Previous Rules are shown in blue

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OFFICIAL LEAGUE RULES (as of 5/24/19)

Scoring

Each starting player will score points for their team using the NBA's official fantasy scoring system:

Points: 1
Rebounds: 1.2
Assists: 1.5
Steals: 3
Blocks: 3
Turnovers: -1

If a player plays in two games during a week, only the first game is used to determine fantasy points. Most weeks begin on Monday and end on Sunday. The exception is around the All-Star Break: Week 10 ends on Tuesday, July 30, and Week 11 begins on Wednesday, July 31 (transactions this week are refreshed at 6 PM EDT Wednesday instead of Monday).

Lineups

Each week, a team will field a starting lineup of 5 players, consisting of 2 guards, 2 forwards, and 1 center.

At the start of the week, teams should post their lineup. If they don't, the lineup from the previous week will be used.

Lineups can be changed at any time during the week, provided that it is done before the start time of the first game of the player(s) being replaced. The replacement player must be yet to play her first game of the week.

If a started player does not play in her game (DNP), a substitute may be inserted into the lineup in her place. Again, the substitute must not have played her first game of the week yet.

Season

There will be 12 weeks of regular season play, and then most of the teams will participate in a 4 week playoff format. The regular season schedule can be found on page 17.

Playoffs

7 teams will qualify for the playoffs, and will be seeded according to record and tiebreakers. The #1 seed will receive 3 byes and will play in the Championship Game. The #2 through #4 seeds will receive 1 bye and a berth in the second round. The #5 through #7 seeds will participate in a 3-way contest where the highest scoring team advances to the second round.

In the instance of a tie, the higher ranked seed advances.

Week 13, Round 1: #5 vs. #6 vs. #7 (all three compete, high score advances)
Week 14, Round 2a: #2 vs. winner of Round 1
Week 14, Round 2b: #3 vs. #4
Week 15, Round 3: winners of Rounds 2a and 2b
Week 16, Championship: #1 vs. winner of Round 3

Rosters and Transactions

Roster size is 10 WNBA players. Teams may modify their rosters with trades and add/drops, subject to the following restrictions:

From Weeks 1 through 8, a maximum of 3 players can be added to a team each week. No more than 2 of them can come from add/drop, and no more than 2 of them can come from trades.

After Week 8, no more trades can be made. Teams are still permitted to make 2 add/drops each week.

During the playoffs, no transactions are allowed, unless a team has a player who is cut or goes on the WNBA disabled list leaving the team with no legal starting lineup. In that instance, the cut or injured player can be dropped for a substitute.

Weeks begin and transactions are refreshed every Monday at 6 PM EDT (GMT - 4) (this time is subject to change if everyone agrees).

After the draft and before the regular season starts, there are no limitations on add/drop. Teams can only add 2 players by trade during this period.

A player in a team's starting lineup cannot be traded or dropped while she is currently playing in a game earning points for her team. "Currently playing" is defined as the period beginning at game time and ending 2 and 1/2 hours after game time.

Usually add/drop is first come, first serve. However, there are two instances where a waiting period is necessary:

1) When a player is dropped from another player's roster, all teams have 24 hours to put in a claim for the player. If more than one team claims the player, the team with the worst record gets the player. Resolve ties using the tiebreaker procedure. Add/drops done in this way take place after the 24 hour waiting period for purposes of weekly transaction limits and waiver wire priority.

2) When a team is out of add/drops, it can not make another one until its transactions are refreshed at 6 PM EDT on Monday. However, the team may put in a claim for the player in advance so that it is awarded the player immediately at 6 PM. If more than one player does this, once again, it is resolved by record and tiebreakers.

When a trade is made, a team may call for a veto by posting here no more than 24 hours after the trade. After this post, teams (except for the teams involved in the trade) have until it's 48 hours after the trade to either confirm the veto, or uphold the trade. If anyone votes to uphold the trade, the trade stands. If not, and there are at least 5 who voted for the veto, the trade will be voided.

Players involved in the trade up for veto may play for their new teams while the veto is being resolved.

You may not trade for a "player to be named later."

If a team makes a 2 for 1 trade where it receives the 2 players, the team must immediately drop a surplus player from its roster as part of the trade announcement.

Tiebreakers

Tiebreakers are used to determine playoff seeding and add/drop claims when two or more teams have the same record.

The tiebreakers that will be used are:

1: Head to Head (playoff seeding only, see below)
2: Points Scored
3: Random die roll

Head to Head is the combined record one has against the players in the tiebreaker.

With more than 2 players involved in the tiebreaker, if during any step where 2 or more (but not all) players tie for best (or worst if it's an add/drop claim), take those players and repeat the entire tiebreaking sequence with just them.

For playoff seeding, tiebreakers are resolved one at a time, highest seed first.

For add/drop claims, do not include wins, losses or points from the current week. At the start of the season, or in the unlikely event that two teams have the same record and points scored, the priority on the waiver wire will be determined randomly and announced at the start of the week.

Player Positions

Players are eligible to play the position at which they are listed on the team roster page on the WNBA website. If a player is listed at two positions, she is eligible to play either position. If the position is updated on the roster, her fantasy availability is modified as well.

To find the roster pages mentioned above, go to WNBA.com. Click on "Teams," which is the first option on the top left. Select the WNBA team whose roster you would like to view. You will be taken to that team's webpage. On it, there will be another menu on top. Select the "Team" menu, and then there will be a dropdown where you select "Roster." That will take you to the official roster page used in this fantasy league.

If a player is not listed on the WNBA Team Roster page, use the information found on her player page on the site. Again, go to WNBA.com. This time click on the "Players" menu, and you can go to the page of the player in question.

Scoring Errors

Scoring errors can occur when statistics are entered incorrectly, or when the WNBA changes official statistics.

Errors during the regular season (with the exception of the final week) may be reported any time before the end of the following week. In other words, an error in Week 1 must be reported by the end of Week 2. If so the correction will take effect retroactively.

In the post season (or the final week of the regular season), errors must be reported before the end of the current week.

[myrtle]

If McCarty is available Mojo/Myrtle would like to drop TRP, LA and pick up Brooke MCarty, g, Dallas

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For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
- Amanda Gorman

[toad455]

[Shades]

Forget McCarty. Who owns Wheeler?

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Nnekalonians 1:14 - Thou shalt not accept that which is not earned

[J-Spoon]

[NYSports56]

[myrtle]

Toad got a nice start with Tina's game tonight!

...maybe we should play by throwing out best and worst.

_________________
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
- Amanda Gorman

[NYSports56]

At least hoopmom got a good game out of Candice Dupree (30) to help negate the sting of Tina's big 48 pointer!

Everybody else who has had players go is pretty much averaging 20 points a player, so all the games are good so far.

[NYSports56]

[myrtle]

[NYSports56]

[NYSports56]

Three players who were started in our league last night did not play at all:

Elena Delle Donne (adamj95)
Karima Christmas-Kelly (Admiral Needa)
Temi Fagbenie (Erimus)

As per the league rules, you may still substitute for these players if you like. The only WNBA teams that haven't played yet this week are Los Angeles and Las Vegas, so if you have a suitable substitute from one of those teams (or would like to claim one via add/drop), you may put her in your lineup.

I'm not normally going to remind people of this stuff, but I thought it would be a good idea Week 1 to make sure everyone understood how this rule worked.

[Admiral_Needa]

FYI, J-Spoon's Liz Cambage is expected to sit...

Might want to drop somebody to pick up JiSu Park/Swords and maybe get that ~10 points which may mean the difference...

As for me, I can only replace KCK with a Forward, and there are no available Forwards on the wire playing in the LA-LV game. In fact, LV only lists 2 forwards on their roster, Hamby and Young. On the bright side, looks like they just changed JJ Dy-no-mite from F to FC...

First couple weeks always gets me... NBA Playoffs time. When people say Young and Nurse, I still immediately think Trae and Nick, not Tamera and Kia

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2002 WNBA Virtual GM Overall Winner
2006 WNBA Triple Threat Overall Winner
2007 NBA ESPN Fast Break Overall Winner

[NYSports56]

Everybody sing along: "On the first day of Christmas, Karima gave to me--a zero for fantasy."

Sorry that there are no forwards to replace her, Admiral. Ashley Walker of LA is not an option? I note she is on the roster. Or is she so poor an option that it's not worth cutting one of your players loose?

Looking at J-Spoon's situation since Cambage is out, I note that there is something subtle that is not covered by the league rules. Elizabeth Williams, who is a F-C, has already played for J-Spoon (a nice 28 pointer), and was started at the position of forward. Can J-Spoon shift Williams to center, and then insert a forward instead of replacing Cambage with a center? The answer is no, you cannot change the position of a two-position player once her game has started.

The above ruling brings up another issue: I just made a ruling that theoretically benefits me, because I am playing against J-Spoon. Fortunately in this instance, it's only theoretical, because as Admiral Needa said, there are no forwards available. However, I cannot be making rulings on the fly that benefit myself directly.

Whenever there is a conflict of interest like this, the ruling that I make will only apply to future instances. The current instance will be resolved by league vote. I don't care if J-Spoon shifts Williams to center, so in this instance there is no need to vote: whatever J-Spoon wants to do is fine.

It's nice that this was all theoretical and that the issue was able to be covered before a practical example came around.

[calbearman76]

I do not believe that a player should be able to change positions after the week starts. There is already a significant advantage to players that have multiple positions (and I have a few).

Also, since we are changing positions for players when they are changed on the WNBA team websites I believe we should make clear how a change can affect current lineups. If a player is changed from F to FC this isn't a problem, but if they are changed from F to C there could be an issue.

[NYSports56]