The Sportsco.com 2000 Fantasy Basketball Challenge Rules Page

Rim to Rim Fantasy Basketball Challenge Rules

The Sportsco Fantasy Basketball Competition will consist of 25 teams per league competing for cash prizes. Each team entry will be randomly grouped unless otherwise requested on the sign up sheet. Each team has twenty (18) individual players with a (2) player roster expansion available for the last 4 weeks of the competition*. Team owners can make all changes to their rosters during the season, via the Internet only. Eight (8) offensive and four (4) team defensive categories will be used to create weekly standings which will be available for team owner viewing each Wednesday during the season. There are NO SALARY CAPS to limit player selection since no player is given a salary of any kind. The competition will begin at the tipoff of the first game of the upcoming basketball season and run through the final regular season game. Your entire team selection must be completed by October 30, 2000 - 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Leagues will be formed on a first come first served basis. In all cases 25 teams will form a league. If you and your friends would like to be assigned together in a league or would like your own league please specify this on the sign up sheets.

1st Place Overall

$5000.00*

1st Place in League of 25	$600.00
2nd Place in League of 25	$200.00
3rd Place in League of 25	$100.00
4th Place in League of 25	$50.00
5th Place in League of 25	Sign-up Fee Waived for 2001 Fantasy Basketball Challenge

Best Statistical Week

(In League of 25)

EACH WEEK

Weeks 1 through 15

5 Free Moves

Weeks 16 through 25

$25.00

* this single 1st Place Grand Prize will be awarded to the overall statistical leader when categorically ranked against all other teams in every Sportsco .com publicly and privately managed 2000-2001 Fantasy Basketball Challenge. In the event of a tie, the grand prize will divided evenly amongst those teams tied for the Grand Prize.

The Grand Prize noted on the main page of the Sportsco.com Fantasy Basketball Challenge is an example of what the prize would be if the noted amount of leagues were filled with eligible playing teams.That prize is prorated based on how many teams signup to play that season. Any owner can figure out the Grand Prize by going to the overall standings page and multiplying that amount of teams times four dollars ($4.00)(USD). For example, if 100 teams signup, (4x100) the grand prize would be $400.00. That said, all league prizes are completely guaranteed and not prorated.

OFFENSE

Field Goals Made

Field Goal Percentage

Free Throws Made

Free Throw Percentage

Three Pointers Made

Three Pointer Percentage

Offensive Rebounds

Assists

DEFENSE

Steals

Blocked Shots

Defensive Rebounds

Personal Fouls

(Defensive and Offensive)

The 2000-2001 Fantasy Basketball Challenge, has a entrance fee of $24.95 (US) and each player transaction is $1.69 (US). There is no limit to the amount of transactions you may do in any season. During the last month of the season, you may expand your roster by two players of your choice. The cost of that is $10.00 (US) per player.

Each starting line up will consist of 18 players who can be from any of the professional Basketball teams. Each team must have players that qualify in the following positions:

Your Roster

Six (6) -- Fowards

Six (6) -- Guards

Six (6) -- Centers

Sportsco.com, as listed in the signup package, has assigned a player’s position, and this selection is final. The positions of players not listed in the package will be assigned based on play during the 2000-2001 season and will remain the same for the remainder of the season. A player can not be added to a team roster until he is available on the Sportsco.com System.

In each of the twelve (12) categories, teams are ranked from first to last and points are assigned based on these rankings. As an example, in a 25 team league the team that finishes first in a category earns 25 points, the second place team earns 24 points, and so forth down to the last place team which earns 1 point. This system works for all twelve (12) categories, each of which has equal value. The most points a team, in a 25-team league, can accumulate if it won every category is 300 points. Points are recalculated each week to determine league standings. League standings are calculated by ranking your individual team totals.

For all categories, a larger number is ranked higher than the smaller number except for Personal Fouls where a smaller number is ranked higher than a higher number (Get the least amount of fouls).

The first stat week of the competition begins with the games played on the first day – of the 2000-2001 season and ends with the games played on the first Sunday – of the 2000-2001 season. All other stat weeks follow the posted schedule. See The Weekly Transaction Schedule for more information on weekly transaction deadlines.

All statistics accumulated by the players on a team’s roster regardless of what position they were playing during the season contribute to a team’s statistical total.

You begin getting a player’s statistics the first game of the week following the entering of the transaction adding him to your team, provided it was entered before that week’s deadline, and stop getting the statistics of the player you dropped at the same time. None of the previous statistics achieved by the player before he was placed on your team will be added to your team’s statistical totals. But you do keep any stats accumulated by a player you dropped while he was a member of your team.

Pre-Season and Post-Season statistics do not contribute to a team’s statistics totals.

League points are calculated by ranking your team’s statistics totals versus every other team’s statistics in your league.

Grand prize points are calculated by ranking your team’s statistics totals versus every other team’s statistics in all Sportsco.com Managed Leagues.

Player transactions can not be made until your team has been entered into the computer database. Teams will be entered within 5 working days of receipt.

Player transactions must be received by 11:00 PM EST each Sunday Evening for the upcoming week.

See The Weekly Transaction Schedule for more information on weekly transaction deadlines. Once completed, a player transaction is final. If you chose to change that palyer/positon again it will be considered as another transaction.

Prize winners will be formally notified the last week of April, 2001. Winners of $200.00 or more will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility and a liability release within 10 days of notification. These forms must be completed and returned in order to receive prizes. Prizes will be awarded the week of May 1, 2001. Winners are responsible for any and all taxes on their prizes.

If the 2000-2001 Basketball season does not start as planned, the contest will begin after 70% of the players who were on a Professional Team Roster as of October 11, 2000 are playing. In the event of a work stoppage during the season and no Basketball is played, this contest will be suspended at the beginning of the strike/lock-out and will continue once the labor action end and play resumes. The end of the contest will coincide with the end of the 2000-2001 Basketball season. If the remainder of the season is not played, prizes will be prorated and awarded based on the standings as of the start date of the work stoppage. If a work stoppage occurs additional information will be published and mailed to all team owners.

Sportsco.com. is solely responsible for enacting, administering, enforcing the rules and maintaining the integrity of the Basketball Challenge. All decisions of Sportsco.com are final.

Sportsco.com reserves the right to revise any rules to improve this Basketball contest.

By entering this contest, you acknowledge having read the rules and accept them.