Volume 2 Issue 28 November 1997
FROM COMMISSIONER SCOTT ELLIS, 2ND AMER. BASKETBALL LEAGUE
Who’s trading?
Heat sends C. Mills & MacLean to Bombers for S. Mitchell & Horace Grant.
Heat trades K. Johnson, Slater & Augmon to Galactic for Pack, Sura & Jayson Williams.
Heat trades Mitchell & Grant to Longhorns for Rogers & Perry.
Heat trades Manning & Dumars to Finney for D. Davis & D. Harper.
Bombers send Smits & Eisley to Dazzlers for Vaught & Whitney.
Heat sends Pack to Aces for Day.
Instructions, results
Timely and easy-to-understand instructions are what makes play-by-mail leagues go round. If instructions and results are late, then a league becomes sluggish and managers lose interest.
We won’t be late in the SABL. Every coach needs to send on time strategies and results to their opponents. Instructions should be in opponents hands by the dates indicated on the schedule. Results should be in opponent’s hands a week after the schedule date.
Paper box scores and exported game files onto floppy disks should be sent to every coach following every series. Our season starts Dec. 7, a date that will live in infamy.
Roster watching
Now that you have your official SABL league disks installed, you will be responsible for keeping track of trades on your own machines and trading players where appropriate.
Make sure you are playing against your opponent’s correct roster and make sure you let coach’s know, via your instructions, who is on your roster. Include the players’ real life NBA team on your roster list, in every instruction set.
Check our website for the latest rosters.
Statistical reporting
I’m the league statistician this year, so I must have your team stats in my hands by the 1st of each month. Don’t wait for other coaches who are late sending instructions or results to you. Send what you have or you will be penalized. Check our SABL Constitution.
Each coach must send paper box scores and exported game files of every league game to the Commissioner by the first of the month. Our first stat reporting deadline is Jan. 1, 1998.
Make sure you have the game file and box score options selected when you play league games or you will cause your fellow coaches and Commissioner a lot of extra work and we will hate you.
Fatigue & rest modes
When you play league games, do with with "No Auto Rest," or else the computer will not follow your lineups. Also use "Static Fatigue."
SABL Minutes Guide
Check out our new "SABL League Minutes Guide" link above and see how many minutes you can play your SABL players, courtesy of the hard work of Coach Phillip Creider of the Tulsa Twisters.
Some of the guys listed have been traded already and some of the players are not available because they don’t have cards.
Pre-season preview
And courtesy of Gearjammer Coach and former SABL Commissioner Tom Gantert, Esq., check out our "Pre-Season Preview" link for predictions.
Both of the above features are exclusively on our SABL website for inquiring coaches who want to know.
Until next time, so long from SABL Headquarters!