Post by Biscuits on Oct 1, 2016 21:38:11 GMT 1
Spaceball League Rules (Season 8.1 update)
The following rules will be regularly reviewed to ensure that they are meeting the needs of the League. Any changes will be communicated.
Administrators have the final decision in any matter.
Participation
- All league players have to be registered on the forum to participate
- Teams have at any time a minimum of 4 players and a maximum of 6 players
- Have respect and fair play with each other and the opponents
- If administrators see any league player breaching the rules, appropriate sanctions will follow
League System
Each team will score points based on the outcome of the match:
- Win (in regular time): 3 points
- Win (in overtime): 2 points
- Lose (in overtime): 1 point
- Lose (regular time): 0 points
League standings sorting is based on (top to bottom):
- Total number of points
- Head-to-head points
- Head-to-head goal difference
- Head-to-Head goals scored
- Overall goal difference
- Overall goals scored
- Note: during season the standings are not sorted using head-to-head, this takes too much time.
- Head-to-head record will be reviewed at the end of the season when teams end with equal amount of points.
Match System
Match times:
- Lag-test / half-time: 1 minute maximum to deal with any connection issues
- Regular: 2 halfs of 7 minutes (14 minutes in total)
- Overtime: If a match is a draw after 14 minutes, golden goal situation will follow to determine winner
Match settings:
- Regular: No score limit, 7 minutes time limit
- Overtime: Score limit 1, no time limit
- Matches are played on the map 'Big Spaceball - SpaceSports.tk (LITE)' or 'Big Spaceball - SpaceSports.tk (FULL)' or 'Big Spaceball v3 by JP'
- Teams exchange red/blue sides after each half and before overtime starts
- Matches will always be played 3 vs 3
- When the host is also playing, the host needs to put a ping handicap ('/handicap') corresponding to the lowest ping of the opposite team or 100 if the lowest ping of the opposite team is higher than 100
- End-time goals only count when the match returns to kick-off
Match schedule:
- Each team will play each other four times during the season
- A match is allowed to start maximal 15 minutes after the fixed scheduled time. After 15 minutes, the delaying team will get a deflose.
- Make sure to have a host available at the fixed scheduled times.
- Only the General Manager will be given admin rights to set team colors and make substitutions
- The General Manager can give admin rights to a player of the the team if one of the players have lag.
- Player substitutions are only allowed after a goal, during half-time or to substitute a lagged player
- When the General Manager is unable to attend the match, he/she should name one of his players as captain for the match
- The General Manager of the team that has won the match must post the match submission. If a match is not submitted after 7 days, the match will be counted as not valid and both teams will get 0 points.
Connection / Ping / Lag / Lag-goals
- Each player is responsible for his own connection
- If there are lag issues, this is either due to:
- Host connection - in this case all players in the room will have lag. Whilst this is not ideal, because all players lag nobody is at an disadvantage.
- Player connection - in this case only the player will have lag. The player must look to resolve his own connection issues and only he is responsible.
- When a player has a first ping higher than 250 or second ping higher than 300, the match is allowed to be paused to resolve the player's lag. Any other lag is not being seen as lag, and is therefore not allowed to pause for.
- Lag-goals: Every goal is counted, admins won't decide anything for lag goals. Captains can discuss about it and decide if null or not the lag goal.
- Spam is not accepted, if a player start spamming in the room, it is allowed to first kick him, then ban him in case of no stopping.
- In-game violations include:
- Kicking/banning a player or taking opposing team's admin rights away during games
- Playing with suspended,banned or overtaken activity players
- Playing on a different map than the three stated in these rules
- Pausing a match more than twice per period
- Stopping the game
- Playing a match with wrong match settings
- Sanction: breach of any of these violations shall be dealt with after the match
- Leaving the league during a season as General Manager. Sanction: disallowed to play rest of the season and disallowed to be a GM next Spaceball league season.
- Using a fake name or taking a name of another player. Sanction: banned from the league and forum permanently
- Using a macro or other hack. Sanction: banned from the league and forum permanently
Free Agent/Roster Rules (SSN8.1)
Free Agent topic:
1. New player during a league season can state his Free Agents (FA) topic, the same applies to not-drafted or cut players.
1.1 First Rounder rule. A first rounder player can't sign up on Free Agent to preventing unbalance of the league.
2. FA period starts after the 1st Gameday for the undrafted players and new ones. Players, who previously played in the spaceball league and didn't sign up for Draft, have to wait 2 gameweeks after the league start before they are allowed to post their FA topic.
Free Agent claiming:
3. During the season, a General Manager (GM) has 48 hours to put a "Claim" on a Free Agent after the FA posted. Post in the persons Free Agent topic that you wish to claim him, if nobody posts before you, who is above you on the Waiver Ranking, you get the Free Agent for your team.
4. Claims must be visible without any special text surrounding it. Edited posts will not be seen as a claim.
Waiver Ranking:
5. The Waiver Ranking will start as the reversed draft order. After the Gameday 4, we switch Waiver order to reverse league standings.
Trading:
6. The spaceball league organization always has the possibility to deny a trade which can be considered as highly unfair to protect the parity and fairness. This can be done due to skill difference or activity difference among others.
Gamedays:
7. Thursday and Sunday at 20:00 CET
Delays:
8. Admins won't accept any kind of delay for the games but if both captains decide to play that game on the next 3 days they are allowed to do it.