Due to overwhelming popularity, it has been decided that the drafts will be held just before the season commences. The first games of the season are on the 31st of October (our time). Therefore I am thinking that we hold the drafts for each league sometime on the weekend of the 27-28th of October or on a weeknight around that time (remember if the draft is held on a weeknight it can’t commence until 10.00pm AEST)

Please read over the break.

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Let me know what you think about these dates in the comments below and we should be able to commit to a time to hold the draft/s on. The majority decision for each league will determine when the draft is being held so make sure you send in your thoughts. Remember if you are not available on the day of the draft is being held, you can always set up a pre draft list beforehand.

The leagues and conferences within each league have been finalised. It has been decided that the following schedule will apply this season:

Each team will play all teams in their conference twice.

Each team will play all teams in the other conference once.

In the playoffs, the top 2 have a bye in the first week, 3rd ranked team will play the 6th ranked team and 4th ranked team will play the 5th ranked team. The winner of each of these finals will then play the one of the top 2 teams in the semi finals. The 2 winners of the semi finals will then meet in the grand final. Each round of the finals is for a duration of one week.

Unfortunately the ESPN fantasy basketball site does not allow for different lengths for each round of the finals so we will not able to implement the suggestion put forward by Under Achievers. His suggestion was to have one week for the first round of the finals and then 2 weeks for both the semi finals and grand final.

In the next few days, I will get around to setting up the random draft order for each league (all cash bribes will be gratefully accepted). I will post the draft order for each league in the comments below. As mentioned before, you can trade draft picks with other teams before the draft.

Over the next few weeks I will attempt to do a preview of all the teams in the NBA similar to what I did for our first fantasy season.

Once again if you have any questions on anything, post them in the comments below!