📋 Sacred Laws

League Rules

Know them or suffer the consequences.

📬 Propose a Rule Change
🔒 Keepers
  • Teams can keep a player for a maximum of 4 years in a row.
  • Waiver wire adds count as an 11th round pick for keeper purposes.
  • Players can be kept in Round 3 or later.
🤝 Trades
  • Trading away a 1st round pick player → the trading team forfeits 2 keeper slots.
  • Trading away a 2nd round pick player → the trading team forfeits 1 keeper slot.
  • If there is a ≤15 pick difference between the two players in the trade, only 1 keeper slot is forfeited total (e.g. trading a 2nd-round player within 15 picks → no slot forfeited).
  • Injured players cannot be used as trade chips.
  • During the draft, picks within the same draft year can be traded without penalty.
🔄 Transactions
  • Maximum of 5 waiver transactions per week.
⚖️ Tie-Breakers
  • 1Head-to-head matchup result
  • 2Total categories won
  • 3Score against other teams the week you tied
💰 Buy-In & Payout
League buy-in$75
Website fee$2
🥇 1st Place60%
🥈 2nd Place20%
🏅 Regular Season Winner20%
🎰 Draft Lottery

Held at draftpicklottery.com

1
24%
2
21%
3
19%
4
16%
5
10%Worse record (1st out)
6
10%Better record (2nd out)
🚽 Toilet Bowl
  • Bottom 4 teams compete in a losers bracket.
  • The two losers from Round 1 face off in the Toilet Bowl Championship.
  • Loser of the Toilet Bowl receives the punishment.
  • If your team wins the Toilet Bowl, you can no longer make pickups for the rest of the season.
  • Winner of the Toilet Bowl gets the 2nd-best lottery odds.
🌶️ Punishment
  • The league votes on the punishment for the season.
  • Loser picks from a list of 3 options determined by the league.
  • Default punishment is the Hot Ones challenge. The loser can propose an alternative — everyone votes yes or no.
  • 2023 Do the Hot Ones challenge or lose a 1st round pick — must be completed before the 2024 draft.
📅 Draft Day
  • The draft takes place every year two Saturdays before the NBA season starts (scheduled to avoid Noa's birthday).