The National Boxing League

[atomzero]

The National Boxing League

The National Boxing League will be a team boxing competition

A. League Format

1. Consistency
The NBL will consist of one division of 6 teams.

2. Personnel
All NBL teams will consist of boxers from 8 weight classes and cornermen. All boxers will come from the latest version of the TBCB 2.5 Pool at league creation, and all cornermen will come from the "active" list. All fighters will be unadjusted from their original ratings, and weight classes will be built as follows:

Heavyweight - all HW & CW fighters
Light Heavyweight - all LHW & SMW fighters
Middleweight - all MW & JMW fighters
Welterweight - all WW & JWW fighters
Lightweight - all LW & JLW fighters
Featherweight - all FW & JFW fighters
Bantamweight - all BW & JBW fighters
Flyweight - All FLY, JFLY, and SW fighters

3. Teams
Each teams will consist of 13 boxers and 2 cornermen, in this configuration:
3 Heavyweight
1 Light Heavyweight
2 Middleweights
2 Welterweights
2 Lightweights
1 Featherweight
1 Bantamweight
1 Flyweight
1 Trainer
1 Cutman

4. Meets
Each team will compete in meets. A meet will consist simply of team A's fighters taking on Team B's fighters one-on-one, with each fighter facing a single opponent of his own weight class. Match-ups in weight classes with multiple fighters will be randomly shuffled. Meets will be scored thusly:

2 points for each win
1 point for each draw
0 points for each loss

After the meet, each patricipating teams points will be totalled and applied towards the league standings.

5. Schedule
Each team will play a schedule consisting of 10 meets, with 2 against each team. Meets will be played at a rate of 1 per month, (game time) between January and October. (game time)

6. Standings
At the end of October, the first place team will win and as-of-yet unnamed trophy.

7. Champions
In November, each division's two highest rated fighters will fight for the championship of the division. This fight is for the fighters, and it is not optional.

8. All-Time Standings
At the end of each season, teams will be awarded points according their finish in the standings and for any champions. These points will go towards the league's All-Time standings.

B. Logistics

1. League File
Copies of the current league file we be made available upon request

2. Meets
Meets will be run once per week, on a specific day that is yet to be determined.

3. Judges
All fights will be judged by randomly selected judges. Each team owner will be allowed to create one judge, and this pool of judges will be drawn from for all fights. The only limit on judge creation will be as follows:
No judge may have a "high score" rating below 50.

4. Referees
All bouts will be refereed by randomly selected referees, allowing each owner to create one referee. There will be no limiting rules on referee creation.

5. Match Rules
All matches will be fought under IBF Rules.

6. Aging
Fighters will age as follows:

Beginning 11-16 fights
Pre-Prime 23-41
Prime 28-69
Post-Prime 25-46
End 11-16

The moment a fighter retires, he will be removed from his team and unusable All fighters will start their career at 'Beginning' with 0 fights.

7. Notifications
All results, standings, transactions, retirements, and career advancements will be made public.

8. Founder Authority
The League Founder retains the right to expel any owner from the league for any reason.

9. Future Expansion
I have every intension of expanding this league as my organizational skills will allow, so others may join soon.

C. Transactions

1. Roster Maintenance
It is not necessary to maintain a 13-man roster, but any time a team has no fighter available for a given match, the match is forfeited. All team rosters must be updated by a time that will be determined later.

2. Fighter Release
Any fighter may be released at any time with a PM to the League Founder.

3. Waivers
All fighters are considered "on waivers" for 24 hours after the moment their release is announced by the League Founder. During this time, requests for the fighter may be made. If more than one team requests the same fighter, he will be awarded to the team that is lowest in the standings at that time.

4. Non-Waiver Acquisitions
Free agent fighter who have cleared waivers may be claimed with a PM to the League Founder.

5. Trades
Trades of fighters or draft picks are allowed at any time, but are subject to veto by the league founder. However, a Founder veto may be overridden by a majority vote of league owners. Trades made by the Founder may be vetoed by league owner majority.

6. Inaugural Draft
The NBL will begin with a 15-round, serpentine draft, where any available fighter or trainer may be taken. Available fighters will be published by the Founder at a later date.

7. Supplemental Draft
Each year in December, the league hold a 3 round supplemental draft. The number of fighters released into the draft will equal (number of teams x 4). These fighters will be distributed among weight classes and ratings semi-randomly. Each team may request one fighter to be included in the draft. If a slot of that fighter's rating and weight class is selected to be in the draft class, the fighter will take the spot.

8. Personnel Retension
Each team will be required to release 5 personnel at the end of the regular season.. These 5 may be any combination of fighters or cornermen. These fighters will not be available for acquisition until the Supplemental Draft..

9. Cornerman Retension
No Cornerman may be retained for more than 5 consecutive seasons. At the end of his 5th season, as in any other, a cornerman may be released as one of his team's 4 mandatory releases.

[atomzero]

I have two more open spots in this league. I have sent out invites, but if I don't hear back from those I invited, I will open it up to everyone else. The invites were nothing personal, just a few of the folks I've had more contact with in my short time here. If you would like in and it fills up, I have every intension of expanding the league after a season. I am hoping that season will take no longer than two months to run in real time.

If you interested, please send me a PM.

[atomzero]

Plenty of views so far, no love.

[Romultiltus]

Will there be a total team cap for ratings points per team. If not, all the top-rated guys will be used up quickly.

The UTBA used a hard team cap that worked quite well.

Good luck

[atomzero]

I wasn't planning on it. The way I expect the drafts to go, they should be sufficient to bolster the bottom teams.

Not everyone will be available.

[atomzero]

The league has filled. Here are our inaugural owners:

Myself
bear
Mad Bomber
Jeff1787
My buddy who has joined the board, but whose handle I am unaware of
My bro as soon as he gets his butt on the board.

I didn't get replies to all of the invites, so if anyone who got one would like to join, let me know and I'll expand the league to 8.

Feel free to name your teams now. No rules here, just nothing too obsene please.

The draft pool will consist of 7 randomly chosen fighters for each roster spot:

21 HW
7 LHW
14 MW
14 WW
14 LW
7 FW
7 BW
7 FLY

If you have any fighter requests, please send them to me. Just a heads up, I took the time to find the actual distribution of ratings, and will use those statistics to determine the random fighter slots, so generally, the higher the rating, the less chance there will be a place for the fighter you request. Don't let it stop you from requesting, I just wanted you all to know in advance.

As soon as I have all of the team names, I will randomly determine the draft order. As it is a serpentine draft, the order should not make too much of a difference. I've tested my draft and transaction rules, and I don't feel that this league will require a salary cap. If we decide along the road that it truly does, then we can always change that.

[bear]

The Unstable

will work for me as my franchise name

[odumuyiwa]

My team will be known as "Punch Drunk"

[atomzero]

My brother has decided to opt out of the league for now, so we have room for another owner. Please PM me if anyone is interested.

[atomzero]

We just got our sixth owner

aaaaaaaaa will be joining the league.