Highschool Sim Basketball Association (HSBA)

High School is the starting point of a player's career in real life and is no different at SSW. This is where you first make a name for yourself and you need to prove how good you are in order to get recruited by a top notch college and later be drafted into the pros. It all starts with a strong college career.

League Structure
High School has two different divisions, a Senior Divisions which contains all high school seniors and a Junior Division which consists entirely of high school juniors. Each of these leagues will have 100 teams. Every team's schedule will consist of 40 random games against opponents in their division, and the season will conclude with a championship game for each class between the two teams with the best power rankings in the division.

For a day-by-day breakdown, see: Generic Site Schedule

Player Creation
Juniors will be free to create throughout the season and will be limited to one per user unless you pay for extra creations. The total number of juniors will be limited by the number of teams in the division which means there are 1000 slots for new juniors each season.

Seniors will be able to be created for a fee during a set period in each offseason. These players will by default start at a higher level than free juniors who have had a full season to take advantage of training. Seniors will also be able to start at higher levels for those willing to pay a higher price.

Player Progression
Seniors will be recruited during the second half of the season by the CSBA coaches. Players will go to the school who has the highest recruiting score on their player at the appropriate signing deadline. Players do not have the ability to decline offers in order to maintain the integrity of the recruiting system, but will have the ability to transfer out of that school at any point in their college career to go into the transfer pool where they can be recruited by any team.

Because there are not infinite slots in the senior division, not all players will be able to make the cut when advancing from junior to senior year. There are 1000 slots available and first priority for these slots is given to seniors created during the designated senior creation period. All remaining spots not taken by these newly created players will then be filled by the juniors, with priority given to highest overall rating. In addition, there will be a minimum of 50 slots reserved each season for the top of the junior class to progress.

As an example, if there are 700 players created as seniors, there will be 300 spots remaining in the senior division and these slots will go to the top 300 juniors as sorted by overall. Any players who do not make the cut into the senior division will see their career end.

Team Tactics
High School team tactics will be controlled based on a team captain system. At all times, the player on the team with the highest overall rating will be designated as the team captain. This cpatain will have control of the basic tactics for the team including which offenses to run, etc. Individual players will have control over hteir own tactics such as shooting settings. The captain can change at any point in time if one player passes another for best overall on the team.