NBA:GM Responsibilities

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Reference	Contracts · Rosters · Salary Cap · League Spreadsheet
Transactions	Waivers · Trades · Options · Re-Signing · Draft · Free Agency · G League · Injured Reserve
Timeline	Off-Season · In-Season
Governance	League Structure · GM Responsibilities · Rule Changes
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These are the obligations that come with running a team, and what happens if you miss one.

Your obligations

Obligation	When	If you don't
Check in	Each off-season	You are replaced
Keep your posted roster current, and matching the league spreadsheet	Always	Free agency bids are invalid; re-signs are blocked
Post ACCEPT or DECLINE for every option	Option window	Treated as a decline — the player goes to free agency
Set a legitimate lineup	Daily, in-season	Warnings, then loss of a 2nd-round pick, then a 1st

Check-in

Check-in opens the off-season and confirms you are running your team for the coming season. It also reopens trades and makes draft picks tradeable.

A GM who does not check in by the deadline is replaced.

Dates are announced each year — see Off-Season.

Your posted roster

Keeping your roster post current is a standing obligation, not a courtesy, and it gates two things:

Free agency — without a current roster, every bid you make is invalid
Re-signing — without one your re-sign thread is locked and no one will verify it

See Rosters for what a roster post should contain.

Your post must also match the league spreadsheet, which holds the league's authoritative record of every contract, waiver and draft pick. If the two disagree, the spreadsheet is right — raise it with TAB rather than working around it.

Posting standards

Every transaction has required content. The formats are conventions, but what must be communicated is a rule.

Post	Must carry
Free agency bid	The offer and its points total
Re-sign	The three Fantrax scores, the average, and the offer
Waiver	Name, salary, contract length, and the cap hit with its end year
Trade	Full names, contracts, acceptance and reasoning from every team
G League demotion	The contract and the player's career games played
Option	ACCEPT or DECLINE, for every option you hold

Punctuation is up to you — TAB can read any reasonable format. See Contracts.

Lineups

Lineups are set daily, and fielding a legitimate one is enforced with an escalating penalty. See In-Season.

Contracts are fixed

Altering a player's salary or years is grounds for immediate removal from the league. If a figure looks wrong, raise it with TAB rather than adjusting it. See Salary Cap.

If you need to step away

Say so rather than going quiet. The league keeps a replacement GM list and hands teams over rather than leaving them idle — a team that goes silent through check-in is reassigned anyway, and handing it over cleanly is better for whoever inherits it.