NBA:GM Responsibilities: Difference between revisions

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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
Exercise or decline 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.

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

Your post must also match the league spreadsheet, the league's authoritative record of every contract, waiver, and draft pick. It wins any disagreement.

Posting standards

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

Title every topic with the player's name — except trades, which are titled with the teams involved. The description field carries the move itself for G League, IR, and option topics. The other forums do not use it.

Post	Must carry
Free agency bid	The offer and its points total
Re-sign	The 3 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	Your decision, for every option you hold

Contracts are fixed

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

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.

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 |-
 ! Exercise or decline every option
-| [[NBA:Options|Option window]]
+| [[NBA:Options#When|Option window]]
 | Treated as a decline — the player goes to free agency
 |-
-! Set a legitimate lineup
+! [[NBA:In-Season#Lineups|Set a legitimate lineup]]
 | Daily, in-season
 | Warnings, then loss of a 2nd-round pick, then a 1st
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 {{Important|A GM who does not check in by the deadline is replaced.}}
-Dates are announced each year — see [[NBA:Off-Season|Off-Season]].
+[[NBA:Off-Season#This year's dates|Dates]] are announced each year.
 == Your posted roster ==
-Keeping your roster post current is a standing obligation, not a courtesy, and it gates two things:
+Keeping your [[NBA:Rosters#How to post|roster post]] current is a standing obligation, not a courtesy, and it gates two things:
-* '''[[NBA:Free Agency|Free agency]]''' — without a current roster, every bid you make is invalid
+* '''[[NBA:Free Agency#Before you bid|Free agency]]''' — without a current roster, every bid you make is invalid
-* '''[[NBA:Re-Signing|Re-signing]]''' — without one your re-sign thread is locked and no one will verify it
+* '''[[NBA:Re-Signing#When|Re-signing]]''' — without one your re-sign thread is locked and no one will verify it
-See [[NBA:Rosters#How to post|Rosters]] for what a roster post should contain.
+Your post must also '''match the league spreadsheet''', the league's authoritative record of every contract, waiver, and draft pick. It [[NBA:League Spreadsheet#Keep your roster post aligned|wins any disagreement]].
-Your post must also '''match the [[NBA:League Spreadsheet|league spreadsheet]]''', the league's authoritative record of every contract, waiver, and draft pick. It [[NBA:League Spreadsheet#Keep your roster post aligned|wins any disagreement]].
 == Posting standards ==
-Every transaction has required content. The formats are conventions, but '''what must be communicated is a rule'''.
+Every transaction has required content. The [[NBA:Contracts#Notation is a convention, not a rule|formats are conventions]], but '''what must be communicated is a rule'''.
 '''Title every topic with the player's name''' — except [[NBA:Trades#How to post|trades]], which are titled with the teams involved. The description field carries the move itself for [[NBA:G League#How to post|G League]], [[NBA:Injured Reserve#How to post|IR]], and [[NBA:Options#How to post|option]] topics. The other forums do not use it.
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 | Your decision, for every option you hold
 |}
-Punctuation is up to you — [[NBA:League Structure#Commissioner and TAB|TAB]] can read any reasonable format. See [[NBA:Contracts#Notation is a convention, not a rule|Contracts]].
-== Lineups ==
-Lineups are set daily, and fielding a legitimate one is enforced with an escalating penalty. See [[NBA:In-Season|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, contact TAB rather than adjusting it. See [[NBA:Salary Cap|Salary Cap]].
+'''Altering a player's salary or years is grounds for immediate removal from the league.''' If a figure looks wrong, contact [[NBA:League Structure#Commissioner and TAB|TAB]] rather than adjusting it.
 == If you need to step away ==