THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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Basketball Players Needed for SpikeTV's "Pros Vs Joes" | ||
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TUE 1/6 (5:45PM) -- This came in some time ago, but there's still time left if you are interested...Spike TV's series "Pros Vs Joes" is currently searching for real guys to go head-to-head with professional football and basketball players. We are looking for athletes with the skill, strength, speed and agility to posterize or tackle a pro. If you know of anyone interested, have them go to http://pvjcasting.webs.com to download an application, shoot a video and get back in the game!We're hiring! Play for free! Help wanted! FRI 8/15/08 (10:30AM) -- Over the years, guys have asked if we have jobs available and I've told them we had nothing that would be substantial, but now we do. Basketball leagues are low-margin businesses, so we can only pay $8 per hour, which is what we pay each of our two scorekeepers per game. A comped roster slot comes out to about 11-12 games scorekept per person. If you do one or two per week, lo and behold, you are done over the course of the season!
Please be aware, though, that my management style goes like this, in case you hadn't noticed from our team/player registration process. I move along at pretty constant speed. If after a few weeks you don't have any deliverables, I will assume that you missed the bus and it will become a project not completed again, available for someone else to grab. There's a lot of responsibility that comes with each job above. Each person is expected to sign an employment contract. Per IRS rules, if you earn $600 or more, you will receive a MISC-1099 form from us next January. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you. Searching for Basketball Players, Runners, & Triathletes for Paid Photo Shoot OCTOBER 25, 2007 (3:00PM) -- We just got this in from a casting agency. Please let us know if you're interested and we'll put you in touch... "PAID PRINT PHOTO SHOOT ($500 & $750). The client is a well-known sportswear company (name to be announced once final talent are selected). Pre-Season Kickoff Party at Tabu Lounge - 9/15/07
WHY: For the helluvit, chance to thank those of you who have been dreamleague supporters WHO: Big thank you to Yukhong Lum, party promoter (more details on his gig soon) WHERE: TABU LOUNGE, 520 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 WHEN: Sat Sep 15, 9pm to whenever they close COST: FREE BEFORE 10:30PM!!! Add yourself to the guestlist here... http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/zodiacsf@gmail.com/dream Flyer will be posted here shortly. Oh, while we're at it (and because there are certain limitations with this website's database and stuff), why don't you read below about telling us your team's tipoff times for the upcoming league... Being proactive about tipoff timeframes Last update 5/8/2007 Perhaps it's not immediately evident, but there's a lot you can do to not only get the tipoff timeframe you want, but be able to better predict what time your game will be this upcoming Sunday, if you can't wait until the usual Thursday morning. This goes for those of you who are making special requests, too. Before asking the commish if a certain tipoff timeframe is possible, why don't you first get a hint of what's possible by going to your division's Season Preview page (usually the first article located in your league's homepage's "Articles from this season" box on the right-hand side, or the Rumor Mill list or wherever that list of original team registrations and preferred tipoff times is located) -- then going to the Season Schedule/Matchups page to see who you're playing and simply checking...
If you're not necessarily making a special request, but just wondering what time your tipoff might be, you'll get a sense by taking the cross-section of your team's tipoff timeframe with that of your opponent's. Sometimes they are on opposite ends of the day. In those unusual circumstances, you can pretty much pinpoint the narrow few hours in which your tipoff timeframes overlap. Now, back to the topic of schedules going up by Thursday morning I've been asked many times why we do this. It's mainly because of (1) gym directors who pull the rug from under me, (2) teams that always are asking for this or that because they forgot they had a tournament, etc., and (3) the fact I have to run all these games in succession due to the sucky business model of running leagues. He who holds the keys to the gym is king With gyms, it's a reflection of the greater community out there. The greater community out there is filled with people who don't have proper Fortune 500 business training and hence tend to do things last-minute, with a tinge of irresponsibility and little control over their calendars. Unfortunately, I have found that this is simply the nature of the beast. The majority of gym directors don't tell me until the last minute (thankfully, they have enough decency to tell me usually by Wednesday) about some other, more powerful and rich group -- usually some AAU or NJB youth organization -- that has rented the gym for a big tournament this very weekend, probably at a higher rate than we as dreamleaguers can bear. Generation Y or whatever you wanna call it Funny how this sounds exactly like your flaky teammates who don't tell you, the captain, that they can't make it this weekend until 2 days before! See, I told you. Majority rules. That's the way people are these days. Short attention spans, Generation Y, or whatever you want to call it. Face the facts. This, by the way, covers my second point from above. So anyways if I had done all the work to set a season schedule, then if #1 or #2 happens, I've wasted the time I spent doing that. I might as well set the schedule with the fewest variables in play. That's why I usually don't even bother starting the schedule until Tuesday or Wednesday of each week. Besides, that gives me Monday to look over the stats and make sure our narrow-skillset teenage crew doesn't screw them up when they input them onto the website. Nevertheless, I'm trying to set the schedule as much as I can and hold people to it, although with gym directors (and scorekeepers), that's a huge risk. Basketball leagues: a sucky business model Also, to hit on the third and last point, if it were more economical I'd just setup each league in a certain timeframe. A bunch of 8-team leagues all set, like multiple city or community leagues you see out there. Unfortunately, that doesn't yield me the most teams. And unfortunately, I'm in a pinch and need to accept as many teams as possible, thereby complicating it all. It is actually financially better for dreamleague if a 16-team AL-P league (which is also more fun) falls in my lap instead of separate city league-like 8-team leagues here and there run by different quasi-commishes. dreamleague: trying to get as close to the NBA as we possibly can From your standpoint, in a vanilla 8-team city league, you actually don't get the closeness of competitive levels that we have right now. You don't get the NBA feel of a 16- or 27-team league. It's just not possible unless you comingle everything over several seasons and years of experience. So it helps me and it helps you too in terms of the dynamic of the league you play in. dreamleague: not necessarily for Al Bundys There's good and bad in that. That's why typically the older, married with children crowd has a tougher time adjusting to the dreamleague scheduling paradigm than those of you who are in college and just wanna ball. We have certainly lost a team here or there because of that. Unfortunately the Al Bundys are in the minority. All that being said, imposing a 6-hour timeframe ain't all that bad. If you think about it, a weeknight league is going to impose a 4-hour timeframe on you, and that's for a weeknight (e.g., 6pm, 7pm, 8pm or 9pm tipoffs). For a weekend, 6 hours is merely tacking on an extra before and after. The other curveball is the limited availability of gyms. We're pretty much stuck with stacking game after game wall-to-wall in any gym we can get our hands on. Then you go back to the competitive aspect. We've already thought about this long and hard So we've taken all of this into consideration and have made a conscious decision that with all the variables in play, we're better off just publishing the schedule every Thursday, with each team doing what it can to have an educated guess as to what time your tipoff is. Unless I can figure out how to improve upon this, or if there's a sudden wave of gym availability to hedge against today's scarcity, or I can spread this responsibility across several people who are as dedicated as myself to furthering the dreamleague cause, I'll probably take this to my grave. This method of scheduling will last in dreamleague Bay Area as long as I am able to keep running it. Hmm, that's actually not too different from any other league out there. Still the only place else where it's also Fan-tastic So look on the bright side: cool teams to play against, most likely at your level of play, double-elimination playoffs, guys who are working their butts off to get those stats up even though they might not be up yet, refs that get what dreamleague is all about, and that awesome NBA format. Here's hoping that advancing the ball to halfcourt after a timeout with 0.3 seconds left -- enough to catch-and-shoot according to the NBA -- supercedes everything, haha!--> |
