Statement of Intent:

1. To provide an instructional basketball league for 4^th  through 8th grade boys and girls who live in the school districts of the member communities.
2. To teach and encourage good sportsmanship, team work, and enjoyment of the game.

Team size: A minimum of 5 players to a team. Maximum team size is at the Coach’s discretion.

League Choice: Communities may place teams in either the A league (Gold) or the B league (Silver) or the 4^th Grade (Bronze). It is strongly recommended that we properly evaluate our teams and program before we make these decisions. After the schedule is complete no team can change to a different division. Once a team is in a division they must play in that division’s league tournament. The league director may move a team up a division if he feels the team is in the wrong division.

Conditions Form/Roster: All players shall provide the Red Cedar league with a conditions form complete with signatures for each individual player on that one individual team. One copy of this waiver shall be with the coaches and on file with the league. Each team shall also provide a roster for there individual team. This will be with the coaches and on file with the Red Cedar league.

Emergency Information: Each individual player shall complete the emergency information and consent form. A copy of this form will be in the coach’s possession at all Red Cedar Youth basketball events.

Weather and cancellations: Each individual community coordinator in communication with the other community coordinator shall make decisions on the weather. Make-up of these delayed or cancelled games shall be at the decision of the effected communities. If the game is not played due to weather and cannot be made up the game shall be considered a tie.

Admission Fee: All sites where the games are held shall charge a standard admission of $3.00 for adults, $1.00 for students. Any further discounts shall be up to the host community. Admission for league tournaments may deviate from the standard admission. This shall be up to the host community.

Tournament Concessions: It is the right of the host community to provide concession facilities. It is also the right of the host community to deny individual teams from bringing in their own concessions.

Communication: Only the Board of Directors and the League Director will have any say in any rule changes. The participating community will follow these rules and will not make any changes at their site when having home games

Ejections: If a player, coach or spectator is ejected from a contest they will be suspended from the next contest. A second offense shall result in removal from the league for the remainder of the season. The host site is responsible to report this to the league. Officials shall file an incident report to the host site. This shall be completed in 24 hours and turned in to the league director. This form will be in the possession of each coordinator and will be at all games. If a player, coach or spectator is removed from any league tournament or league sponsored tournament the will not be eligible for the remainder of the tournament.

Referees: Two referees for each game. Registered officials are mandatory. Each official or the community head official shall plan on attending the League wide officials meeting at a date and site TBD. Each official shall place the registration number in the official scorebook and have the number on file with the league director. Home team Community Coordinators will arrange for and pay referees. Games may be played if only one referee attends, by no means shall we use an imposter.  The rate for the registered officials will be set at $30.00 per game. The league will try to make paying for official’s as even as possible. The home team on the schedule (defined as official payment) will be responsible to pay for the officials no matter the location.

Tournament divisions:

1.        Within each division the league tournaments shall be split if there are more than 12 teams.

2.        The split will be based on records with the top half in tournament A and the bottom half in tournament B and will be seeded within the division after the separation. (See Tiebreakers below)

3.        The division in case of odd teams shall be up to the director and all decisions shall be considered final

Tournament Host:

1.        The League shall provide medals for 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and sportsmanship

2.        The league shall cover the cost of the officials for the tournament you are hosting

3.        The host shall decide the sportsmanship winner based on coaches, fans and players attitudes during the tournament.

Tie Breakers: Tiebreakers will be used in case of a tie. These tiebreakers will be used only for determining seeds and/or placement in the league tournaments. This can be used in any division or geographical division. This should be communicated between coordinators and coaches. The tiebreakers shall be as follows:

Tiebreaker #1: Head to Head record with tied teams

Tiebreaker #2: Head to Head point differential with tied teams

Tiebreaker #3: Overall record vs common opponents

Tiebreaker #4: Overall point differential vs common opponents

Tiebreaker #5: Coin toss

6^th-7^th and 8^th Grade spring: This league is for 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grade boys only.

Game Schedules: Game schedules will be arranged to provide ½ of season games at home, ½ away. If a 8-game season is decided upon, a team may only have 3 home games. It is suggested that gym reservations be made for all Saturdays between (12/03/2011) and (2/25/2012) until a league schedule is agreed upon. There is also a chance for some non-league scheduling if at the Community Coordinator’s discretion, as long as there is no conflict with the league game schedule. Non-league games will be coordinated between the effected Community Coordinator, and the non-league Coordinator.

Gold Division Teams: All Gold division teams shall play each other up to a maximum of 12 games. This will require these teams to play both Saturday and Sunday on some weekends. This may also force some teams to only have 4 home games. Teams will still be expected to pay for the officials for half of the games played.

Spring Game Schedules: This year we will be playing doubleheaders. You will play two games and go home. Each community should provide gym time. It is estimated that each team should be at home 1-2 times. Each team should plan on playing up to 9 regular seasons games. Each team should budget to pay for the officials up to 5 times. This cost is $300.00 per team. This will be paid at the game site as specified by the schedule. The home team no matter the location will be responsible for the officials.

1. Games will be played on Saturdays and Sundays from 8:30am to 7:00pm. Please make sure your coaches are aware of this. Changes to the league schedule may be made by mutual consent of the Community Coordinators of the affected teams. The home Community Coordinator will be responsible for obtaining gym time, officials, score/time keepers, etc. for the rescheduled game. A rescheduled game may not conflict with any other games, for the affected teams, in the league schedule. If mutual agreement to rescheduling a game is not reached, the game will be held as originally scheduled.
2. To the greatest extent possible, each community will host, or travel to, one other community on a Saturday or Sunday.