The MPAA Basketball house rules for 2010.

A. Registration

1. At least one of the parents of a participating player must be Filipino .

2. Age qualifications:

Mosquito Born (2000) Age 10

Ladies -Any year No age limit

Tykes -Born (1998) Age 12

Pee-Wee -Born (1996) Age 14

Bantam -Born on (1994) Age 16

Midget -Born on (1992) Age 18

Open -Any year (no age limit)

Senior -Born on/before 1975 Age 35

3. Registration fees must be paid before the first game .

B. Team Composition

1. Teams can submit a maximum of 18 players in the line up but 15 players can dress up and play in a game and must be submitted by the coach before the start of the game. These limitations do not apply to the mosquito division.

2. Team line up submitted for the 3rd game (including alternates) will be the team’s final line up and no change will be allowed thereafter.

3. No player is allowed to play in two different division.

C. Team Uniforms

1. NO UNIFORM NO PLAY!

2. Of some valid reason, a player does not have the current uniform of the team, a previous uniform of the team, same colour, with a different number from any in the set of the current uniform may be used with prior league approval.

3. Numbers assigned to players for the team’s 3rd game will be permanent numbers throughout the tournament. Any change without approval will be penalized.

4. Under t-shirt will only be allowed if it is of the same colour as the uniform.

5. If opposing teams have the same colour of uniforms, one of the teams will be requested to wear an under t-shirt of a different color.

D. Playing Time

1. The Mosquito, Girls, Tykes and Peewee divisions will play four 5-minute periods in the 1st half and two 5-minute periods and a last 10-minute period in the 2nd half. All players in the game line-up must at least play a total of 10 minutes unless the player can not complete the minimum due to personal fouls, injury or, ejection. Violation may result in loss of game. The 10 minutes playing time does not apply in the mosquito division where the minimum time for a player is 5 minutes.

2. The Bantam, Juvenile, Open ,Ladies and the Senior divisions will play two 20 minutes halves.

3. In case of a tie at the end of regular game time, 3 minute overtime period(s) follows to break the tie.

4. Games will be played in running time but will be stopped on free-throws, time-outs and upon referees call.

5. Clock will be stopped every time the referee blows the whistle in the last 3 minutes of the regular time and on overtime periods.

E. Default Game

1. Default game is 10 minutes in open subtitution division after scheduled game time and team needs 5 players to start the game.

2. In Mosquito, Girls, Tykes, and Peewee divisions a team could start 5 players. Team needs four players on the second shift. However team can use a 10 minutes grace period if there is less than five players present on schedule game time. When resume, only 15 minutes on the first half, no jump ball and the ball in favour for the complete team.Minimum of 9 players in the game to avoid team defaults.

3. Only the league can postpone, cancel or reschedule games due to an unforeseen event. If both teams can not play as scheduled, both teams lose by default.

4.A team will be awarded 25 points if their opposing team defaults on any MPAA schedule game.

F. Substitution

1. Substitution in the Mosquito, Girls, Tykes and Peewee divisions is via the platoon system at the start of each 5 minute periods. Open substitution is on the last 10 minutes.

2. No substitution is allowed within the 5 minute periods except when a player fouls out, injured, or ejected. However, substituting player must not have played in the previous period and substituting player can not play in the following period. No player can play in consecutive 5-minute periods.

3. Coach will be assessed a “flagrant foul” if a disqualified player is substituted.

G. Defence

1. In the Mosquito, Girls, Tykes, Peewee divisions, the half court press in the six 5-minute periods still applies and full court press will be allowed in the last 10 minutes. In the Bantam division, full court press is allowed throughout the game.

2. A man to man defence is compulsory for the above divisions throughout the game. No double teaming is allowed above the free throw line. Player isolation is not allowed.

3. First violation on the above 2 rules will be a warning call from the referee and all violations of the same thereafter will be assessed a technical foul.Except for the Mosquito Divisions,all violations will only results to a warning and not a technical fouls.

4. Above rules do not apply to Ladies , Bantam , Juvenile, Open and Senior divisions.

H. Time-Outs

1. Teams are allowed 4 time outs (two 30 second and two 60 second) in a game. If not specified, a 60 second time out applies.

2. Unused time outs can not be carried over in case of overtime. A 30 second time out is allowed per overtime period.

I. Bench Personnel

1. Only the coach, his assistant, manager and the 15 players designated to play will be allowed on the bench. Suspended and injured players are not allowed on the bench.

2. Only the coach or his designate is allowed to be standing within the coach’s box at anytime. Coach’s box will be marked on the hard court.

3. Coaches must be in

Team Uniforms at all times while they are on their respective benches.

J. Ejections

1. WHEN THE COACH IS EJECTED ,THE WHOLE TEAM IS EJECTED.

2. The referee can eject anybody on the hard court or bench for conduct unbecoming, physical or verbal abuse by officials or players representative of an organization.

3. Players involved in fight on the hard court will automatically be ejected plus a possible suspension to take effect immediately. The same applies to other team players who invade the hard court from the sideline or stands in sympathy of friends.

4. A second technical foul called on the same individual results in automatic ejection.

K. Protests

1. Protest against player age qualification will be entertained during the regular season and must be accompanied with a $100 refundable fee. Fee will be refunded if the protest is proven correct. Else the protest fee or a part of thereof is forfeited. Protest against player nationality will be entertained up to semi-final game.

2. If a player misrepresented, he is immediately expelled from the team and suspended from participation in the future MPAA leagues as will be determined.

3. All won games where the disqualified player participated will be reversed into losses and credit opposing teams with the win.

4. Protest due to technicalities or procedural disagreements must be indicated on the score sheet after the game, signed by the protesting coach and duly acknowledged by the referee. No protest fee is required and it will be resolved before the next schedule of games. The decision of the tournament committee is final.

I. Play Off

1. A player must have played at least 50% of the team’s regular season games to be able to participate in the play-off.

2. Players who did not make the 50% due to injury may be considered if a medical certificate can be presented and deliberated upon by league officials.

Revised:11/09