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From: incubus
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Date: 12/3/2022 6:12:14 AM
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I have a a league game, my opponent fielded only 4 players and yet i am losing, Isn't it ruling in international basketball game that you have to field at least 5 players or else your team will be in default? why is it happening in Buzzerbeater?

From: testudo

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Date: 12/3/2022 6:54:36 AM
Isca Centurions
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Dartmoor Pumas
In BB it is legal to start the game with a minimum of three players. "Lucky Fans" will fill any empty spots.

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Date: 12/7/2022 9:46:56 AM
DarkQueen
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In Italy you must start in 5, and finish...mh......in 2? In my long basketball 30 years "career" I finish only 2 times in 4 but never less.

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Date: 12/7/2022 2:50:00 PM
Touristes de Sans-Souci
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The limit is 2. The means to remember it is that a team must always be able to play an inbounds situation (one to pass, one to receive the pass).

Article 21 Game lost by default
21.1 Rule
A team shall lose a game by default if, during the game, the team has fewer than 2
players on the court ready to play.


Source : https://www.fiba.basketball/documents/official-basketball-rules/current.pdf

Last edited by Moussx at 12/7/2022 2:50:53 PM

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Date: 12/8/2022 1:01:18 AM
Boulettes
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Thanks to @Moussx, i had in mind that rule. The ability to make a pass. And the rule makes sens with this in-bound situation.

However that rule may apply to an in-game situation, where the rule of three may apply at the start of the game.

I checked the rules of french federation and they talk a lot about how you'll be punished, in one way or another, if you do not present 5 players at the start.

To come back to the question at the beginning, in £Buzzerbeater, if you start with 3 players you do not play with three players but with 3 + 2 created for the game. Therefore you are 5.

Last edited by boule at 12/8/2022 1:03:14 AM

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Date: 12/8/2022 4:41:25 AM
Tampines Fusion
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Maybe they got custom rules in their local league. It's like how rules in the NBA, college basketball and G league all have different rules (and all differ from FIBA rules)