Kingdom Basketball Association

The Plays Breakdown — Offence, Defence, Out of Bounds & Special Situations

Start here: this is the Lab's playbook, expanded to the maximum the documented record honestly supports — every diagram a play family NBA teams have actually run, the standard named sets and actions coaches call from the bench, from the pick and roll to the elevator doors, plus the documented clock situations (the 2-for-1, fouling up three, the intentional miss) that decide endings. Every play carries the full treatment: a step-by-step diagram, when it is used, its reads and counters, and its variations. An honest limit, stated up front: this is a catalog of the documented play families, not a claim to list literally every play ever run. Teams rename, disguise and tweak these actions nightly; what follows is the shared vocabulary they are all built from.

How to read the diagrams: offence is the numbered blue circles (1–5); defence is the brown-red X marks (X1–X5); the orange dot rides with whoever holds the ball. On out-of-bounds plays the gold diamond marked IN is the inbounder. Within a step, a dashed arrow is that step's pass. Famous examples are named only where they are well documented.

Pick-and-Roll Geometry

The ball-handler (orange) uses a screen from a teammate (blue). Pick a coverage and watch what the defense gives up — or drag the red on-ball defender yourself and see the space change.

Every coverage is a trade. Going under protects the paint but concedes a pull-up jumper; fighting over chases the shooter but opens the roll; switching kills the advantage but creates a mismatch; dropping keeps a big near the rim and dares the handler to shoot from midrange. The handler's job is simply to read which gift he was given.

Shot Zones & Effective Field-Goal %

Click a zone on the chart to add 10 illustrative shots there, then tune that zone's accuracy. Watch points per shot — not raw FG% — do the talking.

eFG% adjusts for threes being worth more: eFG% = (FGM + 0.5 × 3PM) ÷ FGA. A corner three made 40% of the time scores 1.20 points per shot — the same as a rim attempt made 60% of the time, and far better than a long two made 40% (0.80). That arithmetic, not fashion, is why offences hunt the rim and the corners and treat long twos as a last resort.

Zone vs Man-to-Man

Drag the ball (orange) anywhere on the half-court. In man-to-man, each defender stays with his assignment; in a zone, defenders guard an area and shift together toward the ball.

Man-to-man pressure travels with the ball but can be screened and beaten off the dribble. A zone protects the paint with bodies and shortens close-outs inside the arc — but the far corner and the top of the arc are guarded by whoever happens to be nearest, so ball movement and corner shooters stretch it until something breaks.

Pace & Possessions

Two dials run every box score: how many possessions a team uses, and how efficiently it scores on each one. Slide both and see the projected scoring.

The fantasy takeaway: counting stats — points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks — can only happen on a possession. A faster team manufactures more of all of them, so the same player in the same minutes is usually worth more on a high-pace team. Pure arithmetic model: projected points = pace × offensive rating ÷ 100. Illustrative, not a forecast.

The Possession Lab — Play-by-Play, Zones & Fatigue

Every widget above isolates one idea. This one runs them together: a possession-by-possession engine. Five player profiles — a lead guard, a wing, a stretch shooter, a roller and a big — share the ball by their real tendencies. The defense you pick bends where shots come from and how well they are contested, the shot clock squeezes late possessions, and every trip tires the five a little more: tired shooters make less and turn it over more. Run it trip by trip, or let a quarter's worth go.

No possessions yet. The engine is honest about its math: zone make-rates are rim 64% · midrange 42% · corner three 39% · arc three 36%, bent by the defense, the clock and fatigue.

How to read it: switch the defense and watch the shot mix move — the 2–3 zone pushes attempts out of the paint and gives up the far corner; the 3–2 takes away the arc and concedes the rim. Then run 48 straight and compare the per-player lines with a fresh run: the engine's fatigue curve (make-rate and handle both decay with stint length, a timeout restores some legs) is why real rotations exist. A transparent teaching model — the probabilities and tendencies are stated on the card and in the code, not fitted to any real team.

The Dynasty Value Curve

Slide a player's age and watch the standard career arc: a climb, a peak plateau roughly from 24 to 28, then a decline that steepens in the thirties.

In a redraft league only this season counts, so a brilliant 34-year-old is gold. In dynasty you own the whole curve — which is why this league's dynasty board weights youth: a 23-year-old still rising can be worth more than a slightly better 31-year-old whose remaining peak is already spent. Illustrative shape, not player data.

Draft-Pick Value — Why the Top Is Heavy

The chart models a 3-round, 32-team draft — 96 picks in a straight line. Click bars to build two sides of a hypothetical trade and compare the combined value.

Value concentrates brutally at the top: one elite pick can be worth two or three later ones combined — try checking whether 1.05 + 2.12 really does add up to about 1.01. Illustrative exponentially-decaying curve, not an official league chart. Real pick ownership lives in the Dynasty Future Draft Room.