2023-24 YBA season
The 2023-24 season of the Ysqsy Basketball Association (YBA) was the first season of the highest tier of amateur basketball in Ysqsylandia, featuring clubs in, and around the country's capital city. The league's ten-week regular season started on December 2nd of 2023 and ended on February 17, 2024 (Ysqsylandian time), with a two-week break in between for Christmas and New Year's Day. It was followed by the play-offs, featuring the top four clubs, which ran from February 21 to March 17. The Capital Swans won the title, beating Union 81-79 in a close YBA Championship Game.
Clubs
There were six teams which competed in this season. Below is a table listing each team's stadiums and locations.
| Teams | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armed Forces | Ysqsy City | National Armory | 1,900 |
| Capital Juniors | Ysqsy City | 911Bet Arena | 3,000 |
| Capital Swans | Ysqsy City | 911Bet Arena | 3,000 |
| Police | St. Vincent | St. Vincent Community Arena | 900 |
| Union | Ysqsy City | CryptoPark | 1,300 |
| University | Ysqsy City | University Arena | 2,000 |
Format
Regular season
The regular season featured the every team playing each one six times. In other words, all teams will play 36 games. The top four teams at the end of this stage will qualify for the play-offs. The teams will be ranked based on wins. In case of a tie on wins, these tiebreakers will apply:
- Head-to-head rankings (points, point difference and points scored).
- Win percentage (during the season).
- Point difference.
- Points scored.
- Draw.
Play-offs
The play-offs will be contested using the Page playoff system.
- Semifinals:
- Minor semifinal: best-of-three series. #3 seed plays against #4 seed. The winner qualifies to the preliminary final.
- Major semifinal: best-of-five series. #1 seed plays against #2 seed. The winner qualifies to the final. The loser goes on to the preliminary final.
- Preliminary final: best-of-three series. The winner qualifies to the final.
- Final: best-of-one series. The winner wins the YBA championship.
Table
| Pos | 2023–24 YBA regular season | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | PF | PA | PD | Last 5 | |
| 1 | Capital Swans | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% | 894 | 829 | +65 | 5-0 |
| 2 | Union | 10 | 6 | 4 | 60% | 813 | 763 | +50 | 3-2 |
| 3 | Capital Juniors | 10 | 5 | 5 | 50% | 921 | 902 | -19 | 3-2 |
| 4 | University | 10 | 4 | 6 | 40% | 863 | 901 | -38 | 2-3 |
| 5 | Police | 10 | 3 | 7 | 30% | 879 | 854 | +25 | 1-4 |
| 6 | Armed Forces | 10 | 2 | 8 | 20% | 809 | 930 | -121 | 1-4 |
Fixtures
An asterisk is added to the final score for each overtime period played.
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Play-offs
| Semifinals | Preliminary final | YBA Championship Game | ||||||||||||||
| February 22, 24, 29 | March 17 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Capital Swans | 78 | 87 | 80 | Capital Swans | 81 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Union | 77 | 91 | 69 | March 3, 10 | Union | 79 | |||||||||
| Union | 92 | 97 | ||||||||||||||
| February 21, 25, 28 | Capital Juniors | 79 | 87 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Capital Juniors | 93 | 54 | 111 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | University | 75 | 58 | 85 | ||||||||||||