ProB 2015/16

ProB 2015/16
Duration		September 26, 2015 - May 7, 2016
Order of execution		9th season
Number of teams		24
Main round
Main round first		Iserlohn Kangaroos (north) BG Karlsruhe (south)
Main rounds - MVP		Daniel Berger (Ehingen orig.)
Youngster of the year		Niklas Kiel (Skyliners FfM)
Coach of the year		Domenik Reinboth (Ehingen orig.)
Play-offs
master		Team Ehingen Urspring
Runner-up		Fraport Junior Skyliners
← ProB 2014/15 ProB 2016/17 →
↑ ProA 2015/16 Regionalliga North / Southeast / Southwest / West ↓

The 2015/16 season is the ninth season of the German ProB basketball division . The ProB is the second season of the hierarchically structured 2nd basketball league . The regular season began on September 26, 2015 and ended on March 5, 2016. This was followed by the play-offs for promotion and the play-down delegation rounds, which ended on May 7, 2016 with the second final game.

mode

Twelve teams each in two groups, North and South, take part in this division's play. The regular season is played as a round- robin tournament in the mode everyone against everyone ( English "Round Robin" ) with a return game in the respective regional group. The eight best-placed teams at the end of this main round play the two finalists in the play-offs in the "best-of-three" mode , both of whom acquire the right to participate in the ProA for the following season and play the champions of this division. The teams in positions nine to twelve of each group at the end of the main round play another round-robin tournament with a round trip within the regional groups while maintaining the main round results, with the two teams in the two lowest places in the table relegating to the regional leagues. If more than twelve teams take part in a group, the teams ranked behind twelfth place in the main round are relegated directly.

conditions

The participating clubs must provide proof of their athletic qualifications, economic performance, suitability of technical playing facilities and organizational requirements, which is regulated by the license statute. In addition, the organization of the club, the promotion of young talent and the venue infrastructure are assessed using a point system. In particular, a venue with a capacity for at least 500 spectators is mandatory for participants in the ProB.

During the game there must always be three German players per team on the field, the German players are marked with a German flag on their jerseys. A maximum of 18 players per season and team can be used. At least nine of these must have German citizenship. Of the maximum of twelve players that can be used per game, at least six must be German. There are double licenses for players in the U24 age group, who can therefore be used at the same time in the BBL , as well as for U22 players from the regional leagues (and below). Players with a double license do not count among the 18 maximum usable players, but those with German citizenship do count towards the national quota.

Season Notes

• From the ProA 2014/15 , the bottom of the table erdgas Ehingen / Urspringschule rose as a sporty relegation . The Cuxhaven BasCats , which only slipped back to a relegation place after the withdrawal of an arbitration judgment, received neither a license for the ProA nor for the ProB, as they could not provide evidence of economic performance for the following season. After more than ten years of membership in the second highest division, the BasCats, who were promoted as SV Rot-Weiss Cuxhaven and even qualified for the highest division in 2008 and 2010 , left the national divisions again.
• The master of the ProB 2014/15 , the Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems Oldenburger TB , did not apply for a license for the ProA 2015/16 and thus forfeited his athletic promotion right as did finalist SC Rist Wedel , who did not pursue his license application for the ProA. Of the play-off participants, the quarter-finalist TG WhiteWings Hanau and the last sixteen Dragons Rhöndorf emerged, who received the ProA license and achieved promotion to the ProA 2015/16.
• Newcomers from the regional leagues were three former first division clubs with the ScanPlus Baskets Elchingen in the southwest and the direct climbers Giants Nördlingen in the southeast and the dukes Wolfenbüttel in the north. As in the north, the RheinStars Cologne could only secure first place and promotion in the west through a direct comparison . After the wild card for the Crailsheim Merlins in the top division, the Cologne team, who are the successors of the old masters BSC Saturn Cologne and Cologne 99ers , obtained a wild card for the ProA 2015/16 , due to the Merlins remaining in the basketball league had become free, and made it straight through to the second highest division.
• The reserve team SG Braunschweig of the first division basketball Löwen Braunschweig joined forces with their former rivals after the return of their regional neighbor, Duke Wolfenbüttel. The Artland Dragons , also from Lower Saxony , successfully applied for this vacancy . With the organization of the former cup winner and runner-up, who withdrew from the top division after twelve years after the end of the basketball Bundesliga in 2014/15 , these Dragons essentially only have the company , the logo and the home ground in common.
• In addition to the BSW Sixers, who were directly relegated after the main round of the pre-season in the north, Otto Baskets Magdeburg also had to relegate from Saxony-Anhalt before the 2015/16 season, whose license withdrawal only came into effect after the end of the 2014/15 season. The Otto Baskets had only received the license, which was later withdrawn, shortly before the preseason and thus forced the participation of a 13th team in the north of the 2014/15 season. After the license withdrawal of the Otto Baskets and the non-granted license for the Cuxhaven BasCats, only the TV Langen Giraffes , who had belonged to the first or second national basketball league since 1978 , remained among the participants in the relegation round as relegated athletes .
• The regional division of the groups north and south was adjusted again, so that the teams from Saxony returned to the group south. In connection with the ProA promoters from the Rhineland , this meant that all teams from North Rhine-Westphalia now play in the North group.

Main round

	= Play-off places
	= Play-down places

north						south
#	team	Victories	low lying	Victory points	Basket points	team	Victories	low lying	Victory points	Basket points
1	Iserlohn Kangaroos	17th	5	34	1634: 1540	BG Karlsruhe	19th	3	38	1788: 1602
2	Dukes Wolfenbüttel (N)	16	6th	32	1593: 1496	Team Ehingen Urspring (A)	16	6th	32	1765: 1639
3	VfL AstroStars Bochum	13	9	26th	1646: 1559	Skyliners Juniors Frankfurt	14th	8th	28	1761: 1719
4th	EBC Rostock Seawolves	13	9	26th	1664: 1565	Giants Noerdlingen (N)	14th	8th	28	1687: 1639
5	BAWE Oldenburg TB (M)	13	9	26th	1517: 1522	Dresden Titans	12	10	24	1827: 1742
6th	Artland Dragons (A *)	12	10	24	1500: 1438	ScanPlus Elchingen (N)	11	11	22nd	1782: 1727
7th	SC Itzehoe Eagles	12	10	24	1677: 1648	Weißenhorn young stars	10	12	20th	1781: 1721
8th	Citybasket Recklinghausen	10	12	20th	1603: 1625	University giant Leipzig	10	12	20th	1733: 1833
9	RSVE Stahnsdorf	7th	15th	14th	1449: 1547	TG Würzburg	9	13	18th	1600: 1652
10	SC Rist Wedel	7th	15th	14th	1496: 1560	Licher BasketBears	8th	14th	16	1672: 1722
11	Herten lion	7th	15th	14th	1717: 1881	BIS Baskets Speyer	5	17th	10	1624: 1881
12	EN Baskets Schwelm	5	17th	10	1636: 1751	TV Saarlouis Royals	4th	18th	8th	1621: 1764

(A) = ProA relegated or with * from BBL / (N) = Newcomer and promoted from the regional leagues / (M) = ProB master of the previous season

Statistics best

• Only values ​​from main round games are taken into account

Teams

category	north		south
	Best value	Worst	Best value	Worst
defensive	Artland (ø 65.4)	Herten (ø 85.5)	Karlsruhe (ø 72.8)	Speyer (ø 85.5)
offensive	Herten (ø 78.0)	Stahnsdorf (ø 65.9)	Dresden (ø 83.0)	Würzburg (ø 72.7)

Individual players

category	group	player	team	total	ø section *	singles
Points	north	DeAndre Lansdowne	Herten	505	23.0	46
	south	Ricky Easterling Julian J. Scott	TV Saarlouis Leipzig	499 436	22.7 20.8	33 36
Rebounds	north	Ryon Howard	Bochum	226	10.3	20th
	south	Jordan Talbert	Nordlingen	247	11.2	20th
Assists	north	Felix Engel	Bochum	134	6.7	12
	south	Chris Anderson	Weissenhorn	158	7.5	14th
Steals	north	Matthias Perl	Schwelm	62	2.8	6th
	south	Chris Anderson	Weissenhorn	69	3.3	8th
Shotblocks	north	Michael Haucke Isaiah Hartenstein	Bochum Artland	43 30	2.0 2.1	5 5
	south	Khobi Williamson	Speyer	41	2.2	7th
effectiveness	north	DeAndre Lansdowne	Herten	567	25.8	53
	south	Jordan Talbert Niklas Kiel	Nordlingen Frankfurt	504 277	22.9 17.3	38 47
Double doubles	north	Ryon Howard	Bochum	10	45.5%
	south	Julian J. Scott	Leipzig	15th	71.4%

Average viewership

north					south
city	Visitors	workload	Previous year	development	city	Visitors	workload	Previous year	development
Bochum	599	61%	456	31.4%	Dresden	1281	42.7%	1000	28.1%
Herten	517	43%	565	-8.5%	Ehingen	788	52.5%	736	ProA
Iserlohn	818	57.9%	773	5.8%	Elchingen	379	27.1%	---	RL
Itzehoe	646	90.5%	578	11.8%	Frankfurt a. M	73	6.7%	125	-41.6%
Oldenburg	283	50.5%	213	32.9%	Karlsruhe	645	80.4%	600	7.5%
Quakenbrück	2,398	79.9%	3,000	BBL	Leipzig	342	68.4%	551	-37.9%
Recklinghausen	467	49.2%	410	13.9%	Lich	462	38.5%	359	28.7%
Rostock	1.925	52.7%	874	120.3  %	Nordlingen	734	40.4%	---	RL
Schwelm	616	90.2%	572	7.7%	Saarlouis	207	10.4%	297	-30.3%
Stahnsdorf	227	37.8%	284	-20.1%	Speyer	227	32.4%	303	-25.1%
frond	486	60.8%	588	-17.3%	Weissenhorn	355	44.4%	236	50.4%
Wolfenbüttel	483	69.9%	---	RL	TG Würzburg	219	31.3%	224	-2.2%
ProB North	789	62.1%	499 *		ProB south	476	36.7%	499 *

^* The total numbers are related to the average attendance figures for all games in the main preseason round for both groups.
Cities whose ProB clubs also function as farm teams for first division clubs are written in italics , provided they are underlined in the same place . In the case of SC Rist Wedel, double license players also play for the ProA league team Hamburg Towers .

Postseason

• Game results in italics were achieved after extra time

Play-offs

Round of 16							Quarter finals							Semifinals							final
N1	Iserlohn Kangaroos	93	91
S8	University giant Leipzig	80	86				N1	Iserlohn Kangaroos	77	72
S4	Giants Nordlingen	84	72	79			S4	Giants Nordlingen	79	84
N5	BAWE Oldenburg TB	59	82	58										S2	Team Ehingen Urspring	69	78
N3	VfL AstroStars Bochum	72	90											S4	Giants Nordlingen	60	77
S6	ScanPlus Elchingen	91	101				S2	Team Ehingen Urspring	88	89
S2	Team Ehingen Urspring	80	80				S6	ScanPlus Elchingen	75	86
N7	SC Itzehoe Eagles	69	72																		S2	Team Ehingen Urspring x	72	77
S3	Fraport Junior Skyliners	80	73																		S3	Fraport Junior Skyliners	77	58
N6	Artland Dragons	75	61				S3	Fraport Junior Skyliners	38 *	77	109
N2	Dukes Wolfenbüttel	76	82	75			S7	Weißenhorn young stars	107	64 *	93
S7	Weißenhorn young stars	62	89	78										S3	Fraport Junior Skyliners	94	96
N4	EBC Rostock Seawolves	91	84	90										S5	Dresden Titans	81	94
S5	Dresden Titans	88	95	92			S1	BG Karlsruhe	87	80
S1	BG Karlsruhe	74	92				S5	Dresden Titans	92	93
N8	Citybasket RE	66	80

^* Exchange rights. / ^x Home rights in the second final game.
The final will be played in the two-legged mode, in which the better-placed team had home rights after the main round in the second leg, so that the worse-placed team had to play at home first in the first leg. Both final opponents achieve the right to participate in the ProA 2016/17 in a sporting way, subject to economic licensing.

Relegation rounds

= Descent

north						south
#	team	Victories	low lying	Points	Basket points	team	Victories	low lying	Points	Basket points
1	SC Rist Wedel	11	17th	22nd	1993: 1974	Licher BasketBears	12	16	24	2150: 2185
2	RSVE Stahnsdorf	11	17th	22nd	1951: 2017	TG Würzburg	11	17th	22nd	2024: 2093
3	EN Baskets Schwelm	9	19th	18th	2174: 2286	BIS Baskets Speyer	10	18th	20th	2104: 2330
4th	Herten lion	7th	21st	14th	2153: 2435	TV Saarlouis Royals	5	23	10	2126: 2298

Honors

Player of the month

• October: Sascha Leutloff (SF / PF , Uni-Riesen Leipzig)
• November: Julian J. Scott (PF,, Uni-Riesen Leipzig)
• December: Johannes Richter (PF,, Junior Skyliners)
• January: Jordan Talbert (PF,, Giants Nördlingen)
• February: Randal Holt (PG,, Dresden Titans)
• March: Daniel Berger (PF / SF,, Team Ehingen)
• April / May: Daniel Berger (PF / SF,, Team Ehingen)

Youngster of the month

• October: Isaiah Hartenstein (SF / PF ,, Artland Dragons)
• November: Niklas Kiel (PF,, Junior Skyliners)
• December: Max Ugrai (SF / PF,, TG Würzburg)
• January: Christopher Wolf (PF / SF,, Team Ehingen)
• February: Jan Niklas Wimberg (SF / PF ,, BAWE OTB)
• March: Jonas Grof (PG / SG ,, Iserlohn Kangaroos)
• April / May: Niklas Kiel (PF,, Junior Skyliners)

Player and coach of the season

The awards for Actor of the Year were announced at the end of May 2015.

• Player of the Year: Daniel Berger (PF / SF,, Team Ehingen Urspring)
• Youngster of the year: Niklas Kiel (PF ,, Fraport Skyliners Juniors)
• Trainer of the year: Domenik Reinboth ( , Team Ehingen Urspring)

Web links

• 2. Basketball Bundesliga | News ProB - Current news from the ProB on the official website

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1. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga / ProB schedule 2015/16. 2nd Bundesliga basketball league , accessed on July 20, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Daniel Müller: 2. Basketball Bundesliga, die Junge Liga GmbH (DJL): Announcement of the Bundesliga competition ProB 2015/2016. (PDF (525 KB)) 2. Basketball Bundesliga , April 1, 2015, accessed on July 20, 2015 . 
3. ^ Daniel Müller: 2nd basketball league, the young league GmbH (DJL): license statute. (PDF (471 KB)) 2. Basketball Bundesliga , April 7, 2015, accessed on July 20, 2015 (version from October 14, 2014). 
4. ^ Daniel Müller: 2nd basketball league, the young league GmbH (DJL): standard catalog. (PDF (581 KB)) 2. Basketball Bundesliga , July 6, 2015, accessed on July 20, 2015 (version from June 1, 2015; see Section 2.1.2). 
5. ^ Daniel Müller: 2nd basketball league, the young league GmbH (DJL): rules of play. (PDF (587 KB)) 2. Basketball Bundesliga , April 7, 2015, p. 7 , accessed on July 20, 2015 (see §8 and announcement §7). 
6. ^ Daniel Müller: 2nd basketball league, the young league GmbH (DJL): license regulations for players. (PDF (420 KB)) 2. Basketball Bundesliga , April 7, 2015, accessed on July 20, 2015 (see also announcement §6ff.). 
7. ↑ ProB player / coach of the 2014/2015 season. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , May 29, 2015, accessed on June 21, 2015 (media information).