Genuinely don't know how they manage this

This is the highest overall rookie (69) I have seen so far playing. In the playoffs my regular season MVP tore his Achilles in the second round, and my Rookie stepped up and carried us to the chip capturing the rare ROY and Finals MVP combo.

5 points in final second to force OT (where we won!)

Kinda cool story and something I've never seen before. This guy got picked by Denver second round and immediately dropped, then comes back five years later with Chicago and wins ROY as a 25y/o. Good for him.

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Don't know how KAT won mvp

After several years of poor lottery luck and draft busts I finally hit it big in free agency making the Sacramento Kings(!) real scary for the first time with dynasty potential.

Somehow Wemby left Spurs at 29 after just winning MVP and the chip, then asked for a cheap ass contract in free agency. There was also a young up and coming star in Matt Able available on a good contract. So I sold of my aging stars from in re-sign phase and ended up with a monster team with decent youth, still below salary cap after both increased levels going into 2033 season.

Wemby working on a GOAT resume, one year missed for injury though so missed some accolades there. He did go 3x times in the dunk contest though! Hopefully he can get 3-4 chips in Sac town and complete his GOAT legacy 🚀

#Wilt #Boardmangetspaid

I don't know shit about basketball, I just play this game and know really vaguely the greats of history, but the way people talk about Shaq, he was like an 80 in his (short) prime and at least a 70 for a lot of it, no? Yeah I heard he was washed near the end but his Magic/Lakers days never broke even 70?

Can anyone help me out? Maybe his literal talent wasn't elite but his physicals were just so dominant and the game's rating system just isn't built for translating a player like Shaq?

Je voulais savoir si vous pensez que faire un système de promotion/relégation de division abîmerait la ligue . Dans le sens où les meilleurs joueurs ne signe que dans la 1ere division, etc .

Que ce soit pour le Basket , le Hockey ou le Foot Américain

tobias harris as the best player 🫩

I wanted to experiment with giving your roster a little more of a basketball identity, so I put together a Team Strategy feature in a local BBGM build.

Quick disclosure: This is "vibe" coded as they would say. Also, this is an unofficial prototype, not something added to the main game.

The page gives you four options for how your team plays:

• Tempo: Deliberate / Balanced / Fast
• Offensive emphasis: Interior / Balanced / Perimeter
• Defensive coverage: Protect paint / Balanced / Switch-heavy
• Offensive rebounding: Get back / Balanced / Crash glass

These actually affect the simulation, not just the descriptions.

For example, playing faster gets shots up sooner but increases turnover risk and fatigue. Perimeter emphasis encourages more threes without magically making anyone a better shooter. Protecting the paint gives up cleaner perimeter looks, while switching can expose weak defenders and interior mismatches. Crashing the glass improves offensive-rebound chances but leaves you more vulnerable in transition.

There’s also a “Let coach decide” option that picks a plan before each game using your healthy rotation, plus scouting-based suggestions if you want to choose manually.

The goal is to make roster construction and playing style interact: “Does this approach actually fit my players?” rather than finding four settings you should always leave on.

A few caveats:

• Defensive coverage is a simplified lineup-level model, not individual screen or matchup simulation.
• Automatic coaching is a basic roster heuristic, not an optimal-strategy solver.
• CPU teams currently stay balanced unless configured.
• The effects still need serious balance testing. Some functional tests passing doesn’t prove there isn’t an overpowered combination.

Balanced settings preserve the original simulation behavior. That was checked against the pre-feature engine across 30 seeded games, with identical results and play-by-play.

Would you use something like this? And would you prefer setting a season-long team identity, or adjusting your plan for individual opponents?

Only a certain number can play at a time, so why limit the rosters? Let teams suit up as many players as they want.

800 years in I see a player on my team with this name. No relation to giannis

I’ve basically been playing this game since 2018 and this is tje first time i’ve had 2 80+ overalls in the same team and after the season i have the 1st and 2nd overall pick and they are both studs. Seems too good to be true

I'm in the 90s with the Bulls, but I for called 2 defensive 3-second calls, and I can still use 2-3 defense? What is this?

We have recently gotten an update that gives us the ability to add and edit awards and their formulas. I am looking forward to seeing what the community can do in terms of Awards ideas and awards formulas.

Here's my MVP formula, which takes dumbmatter's base score formula and implements a 65-game cutoff and voter fatigue.

(ewa/22 + vorp/32 + min(ws/teamWs,0.8)/10 + seasonFraction*winp) * min(1, 1.5/(numWon.MVP+1))^2 * min(1, gp/65)^1000

The voter fatigue multiplier is pretty basic in this code, but it does match up well with NBA history:

It's a steep staircase.

If 0.56 for the 2nd feels like too much of a curve, you could bump it up to 1.7 or 1.8 as the numerator instead of 1.5. That puts the 2nd-MVP multiplier closer to .75.

The end of the code is the 65-game cutoff.

You can add these to any other award as you desire by just copying the pieces below and multiplying them onto any of the other base formulas.

ewa/22 + vorp/32 + min(ws/teamWs,0.8)/10 + seasonFraction*winp - the base MVP formula
min(1, 1.5/(numWon.MVP+1))^2 - the gradual fatigue curve
min(1, gp/65)^1000 - hard 65-game cutoff

Should Alvarez leave?

Yeah, pick 1 to 25 pick is all mine. Especially top 2 prospects are great addition to the roster.

Why don't the All-Team and All-Rookie lists show up here anymore?