This update will add more depth to pitching players to return to college. Before you could only press a button to pitch your player, with the probability of being successful dependent on their draft projection. With this feature I’m giving users a way to convince their players to return to college by offering a generous NIL package. The more money you offer the player the higher his odds of retuning will be. This adds more ways for users to strategize and build their roster. Do you use most of your NIL to convince your star players to return and risk not having enough leftover to retain the depth on your roster? That’s the tradeoff that made adding this feature worthwhile and I hope you guys love it. Included in this version are bug fixes and UI polishing Android and IOS build submitted and should be available when they’re approved. Thank You.

• Talent composite would show wrong conference if team changed conferences due to realignment. Now the archived years will show the team in the conference they were in for that year.

*HOTFIX* • Fix bug where if you skip NBI tournament box scores/stats wouldn’t produce for the tournment and also no MVP awarded for the tournament. • Fixed visual bugs

*HOTFIX* • Fix crashes due to the new Talent Composite feature. • Visual bugs introduced from last update.

Introduction of Talent Composite Talent Composite shows the high-school recruiting pedigree of the players who make up each school's roster. Think of it as a snapshot of the recruiting talent a program has assembled - not a measure of how good the team is right now. It is not team overall This page does not rank current player overalls, wins, school prestige, facilities, coaching, or on-court performance. A team can be excellent today with a lower Talent Composite, or have a high composite while still needing time to develop. What it looks at • A player's original authentic high-school recruiting record: their 2*-5* tier and recruiting rating. • The school's 10 highest-rated eligible recruits, so the strongest part of the roster drives the comparison. • Higher-ranked players carry more weight. Missing eligible players lower the result instead of being hidden by an average. Easy way to read it A higher score means more highly rated high-school recruiting pedigree is represented in that roster's top group. It does not guarantee more wins. Also included in this version is bug fixes and UI polish

Market intel: You'll now be able to gauge the market for a recuirt/transfer and how much other schools are offering him and if you're below, within or above that range. This gives users insight to better manage their NIL budget. Dark mode: The long awaited dark mode that you guys begged for is now here. I had to manually look on every screen to see if there was any contrast issues that might make text hard to read - I might of missed some so please let me know if I did! Coach movement logic: Coaches were going pro way too often. I reworked the logic to make it very rare. Generational HS recruits: Added a generational talent tier that has a much higher starting overall than other generated HS players. Bunch of Ul polish and general bug fixes.

*HOTFIX* •Improved team rankings so strong win-loss records are rewarded more fairly. •Prevented teams with losing records from ranking too high based only on a difficult schedule. •Improved team ratings so the numbers shown on team profiles better match how teams perform in games. •Made team strength comparisons more accurate and consistent. •General gameplay improvements and bug fixes.

• fix record keeping bug that listed wrong conference when winning Championship. Also now on school history tab will show the actual conference name instead of generic “conf champ”

*HOTFIX* • Fixed issue when editing a recruit or transfer NIL offer was resetting accumulated interest to the lower baseline instead of preserving prior recruiting progress and applying only the offer change.

This version will be the introduction of Sports Agencies You can now hire a sports agency to represent you as a client in extensions, job negotiations and even bringing jobs that you normally wouldn’t get without their help. You will have to sign a contract with the agencies which range from 2-4 years. To get out of an agency contract early you will have to buyout the remaining contract with your career earnings. Each agency has a salary minimum for them to take you on as a client. They will take a percentage out of your yearly salary ranging 3-5% depending on the agency. You must maintain that agency minimum salary for representation or they won’t renew the contract! They will still represent you throughout the contract. Agencies will help you negotiate a higher initial Job package offer but you can still negotiate terms further , the agencies just helps get you a higher initial offer to negotiate from if you choose to do so. Also agencies don’t guarantee these benefits for all offer! Some schools will stay firm and won’t budge!

*HOTFIX* •Should fix star players with 4 fouls being permanently benched for the entire final 10 minutes of every close game.

Sim logic tuning.

*HOTFIX* • Fixed a rare bug where simulating a game that went to overtime could permanently freeze the "Simulating…" spinner

This version will be the introduction of a new feature: Conference Invites/Realignment. Every four completed seasons, conferences will review their membership. Programs will be evaluated based off their winning performance, conference/postseason achievements etc. You will not be able to get an invite to a new conference without satisfying both a high program score(winning percentage) and actual post season success(Confernce championships, NBI results, natl tourney bid and championships etc) which will be recency-weighted, meaning recent accolades will hold more weight than older ones. But keep in mind you can satisfy all requirements and still not get an invite! Invites aren’t guaranteed! A team must be available to swap out , you must clearly outperform that outgoing team and that team must be able to move into your conference. Confernce movement are also region locked and must make sense. You will not get invites to a conference in the east coast if your team is on the west coast etc. You can only move up one tier per Membership review! You will not go from F tier conference to an A+ tier conference after 4 years - it will be a grind! You will be able to find all conference moves in the side navigator on the “Conference changes” page.

This version is mostly for users with Editor Mode. You will now find a page called “Courts” in the side navigator under “Management” You will have the ability to edit any school court in the game. You will be able to edit the colors of the court and also place logos/images on the court. Also in this version is a bug fix to tournment selection. Teams were getting their prestige doubles counted. Because of this high prestige teams that had no business being in the National Tournament were slipping through.

*HOTFIX* BUG FIXES: •Wrong names on Awards page •National COY missing from coach bio •Worked on sim engine logic FEATURE: •Users can now manually adjust players minutes in the “depth” page. This is a cool feature that gives you more control over who’s on the floor for your team.

*HOTFIX* • Fixed a bug where players who transferred schools would show empty game logs when viewing their stats from a previous season.

This version is headlined by “Scheme” page redesign. It will now display the best fit for your roster and also give you a detailed pop up showing you the synergy and the factors that contribute to that score. Also in this version is a redesign of the “Depth” page, “roster” page, schedule and retention phase. Also small bug fixes.

During the season the “Award” page will now be occupied with a watchlist showing all the players and coaches in the race for end of the season awards. The watchlist will update weekly and show the movements with a small badge. This version also includes a bunch of small bug fixes and some polishing.

This version will headline the introduction of the National Basketball Invitational(NBI) The NBI will be a postseason tournament mirroring the NIT, where the best schools that didn’t make the National Tournament will have the chance to play each other. Low prestige schools Athletic Directors will almost always see the NBI as a reward and give the coach(you) the option to accept the invitation or decline. While high prestige schools with national tournament hopes will almost always decline the invitations. If you’re at a high prestige school with national tournament hopes and still want to accept the invite to the NBI you would need at least 60 goodwill built up from previous years with the Athletic Director to convince him to enter. The NBI can be a sneaky way to salvage a bad season where you missed the national tournament that your athletic director was expecting. It’s also a good way to build up the prestige of lower prestige schools as it adds +1 prestige if you win it all.

Behind the scenes upgrades.

•Contract extensions overhauled: an extension can no longer come back lower than the deal you already have, staying somewhere and winning now earns a loyalty premium worth up to about 40%, a coach already paid more than their school would normally offer no longer takes a pay cut just for re-signing, the offer card shows whether your salary actually moved, and the recruiting and staff raises you're offered now reach your budget instead of being discarded when the next season starts.

*HOTFIX* No more cheesing to keep leaderboard integrity •Fixed exploit where users would watch live and if didn’t get results they wanted would exit to dashboard and back to simulation screen and sim again.

*HOTFIX* • Fixed a run of tournament bugs: the in-season tournament prize screen could refuse to accept "Confirm & Continue" until you force-closed the app. • Fixed winning your conference tournament didn't bring up the championship screen if you watched the final live — the trophy and Continue button only appeared after you left the tournament screen and came back. • Tornament depth chart - conference and national tornaments now honor your set rotation instead of falling back to a top-8-by-overall sort. • Neutral court in Watch Live - watched tournament games no longer hand the bracket's team1 slot a home-court bonus.

This update is headlined by the introduction of “Game Flow” chart. Players can now get more transparency on how games unfolded. Other updates: • In-Season tournaments read the static prestige baked in during game creation. Before if you built a low prestige team up to a high prestige team you would get the same tournament invites. Now the In-season tournaments reads your dynamic prestige. •Sim engine didn’t have any unforced turnovers, it was all contributed to steals. Now players will loose the ball, step out of bounds, bad passes etc. •Bumped team fouls per game to a more realistic number — Now players can actually foul out. •Made a smart substitution system for fouled out players. The system is positioned-aware and tries to sub a player for the same position if available and not just the highest overall player on the bench. •Cleaned up some watch live game log bugs. And removed the conference trophy that was being shown on In- season tournment courts.