This game is wonderfully built and balanced. It offers a realistic challenge so that the game lasts more than just an afternoon and then you get bored because you’ve dominated the league right away and every year after. It scratches the itch of wanting a realistic basketball team managing experience. This game is one step away from being the total perfect package. There is solid customization available outside of the in season games, but if we were given the opportunity to make substitutions in-game, call time outs and call a “set play” where it really just boosts a chance to score depending on your coaches’ ratings, or double team a hot player on the opposing team. Things to give more of a chance to lead your team in each game would be perfect. My only other recommendation would be for team chemistry. Team chemistry is 100% based off of player style and coach’s style. I think this is realistic to a degree. We see players not fit a system in the NBA and struggle, but time played together on the court should increase chemistry slightly IMO. Maybe 75% style and 25% time played together. Time played on the team should also increase system familiarity and reduce TP cost to switch player style IMO. Just a touch more realism I think. Overall, a wonderful game that I love spending time in.

PLEASEEEEEEE make it more possible to find better coaches. Making trades for players and drafting is great. It takes some skill and some foresight which is really balanced and fair. The only issue is the coach g and staff. It’s practically a miracle when a half decent coach appears which I understand, you aren’t gonna find a great coach that needs a job all the time. But it feels almost impossible to get over that hump without one. You also can’t poach coaches to my knowledge so unless I just missed that I’m stuck as a playoff first rounder with a 76 overall 3 star coach. Just make the odds a little bit for likely or at least bring back the upgrades. Please anything at all to move the staffing. Or maybe just make it so that the staff can be less impactful. Matching the styles is already a dream crusher and if you start with low rep you are doomed to coast for 5 years straight as a garbage no chance team with no chance of getting big players. Anything to help with the staff would be so appreciated.

I find the idea of the game to be great. It provides the gm experience with some challenge. I wish the different coaching systems had more details in reference to effects and what kind players work better. For example zone may work better with more shooter traits etc. What I don’t understand is some losses that occur. After making many trades and adjustments through years I built #1 overall and chemistry team. Yet my team still loses in the first round twice without any injuries occurring. It doesn’t make sense. How could my team lose to a lower overall team with nonexistent chemistry. I understand that upsets occur but not like that especially without injury.#2 In response to that i will everybody on my for most part has high intelligence and personalities. Without this it’s had to change system and negotiate good contracts. The bench plays about 9 minutes max but most of them are system matches as well and some top picks to replace older stars. There obviously in a small downside to my bench vs cpu based on their ability to get super discounts on contracts. But the difference between my starters and theirs should even it out or at least give me the edge because that’s most of the minutes. 3 of my core starters were 90 to 100+ in stamina and free throws. For a moment only team with 4 players in top 15. I had mvp and dpoy. But still lost to a 83 overall team with no chemistry.

Possibly the best basketball GM sim game you’ll find. It’s really deep, and has everything you could want from this kind of game. So what’s the catch? Well of course, money. If you don’t spend a penny (I got the premium upgrade as I usually love the devs work, think it was like $2.99) you will never get top level players on your team. The system which asks you to make play styles is the road block. For most players you’ll need upwards of 70k training points to restyle ONE of the two options you need to get a cohesive team. This is ridiculous considering you get about 40k total training points during a whole season until you level up your facility past level 4. Good game, but locking key gameplay behind a pay barrier is shady. Took a 5 star game to 3 instantly. The worst part is there is no way to change the other currency into training points. Currently I have about $3B in funds for my team but I have no way of using that to obtain more training points to make my team better. I could talk about this all day, but I’ll save my thumbs. TLDR: your 5 star players are trash until you restyle them to fit your system, which is nearly impossible to do without spending real money.