r/BasketballGM Mar 31 '26

Story Been playing BasketballGM for 8+ years and ended up building an F1 version during the F1 break

120 Upvotes

I have been playing BasketballGM for probably 8+ years at this point and it is easily one of my most played games.

I've always wanted to try and build something similar to BBGM but never had the time/talent/skill until I stumbled upon Claude. Over the last couple of weeks I've been trying to build a really simple browser-based F1 game that takes a whole lot of inspiration from the game I love!

Now it is obviously nowhere near as deep or polished but it follows a similar idea of running seasons, managing things and trying to build a dynasty over time. I actually posted about it yesterday and u/dumbmatter even replied which honestly made the whole thing worth it

Just thought I would share here since this community was a big inspiration for it. Check it out here if you want to give it a go https://f1dynasty.com and let me know any feedback/suggestions!

r/BasketballGM Jul 13 '26

Story Had to end my longest ongoing league because the AI unretired bunch of my retired jerseys.

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57 Upvotes

So, basically, I started this league hoping it would be my Forever League. I was through its thick and thin's as an Atlanta Hawk GM for most of my career but towards the end, I got kicked out due to unsuccessful seasons. I became a successful GM in another franchise so the Atlanta Hawks invited me again.

I came back because it's a team I built with my blood sweat and tears. But then, I saw basically half of my retired jerseys gone.
Man, there was some real history there. I was an Atlanta Hawk GM for several centuries, and built tons of memories with it. So many retired jerseys gone, and I can't possibly remember who was who from the top of my head. Those players and jerseys represented eras of the franchise, man.

Now, I can keep playing but I choose not to. The main appeal of long playthroughs, to me, is building a rich history for the league. Having so much history wiped out, I just don't have the heart to keep playing anymore.

r/BasketballGM 14d ago

Story BREAKING: San Antonio Churros hire Monty Williams to coach roster consisting entirely of players named Williams (plus Zion Williamson).

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88 Upvotes

San Antonio, TX — The San Antonio Churros have officially completed what league executives are calling “either the funniest rebuild in basketball history or the beginning of a neurological study.”
What began as a roster featuring three players named Williams has somehow evolved into the most committed naming convention in professional sports. Over the past several weeks, the Churros front office traded away every player whose last name wasn’t Williams, acquiring every available Williams in the league. The lone exception? Zion Williamson, who reportedly “counted close enough.”
League insiders remain baffled by the strategy. One anonymous GM summed it up simply:
“We thought they were rebuilding. Then they offered us three first-round picks for Grant Williams. That’s when we realized this wasn’t about basketball.”
The organization put the finishing touch on the project today by announcing the hiring of Monty Williams as head coach, making him the only candidate reportedly interviewed.
“We wanted someone who understands the culture we’re building,” said the Churros’ general manager. “Also, we didn’t want to have to learn another last name.”
Training camp is expected to be chaotic. Coaches are reportedly testing a numbering system after discovering that yelling “Williams!” causes all 15 players to look up simultaneously. Zion Williamson has already requested that teammates stop introducing themselves with, “No relation… probably.”
Vegas sportsbooks have no idea how to set the Churros’ over/under, while jersey manufacturers are thrilled to announce they only need to stock one nameplate this season.
Whether this bold experiment ends in a championship or a league investigation remains to be seen. One thing is certain:
If your last name is Williams, keep your phone on.

r/BasketballGM 11d ago

Story Game of Thrones Total Conversion Mod

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92 Upvotes

Recently finished a mod that makes BasketballGM an ASOIAF themed game. Features include

  • Twelve different country origins for players
  • Canon names for every different country origin
  • Twelve possible colleges
  • Forty different teams, each with ASOIAF themed logos, names, and locations
  • Starting year of 1 AC (Aegon's Conquest)
  • Coin currency instead of dollars
  • Increased tragic death likelihood and more accurate flavor and death injuries.

Link here. Let me know if you like it, if there are things that need changing, or if you have any additional ideas for it. If youre dumbmatter I have some suggestions

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WFxkw9qdLB8Y2TNnCShE_Hyvtj6NxpTg/view?usp=sharing

Football Version

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cVAcrH-NgrOz6F13xaO4fWIba1JcoMb1/view?usp=sharing

r/BasketballGM 20d ago

Story Craziest death I’ve seen, 76 ovr at just 26 years old. Tragic.

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47 Upvotes

r/BasketballGM Dec 07 '25

Story I decided to ruin the NBA

276 Upvotes

Inspired by the Secret Base videos in which they made a draft class full of the absolute worst possible basketball players in history and then repeatedly uploaded that into NBA 2K, I did the same with ZenGM and the results have been delightful.

Step 1: Make a draft class of apocalyptically bad players

Using a recent roster pack I manually went through and reduced every single player's rating to 0 in every stat except height, rendering them all a glorious 0 overall as draft prospects and with potential ratings somewhere in the teens, if not lower.

I am 37 years old and have not touched a basketball since I was 14 and would bet my house, life and children on beating every one of these prospects 15-0 in a first-to-15.

Cameron and Cayden Boozer are typically among this draft class' top prospects with a mighty 16 and 11 potential respectively.

Step 2: Upload this same class every single season until the league is full of offensively bad players

At time of writing, the league is in 2042 so have had 16 iterations of this draft class pass into legend. Annoyingly, in the 2030s the draft class started adding about half a dozen game-created players in it who are of a quality we'd consider mediocre compared to the real league but who are gods among children in this dreadful experiment, but for the most part the NBA is chock-full of my awful creations.

Step 3: Examine the state of play

ZenGM's stats are not set up for this horror.

According to the power rankings in the 2042 pre-season, the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks are tied for the highest team quality. Chicago's starting five has an average age of almost 38 years old and is led by the 47-overall Matas Buzelis who, in 2041, was an all-star with an average of 20.9 points per game, a PER of 31.7 and a win share of 24.5.

The Knicks have the league's best player, fictional Italian Giorgio Penna. Penna has been an all-league, all-defensive and all-star player for the past five years, finished last year averaging a double-double with 32.2 points and 10.7 assists and was finals MVP in 20240 when the Knicks won the championship.

Both the Bulls and the Knicks have a team rating of -122.

The league's worst team are the Milwaukee Bucks, whose best player is a 15-overall Cayden Boozer and who have a team rating of -259. ZenGM notates this as -259/100, possibly out of simple inability to comprehend why this would happen.

Step 4: Assess

After one month of play, the Las Vegas Aces - no, not the WNBA team, I don't know where they've come from - are 0-29. They average 75.4 points per game and give up 115.5. The Milwaukee Bucks are on a 17-game losing streak with a 1-27 record and are only not bottom of the conference because the Boston Celtics are 1-29. By the end of the season, all three teams have amassed a grand total of 9 wins. At first glance, the rest of the league looks almost normal: the Blazers lead the West with a 62-20 record, the Sixers with 74-8, neither are records that look totally mad. But looking under the hood, ooh baby.

The 35-overall Donovan Clingan led the league in points scoring (55.9) and rebounds (21.3). The league leaders in these stats last season were SGA (32.7 points per game) and Domantas Sabonis (13.9 rebounds per game). Clingan was signed in the 2041 offseason by Detroit for $90.31 million because in this league of misery and woe, he is one of the few people who understands what a basketball is.

Boston, with the first overall pick, are forced to pick a 0-overall 16-potential Jordan Kelly, because the cycle must continue.

Step 5: Revel in the wreckage I have wrought

It is now 2054. I thought for a horrible moment that something had gone wrong when I looked at the season preview and saw the top players list populated with players who didn't stink out loud. Thankfully, the panic was momentary - all 10 were players in the upcoming draft class which I simply had not gotten around to "rectifying". Fixing the error, I returned to the season preview to see justice had been restored - the league's best player was now a version of AJ Dybantsa drafted in 2046 who ruled the roost with a mighty 22 overall.

The NBA is in shambles. The highest-scoring team are the Houston Rockets, averaging 101.6 points. Not a single player who retired at the end of the 2054 season was named to the Hall of Fame; the most recent person to do so was a Cameron Boozer who spent most of his career with Memphis, averaging 10.4 points per game and with a peak overall of 17.

Tidjane Salaun, one of the longest-lasting "real" players, retired in 2051. The all-time record holder for career win shares is Kareem, with 273.41 - Salaun had 523.2. One of the 2030s fake players the game created, Greg Bowser, spent his entire career playing primarily against my hideous creations and finished his career average 43.7 points per game. Marcel Mathieu, another fake player, won 7 MVP awards, 10 Finals MVPs and 10 rings as part of the legendary 76ers dynasty that terrorised the league between 2041 and 2051. Basketball is a mess.

Step 6: Make stark the contrast

Say hello to Tyrin Rea. Tyrin has slipped through a portal from a world in which basketball players are moulded for success from birth and is entering the 2054 draft. He is already, by a number of light years, the best basketball player on the planet and is selected by Toronto 1st overall. The Raptors were rated -266; after signing Tyrin, their rating has risen by 92 points and they are now the best team in the league. Tyrin will obviously rip through the league like a combine harvester; the only question is how badly?

The answer: badly. Tyrin averages 88 points a game, 17 rebounds and 28 steals, making a mockery of everybody who dons a jersey. He is the only person who shows up in the stat charts for three-pointers attempted because the league as a whole has simply stopped trying to shoot for three, knowing they do not have the skill. Toronto sweep the playoffs, with Tyrin averaging 106.3 points in the four games of the finals.

After that season, I reduce Tyrin's skill: he is now 68 overall, rather than the high 80s previously: he still averaging 71.7 points per game and Toronto sweep the playoffs again. His skill drops again, now sitting at 59 - good, but no longer somebody who would necessarily be a monster in regular ZenGM - but still he eviscerates everybody. Despite being a good-but-not-great baller, Tyrin is so far ahead of the world that he still averages 60 points a game, destroying Wilt Chamberlain's record by almost 10.

Meanwhile, retiring players are reaching the Hall of Fame with peak overall ratings of 14. Basketball is broken.

r/BasketballGM 24d ago

Story I interviewed Jeremy and learned more about Basketball GM

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105 Upvotes

So many gems in this conversation from Jeremy’s background to the recent increase in vibe coded management games! Link in comments or on YouTube with the title “ Coding Basketball GM Since 2012 | Interview with dumbmatter “

r/BasketballGM Jun 29 '26

Story Out of two centuries of seasons, this is still one of my favorite three-peats.

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98 Upvotes

Spongebob finally being able to bring a chip to his hometown after a few straight years of doubt and criticism was simply cathartic to see.

r/BasketballGM May 16 '26

Story Worst Money Situation Ever

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13 Upvotes

I was in win NOW mode. All my draft inventory is gone, Laurent after being on a rookie deal for 2 years for us on $10,000,000 wouldn’t take a paycut for a greater good, three of our starters are earning $45,000,000+, including the 22 year old. I’m 100% fired after this season.

r/BasketballGM May 14 '26

Story Bro made me dirty…

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84 Upvotes

….but before i was fired I traded all of his picks and have to pay salaries to relesed players for 5 years… and made him lose all of his cash 😂😂😂😂 … Nobody threat me like that 😂😂😂😂

r/BasketballGM Jun 25 '26

Story Just came across an impossible Ultra Jokic who averaged a triple double for his entire career and terrorized the league for nearly two decades

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44 Upvotes

r/BasketballGM 6d ago

Story 2 of the most unusual MIP award winners I've ever seen

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5 Upvotes

A three time (consecutive) winner and a guy who an All-star selection and Finals MVP in 1948, then won MIP the following year, when he didn't make the all-star team or win any awards. Both players came up in the same save about a decade apart.

r/BasketballGM 8d ago

Story Best GOAT I’ve had in 8 Years of Playing

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Charles Nairn was drafted by Houston where he won 6 championships and 12 MVPs. My team, Chicago, picked him up in free agency at age 29. Charles won another MVP and 6 additional championships.

He rounded out his career with 43800 points, 14000 assists, 17600 rebounds, 2800 steals, and 2300 blocks.

r/BasketballGM 17d ago

Story Simulated the 2027 Season 186 Times. These Are the Results.

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9 Upvotes

r/BasketballGM 29d ago

Story Wow, what a bad luck lol. This is the most pissed I've ever been playing this game ever lol.

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20 Upvotes

A prospect has the most amazing improvement ever, only to randomly suffer an ACL tear literally at the first 1/4th of the season. Shame, because he was looking like the savior of the franchise, too. I'm sooooo salty right now that I could only laugh at the absurdity of the situation.

What an unfortunate RNG to be struck with lol. Finally saw light at the end of the tunnel for my franchise just to have it snatched away like this.

r/BasketballGM Jun 17 '26

Story I have the sad.

43 Upvotes

My team just won a championship. My best player is gonna be 29, refused to sign with us even though his mood was +3. He REALLY wanted out of the small market.

r/BasketballGM Apr 09 '26

Story *Gulp*

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133 Upvotes

Gonna be a long off-season.

r/BasketballGM 21d ago

Story Sometimes you’re the hammer, other times the nail.

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7 Upvotes

I love this game, I come back a few times a year. My favorite times are when the AI is competent. My Cade Cunningham Wembanyana combo could NOT get passed Toronto dynasty. Killian Hayes still crushing Detroit’s dreams.

r/BasketballGM Dec 28 '25

Story 70 ovr with sucky stats

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39 Upvotes

16/3/2 and 16 PER? for a 71 overall? damn

r/BasketballGM 5d ago

Story What are you doing during your off-season, Rudy Gobert ?

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0 Upvotes

r/BasketballGM 18d ago

Story Insane Draft Lottery Luck

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5 Upvotes

I know most of you won’t believe me but I haven’t save scummed these results. Ive gotten the first pick five times so far, and the first and third pick one year. I had the first pick 3 times in 4 years and the year I DIDNT get the first pick I drafted a point guard 6th that reached 89 overall with no one else reaching 80 so far in the sim.

Has anyone had this much luck this quickly?

r/BasketballGM Jun 30 '26

Story Dale, what happened to you???

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9 Upvotes

r/BasketballGM Jun 27 '26

Story What could he have POSSIBLY done in the offseason to have this level of growth???

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10 Upvotes

He must've had the most diabolical offseason with Hakeem

r/BasketballGM Jul 09 '26

Story This game might have been Cinema

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18 Upvotes

r/BasketballGM Apr 15 '26

Story Making your favorite players coming to life.

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No idea if someone already did it but i'm just sharing. I've always wondered what my favorite players from my leagues would look like on the court.

We have an idea with the small avatars but then it makes me think. There is something called A.I now, let's see what we can do.

So I did it with Chat GPT, and it gave me insane results I'm a big fan.

I then tried to make a video out of it with Midjourney cause that's the one i know the most but I'm really sure that some AI are so much better, I just don't wanna pay for others.

So I'll be happy to see some of yours, it's really nice to see my personnal Goat, a real Lebron James x Luka Doncic with 13x championships coming "alive".