Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2024

Steam will say I've only played an hour of this game and while that's true on Steam, I've put in about 20 hours on the version direct from Wolverine Studios during the two weeks of First Access. I'll start off by saying I'm not a huge NBA fan. Used to be back in the days of Reggie Miller but not a big fan of the modern-day NBA. But I like PC sports management games because of the customization ability. So how realistic are the stats? How accurate do the players play? I'll let someone else decide that. The game is unlicensed. You will have to download the real-world mod on their forums if you want the NBA teams. The last Pro Basketball offering I played was 2021 and the expansion back then automatically put both teams out west. So if you made one of the expansion teams, say Kentucky they were automatically put in a division out west. That has now been changed (and was changed in 23 I believe) to allow you to expand to a 32-team league with divisions of four teams. And then you can edit those divisions by swapping teams out on a one-for-one basis. I still prefer the light UI of the older games. Not a huge fan of all black and gray. But of course, that's a personal preference. The football games allow you some customization via customtheme.css file, the basketball games do not. The game does feature the new in-season tournament if you want to use it. The new screen ticker along the bottom is a nice touch to see what's going on around the league from every screen. A new addition is showing overalls instead of the stars. Maybe it's my old-school video game in me coming out but I've always preferred the overall ratings to stars. What exactly rating is 3 stars? There's too much of a gap between a low three-star player and a high three-star player. So now you can see exactly what their rating is. I treat pro games like a real GM. So I let the AI coach make all lineup and in-game coaching decisions. So I can't comment much on the actual in-game action. I normally load up and fast sim to half-time to get a fell for what my team has done and then fast sim the rest of the game. I play in sandbox mode so that if something happens and I need to, I can jump into the commish profile and edit what needs changed. Just a reminder they offer free demos of all their games on their website. So if you are on the fence, download the demo and check it out. Overall I do recommend the game to those who like these type of games. I will also say that I've never seen the devs respond on steam but they are highly active on their forums, discord and slack.

After watching the few YouTube content that exists to this game, I was hoping it might be a possible alternative for NBA 2K, also including the option that you can start at any point in NBA history. I refunded the game after 1 hour of playing time, when I realised that basically the most important point of a NBA Basketball Manager is completely broken. Positives + Community creates original team and player data including photos. Content is easy to download and update. + Generally a lot of customisation options, including things like salary cap, if it is possible to draft players right out of high school, etc. + Savegames from their previoius versions and from their NCAA game can be imported Negative - I tried 1-2 historical datasets. While the players seemed pretty accurate, those older seasons, don't include any pictures. Understandable, since it's a lot of work, but if that's the main reason for you to play the game it's good to be aware. I switched to current seasom. - The reason I refunded: Player trades. First off the whole trade area is super uncomfortable and an absolute downgrade to NBA 2K. You can only trade with 1 team at a time, you can not inquire about any of the opposing players, you can only request a trade offer for 1 player at a time. You have different options how player strength is calculated, I used 1-100 Average Strengrh & Potrential. I selected the New York Knicks and just wanted to see what kind of offers I get. First off, no team will give you ANY offer for players that seem to have a strength of 70 or lower, as long as they do not have high potential and are at least close to 70. This does not sound bad first, but majority of players have extremely low ratings. I had only 5/15 players on the roster I could get any offers for- I could not get any offer for Josh Hart (70/70), Quentin Grimes (61/74), Donte DiVincenzo (60/60). So trades with computer offers are only possible for really good players. From what I understand, if you get the message "we are not interested in that player" you have no way to make a trade work, no matter what you add. The offers that you actually get are completely unrealistic and random. First of, the computer will never add any more players from your team, only draft picks, while they on the other side might fill up on players until the salaries work. So I got multiple 1 Player + 1 Pick for 2-4 players that make the salary work offers. The most annoying part is the getting the offer process yourself. You can put a player on the market to get feedback which teams might be interested. It lists you some teams, but other teams might still be interested and give you better offers, so in the best option is just to click through each team and get an offer. Now 3 things can happen, either the team will tell "we have no interest in the player" which means that they won't give you an offer, they give you an offer, or you receive the message that "no current offer was received". In that case it means that you will eventually get an offer if you continue to click the getting an offer button. Can take 10-20 tries and is just an unnecessary hassle. So you click through teams, get your offer per player, might realise that they are interested in 2 of your players, but don't have a way to get a combined offer for both from the team. Until now these are things that by itself would make the game more difficult , or are just not user friendly, but the offers you get are hilarious. Again I'm playing with the Knicks and check offers for Jalen Brunson (89/89). 26 of 30 teams have no interest at all to make a trade for him. By far the best offer I get for him is from Brooklyn: Spencer Dinwiddie (74/74) +2 1st rounders. It seems that the engine kind of realizes that most teams already have a good Point Guard so do not see the need to add an All NBA and All Star player as possible replacement. Also it seems mostly related to salary height and player strength. For Julius Randle 90/90 I get all kinds of offers. Him +2 1sts for Ja Morant (93/95), him and a 1st for Sabonis (93/93), offfers that bring me back multiple 1sts. Now the insane part: I could trade RJ Barrett (72/77) for Miles Bridges (80/80) and a 2nd. My favorite trade of all Mitchell Robinson (72/72) for Nicola Vucevic (84/84) and a 2nd. I would understand if this is a first year release, but clearly have to say that I haven´t seen such a bad trade system since the early 2000s. From my perspective it seems pretty pointless to play a Basketball Manager with a totally busted trade system.

An improvement on prior version worth the pick up if you enjoy rebuilding, trade system could still use some work though but the historical mode allows you to play from any season and with the real world mod the game is even better.

It is an okay game but the contract "negotiations" are awful, constantly players are asking me for a 3 years extension when I cannot offer more than 2. Bad AI. Salaries are not well presented when signing players, let me see my salary cap while I am negotiating, show me similar players in the league and their salaries etc. Other aspects of this game are alright, but it is annoying to have to make 3 clicks to get back to my depth chart after every game, why can't I make it an easy screen to get to? Trading is also just terrible and you can only trade with one team at a time. In all I cannot recommend this game, it needs a lot of work.

While not perfect, there is nothing else that even comes close for a basketball management sim. If you're a basketball fan and a fan of sports sim games like OOTP, this will for sure be enjoyable for you.

Le metes 2 mods y mejora una barbaridad, la mejor edición de la saga de los últimos años

many bug

Good game, install the Real World Mod mod for the best experience.