Grizzled GM Basketball is a single-player basketball management simulation game. Set your roster, make trades, draft prospects, manage your finances, and try to build a dynasty. Play it in your browser now, completely 100% free!
August 12, 2020 - New Feature
If you go to the Frivolities page under Tools you can now see the top 100 seasons by players in your league by various stats, both during the regular season and during the playoffs.
August 11, 2020 - New Feature
If you go to the Frivolities page under Tools you can now see the season stats from the oldest players to ever play in your league.
August 10, 2020 - New Feature
If you go to the Frivolities page under Tools you now can see the franchises in your league that have had the most cursed periods without a championship using the Cursed Franchises page.
August 9, 2020 - New Feature
If you go to the Frivolities page under Tools you now can see your league's greatest teams.
August 8, 2020 - New Feature
For fictional players you can now modify how old they must be to enter the draft when you create a league and using God Mode after the league is created.
August 7, 2020 - New Feature
If you go to the Frivolities page under Tools you now can see your league's biggest playoff upsets.
August 6, 2020 - New Feature
If you go to the Frivolities page under Tools you now can see your league's biggest draft busts and steals.
August 5, 2020 - New Feature
You now can modify how likely draft busts (and 2nd round surprises) are when you create a league and using God Mode after the league is created.
Along with that, you can now do the same thing with how likely extremely good outlier players are in your league.
August 4, 2020 - New Feature
Why do draft busts happen? Why do some 2nd round picks become great players?
There are two ways of looking at this. Are players developing in some random way? Or are we just essentially ignorant about players in major ways?
Grizzled GM takes the view that a lot of the errors are from ignorance. That isn't to say it is realistic to have that knowledge. It is just that to truly know a player and how they will fit in at the NBA is just really complicated.
When you look at ratings in Grizzled GM Basketball there is a fuzz around those ratings that represents the ignorance your organization has about that player. So you are not seeing the true picture of a player. It is the best guess of your organization of where that player is at.
Now the game better reflects the ignorance GM's have when trying to make draft picks in particular. The fuzz in ratings, which represents ignorance, has been overhauled to be more in line with our view.
So when it comes to draft busts, 2nd round surprises, and general realism the game should be greatly improved.
August 3, 2020 - New Feature
Injuries before would happen based on playing in the game and age. It is now more realisticly tied to activity within the game. So big men that score, rebound, and play a lot of minutes are going to be more injury prone.
How injuries are handled during the playoffs has also been improved. The rest period between games makes it so the risk of injury is less. Also, the recovery in term of games is also less, given that there is greater spacing between games than during the regular season.
Another key thing is players now will benefit from having played together. So the older and more experienced teams should have an edge.
One result of all of these changes is the odds of a #8 seed upsetting a #1 seed in the playoffs should be less likely now. A significant cause of that has been injuries being treated as if it was still the regular season. So a slew of minor injuries for a few games could cause a #8 seed to upset a #1 seed. Now these players should more realisticly be able to heal and get back in time to prevent the series from being lost.