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!
June 22, 2020 - New Feature
Previously you could choose for a league to start as it did in the NBA for some particular year. Then over time the league would diverge from the NBA. The Advanced Play Menu now has an option that forces players to be on the actual teams they had for their careers. So Bill Russell will always be on Boston and Michael Jordan will always play for the Bulls, no matter when you start your league. Whatever changes happen during the year do not carry over to the next year.
June 21, 2020 - New Feature
Real Player Historical leagues have playoffs changes, new divisions, and teams that change divisions. All of these are now taken into account if you look at the history of the league. Here are some of the pages with changes:
Depending on how old your league is some of these improvements may not be fully supported. However, any new leagues should display correctly.
June 20, 2020 - New Feature
You can now keep the number of teams fixed for historical leagues. In addition, when using fictional players with real teams you can now have those league undergo normal expansion. These are both options when using the Advanced Play Menu when creating a league.
June 19, 2020 - New Feature
Historical leagues will now expand the number of divisions from 2 to 4 in 1971. Then again the number of division will expand from 4 to 6 in 2005. You can turn this off in the Advanced Play Menu when creating a league.
June 18, 2020 - New Feature
The default for historical leagues is for team cities, names, and logos to evolve over time as it happened in real life. However, the user's team(s) does not change. So if you wanted to be the Seattle SuperSonics the game won't change it on you.
The Advanced Play Menu now gives the option for you to keep cities, names and logos fixed or let them evolve. You can do this for the league as a whole and for the specific teams you control.
June 17, 2020 - New Feature
As we have expanded the number of options when creating a league it has made that process a little cumbersome if you just want something simple or are new to the game. So I have created:
The prior Create New League is now called the Advanced Play Menu.
June 16, 2020 - New Feature
The League Analytics page now has a dropdown that allows you to switch between current players and healthy players. So you can see how you should expect teams to perform now and in the future when they get fully healthy.
In addition, I've also added the ability to sort the roster page by purely overall ratings as well as the standard position adjusted sort.
June 15, 2020 - New Feature
I have added the real players of the first ever basketball game in 1891 to the 1891 league. So now every league type has real players.
In addition, I also reviewed the pre-1940 real player ratings and made some adjustments.
June 14, 2020 - Bug Fix
Quick Summary: Press Shift-F5 if you are on a desktop if it doesn't load normally for you (v2020.06.14.1142). A more complete explanation is below.
Normally if you want to get the latest version of Grizzled GM Basketball you have to:
The bug we just had would never show you the latest version even after you returned. I've put in a fix.
What you have to do if you are using a desktop is:
If you are using a phone it would be the same except there might not be a way for you to finish refreshing the cache.
What you have to do for mobile devices is delete the browser cache and cookie. Unfortunately, this deletes all your leagues as well. So you need to Tools/Export any leagues you want to retain. I would also recommend visiting the site and then just deleting cache and cookies from the past hour. Sorry there is not a better fix for mobile.
Alternatively, I will be keeping beta.grizzledgm.com up to date for now. So if you don't want to mess with cookies right now you can just go there.
If you have any question just let me know.
June 12, 2020 - Bug Fix
You can now use beta.grizzledgm.com until I get the cache issue fixed for basketball.grizzledgm.com.
I'm hoping for a fix in the next day or two. Regardless, the caching works for the new link so I'll upload updates there in the meantime.