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!
May 2, 2020 - New Feature
When you create a league there is now a way to enter what year you want. If you use the existing dropdown the year will automatically adjust. But you may not want to play 1981, but 1985. You can now do that. You can also go into the future and see who is still around or what prospect is now dominating the league. If you don't feel like using real players don't worry, it works for fictional player leagues as well.
You can also try creating a real player league before 1947 in order to be able to draft every pro draft class we have.
May 1, 2020 - New Feature
Previously Real Players / Real Teams was only for 2020. Now it goes back all the way to 1956. Again, this is the game option that is the most realistic for that particular year. The Drafted Team and Random Teams options are alternate NBAs where players may have evolved differently.
The combination of Real Players / Real Teams, expansion, era adjustments, and real player drafts, all back to 1956, should combine for a very realistic experience. If you notice any weaknesses do let me know.
April 30, 2020 - New Feature
Previously for historical leagues I had adjusted for the introduction of the three point shot (and the eventually widespread use of it). I also made adjustments for pace of play. However, a lot of aspects of the game are related. So I now have expanded those era adjustment to include other things such as the offensive/defensive rebound ratio. All together it just makes it that much easier for it mimic past eras. Check it out and let me know where I can get better.
April 29, 2020 - New Feature
The new default player mode is Real Players / Real Teams. However, it only applies to the Current NBA. For older leagues it will revert to Real Players / Drafted Teams. Of course, you can also play Real Players / Random Teams as well.
While the random and drafted types can be an alternative NBA, the new type is better reflective of the actual NBA today. Particularly when it comes to team strength. It also has things such as real contracts and long term injuries.
April 28, 2020 - New Feature
In 1958 the NBA only had a 3 round playoff and the first round was a best of three. In 2020 it has 4 rounds, each a best of 7. A lot has changed over the years. Now Grizzled GM Basketball historical leagues will change in the same way. If you go to the Playoffs page you can review the playoffs for each year your league has existed and track the changes.
April 27, 2020 - New Feature
There was a major draft bug in historical leagues with expansion. That is fixed now.
The initial release of expansion for historical leagues was very basic. The teams just entered the league haphazardly allowing the league to grow from as low 8 up to 30. I've now refined it so those team will enter during the actual expansion years.
I've also refined conference and division placement a bit for expansion teams to better ensure balance across divisions in leagues with more than 2.
April 26, 2020 - New Feature
The NBA has changed a lot over the years. It used to have 8 teams and now it has 30. Prior to 1979-80 there wasn't a 3-point shot. And even when it came it wasn't used much. In the 1989/90 season there were only 6.6 threes per game. Now we are at 33.9 per game.
One other big thing that has changed is scoring in general. During the 1961-62 season there were 118.8 pts/game. Then after falling for years it bottomed at 93.4 pts/game during the 2003/04 season. Now thanks to the increasing usage of the 3-point shot it is back up to 111.4 pts/game.
Grizzled GM Basketball now takes these things into consideration. So if you play in a league and it is prior to 2000 big men are going to matter more. If your league is in the 2010s they will matter less. You can check how the league has adjusted if you go to the Team Stats page in the game, which shows stats for every year you have played your league.
In addition to the above, I also made some adjustments to player development, contracts, league creation, and maybe more things. A lot of new features have come. So I'm refining still. If it isn't exactly how you think it should be let me know. I may be able to make an adjustment. Thanks!
April 25, 2020 - New Feature
Expansion is here, but in a very basic state. All that happens is new teams are added to historical real player leagues over time until they reach 30.
Nothing else in the league changes. The playoffs don't change. The logos don't change. Names don't change. There are just more teams.
You can start from as far back as 1956 (which is nice because there are just two divisions) or as late as 1996 (when there are already 29 teams). Either way any remaining expansion teams will be added over time.
April 24, 2020 - New Feature
When you create a league you can now choose the 1955/56 NBA teams.
The main differences with the 1961/62 NBA are:
April 23, 2020 - New Feature
You can now play with real players on the teams that originally drafted them. In this variation the historical draft will be in line with history. The game will then assume players stay with those teams.
This is now the default option when playing. You can still play with players on random teams and with revised historical drafts, but you have to change the player dropdown to this option.
In addition to the above, when you create a league you can now choose the 1961/62 NBA teams.
The main differences with the 1966/67 NBA are: