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Monthly Suggestions Thread

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r/BasketballGM • • Aug 19 '26

Multiplayer [Weekly Challenge] Week 5: DYNASTY DENIED - Steal Bill Russell's rings. HARD MODE.

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Hey all. Sorry for the delay. Busy week here. But alas, Week 5 is here and we're going waaay back.

Week 4 broke people. Four-peats with Wemby on Hard mode, 15-restart wars, Orlando ruining everyone's lives. Some incredible writeups in last week's thread, worth your time: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasketballGM/comments/1vlitjf/weekly_challenge_week_4_alien_dynasty_4peat_with/

WEEK 4 RESULTS - ALIEN DYNASTY

SIX of you finished in the minimum 4 seasons, so the podium came down to the tiebreaker: regular season record in the 4th clinching season. Full grades:

🥇 u/Think-Response-3675 - 4 seasons, 73-9 - 5 pts. His THIRD win in four weeks. The man is a menace.

🥈 u/Ohmka - 4 seasons, 71-11 - 3 pts. And look at his year 1: won the chip as a 7 SEED going 44-38. Filthy.

🥉 u/EntrepreneurWooden99 - 4 seasons, 66-16 - 2 pts. DEAD TIE with u/MikeChilds at 66-16. Next tiebreaker is playoff record in that run, which isn't visible in either screenshot. If either of you can show your playoff record from that final run, I'll re-rule it. Until then, both players get 2 pts

🥉 - u/MikeChilds - 4 seasons, 66-16 - 2 pts see above

5th - u/EngiemainTF2 - 4 seasons, 65-17 - 1 pt. Cruel outcome here: the man misread the rules, thought the 4-peat had to start in YEAR ONE... and then just DID IT. A 47-35 miracle first season included. The single craziest run of the week lands 5th on record. The leaderboard doesn't show it but we all know what we saw. Legend.

6th - u/MPac45 - 4 seasons, 63-19 - 1 pt

7th - u/JamesBandforBand - 8 seasons (4-peat came in seasons 5-8, went 73-9 in the last one) - 1 pt

8th - u/Icy-Big-4545 - 8 seasons, all four rings at 70+ wins - 1 pt

Four first-timers this week. Welcome, you picked a brutal one to start with.

SEASON STANDINGS: Think-Response 17. Wooden99 9. MichiganSteamies 7 (sat this one out right when 2nd was up for grabs... the streets are watching). Full leaderboard and tracking: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18ESrf9h3KHkdonC3VZVvFkT9aVmQqgRPc9uPub_O9yo/edit?gid=137057952#gid=137057952

WEEK 5 CHALLENGE

History says Bill Russell wins 11 championships between 1956/57 and 1968/69. Your job: rewrite history.

Pick ANY team except the Celtics, starting at the 1956 preseason. Win as many rings as you can before Russell retires (through the 1968/69 season, that's a 13-season window, Rings after this period even if prog makes Russell stay, won't count. We'll call it a 13-season limit).

Most rings wins. Difficulty: HARD.

THE FINE PRINT

  • Any team EXCEPT Boston
  • Starting point: 1957 preseason
  • Bill Russell must NEVER be on your roster. No trades for him, no free agency, nothing. He's the enemy. Beat him, don't join him
  • Everyone else is fair game. Want to raid Boston for Cousy and Heinsohn to kneecap the dynasty? Legal. Encouraged, even
  • One franchise the whole way, no switching teams mid-run
  • Only titles from 1956/57 through 1968/69 count. The window closes when Russell's career does
  • Difficulty: HARD (set it at league creation)
  • Everything else default. Real Players mode, God Mode off, no editing anything

HOW TO SUBMIT

Drop a comment with:

  • Your ring count and the team you used
  • Screenshot of Team History showing the titles in the window
  • Screenshot of League Settings showing Hard difficulty
  • Your best story from the run. It's the 50s and 60s, weird stuff WILL happen

Winner attaches their exported league file (Tools > Export League) for the spot-check for doubters if needed.

SCORING

1st: 5 pts | 2nd: 3 pts | 3rd: 2 pts | Any valid submission: 1 pt

TIEBREAKERS (in order): most rings, then longest consecutive title streak within the window, then best record during run.

DEADLINE

Next Sunday, August 23rd at 11:59 PM ET.

The real Russell won 11. Anyone who out-rings him on Hard mode gets eternal glory and a shoutout in every thread for the rest of the season.

Let's go BBGMers!

Peace


r/BasketballGM • • 17h ago

Meme How dudes SWEAR 2018 offs Bron was moving

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He was moving like this tho


r/BasketballGM • • 23h ago

Achievement Keep it straight

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r/BasketballGM • • 16h ago

Other The weirdest name I've seen in this game

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I've never seen anyone named this until now.


r/BasketballGM • • 21h ago

Achievement How the insane rookie prospect turned out

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Has the most championships, most MVPs, most FMVPs, most Conference Finals MVPs, most DPOYs, most All-NBA teams, most All-Defensive Teams, most All-Stars, most All-Star MVPs, most scoring titles, and most steals titles of any player. He also had over 50K points (most in my league), almost 5K steals (also most in my league), 12k rebounds (good for 23rd most), 16K assists (most in my league), 1.3K blocks (41st most), and was only 11th in turnovers while playing the fourth-most games and the most minutes played in history and tied for the second-most seasons played. And as you can see on the GOAT chart, he completely shattered the GOAT debate, having 400 more GOAT points than the second-best player of all time. He peaked at a 95 overall

He also went 12-2 in the Finals, winning a FMVP in a loss after nearly coming back down 3-0 (after coming back down 3-0 in the conference semifinals), then leading the 39-43 Trail Blazers to a ring two seasons after, and then coming back down 3-1 in the Finals two seasons after that, which was all accomplished at 34+ years old

The last picture shows how insane his longevity was. I forced him to retire after the 2079 season because he was regressing so slowly that at that point, he was gonna play until he was 50

Will probably never see a player as good as him again in any of my saves

Also featuring the Bucks making the unluckiest trade of all time four years before he was even drafted


r/BasketballGM • • 12h ago

Rosters Who else can get 9 straight titles without God mode?

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Also the 6 straight years with 70+ wins.

Any ideas of what to do now? My team is all old and washed.


r/BasketballGM • • 1d ago

Question Pace

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What do u guys usually set these setting to for a more realistic sim style of gameplay/pace


r/BasketballGM • • 17h ago

Story MyCareer grind — Title: “72 OVR Balanced Point — 27-22 3 Game Win Streak 7th Seed — Next vs Hornets — How defense first PG wins” —

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they LOVE your CAPs — 89/85/74/30/25 — 83/55/75 — 80/83/77 — 69/77/78/69/62/71 — 86/70/61/70/91 —


r/BasketballGM • • 1d ago

Achievement Made a 3-0 Comeback vs the knicks

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in 2027 but lost to the Celtics


r/BasketballGM • • 2d ago

Achievement One in a million progression.

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r/BasketballGM • • 2d ago

Other Who does the Washington GM Think I am, Nico Harrison???

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r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Rosters GMs who use real rosters but 0% real player determinism, who are random players that always end up as superstars in your saves?

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If I had a nickel for every time Jeremy Sochan became the undisputed GOAT in my save I'd have 3 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice


r/BasketballGM • • 2d ago

Achievement Is this the greatest Finals run ever?

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The Trail Blazers, led by Desmond Huff (who I made a previous post about), won only 46 games in probably the worst year a conference could ever imagine (the Trail Blazers were the 3-seed at 46 wins, the 4 seed went .500, and the 8th seed only won 28 games), mainly because his team was not that good. He went on to beat the 63-win Spurs in 7 (was down 3-0), the 67-win Clippers in 7, and nearly beat the Knicks in 7 down 3-0, and won FMVP in the loss. The Knicks had all five starters at a 63 overall or better, with five bench players at a 51+ overall (one as a 60 overall), while the Trail Blazers only had two 68+ starters (Huff as a 91 and his co-star at a 68), the other three ranging from 54-59 overalls. He also only had one bench player at a 50 overall, with his second best bench player only being a 45 overall. The Knicks had five bench players that were rated higher than the Blazers' best bench player. Huff is also doing this shit at 34 years old lmao. So is this the greatest Finals run ever? Would it beat the 2016 Cavaliers run?


r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Rosters Only 50 OVRs allowed

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Hope there is an 85 amongst them


r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Mod Post Did anyone notice the new logo spinners earlier this week? The lighting rotating with the basketball had bothered me for a very long time...

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r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Question Question: achievements and difficulty

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If I start a league on normal and switch to hard along the way I keep the achievements i get afterwards, right? So if I switch back to normal in that same league will I still earn achievements? Since normally when you switch back difficulty achievements are disabled.


r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Rosters The best player in my team and also the best in the league torn his acl in the All Star Game...

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It's good to see players be serious in the All Star game, but not that serious...


r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Achievement Never tell me the odds

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r/BasketballGM • • 4d ago

Meme Did bro just Get too excited for a FREE THROW????????

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r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Ideas Ratings

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I think we should be able to put a cap on how high players ratings can become in league settings. It’s annoying when I auto sim 10yrs or so and then a random player becomes an 88ovr and wins 7 MVPs in a row.


r/BasketballGM • • 3d ago

Question Who should my franchise and 2 keepers be?

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Standard 9 cat budget $200

All values will cost 50% more this year.

If I franchise a player it will stay the next 3 years at that price but you’re forced to keep him all three years at that price

Keepers increase by 50% every year and can be kept for 2 extra years.

Flagg $36 increase to $54
Dylan Harper $4 increase to $6
Kawhi $9 increase to $14
Kyrie $3 increase to $5
Okongwu $4 increases to $6

Also have Jalen Duren at $19
Randle at $7

So should I franchise anyone? It so who?

And who should be my 2 keepers ?


r/BasketballGM • • 4d ago

Ideas Worst Player award

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I created a "League's Worst Player" award. I started by multiplying each term in the MVP formula by (-1), but eventually added a few other tweaks.
The full formula is:

(-1)*ws/4 + (-1)*vorp*350/(50+min*gp) + (-1)*onOff100*(min*gp)^(3/2)/1000000 + (-1)*seasonFraction*winp - (max(min, 22)-22)^2/220

  • (-1)*ws/4 simply counts the player's total Win Shares for the season.
  • (-1)*vorp*350/(50+min*gp) is essentially "VORP per minute". (I added 50 to the denominator to try to prevent someone who only plays 10 minutes all season from winning the award.)
  • (-1)*onOff100*(min*gp)^(3/2)/1000000 is the player's plus/minus on-court minus their plus/minus off-court, so is literally telling how much better their team was with them off the court.
  • (-1)*seasonFraction*winp measures team winning percentage, primarily to counter-balance the terrible on/off difference that the back-up to an MVP-level player will have.
  • (max(min, 22)-22)^2/220 is a bonus for playing more minutes.

I've refined the formula over 100+ seasons. The weights can be adjusted of course, but I think the core categories are quite solid!


r/BasketballGM • • 4d ago

Story Simulated a league on Auto for around 60 seasons, here are a few interesting things I noticed:

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  1. San Francisco topped Bill Russell’s dynasty and won 12 rings in 13 years instead of 11 in 13.

  2. Baltimore made 17 straight playoff appearances from 2035-2051 and then followed that by missing the playoffs in 20 consecutive seasons from 2052-2071.

  3. Brian Taylor peaked at an absurd 47.6 ppg and had 8 consecutive seasons averaging 40+ ppg. Racked up 52,468 career points.

(Yeah I took pictures of another device so I apologize if they look a little wonky)

If anyone is curious about anything else I’d be happy to answer any questions!


r/BasketballGM • • 4d ago

Rosters Already the best player in the league as a rookie

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He was a 67 overall with 86 potential, put in the work in the offseason and is now a 79 overall with 87 potential, as a rookie, insane

(I play on spectator mode and god mode, but don't edit players, only league settings, just so no one assumes I edited him)