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r/BasketballGM • u/ballislifeisball • Aug 19 '26
Multiplayer [Weekly Challenge] Week 5: DYNASTY DENIED - Steal Bill Russell's rings. HARD MODE.
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 • u/Golgoonza • 18h ago
Ideas Worst Player award
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/20000 + (-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/20000 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 • u/Autistic-Goober-08 • 16h ago
Story Simulated a league on Auto for around 60 seasons, here are a few interesting things I noticed:
gallerySan Francisco topped Bill Russell’s dynasty and won 12 rings in 13 years instead of 11 in 13.
Baltimore made 17 straight playoff appearances from 2035-2051 and then followed that by missing the playoffs in 20 consecutive seasons from 2052-2071.
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 • u/Salty_Resource_291 • 17h ago
Rosters Already the best player in the league as a rookie
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)
r/BasketballGM • u/Charmandeleon • 16h ago
Rosters Traded for him at 40 years old, and immediately enters his prime
r/BasketballGM • u/Tough-Bee-8967 • 11h ago
Ideas Ideas
Suggestion! Pede po kaya mag lagay ng buy out option bawat team? Yung pede kunin yung isang player sa team gamit buy out
r/BasketballGM • u/craqeiro • 1d ago
Rosters That's what I call a great offseason progression
Coming from 4 consecutive seasons topping at Conf. Semis, looks like those guys have put on the work to finally become championship-bound.
r/BasketballGM • u/Sensitive_Worry2499 • 1d ago
Meme Drafting based on player name is still the best strategy
Somehow, when I drafted him with pick 4, I knew this guy will cook
r/BasketballGM • u/Charmandeleon • 17h ago
Question How did i manage to win two chips with this team??
r/BasketballGM • u/Accomplished-Act920 • 1d ago
Rosters I’m always surprised to see the AI casually go 82-0 (Fo Fo Fo in the playoffs).
r/BasketballGM • u/EldeTetive • 2d ago
Question Who would you draft with the 5th pick?
Right now I'm the worst team in the league, and both of them could be a massive upgrade to my backcourt, so I'm fine with either one but I don't know if Nelson's physical attributes, slightly better IQ and decent shooting are better than Veal playmaking and shooting abilities
r/BasketballGM • u/Zealousideal_Lab5981 • 1d ago
Question Can you guys tell me what is the most famous and comfortable basketball 🏀🏀shoe brand ! recommend me pls #
r/BasketballGM • u/jamie001000 • 2d ago
Other A 31 year NBA career
galleryProbably the craziest career I've ever had. Played until he was 50, won 6 MVPs in his 30s and back-to-back SMOYs at age 47 and 48. I think because he was never very athletic, when the bottom fell out of his athleticism it just didn't hurt him that much.
Incidentally, Eric Money is a real player, he was pretty good for a couple years, but washed out of the league by age 24, supposedly due to drugs.
r/BasketballGM • u/Da-_-Kine • 2d ago
Rosters 6 different DPOYs in a 7 year span
I don’t know how but over a 7 year span my team produced 6 different DPOYs without a single player repeating for the award. Naturally these teams helped me get the brick wall achievement
r/BasketballGM • u/bennygani • 1d ago
Other Playtesters needed - "Basketball Career" A free basketball career simulator where you can play out an entire career
galleryr/BasketballGM • u/Elias_K_Music • 3d ago
Question Broken 2027 League File (by A-V29)?
hope this is the right place to ask: anyone using A-V29's (Antti Lumme on GitHub, link below) 2026-27 league file with real players, starting in 2027 preseason, and run into any game breaking issues with the automatic schedule generator?
link: https://github.com/A-V29/NBA.Rosters
I've started a new league with it last week and spent quite some time adjusting it to my preferences before moving on to the regular season to find that it can't seem to generate a schedule, like at all: when starting the season, the schedule starts with the all-star game and comprises of only two days total (I'm guessing it only registers the all-star and the trade deadline event). What's more, in the 'schedule' and 'power rankings' segment no teams are displayed, just a blank table header, which I had noticed before but assumed it would resolve itself by moving on to the regular season.
I haven't messed with anything but player ratings, contracts, headshots, team assignment, draft classes and I've validated the issue with the raw, original file (both versions) with the same problem occuring every time, so I'm quite confident that there is something fundamenally broken with the league file itself that is unrelated to the device (I've tested both web and app version) or my browser settings/cache (hence I don't think a 'hard reset' is required, all my other leagues are working fine on all devices). I get no traditional "error" message (unless, e.g., I click the 'playoffs' section), at least not by simply entering the regular season, but there's a ton of faulty javascript lines (about 90 red-flagged) when I open the console (too much to list any of them here without knowing the source issue).
I'm not necessarily looking to fix the file itself (I'm not very familiar with the technical side of BBGM) rather than to see if anyone else has come across this issue and knows a way around that would allow me to conserve the adjustments I have made, e.g. carry over the substantial player and team data (including stats, history, etc.) into a separate file with a working schedule for the 2026/27 season. I've tried that, of course, with different selections in the league creation menu which has so far only resulted in different kinds of issues, depending on the data imported from the league file (either same schedule-related problem or it jumps to a different preseason/year altogether).
Dunno how to better describe the problem but I hope someone has some insights on potential causes and fixes. I wasn't able to find any existing forum discussion on this or a directly related topic, unfortunately, so I came here instead; if you happen to know a better place for this post do lmk!;)
r/BasketballGM • u/TimeAmazing1977 • 3d ago
Other Absolute madness...
galleryRight now, we have three goat pgs active at the same time with two of them on the same team, and two 100 OVR dynasties, both in the same state. (For the Lowriders, I used a SS from the yr prior bc I forgot to screenshot them in the current yr) If you are wondering why Miller only has one chip, its because the Lowriders had a 110 OVR team for the first 6 yrs of his career.
r/BasketballGM • u/yellow_eggplant • 3d ago
Rosters I have Bill Walton on my team. 3 separate foot injuries causing a 9 ovr drop. Of course I'm playing Portland
imgur.comr/BasketballGM • u/Perkaza-R-Dani • 4d ago
Ideas Updated Realistic Basketball Awards Settings for your any Basketball based league (Added: Missing Real Life Existing Award + Additional Custom Awards)
galleryPLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT ALWAYS UPDATED HERE IN REDDIT, THE NEWEST VERSION WAS THE ONE THAT I ALWAYS SHARE ON THE DISCORD SERVER CONTENT CREATOR FORUMS THAT'S I LINKED! CURRENTLY THE LATEST VERSION WAS THIS ONE (https://discord.com/channels/290013534023057409/1545578856143130624/1554453975213023302) AND I HAD EXPLAINED THE UPDATE AS WELL, THE BELOW WERE THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THAT NEWEST UPDATE! Thank you ❤️
EVERYONE, I'VE UPDATED THIS AWARD SETTINGS IN BBGM DISCORD SERVER! https://discord.com/channels/290013534023057409/1545578856143130624/1553798982726193164 (Join the server here: https://discord.gg/basketball-gm-and-zengm-290013534023057409)
Previous post regarding my custom award settings for Realistic BBGM Basketball League Awards: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasketballGM/s/SHyj2xbkkJ
What's new there? GOAT Formula for both GOAT Lab and Season now completely fixed + there's an extra small weight on it related to Quad-double + 5x5 for a certain abnormal goat performance! that will increase their score on the list just a little bit for balance
Rim Finisher of the Year (RFOY) now including Low Post stats to make sure it's cemented as an interior-paint skill award!
Updated GOAT Lab:
((ewaPerGame * 8.5) + (vorpPerGame * 8.5) + ((owsPerGame + dwsPerGame) * 5) + ((max(-10, min(35, per)) / 15) * 3 * min(1, gp / 200)) + ((max(-15, min(15, obpm + dbpm)) / 2) * 2.5 * min(1, gp / 200)) + ((max(-20, min(20, pm100)) / 10) * 1.5 * min(1, gp / 200)) + (vorp * 0.15) + ((ows + dws) * 0.10) + (ewa * 0.12) + (max(-10, min(35, perPeak)) * 0.3) + (ewaPeakPerGame * 4.5) + (vorpPeakPerGame * 4.5) + ((ptsPlayoffsPerGame + astPlayoffsPerGame + orbPlayoffsPerGame + drbPlayoffsPerGame) / 10) + (max(-20, min(20, pm100Playoffs)) * 0.25 * min(1, gpPlayoffs / 30)) + (ewaPlayoffsPerGame * 6.5) + (vorpPlayoffsPerGame * 6.5) + (2.5 * qd) + (2.0 * fxf) + (3.0 * qdPlayoffs) + (2.5 * fxfPlayoffs) + (5.0 * awards.MVP + 2.0 * awards.CMVP + 1.0 * awards.DMVP + 3.5 * champ + 3.5 * awards.FMVP + 1.5 * awards.SFMVP + 2.2 * awards.DPOY + 2.2 * awards.OPOY + 1.5 * awards.ROY + 1.5 * awards.MIP + 1.5 * awards.SMOY + 1.2 * awards.CPOY + 1.0 * awards.TMOY + 1.0 * awards.SPRT + 0.8 * awards.SSOY + 0.8 * awards.RFOY + 0.8 * awards.PMOY + 0.5 * awards.HSTL + 1.5 * awards.ALL1 + 0.8 * awards.ALL2 + 0.4 * awards.ALL3 + 0.8 * awards.DEF1 + 0.4 * awards.DEF2 + 0.8 * awards.OFF1 + 0.4 * awards.OFF2 + 0.2 * awards.ALR1 + 0.1 * awards.ALR2 + 0.2 * awards.ALB1 + 0.1 * awards.ALB2 + 0.15 * allStar + 0.05 * allStarMvp) + (numSeasons * 0.12))
Updated GOAT Season:
((ewaPerGame * 8.5) + (vorpPerGame * 8.5) + ((owsPerGame + dwsPerGame) * 5) + ((max(-10, min(35, per)) / 15) * 3 * min(1, gp / 50)) + ((max(-15, min(15, obpm + dbpm)) / 2) * 2.5 * min(1, gp / 50)) + ((max(-20, min(20, pm100)) / 10) * 1.5 * min(1, gp / 50)) + (vorp * 0.8) + ((ows + dws) * 0.5) + (ewa * 0.6) + ((ptsPlayoffsPerGame + astPlayoffsPerGame + orbPlayoffsPerGame + drbPlayoffsPerGame) / 10) + (max(-20, min(20, pm100Playoffs)) * 0.25 * min(1, gpPlayoffs / 10)) + (ewaPlayoffsPerGame * 6.5) + (vorpPlayoffsPerGame * 6.5) + (3.5 * qd) + (3.0 * fxf) + (4.0 * qdPlayoffs) + (3.5 * fxfPlayoffs) + (5.0 * awards.MVP + 2.0 * awards.CMVP + 1.0 * awards.DMVP + 3.5 * champ + 3.5 * awards.FMVP + 1.5 * awards.SFMVP + 2.2 * awards.DPOY + 2.2 * awards.OPOY + 1.5 * awards.ROY + 1.5 * awards.MIP + 1.5 * awards.SMOY + 1.2 * awards.CPOY + 1.0 * awards.TMOY + 1.0 * awards.SPRT + 0.8 * awards.SSOY + 0.8 * awards.RFOY + 0.8 * awards.PMOY + 0.5 * awards.HSTL + 1.5 * awards.ALL1 + 0.8 * awards.ALL2 + 0.4 * awards.ALL3 + 0.8 * awards.DEF1 + 0.4 * awards.DEF2 + 0.8 * awards.OFF1 + 0.4 * awards.OFF2 + 0.2 * awards.ALR1 + 0.1 * awards.ALR2 + 0.2 * awards.ALB1 + 0.1 * awards.ALB2 + 0.15 * allStar + 0.05 * allStarMvp))
As for the award settings was in the discord server, everyone~ go check it out ❤️z




