Hardwood Basketball Manager

About the Game

What happens between games shapes the games themselves. A living,

league-wide news feed tracks storylines across every competition.

Off-court events driven by player personalities stir up locker-room

drama. Award races build tension through the season. Every system -

morale, stats, relationships, tactics, finances - feeds into the next.

And the world keeps growing. Beneath the top flight sits a fully

playable development league: take a dev-club job of your own, or

co-manage it as your affiliate, calling players up, sending them down,

and signing two-way deals to bridge the two. Every July the whole

league runs the Hardwood Heat, a summer showcase for young talent.

Every player carries a full career history: where they were drafted,

what they've won, and every roster move they've made.

Fully moddable from day one, with Steam Workshop integration. Replace

rosters, add headshots, design team logos, and rewrite commentary -

then go deeper and reshape the leagues themselves: game rules, finances,

roster rules, development-team identities, and award names, all through

simple JSON.

Built by an indie developer who believes basketball deserves the same

simulation depth football has had for decades.

Key Features

- Full season play (12 to 82 games)

- A fully playable development league - run a dev club or co-manage it as an affiliate

- Two-way contracts with call-ups and send-downs

- The Hardwood Heat summer league

- The Foundry draft combine

- Free agency with an AI decision engine

- A league-wide waiver wire

- Mid-season trades and draft-pick trading

- Player progression and aging

- Development specialists and a team physician

- Injury and recovery system

- Owners and finances with a job-security gauge

- The coaching staff carousel (hire, fire, negotiate, poach)

- GM career and job market (reputation, offers, team switches)

- AI Coach system (tactics, subs, timeouts)

- Morale system with captain influence

- Off-court events driven by player personalities

- Player and team history (career logs, team records, and honors)

- Award races, plus current and historical statistics

- 2D match visualizer with tactical overlays

- Broadcast-style presentation throughout

- World and league browsing

- 4-team to 16-team playoff brackets

- Full mod support with Steam Workshop integration