Pro Basketball Manager 2017

Pro Basketball Manager 2017 puts you in charge of a basketball team as its coach and manager. Choose from 1,000 playable teams, from well-known clubs such as Los Angeles and New York to college teams and teams around the world. You can also manage a national team alongside your club.

The game includes 2016/2017 rosters with 20,000 players worldwide and more than 70 competitions, including US college championships, the North American league, European leagues and competitions in Africa and Asia. National and international competitions are available, and each league follows its own rules.

Run your club

Recruit and train players, manage your club’s finances and improve its stadium. You can train players as a group or individually, and send scouts around the world to assess potential recruits. Updated scouting reports give you a comprehensive review of each player, while redesigned player and team recruitment AI aims to produce more realistic behavior.

Recruitment depends on the league. At non-professional clubs, where players are unpaid, you need to show interest to persuade them to join. In the North American league, you manage contracts, exceptions, luxury tax, trades and the draft. Other leagues use player purchases, loans and free agents, with a payroll limit for the season. Your bosses set seasonal goals, which you can choose to raise.

Players have individual personalities and affinities with other players and clubs, which affect their wishes and moods. You also track player condition and mental and physical states, review detailed reports and records, and use statistics to assess players, teams and your own career. Match archives cover your team and others, and a comparison tool lets you compare two players.

Manage matches

Play every match live in 2D or 3D, giving instructions from the sidelines. Check player condition, make substitutions, change offensive or defensive tactics, and choose your team’s next play during a game. You can create plays for your own on-court playbook and use them in matches, or ask an assistant to handle the more complex management tasks.

Customize your game

The interface takes on your team’s colors, and you can customize your coach profile, including its name, age, nationality and image. A database editor lets you change team and player names to create a custom basketball world. You can share databases through Steam Workshop and download others’ databases for your own matches.

End-of-day reports, detailed messages and competition records provide updates on your season, including broken records and the historical records of top players in each competition. An online ladder ranks you against other Pro Basketball Manager 2017 players, and the game tracks your victories and achievements.