Hello,

 

We would like to share the latest updates on the game, the review of season 96 and what’s coming up next in BasketPulse.

 

Champions

World League 1.1

 

Some say that winning the title is much easier than securing it the following season. Last season’s winner Minnesota Timberwolves had no trouble securing the title, sweeping ★ChuanShuo★ 3-0. It’s been impressive to see the elite Minnesota Timberwolves defensive perform, allowing only 56 points per game in the finals series.

 

Sun Tzu claimed bronze in a very tight series against Basketball Emperor Chamberlain 3-2, well done! Interestingly, all top three spots this season have been claimed by the same three teams. Can someone break their dominance next season?

 

Honorato Osma of Sun Tzu has been named MVP of the top league, averaging 15 points and 16 efficiency per game. Next season is the last on his contract, has he earned a raise? :)

 

1. Minnesota Timberwolves. Manager: 史塔克

 

2. ★ChuanShuo★. Manager: chuan

 

3. Sun Tzu. Manager: nofixations

 

World Cup 

 

Poland has hosted the World Cup and achieved their highest ever 7th spot in the WC, congratulations.

 

However, the spotlight has been claimed by China who had no trouble winning all the games and only Lithuania put pressure on the Chinese in the final. The final has had 22 lead changes and China has secured their 15th title in history winning 75 - 70. 

 

Argentina crushed Taiwan 87 - 70 in the bronze medal game and stayed on the podium for the fifth tournament in the row.

 

Niang Āěrdélǐqí of ★ChuanShuo★ has been named MVP of the tournament averaging 20 points per game in only 17 minutes!

 

1. China. Manager: 史塔克

 

2. Lithuania. Manager: Zaidejas9

 

3. Argentina Manager: roberpaganini

 

U18 World Cup

 

Spain has hosted the U18 World Cup, however China has continued their dominance in the game by claiming the 16th WC title in history. They have cruised past Taiwan 90 - 76 in the final game, congratulations!

 

Tournament hosts Spain, led by one of the most active BP bloggers DanTitan, were close to beating China in the semis, where they lost a nail-biter by 5. They regained their momentum in the third place game against France and won 83 - 69.

 

One of the tournament favourite Lithuania has lost their manager and got relegated to division 2.

 

Sancho Rocha of Spain was named the VMP of the tournament. The player has had a strong tournament, averaging 17 points and 6 rebounds. Is he ready to make his debut in the big leagues?

 

1. China. Manager: 纳什

 

2. Taiwan. Manager: trasgame

 

3. Spain Manager: DanTitan

 

Season 96 Updates

 

• New design of Community pages

• New design of National teams’ election pages

• Icon and information is displayed in team description page if manager also manages a national team

• New columns ‘Salary’ and ‘Restriction level’ added in Trades - Exchangeable players. This will help teams looking for trades to find options faster.

• New Premium feature: shape displayed in match box score.

• Updates regarding franchise players: new franchise player can be selected when the club is in any division, even in the lowest ones. Also the discount for franchise player’s salary has been increased a bit.

• Bug fix: when hiring talent from basketball school to Youth team, in the beginning his salary used to be displayed without compensation.

• Bug fix: different languages’ symbols should be now displayed correctly in automatically sent private messages.

• Bug fix: sometimes a very weak club was found when looking for a similar strength opponent for a friendly match. It seems that we finally managed to fix this issue that was in the game for a very long time. If someone still finds such a situation, please inform us using a ‘Message to administration’.

 

New ME version 1.7

• ‘Clean the floor’ event should happen only in the first half of the attack

• Coach Psychology Event happens Only on negative shooting quality or skill ratio

• Pick&roll balancing, a bit more often the ball handler will pass the ball to the screener.

• Pass that leads to a shooting foul and scoring by free throws will be counted as an assist (according to the FIBA rules)

• Amount of passes to SF a bit reduced

• Maximum number of lucky rebounds has been reduced.

• To help users understand the situation better, we have restored the event: "Offensive rebound because the player wasn't boxed out." This will be shown when an offensive rebound occurs because the defending team failed to box out opponents.

Community News

 

We have seen great success with the weekly article activity. A number of quality blog posts have been written by our community members sharing their experiences, for example “How do you manage your team finances?”.

 

We will continue this activity next season and the top writers will be rewarded as well as their posts will be shared in the game news.

 

The first task for the next week - the most interesting restricted market moves last season or share a thought process of signing/extending/releasing a player in the restricted market.

 

We are proud of our communities and some of them are especially organised and productive. Taiwan community has been the most active of all - we have received numerous articles from their members and they are very active internally, f.e. Taiwan has done a live voice broadcast for their NT friendly game against Lithuania. Because of these activities, the Taiwanese community has become one of the powerhouses in BP. Therefore, we are awarding the federation with a 15% scouting bonus.

 

Polish community members have been super active as well by writing the articles and publishing their own newspaper, earning them a 10% scouting bonus.

 

Spain and Lithuanian federations were active in writing the articles weekly and both countries co-organised the first ever BP Davis Cup for Lithuanian, Spanish and French clubs. Great initiative and well earnt 10% scouting bonus! Congratulations to France for winning the BP Davis Cup!

 

France federation is receiving a 5% scouting bonus for co-organising the first ever BP Davis Cup.

 

Season 97 plans

 

• Changes in number of players and coaches in a team

  • The limit on the maximum number of players and coaches per team is being removed.

  • Starting from Season 98, the youth team sponsor will only cover the salaries of up to 12 players and 8 coaches. If a team exceeds this limit, the selection for compensation will be done randomly.

  • Beginning in Season 100, the limit will be further reduced to 5 coaches, whose salaries will be compensated.

• Update the system of coaches’ training and include the updates starting at Season 98. More information may be found in news: https://www.basketpulse.com/en/News/article/6569bb0dd4de3/coach-training-update-discussion

• Update more old-design pages

 

We wish everyone a good season!