Season 97 has come to an end and we would like to share the information on key updates and also congratulate the winners of the top league.

Champions

World League 1.1

Minnesota Timberwolves secured their title for the third season in a row and continued his dominance in the game, winning 5 out of the last 6 season’s top league.

The team famous for its defence has proven the old saying defence wins titles. They allowed 54 points per game in the finals series against HK Monarch and swept the series 3-0. 

Wǒ bù pà has come back from being down 1-2 against Sun Tzu in the bronze series and won a medal in the top league just in their second season after being promoted from WL2.

Leng Cha of Wǒ bù pà has been named MVP of the top league, averaging 15 points and 23 efficiency per game. Next season is the last on his contract, has he earned a raise? :)

1. Minnesota Timberwolves. Manager: 史塔克

2. HK Monarch. Manager: CoachM0329

3. Wǒ bù pà. Manager: YAOQINWEI

U21 World Cup 

Classic BP final was played in the U21 WC when China met Lithuania. Lithuania had no chance in the game losing 75-90 and China has won their third title in a row.

Taiwan recovered after a heavy loss to Lithuania in the semis by winning the bronze game 90-76 against Spain. 

Carcarlo Pravettoni from Italy has been named MVP of the tournament averaging 15 points and 7 rebounds per game. Last season Organic Waste extended his contract for the next 5 seasons, very well timed!

1. China. Manager: zhiyangxu

2. Lithuania. Manager: Zolininkas

3. Taiwan. Manager: 隨風

U16 World Cup 

Poland has achieved a historical result winning the U16 final for the first time. The team has not been seen as the favourites of the tournament but proved the non-believers wrong by beating Taiwan 75 - 69 in the gold medal game.

China managed to recover in the bronze medal game after a loss in the semi to Taiwan. They beat Lithuania 66 - 58 in a defensive battle.

Evan Abra from Canada has been named MVP of the tournament. The 2.17cm monster was unstoppable and averaged 29 points and 7 rebounds per game. He should have no problem using his height and athleticism in the senior basketball in a few years, watch out!

1. Poland. Manager: Artemix

2. Taiwan. Manager: jiasyuan

3. China. Manager: 纳什

Season 97 Updates

This season we’ve been working intensely on the planned update related to the coaches’ training. We are very happy that we managed to include this part of the update on time. 

However, we’ve been working not only on the changes in coaches’ training but also on the optimization of the whole training process. In the beginning of the new season we will continue tuning the process of training so that it doesn’t freeze the game for a few minutes at 11pm game time. 

• Included beautiful new design of Matches’ pages

• Changes in number of players and coaches in a team

  • The limit on the maximum number of players and coaches per team has been removed.

  • Youth team sponsor only covers the salaries of up to 12 players and 8 coaches. If a team exceeds this limit, the selection for compensation is done randomly.

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

• Updated system of coaches’ training

  • Considerably increased influence of coach’s age

    • <50 y. - main improvement of coaches

    • 50-59 y. - coaches improve a little or stop improving

    • >=60 y. - coaches don’t improve anymore. Starting with season 102, coaches’ skills will start decreasing.

  • Coach’s position influence on training

    • Head coach - depends on tactical skills of the opponent coach (in today’s match)

    • Assistant and training coach - depends on the head coach’s RT and head coach’s skill (that is being trained)

  • Other criteria remain the same: coach’s potential, skill’s inner potential, day surprises

  • Coaches’ experience growth depends on:

    • Influence of other coaches, depending on coach’s position (similarly as in the above mentioned skill’s training)

    • Opponent strength and result of today’s match 

• Few small bug fixes

Match engine updates

• Attempt to fix the bug where sometimes a pass to the leader didn't work

Community News

We have received numerous quality posts by the community and shared them in the news. We always love hearing from you guys and we will share some more soon. Our personal favourites were the community interviews and AI created facelifts of the players.

We have also noticed a really cool update by MikeHoudini who has created a script to improve the experience watching the games LIVE and shared it on the game Discord server:

Very well done, and 2.000 credits reward has been sent to Mike. We love seeing these community-made updates and if you have anything that could improve the life of our players - please share!

Also we have seen the Taiwan community being active in promoting the game inside their BP community as well as attracting new members to the game, therefore we would like to allocate a 5% scouting bonus for the community effort. 

Also, Lithuanian and French federations have organised the 2nd Davis Cup earning them a 5% scouting bonus as well. 

We are yet to hear from other federation presidents about the exceptional effort of their community members. Don’t be shy and let us know and get rewarded!

FPC News

Due to low activity one Lithuanian spot has been removed. In the future, one federation will be able to have maximum 2 spots.

China is the biggest community in the game that does not have a seat in FPC, and TRX001 has been appointed by the Chinese federation as the newest member of FPC. Congratulations!

Season 98 plans

• Changes in number of players and coaches in a team

  • Youth team sponsor covers the salaries of up to 12 players and 8 coaches. If a team exceeds this limit, the selection for compensation is done randomly.

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

• Starting with season 102, coaches’ skills will start decreasing from 60 years old.

• Continue optimizing the system of training, so that the game would be better available during it. 

• Changes in match engine: adjust coaches’ influence so that it depends on the actual difference between coaches’ skills, not only on the fact that one is better at some skill. Coaches’ influence in matches is quite big, therefore we plan to include changes gradually in the upcoming 5 seasons.

• Update more old-design pages
   

We wish everyone a good season!