Hi,

we got quite a few entries for the interviews this week and we'll release them in a few parts.

We start up with Lithuanian federation president Šabas and community legend Darys who have interviewed each other and earned 2.000 credits each!


Darys, how you came up with the idea to make the viral investigation video about cheating in BasketPulse game?

It was just a normal day of finding the right players to trade on BasketPulse. And I just found an interesting character who had made a lot of trades with the same teams from the lower leagues. "Interesting" - I thought and started checking all those teams. Since nobody reads these days, I decided to draw attention with a video.

Your previous team name was: "grave magic". What do you have in mind with such name?

Since it wasn't my first team, I thought I needed to rise from the ashes. Phoenix is worn out and not interesting to me, so I just called myself "Grave" and "Magic" because at that time I was watching Harry Potter movie where there was a lot of magic.

You are long time in the game (of course I'm even longer with short gaps) what do you miss the most from the previous times or previous ME?

I miss when I could borrow two players. I still don't understand this change. This update did not bring any tangible benefit to the game.

You have long experience and showed the good results even in WL1 in previous but now you are playing only in WL4 is there some kind of rebel, are the games getting stronger, or you have some kind of plan? What is it?

I just went bankrupt. I was hoping to stay at WL1.1. It didn't work. I was hoping to stay in WL2. It also failed. A vicious cycle has begun. Bankruptcy, relegation and bankruptcy again... But I'm not giving up, now it's even more interesting because you have to think of a plan to get back to where you were, rather than just being average in some league and picking your nose.

In your opinion what is the biggest legend in BasketPulse and why?

There are many users to mention, but it is clear that Captain Obvious is a legend. And of course - ronas.

The game is changing a lot in your opinion what is the future of the game?

I don't see any future. To be honest, I don't even think about it. I'm not a magician, even though my team was called that.

What do you think: will Arvydas Sabonis get back on the court for one more game?

I saw that Birutis extended his contract, unfortunately, but there is no place left for Sabonis. Thus my answer is no.



Darys: If you could have any superpower, but it only worked on BasketPulse, what would it be?

Šabas: Damn good question. I think in this case I take possibility to read peoples mind. I could read other players tactics, cheatings, and still get in hot chicks minds (hope there is at lest few of them).

On the basketball court, would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or a ten duck-sized horses?

Horses definitely horses. Except if we play the H_O_R_S_E.




If you were a vegetable, what would come to your mind closest to basketball?

Watermelon, pumpkin or melon ...I think melon.

If BasketPulse had an international holiday, what day would it be and how should it be celebrated?

Friday. It should be celebrated the old fashioned CO style.

Honeybees can recognize human faces. Aren't you afraid to play on outdoor courts now?

Answer to 3 question is pumpkin in this way,

If animals could talk, which one do you think would be the best trash talker on the basketball court?
The bitch ...I know some - they definitely can trash talk.



What song would be best for BasketPulse? And for some reason this song sounds in my ears - Fugees - Killing Me Softly. Perhaps you know why?

Oh yes, this one its definitely better than the BasketPulse anthem and is closer to the game.

Your team name translates to something like a messy bushy place. Tell me more about messy bushy places.
Exactly, when i was younger I had the gang with the same name because we liked those places.

Thank you very much. I hope your mood is not broken after this poor interview.
Otherway round, it's the best interview I ever had. AI did great job with the questions - soon i will leave the set the tactics for it.

Have a good read, more interesting stuff is coming in a few days!...

Throughout the extensive history of the game, we have explored various methods to combat cheating. However, none of them seem to be perfect. Each approach has its pros and cons.
While combating cheating is essential, it consumes a significant amount of time and significantly reduces our ability to improve the game.

Recently, we have encountered quite a few unpleasant situations as well (such as a case during the Easter holidays and a cheating investigation that resulted in the closure of 16 teams). These situations are certainly not how we want to spend our weekends and holidays.
Additionally, we have received more suspicions of cheating reports from the community that require investigation. This indicates that more "fun time" is waiting ahead. We advise those who have access to a few teams to close these teams immediately. In doing so, the penalty for rule violations will be less severe.

In order to reduce the number of cheating situations in the future, we will attempt to remove or restrict certain game features, especially for free users.

Upcoming changes for the next season:
1. Possibility to borrow a player will be limited to users with a bronze rank or those who have purchased game credits at least once. Over time, we plan to increase these restrictions, eventually making player borrowing available only to PREMIUM users.
2. The default trade level will be reduced by one (currently the plan is to reduce this only for NEW users).
3. Households where multiple users play from the same IP address will be required to have the PREMIUM package. Without PREMIUM, in case of any suspicious activity, we will skip the investigation and either close teams or disable their trading/borrowing features.

Long-term plans:
1. Completely rewrite the restricted market feature to eliminate the possibility of malicious bidding. When we have more details, we will share them with you.

We understand that many people may not like these changes, but we do not see any other options. We spend far too much time on matters that do not create any value for the game, meanwhile we need to develop updates that improve the game.

Thank you for your understanding. Cheating is not OK. In the end, the Fair Play always wins!...

Hi everyone,

managing team's budget is an important and tough task for every manager in BasketPulse. This week we would like to share TB313 and smart0eddie experience dealing with the moments when everything goes down south and bankruptcy procedures start.

TB313 - WL 6.9 - 2.000 credits.

In BasketPulse, like in any realistic management simulation, bankruptcy is a looming threat that can derail even the most promising teams. Season 97 was my second full season in the game. After multiple trades that season, things were looking well - I had acquired quite a few young talents who had great potential, but also lowered my salaries. I knew that with the team that I had, I will not go far in the playoffs, and wanted to focus on developing some of these young players. Towards the playoffs and the end of the season, I had saved up over 120k in the bank. At the time, I tried to avoid any unnecessary expenditures, all of the sectors financing levels were set to 0, and I did not spend any money on scouts at the time. The end goal for me was to establish a youth team. In the Norwegian league, there are only 7 active teams, therefore the Norwegian player market is rather small, and with hopes to grow the league, and down the line strengthen the National teams at all levels - the youth team was a priority of mine.

Day 1 of Season 98, my dream of establishing a youth team was finally a reality. Things were looking well, except for the fact that I only had 12 players in my team, meaning 6 went to the youth team, and 6 stayed in the main team. The game even automatically assigned a player to my team due to not having enough players in the main team. Shortly, without even realising - this became a downwards spiral. Not only did I want to bring in more players into the youth team, but I wanted to hire additional coaches too, not to mention trying to increase the number of players in the main team.

Now that I had the youth team settled, I wanted to focus on getting a promotion into a better international league. Being in league 6.9, the finances received from sponsors are naturally rather low, and I made a mistake of looking at the wrong financial statistics. I went onto finances and seen that 'Max sum for personnel's salaries' was then at 58k. I thought that is brilliant. If I get the salaries up to 50k, that will leave me ~8k free and I can leave it from there. I was then trying to sign high rated players, with high salaries- simply because I thought I will still be in ~5 + area. In season 97, I was ranked 8th in the International league, but finished 6th. The goal now is to be in the top 4.

Everything seemed positive until day 7. I logged on, and saw my finances highlighted in red; there was even a note stating that the club is close to bankruptcy. I took a -42,500 in the first week of the game. My heart sunk, the predicted balance at the end of the season was -130.000, yet I was still allowed to spend over 7k. I made a rookie mistake, and genuinely did not know what to do, but first thing's first - I had to invest in 13k game money. The word is going through a living crisis currently, and I did not want to make this a regular ocurence.

I love the game, and want to continue on building the legacy of the team, so I knew that I had to make changes. I was now ranked 2nd in the International league, so the challenge is - how do I retain the top 4 status in the league, all whilst reducing my salary? I accepted that the new players that I acquired - some of which I regarded as the future of the team, will now have to be traded, in hopes of surviving. I had to come up with a plan to trade these players for a players of a similar RT, but a lower price - this is no easy feat, and meant that I had to give away some of my young talent in the process. Whilst this isn't fully complete yet, and I want to offload 1 or 2 more players to put me in a more comfortable spot, things are looking slightly better. Week 2 was - 30,000, which is still horrible, but it also included the firing of some unnecessary players. So far 12,000 was saved, and if we continue in that direction, we may actually survive the year, hopefully get promotion, and build on from there.

My advice to anyone struggling and trying to save would be:

DO:
Play all of your friendly matches. Not only will it help players with experience & game time, but games played at home will bring you extra income.

Make your ticket prices expensive.

Review club arenas - if your matches gather 1000+ fan interest, but your arena only covers 500, make sure to rent applicable arenas for the required number of games.

Borrow players - Utilise the loan feature to your benefit. Only one player can be loaned per season, find a weakness in your team, be it a specific role, position or skill, and loan a player in for for a good value.

If you have good players that you would like to hang on to, but they are too expensive - try to loan them out. You can loan out up to 5 players at a time, and only pay 30% salary to the loanees, the loaner pays the remaining 70%.

Look to make trades that will help you.

Find cheap players in the marketplace that can be of assistance to you.

Offload any players or coaches that are not needed. A short term financial hit makes sense in the long term savings.

CALCULATE FINANCES YOURSELF - See what the player/coaches salaries are, what you make from sponsors, and what you make per match on average. This will be the most accurate tool.

DON'T:

Do not make silly mistakes like me - Pay attention to your 'Change' part of the finances, instead of maximum allowed sums.

Do not invest in sectors if you are struggling.

If struggling, do not spend money on scouts.

Avoid on establishing a youth team until you have more finances available - eg have 200k, instead of 150k required.

Do not overspend in the marketplace. Sometimes good players are available, and the only way to secure them is to overspend in order to beat your competition and secure the player.

Do not give up - there's always a way.

Whilst most of the points may be obvious, I hope this will help someone in need. Every little helps.

smart0eddie WL 3.2 - 500 credits

How to prevent bankruptcy?

The finance is a long-term management. Like Rome is not built in a day, teams won’t go bankruptcy suddenly.

I would suggest new managers first read this article. It may not be the best in practice but cover most basic knowledge for new managers.

Keep your team in a healthy financial situation is the best way to prevent bankruptcy. If unfortunately, for any reason, your team is going to be broke in a week or two, I would suggest just let it go and take the chance to rebuild your team.

There are few things can turn the tide in short term. Donating Darius a pizza or two may help but it’s should not be a common practice. Sometimes teams may encounter a large increase in expense or decrease in income. For example, the star players signing a new (and expensive) contract, or the team degrading from higher league.

I may take a few actions to get through it. First, in the previous season, try to save as much money as possible. As long as you have enough money, you won’t be broke. Second, prevent signing too many players and coaches with high salary during the limited market and draft. And third, after the new season begins, trade expensive players for cheaper ones, or just fire them.

Besides the player/coach salary, one could also cutoff the spending on scout and sectors to further reduce the expense. Last but not least, NEVER EVER scout old players, especially for new managers. They are very expensive and may crash your team’s finance. Imagine a WL 6 team with about 26k sponsor income find a 24Y youth(?) requiring 20k salary.

The above are my opinions about preventing bankruptcy.

Hope this article could help people to keep their teams away from bankruptcy.

dwyane3

For the last three seasons I keep seeing red in my team's financial page and I keep planning my own personal finances that I might need to open my wallet for the first time to buy game money with real money. But I work it out without it. :)

The reason behind it are two WL1 level players that I pay 70k per week and that eats up almost a third of my staff expenses. That is really disbalanced, however, one of them is my franchise player Marcelijus Laurinkus and he's just playing incredibly. However, the other one is someone who feeds him passes to the low post - Ca Kuai. He's third highest RT player in the game and still improving, I'm kind of proud of that. However, my pride is costly - I don't have enough money to build solid rest of the roster.

Last season I fired my starting SF/PF shooter Janez Izidor, after I made it to TOP16 stage just to stay above water. I chose not to buy game money and I think it was a right choice in the long term. However, I thought that this season I was going to have more freedom finance-wise, however, that did not happen as I was one-shot-short of making it to the TOP16 and I have -299k estimated at the end of the season.

That means another season of no money spent on scouts, and wishing that I have a positive balance on club's bank account by Saturday, when club bankruptcy procedures are handled. This is somewhat I learnt last season - being in debt on Sunday morning is fine, as long as you get enough income throughout the week. :)

So, the struggle is real and I hope I can find a solution that can work in a long term and the solution may be one - trade Ca Kuai. Can I give my pride away? :)

Thanks to all participating. If you want to earn up to 2.000 credits - interview BP community member and share it with @dwyane3. We have had a number of great stories, looking forward to getting to know each other even better!

Have a good read!...

Hi everyone,

trades play an important role in the game and they can help the teams to reach their goals, be it get stronger, save money or get youth prospects. Let's share some of our community's best trades.

barbabodom WL4.6 - 1.000 credits

This one was my best trade ever. I had some cap space in my payroll, and I was able to use it by adding the current leader of my team, and still improving and potential 10 player.

Mantvydas Apyvala´s contract also came locked for a few years, so everyday his contract gets more and more valuable! He became our de-factor starting point guard and has been shining for the last couple seasons, where we rely on him to score, set-up other players and defend. A real swiss knife! He started this season a little bit slow, but Palmeiras´managers and supporters have complete trust that Apyvala will be able to finish the season in a strong and defining way.

On the side I had to give up two Brazilian players (Martinho Blum and Pedro Kfouri) that were in my team since 14 years old, plus Aidyn McKay, an American point guard that stepped up big time when it was my time to trade down because of financial reasons. Bottom line is: teams will be desperate when the financial goes red and the clock starts ticking. Try your best to be on the receiving end of a desperate proposal!

Kyle00322311143M WL6.17 - 500 credits

My club LEGENDARY GILAS PILIPINAS has 6 trades done overall and counting as we look for another trade to help Justin Brownlee in the future.

On these 6 trades made by the club, my favorite is the trade between my club and BAMMMM, an USA division 1 club and division 5 club in the world league as of now. BAMMMM general manager jonmach sent me this trade, he is offering TianQi Qun, a 6'9 PF who is a good low post scorer and passing big man in exchange for my 6'0 PG Oddvar Douai and a 6'0 young talent Софон Alachachyan.

This is my favorite trade because it made my team stronger than any other trades and it did not cost me a lot to acquire TianQi Qun who is a better player than Douai and Alachachyan. Currently TianQi Qun has 2 more seasons with my club while Douai does not have a club and Alachachyan is out in the game. TianQi Qun stats last season are 8.1 pts, 4.3 rebs, 2.4 ast, 0.8 stl, 0.2 blk and 0.8 to in 16.2 minutes of playing time and plays a huge role for my team as a starting PF to help my club finish 5th place last season and a championship contender for World League 6.17 this season. This trade benefit me a lot so this is my favorite trade as of now in the history of LEGENDARY GILAS PILIPINAS in Basket Pulse.

dwyane3

Over the years I have had 39 trades, so I am not really active trader. I always found it much easier to invest to scouts and shape the players the way I want them to be.

Funny enough, I always thought I was coming out as a winner in the trades, however looking back to my trading performance I couldn't tell you I turned out to be a winner in most of the cases, if I was honest with you. I have done plenty of trades of to players that may had been good for the moment, but they would start losing health in a couple of seasons and I gave away some bright youth potential. There were cases when I felt it was necessary for me to do that in order to stay in the league, but I feel like I've given too much in exchange. For example, here I traded away a player who was 15 year old and 186cm height with high offensive leader potential for a PG veteran who did not play as well as I hoped.

However, one of my most recent trades was one of my best, at least I think so for now before it feels sour again. :)

->



Julian Moyuelo
Valius Liepaitis


Cheap
3-fold more expensive


Classic PG
Late-blooming forward




I have traded away a cheap classic PG, who could not score and I got a 10 potential late-blooming forward. Yes, there are issues with the player being scouted in the late age and having low experience, however, I see a big potential trade value for him in a few seasons when I get his athletics up to 12. At that point, probably, the other managers will be less likely to notice his lower experience and he should be ready to play in WL2 if I decide to keep him. For now, he's scoring almost 40 points per game in WL6 and building his resume. :)



1000 Credits Giveaway!



The second issue of Giants magazine is now available, packed with fascinating articles about the Answer team, Zurda's beginner tips, and highlights from this season's standout teams.




But that's not all – at the end of the issue, we've included a mind-twisting puzzle for you to solve. And here's the best part: you could win up to 1,000 credits!



Don't miss your chance to claim this fantastic prize. Dive into the latest issue of Giants magazine, flex your brain muscles, and submit your answer for a shot at winning big!



Would you like to earn your award as well? Share your experience with handling a situation when your team was going bankrupt (maybe you did that on purpose or you have tips that could help avoid bankruptcy for other managers) and earn up to 2.000 credits.

Have a good read!...

Happy Easter everyone! We wish you to have good time celebrating it with your friends and family.

Following the BasketPulse tradition, we offer you the Easter egg hunt!



Each time you see this Easter egg - be quick and press on it. The first player to press on the picture will receive 10.000 Eur! The egg may appear on any page at any location and may be seen by more than one game member at a time. One game member can catch max 1 Easter egg in a day.

The game will be on from March 31st to April 1st, inclusive.

We wish you a good hunt!...

Hi everyone,

drafts have just finished and we would like to share the draft preparation process behind a few teams.

smart0eddie WL3.2 - 500 credits

The draft order of my team is determined by what my team need and what my team may get.

Considering my team would have 4 centers next seasons, I would pay more attention to the forwards and guards. There are a few 3-pointers with high RT and some with decent RT but cheap salary. They could be a good supplement to my teams outside scoring and defense.

However, the draft position also matters. Since I’m a little tight in budget this season, I didn’t invest much on scout. Taken the bonus points for the promotion teams into account, my team is the 13-th place in draft, as expected. Placing in 13 is quite high but has little chance to grab the best players. Teams in higher place are very likely to pick the good players before my team’s turn. Therefore, I may need to pick some young players.

Thankfully, there’s a plenty of them. As my youth team lacks centers, I would prefer to pick young center and than forwards or guards.

Overall, I would like to place a few good players with high RT that can play on my main team at higher order, hoping having chances to pick them.
Then following a few young potentials. In that cases, I could pull some of the players on my youth team to the main team. And last, I may pick some decent players with low salary.

If in any cases, all of the listed players are picked by the other team, I may decide to give up draft picks this season and save the draft points for the future.

Season 97 choice: Augustas Gamulis


jiasyuan WL 3.3 - 500 credits

After checking one round, I found that WL3.3 has a lot of seedlings and young players, and the combat power is very scarce, especially the low post. After the draft list came out, I started to search for the low post players in the restricted market, and I finally found a decent player for next season day 59.

Therefore, I started focusing on the PG position. This draft list has a lot of PGs that are ready to play now, which is very important for me as I prepare to move up to WL3.3. My goal next season is mainly to avoid relegation, so strong players are very much needed.

Since I don’t know where I will be in the draft, Ping Cuī, Aistis Dudenas, Saverio Giovannelli are all my target players.

I hope I can successfully select one of them, otherwise I will have to worry about the lineup at the beginning of the season.

Speaking of the draft, I would like to give you a suggestion. I hope that the draft player list will appear at the same time as the restricted market, so that it will be better for players who want to operate the next season's list.

It would be kinder, and speaking from my experience this season, I missed a lot of low post players in the early days of the restricted market.

Looking back, no one even bid for these low post players. I originally expected to select big man in the draft, but found that there were too few of them in the draft list (it could even be said to be none). Then I looked for bigs in the restricted markets, there were not many players I was interested in.

If the draft list can be brought forward to coincide with the restricted market, the lineup for next season can be better arranged.

Season 97 choice: Aistis Dudenas

dwyane3

This season my poor investment to the scouts resulted in me being dead-last in the draft order. I pay the price for having expensive players on my roster, including a couple of youth players I paid full 11- 20k Euro weekly salary for their 9 or 10 potential. One could say, that instead of drafting them, I pay their salary. :)

As I still have very limited budget, I gave a green light only to the youth players. However, by pick #19 Samson Savill I knew that there are no more options for me. Anyone below 290 peak RT would not get me excited enough to pick them.

My last year's pick Botao Jin was close to getting fired at the beginning of this season due to rather poor performance. However, he agreed to play one more year for a low salary with a hoping of proving he belong in the big leagues. :)

What seems to be a growing tendency - the top teams in the drafts are becoming even more frugal with their draft points. First 5 teams in WL1 draft have not picked anybody, in WL2.2 - first 3 and WL 2.1 was an exception where volvo60 used their first pick for Fausto Pujol who scored 14 points in his first WL game. It will be interesting to see whether this tendency remains in the future.


Do you want to get published and win rewards as well? Share at least a 200 words post about the best trade you ever made. The best writers will be featured in the game news and rewarded up to 2.000 credits.

Have a good read!...

Welcome to the 2nd BP Davis Cup. For this edition, Šabas and I decided to grow up and take more countries to compete. Then we received some messages from different presidents, and finally, we were 5 countries to participate.

We decided to create a cash prize for the winners. As we planned to be 6 countries we wanted that pool to reach 3k credits. The winners will receive 750 each, and the 2nd - 250. But one federation left the competition a few days before it start, so we were only 5 countries. So, I decided to put 500 more credits from my own pocket (and Šabas gave me 250 without letting me saying anything !!! thanks to him).

All 5 countries had 3 players, each one into WL3, 4 and 5. This mean 30 matches took place to determine which country won this very funny tournament.

This time, the tournament was very close. All countries had players who were very strong in their WLs, but very weak in others, so it makes the competition incredible.

CourgettesDesEtoiles from France dominated all his opponent in WL5 earning 8 points for his country. Germany and Poland both won and lost twice, when unfortunately, Poland and Italy forfeited some games.

In WL4, TripleThreat from Germany won his 4 matches and got 8 points. All his matches were not even close, congratulation to him. Poland only lost against him and got 7 points. Italy forfeited in this WL due to some injuries, and couldn’t compete.

For the WL3 part, Poland team represented by Matis won all his matches for 8 points! Italy was here to play, but he only won one match giving his country 5 points.

Italy with a lot of forfeited games ended this tournament at the bottom of the ranking. At the 4th place, with 16 points, Poland! Even if the WL3 and 4 players did a real great job, losing only 1 match, the forfeits of their WL5 team cost them a lot.

Germany and Lithuania both have 18 points, making them fight in a head to head to determinate which country takes the 2nd and the 3rd place.

As you already know, TripleThreat won all his matches, meaning that he defeated the Lithuanian player. In WL3, Lithuania took the win, so WL5 game decided which team took the silver medal. And this game was amazing. Sporto Baras was dominating all the match, having +15 in the 2nd quarter, and leading 46- 37 at the half. The first half of the 3rd quarter kept going his way, when suddenly, BG Bewegungslegastheniker’s team (what a name!) started to react! At the beginning of the last quarter, Lithuania only had 2 points more than Germany. Finally, greatly helped by the tiredness, Germany took the win and so, the 2nd place of the tournament!

And at the first place, for the second time, Team France reach 20 points! Congratulations to CourgettesDesEtoiles, dartag and klinx.

Thanks for all competitors and presidents to making this 2nd Davis Cup a great success. We’re hoping to keep growing this tournament with other members, and we will probably welcome Lipinski into the organisation team next season!...

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:


And all it took was a bit of CSS to improve my live match viewing experience tenfold. If anyone else wants to have the same layout, the code's available here: https://www.codedump.xyz/xml/ZfCruPGddUn5v_8M I tested it with Greasemonkey (Firefox addon) and Tampermonkey (Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Safari addon).


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!...

Hello everyone,

this week we would like to share the updates in the game you would like to see most.

zurda10 - WL3.1 - 2.000 credits

This week, we've been asked by the BasketPulse crew to write a post about our desires for new upgrades to the game. In my case, I always like to do something a bit different. First of all I'll write a short list of things I consider they should be in the to-do list already.

- Tenths of a second in the last minute (or 30") of every quarter to allow more actions to happen in that period of time.

- More shot range. Right now we only have from below the basket to the triple and full-court shots, I'd love to have the possibility of mid-court shots.

- Change the way minutes are distributed to something like the NBA2k editor. This way we could have more control on the 5 men which are on court on every part of the game.

Now that the basic things have been covered, I'd like to bring up one more ideas, maybe completely impossible, maybe not. Use the Artificial Intelligence to create player's faces and Team Jerseys or logos. Here I bring you an example with my team:

Our French forward Benard and our school talent Fase.

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Our sharpshooter Pardelas and our recently extended player Lo.

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Our team captain Ávila and our young prospect, Carrasco. They look lit, don't they?

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And finally we also tested the logo and shirt design capabilities:



smart0eddie WL3.2 - 500 credits

When speaking of expected BP new features, the training plan reminder comes to my mind.

Including the youth and the school, it is very common for a team having more than 20 players. These players usually belong to various types with different potentials and training targets.

For example, some will be trained as center, some goes for shooters, and some would be playmakers. The managers need to spend quite a lot of time to track the training progress of these players and adjust their training accordingly. It would be great if there is a training plan reminder.

The manager can set the training plan, or, the target skill level, for a player. The target skill level is shown on the training pages to remind the manager. For example, for a player A that I want to train him as a center, I could set his target skill levels as 12 6 12 / 12 6 X / 10 10 6 / X 6 8, where X means don’t care.

When I’m checking the training progress of the player, I could also see what he should be trained to and adjust his training when the current training skill reach his target level.

A few advanced features could be premium.

The first is the template. The system could offer skill template of each type of players like the existing one used in scouting and drafting. Managers can directly choose the templates instead of manually set it from scratch.

For example, the manager could use the template of low post defender for a player B. The system automatically distributes RT to the target skill level with a ratio like 1 0.6 1.5 / 0.2 0.2 0.2 / 1 1.5 1 / 0.2 0.2 0.2. The manager may manually adjust the target skill if not satisfied with the predefined template.

The second could be multi-stage training plan. As the required training point increase with the skill level, some manager would not train one skill from 4 to 12 directly but change to other skill after reach 10 and go back to raise it to 12 afterward. The multi-stage plan could let the manager to set a more detailed schedule. It’s like a future center player C should firstly goes to toughness 10, then inside score 10,… and then back to further improve his toughness to 12, … etc.

And of course, this can be combined with the predefined training plan schedule.

fanling3 WL 1.1 - 500 credits

I would like to see some changes to the league and revenue design. There are a couple of issues in the current version.

1. Once a team enters Top 16 and if the team has no plan to promote, the manager will do "tanking", firing all short contract players to maximize the profit he can get.

I don't know if it is fun to play, but it is absolutely no fun to watch lives playing against those "tanking" teams (or watch your own lives if you are the one who is "tanking"). The cause of it is because of the Top 16 structure. Once you enter the Top 16, you have 0 risk of relegation, you can earn more ticket revenues than those teams in the Bottom 16, even though you lose all the remaining games. What I would like to see is something similar to the NBA, where we remove the Top 16, all the teams have to do their best throughout the whole season. We also need some balance between ticket revenue and season prize. Right now the season prize has minimal influence from final standings. That's why managers do not care about the standings. One idea is to increase the difference of season prize between each standings, reduce the ticket revenue to compensate, or even modify the number of attendance of each game in a way that teams with higher standing can get more ticket revenue throughout the season.

2. Teams in playoff try to lose a game

The cause of this is because the team wants to earn more money from ticket revenue. I think this is also a design issue. The home team tries to lose a game because he wants to play one more home game to earn more money. The away team tries to lose the series as soon as possible because he can earn more money by playing friendlies. We have lots of such defects in the game that you have to do such weird things in order to maximize your profit. It makes no sense to me that people try to lose games. There is a simple fix for this. Instead of giving normal ticket revenue, just give the average ticket revenue the home team got from that series. Same for the away team.

3. Teams in national leagues try to lose games to avoid promotion

This is one of the dumbest things I've seen. Same as above, it makes no sense. And it has no sportsmanship at all. The root cause is also because of revenue the team can make in next season. I think we need a serious review of the revenue design model.


dwyane3 WL 2.2

I would love to see players and coaches with specialties in the game. After all these seasons in the game, it's become more or less trying to recreate the players with the skills you know that work. What I would love to see instead that some players would have a special skill, for example, playmaking big. That way you could have 2.10cm center play as PG without skill deduction, like Nikola Jokič does. Or have a coach who has specialties in the end-of game situations bringing extra advantage for the team. Contrary, I know there are coaches that have unexpected plays in the beginning of the games, when the jumper for the opening jumball tips the ball, gets screened by a team-mate and receives an alley-oop pass in the first 3 or 4 seconds of the game. :)

Basketball has moved forward a lot in the recent years and I believe this change would bring more excitement for the game.

Also, cup games bring a lot of excitement and I would love to play in those one-off series for cash prizes and climb the ladder. I think that it would supplement the game with more exciting games.


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Hello everyone,

we would like to share two more really cool interviews with our community members from Taiwan and Poland.

We start off with im511013 interview of the Taiwanese team Whisky Foreign Studies College, whose team manager is VanthonyDash.



When did you first encounter BasketPulse, and how did you discover it?
About 2 years ago, I actually saw this game on Bahamut, but at that time, I didn't understand it, and I wasn't accustomed to a game without a mobile app. Therefore, I didn't officially dive into it. Later on, I became weary of the pressure of leveling up in mobile games and didn't have much time to spend on my phone after entering the workforce, so I returned to this game.

Judging from your team name, you seem to be knowledgeable about liquor. Do you have any recommended drinks? How often do you usually drink?
Always suggesting "Auchentoshan 12 YO", at this price point, I think it's the best. It has the richest flavor layers without interfering with each other. Personally, I don't like the taste of peat, so my preference may differ from most people's. I used to drink it every day a long time ago, but now I only drink it once a month. Getting older, I can only reminisce about the madness of the past.

Do you also watch basketball leagues such as the NBA?
A celtics fan for 10 years, I started watching since Isaiah Thomas' time. Although I didn't experience the time of Celtics' big three (aka GAP), watching Brad Stevens, who led us to the playoffs every year, all the way to becoming the team's general manager now, and Isaiah Thomas leading the team to the playoffs, the excitement has never ceased. Well, I've said too much, all tears.

BasketPulse offers various features; which one interests you the most?
In the previous question, I'm actually a fan of Brad Stevens. Mainly because I can utilize a group of young players in my hands to form a powerful team that makes the playoffs every year. So I really like the tactical system that allows me to adjust playing time, player positions, etc., giving me more opportunities to achieve the results I want in this regard. It's just that if I could still adjust player USG% that would be better.

Among the trades you've made before, which one are you most satisfied with?
In the first season of this team, about 10 days after its creation, I drew an 8P Wu Kunhao, but his salary was too high and I couldn't trade him. I held on until the second season and then traded for Kiran and Chen Tianlong. Both of them have been the backbone of my team ever since. Thanks to the Taipei National Team at that time.

As a player who has recently advanced to WL5, do you have any advice or insights for new players in WL6?
Finance, finance, still finance. Always maintain your salary health and don't let yourself be tied down by multi-year contracts. Also, make good use of statistical data to find suitable players or your weaknesses. Calculate how much money you need to spend to fill that gap. Don't blindly pursue RT (real-time). Finally, make good use of the positional advantages of players in tactics.

Do you have any tips for consistently drawing high-potential players in the past two seasons?
I absolutely won't admit it, but I believe in some small tricks and the flow of unconsciousness. Don't pray to your phone or computer for what you want to draw; it will give you the opposite result. I'm serious about this!

What are your expectations or plans for the future of your team?
Please don't go bankrupt in the short term. In the long term, I hope I can make it to the WL4 and develop my youth team well, at least producing a member of the national youth team.

Do you have any suggestions for BasketPulse at the moment?
As someone who loves to try different tactics, I hope the tactical configuration can be more detailed. For example, as mentioned earlier,USG%, adding more player playing types such as high position transmission, hand-to-hand passing, double screen and roll, elevator door, etc.

As the U21 tournaments are approaching, DanTitan put in titanous effort and interviewed most of the U21 coaches. We would like to share an interview with Slovenia U21 coach jopencjusz.



- How difficult has it been to decide your squad this year?

It was not as hard as rosters last season, since right now we have quite similar engine to what we had last season. I might not be a big fan of what happened last season, that after few season of changes going more towards giving bigger role to the shooters from outside, now once again we reversed towards "dominating" bigs playing inside, but it is what it is.

- Could you tell us the criteria to select the players? Do you ask for their skills in advance to their players owners?
It depends, when I see there's a lot of players available for National Team, that are very close to each other in strenght, then I'm going to ask owners for skills of said players. I did it many times as head coach of different national teams of Poland, but when I see big gaps between players, I'm just going with my "instinct" and judge them only by their stats in said season during selection.

- Has any of your selected players surprised you and who is he?
There're for sure few players who surprised me, both in positive and negative way. For sure pleasant surprise are Hladnik and Odlazek, both very young players (18-yo and 17-yo) and they look right now better than some older players with way higher RT, due to their more focused training plan. Mostly disappointed I'm with PGs I've selected, there were not many options to do something different here, but two of them are unplayable (at least in my opinion) and it will be very hard to make them decent players.

- The U21 is the last step for the youngsters to shine and hopefully most of them will make it to the World Cup National Selection. How many do you think that will make it from your team?
It's the last step for them for sure, but also from my experience with many different national teams, I could say it could go in very different directions. I saw players perform great at U21 NT, that were never even close to get spot in Senior NT, while their partners, that were only role players, could break into Senior NT. I'm not exactly familiar with the strength of Senior National Team of Slovenia, but I think at least 4-5 guys should get their chance in future in Senior NT and I'm not counting here Hladnik and Odlazek, since they will still have chance to prove their worth in future in U21.

-Regarding this year, how do you see your squad? What are the possibilities for this WC?
We have quite tough group at the start, with 3 teams from TOP8 of the rankings right now (Poland, Italy and China), so we want to put good fight in first group phase and play for the top place in group at LAST12 round, since I can't imagine actually beating any of this top3 teams in first round. I think 13/14 place is possible for us.

- And finally, could you predict the top 3 and the biggest "grower/revelation" country.
I could try at least. Lithuania and China for sure will play for medals, so at 99% they will be in TOP3. For sure also Taiwan has strong case to be there, but I could imagine someone else getting here (I wish it could be Poland :) ). As for revelation, maybe I'll go with Malta. I know they might not look strong on paper, but I know very well it's head coach and I know he can surprise their opponents and do something big with less resources, so that's where I'm going to put my vote.

You may find the whole collection of the interviews with U21 coaches here.

I hope you have time reading these interviews and getting to know the community members better. Do you want to earn up to 2.000 credits yourself? Write at least 250 words post about an upgrade that you want to see in BP the most and send it to @dwyane3. The best articles will be shared with the whole community.

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