Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2018

If you like Manager/GM/Head Coach text based games, you are treated to a plethora of gaming choices in Soccer, Football, Hockey, and Baseball - heck, I've even seen them for Rugby and Australian Rules Football! With Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2018, Wolverine Studios gives you a chance to manage Pro Basketball teams, as well. The game gives you many choices in what kind of league you wish to play, historical, fictional, sole GM, multiple human GMs, etc. You can customize league size and use D-Leagues and Euro Leagues, as well if you wish. You are also given plenty of latitude over how the finances of you league work: salary cap, luxury tax, and more. Want high school players to be able to leap right into the league? No problem- just click a button! Want to just be the GM and not have to worry about head coach duties? Click a button! Want to work on the ref during the game a bit to try to influence a call? Hey, you can do that, too. In fact, you cna even yell at them! N...

I've never written a review in Steam, but thought I'd do it for this game, because it really deserves it. I can't believe there are almost no reviews about it! To begin with - I love Basketball GM games, and I think I've tried almost everything that has been out there for the past +20 years, inside or outside of Steam: Greek games, Italian games, Spanish games, American games, everything under the sun. Without hesitation, I'd place this within top 2 or 3 Basketball GM games ever. PROS - For those GM aficionados who have tried most of modern GM incarnations, you all know how bloated and slow they can be when moving forward. DDS: PB2018, on the other hand, FLIES. I can make one season in 30-45 minutes, including all the pre-season period. Now go and try to do the same in another modern Basketball GM game, aside from Fast Break Pro Basketball 3, nothing comes close. This is probably the number 1 reason why I rank it so highly. - The Draft itself is FUN, I always look forward to it, th...

I got 2017 and figured that 2018 would add more option and streamline things. Really isn't any different than 17 but cost $15 more.

I got this to play as a historical sim game using real players from the NBA. It was pretty easy to mod to do that although I can't figure out how to sim quickly through games. It doesn't have the extensive customization I am used to with Out of The Park Baseball but as the only game of this kind I can find for basketball it is passable if not brilliant. Although I must say the UI is horrible and really needs improvement.

This game is a lot of fun but it crashes way to much. I had a similar issue with draft day sports college basketball 14 and its unbelievable that after 5 years they still haven't been able to fix the crashes. I'll give this a good rating if they ever fix the crashes.

Wow... As rough and unpolished as this game is (compared to other established sports management games), the engine and flow of action is by far the best basketball sim experience i've ever had. Don't get me wrong, there is a LOT of things that can be improved upon with the user interface and presentation and things 'n tweaks under the hood, for instance lack of comparing players, lack of obvious hyperlinking to make life simple, better layout and i/o on 2d and gamecast screens (Devs, I will try my best to outline what could be improved upon in my opinion, in a future discussion on the forum)... BUT The "Flow "of the game is so damn believable! I can feel the momentum shifts, hot/cold streaks, intuitive proper expected flow like turnovers that lead to uncontested shots/dunks and believable offensive putbacks... Things that are just non-existant in other bb managerial sims at least imo and experiences. Modding to real teams/players/logos/etc takes a bit of effort, but it all is suc...

On a gaming computer this game freezes and shuts down

I'm a big fan of other Wolverine titles, but this was very disappointing. The stability of the game is, quite simply, unacceptable. I bought it this week. Played about 10 hours. Uninstalled today. Constant crashes. Look at Gary's other fine titles. I regret this purchase.

If you're into sports sims, this is a very good one. Lots of stats and quite addictive.

The BEST Basket managergame. So many options. Great work