Decisions, not grinding
Every week you make a handful of choices that genuinely move the needle: minutes, roles, a trade, a word in the locker room. There is no energy timer standing between you and the next game, and nothing to wait out.
Free on iPhone, Android, Mac & Huaweiall four app stores
Backcourt Basketball ManagerBuild the perfect squad.
Win every week.
You are the general manager and the coach. Sign the roster, hand out the minutes, pick the roles — then watch the possessions play out live and decide when to call the timeout that saves the night.
No pay-to-win · Career mode works offline · 21-season careers
364Players in the pool
240Minutes a night
21Season careers
1×–8×Match speed
The pitch
A manager game that respects the sport — and your time
Most mobile management games are a spreadsheet with a timer bolted on. Backcourt is built around the three things that actually make managing interesting: real decisions, a match you can read, and consequences you can see.
A match you can read
The engine plays out possession by possession on a live court with a running commentary feed, so you can see why the lead disappeared in the third — not just that it did.
Ratings against expectation
The same stat line is ordinary from a star and outstanding from a bench player. Backcourt grades every performance in context, the way a coaching staff would.
Inside the game
Four screens you will live in
01 — Match day
Watch the game, not a loading bar
Players move on a live court, the ball changes hands, and every action lands in the commentary feed with a quarter and clock stamp. Run it at 1×, push to 8× when you are cruising, or skip straight to the result when the bus leaves.
- Seven timeouts a night — spend them on runs, not on habit.
- An in-game coach panel for tactical swings while the game is live.
- Full box score available at any point, not just at the final buzzer.
02 — Squad
Minutes are your real currency
Fifteen roster spots, one wage bill and 240 minutes a night to divide. Give a role to every player — rim protector, floor general, glue guy — then set the rotation by hand, or let auto-lineup take the first pass and fix what you disagree with.
- Energy drains with minutes; tired legs miss late shots.
- Injuries put a countdown on the card, never a paywall.
- Wages run against the treasury — a negative balance has consequences.
03 — Market
Bid, trade, and live with it
Filter hundreds of players by position, rating and what you can actually afford. Every target carries a value and an asking price, and the gap between the two is the whole negotiation. Pay cash, or build a player-plus-cash package that a rival will actually accept.
- League search to scout any rival roster directly.
- Hot-form flags on players whose price is climbing.
- Within-budget filter so you stop shopping for players you cannot sign.
04 — Locker room
The part of the job that is not a number
After the final buzzer every player gets a mark scored against what was expected of him, and then the room waits for you. Praise them, walk through it calmly, blast them, or say nothing at all — each with a visible effect on morale and form that follows you into next week.
- Squad average rating summarising the night at a glance.
- Morale drifts back toward neutral instead of locking at an extreme.
- Stars weigh the room's mood more heavily than role players.
Screenshots
Every screen, straight from the game
No mock-ups. This is the build that is live on the App Store and Google Play right now.
Coaching notes
Guides from the people who built the engine
How the systems actually work underneath — minutes, market value, morale and the match engine — written by the team that wrote the code.
Wonderkids: the young players worth building a decade around
A genuine wonderkid develops at twice the normal rate. The widest potential gaps in the current pool, what the age premium costs you, and how to turn potential into rating.
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Points per game lies: six stats that tell you if a player is good
Scoring average is the most quoted number in basketball and the least informative. Six statistics that tell you what a player is actually worth, with the benchmark for each.
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Facilities: which upgrade pays for itself, and in what order
Six facilities, five levels each, and a weekly bill that never stops arriving. What a level buys, what maxing everything really costs across a season, and the order that pays for itself fastest.
Read the guide →Questions
The things new managers ask first
Is Backcourt Basketball Manager free to play?
Yes. Backcourt is free to download on both the App Store and Google Play, and a full career — every season, the playoffs, the transfer market and the Online League — can be played without spending anything. There is no energy meter gating how many matches you play and no paid item that makes your squad stronger.
What kind of game is Backcourt?
It is a basketball management simulation. You are the general manager and the head coach of a club: you sign and sell players, decide who starts, share out the minutes, give every player a role, and then watch the match play out possession by possession. You never control a player directly with a stick or a button — you win by making better decisions than the manager in the other dugout.
Which devices does it run on?
Four places, and your progress is the same game on all of them:
- iPhone and iPad — iOS/iPadOS 14 or later, from the App Store.
- Mac — any Apple silicon Mac on macOS 11 or later, from the Mac App Store. The Mac build is not a stretched phone app: it has its own layout that uses the extra width, so the squad list, the court and the commentary feed can sit on screen together.
- Android phones and tablets — Android 8.0 or later, from Google Play.
- Huawei devices — from AppGallery.
The phone build is portrait-first, so it works comfortably one-handed. The game is playable in English, Turkish, German and Spanish.
Is there a Mac version?
Yes, and it is a genuinely different layout rather than a blown-up phone screen. On a Mac the extra width is used to put the roster, the live court and the play-by-play feed side by side, so you can watch a game and adjust minutes without switching screens. It is a universal purchase — download it from the Mac App Store on any Apple silicon Mac running macOS 11 or later.
Can I play Backcourt offline?
Career mode runs entirely on your device and works offline — on a plane, on the underground, anywhere. The Online League needs a connection, because you are being matched against other managers and the results have to be settled on the server.
How long does a match take?
That is your call. At 1× a game plays out in a few minutes with a full commentary feed. At 8× it takes well under a minute. If you only want the outcome, skip to result settles it instantly and drops you straight into the box score and the post-game ratings.
Your first season starts tonight
Pick a club, set a rotation you believe in, and find out by week 20 whether you were right. Free on iOS and Android.
Free to play · No pay-to-win · Career mode works offline