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Fact sheet

Short description

Backcourt is a free basketball management simulation for iOS and Android. You sign the roster, share out 240 minutes a night, give every player a role, then watch the match play out possession by possession on a live court — and decide when to call the timeout that saves the night.

Long description

Backcourt puts you in both chairs: general manager and head coach. The club is yours to build through a transfer market that negotiates back, where every player carries a value and an asking price and the gap between them tells you whether he is genuinely available. A season is thirty-eight games over a 45-week calendar across two conferences, with a Play-In and a playoff bracket for the top eight in each.

What separates it from a spreadsheet is the match engine. Games play out on a live half-court with player markers, pass lines and a running commentary feed stamped with the quarter and clock, at speeds from 1× to 8× or skipped entirely. Afterwards every player is graded against expectation rather than against the raw box score — and then the locker room waits to hear what you have to say, with morale and form consequences that follow you into the next week.

Career mode runs offline on the device. The Online League matches you against real managers on a fixed schedule, with a persistent global rating and end-of-season placement rewards. Nothing in the game can be bought to make a squad stronger.

Key features

• Live possession-by-possession match engine with play-by-play commentary and 1×–8× speed
• 240 minutes a night to divide across fifteen roster spots, with energy, injuries and a wage bill
• Player roles that change what the engine asks of a player and how he is graded
• Transfer market with values, asking prices, cash bids and player-plus-cash trades
• Performance ratings scored against expectation, not raw counting stats
• Locker-room man-management with visible morale and form effects
• Thirty-eight game seasons over a 45-week calendar, two conferences, a Play-In and an eight-club bracket
• Twenty-one season careers from 2026 to 2046, with a career ledger and prestige
• 364 players with position, age and salary drawn from real 2025-26 data
• NBA Cup, Christmas showcase, trade deadline, All-Star week and a draft with a live lottery
• Six upgradeable facilities, a coaching market and club mood across board, fans and locker room
• Ranked 1v1 with Elo-based Rank Points across six ranks
• Online League against real managers with a persistent rating
• Three parallel career saves
• Native Mac layout that puts the roster, the live court and the commentary feed side by side

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