Hey everyone, new update for you today. Most significant new feature is the ability to create custom leagues of any size between 64 and 368 teams. Conferences are limited to any size between 8 and 18. This feature is still in an “experimental” phase as I haven’t been able to playtest much yet so you may run into additional bugs and performance issues if you play with a custom league outside the default 192 team parameters. Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes as well, all changes listed below:
New Features & Improvements
- Rankings now weigh net rating more heavily for smoother adjustments and more realistic season-long rankings.
- National rankings are now shown on the conference standings panel on the main dashboard.
- Added new tournament structures to accommodate different league formats.
- Players can now create leagues of any size between 64 and 368 teams (still experimental).
- The conference tournament bracket page will now remember the last viewed bracket when navigating away.
- Conference schedules now better reflect real-life structures with more conference games per year.
- Clicking on an opponent team name on the school schedule page now directs you to their team page.
- Added a confirmation prompt when attempting to advance with unspent coach points.
Balance Tweaks
- Bench warmers (players with 0 minutes allocated) will only play if needed in a blowout situation, while bench players with minutes assigned will now correctly be prioritized.
- Adjusted the balance of initial recruit interest levels and importance factors for more realistic recruiting battles.
- Contested inside shot success now scales more with height, giving tall players more of a bonus and short players more of a penalty.
- Further adjustments made to balance training progression.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where click location on the team selection and team schedule pages occasionally didn’t match the cursor position.
- Addressed an issue where league news was occasionally failing to refresh properly day-to-day.
- Fixed an issue where player stats sometimes wouldn't reload until checking team stats first.
- The conference tournament bracket page now updates correctly when viewed while simulating games.
- Addressed a bug where alumni player records were incorrectly being cleared.
- Historical draft result articles (when accessed from the league news hub) now correctly populate immediately after the draft instead of after recruiting begins.
- Further adjusted draft logic to prevent unqualified players from being selected, more weight given to stats.
- Made another attempt to fix the bug where injuries aren’t being saved correctly (still can’t replicate).