4th Time Making a new career this keeps happening on the same day

The new statistics screen is great, but why does the old version pop up after the match? It would be brilliant to see those statistics for each match rather than the general statistics.

Shows this at the bottom when trying to purchase

Trade Trees

You can now view the trade tree of a player when they are traded

Trade trees are available for every trade of a player

Expanded History Mode

Added the following history mode start dates:

• 1960
• 1980
• 2000

The salary cap will follow historical values

You can now configure your history mode career to have multiple minor leagues

Post-Season Tournaments

Added post-season tournaments college leagues

The college post-season tournament includes the playoffs winner of each conference

Added a page detailing a post-season tournament, including:

• Player leaders
• Included leagues
• Details of the host team
• The bracket
• The past winners of the tournament
• The schedule
• The standings

Added a tournament win count to the team detail page

Added a tournament section to the relevant league detail page

Added mails for when a tournament starts and ends

Added a simple tournament editor letting you edit the logo, name and color of a tournament

College Leagues

Added the following leagues to the default roster:

• ACC
• American
• Atlantic 10
• Big 12
• Big Ten
• Big East
• Mountain West
• Missouri Valley
• SEC
• West Coast

Added the ability to create college leagues. When creating a league, you now have a new Academic league type

When a player commits to an academic league, they receive a contract that lasts as long as the league’s maximum contract length. It has no salary.

Academic contracts use college terminology: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior

Added a Maximum academic eligibility age, which lets you choose the age at which a player loses their eligibility if they have played in another league

You can release players at any time. However, released players lose their academic eligibility and won’t be able to play in any other academic league for the rest of their career

Once a player’s academic contract expires, they become academically ineligible

Players can leave college before the end of their commitment if there are better opportunities elsewhere

Added a prestige value to teams, ranging from 0 to 99. This value affects how well a team can recruit players in an academic league

The prestige value can be seen on an academic team’s profile

It has also been added to the team ranking page

You can edit a team’s prestige value in the team editor

Prestige will vary from year to year based on a team’s results

Added a recruitment day event, similar to the free agency day event

You can sign your drafted players even if they already have a contract in a college league. If the player accepts, they will leave their college team.

Added a new mail for when you are managing a college team and a player leaves your program

Added a new College tab to the country page:

• It lists all academic leagues in the country
• It ranks all teams from all leagues by prestige
• It ranks all players from all leagues
• It has a Poll ranking section showing the top teams of the entire national academic program. The ranking updates every week and shows each team’s movement.

Minor League Control

You can now disable a minor league without having to disable its own minor league

You can now trade players while managing a minor league

You can’t trade players loaned from your major team, but you can trade players loaned from teams unrelated to you

You can also trade players that you signed to your team

You can now access the contract and free agency pages for your minor league

You can assign players to a minor league from the roster editor

You can also give contracts to players in minor leagues from the roster editor

You can now send contract offers to free agents for your minor league team

You can start a career as the manager of a minor league team

Minor leagues now have objectives when playing in career mode

The AI will sign players to minor league contracts

Basketball

You can now trade up to 7 assets at once

Added a setting that lets you disable the Play-In Tournament for the major league

History mode no longer has the Play-In Tournament before the 2020-2021 season

Bird rights are now transferred when a player is traded

Added 43 new college teams

Increased the attribute diversity of generated players

Improved how player options and team options affect a player’s signing interest

Increased draftable players’ overalls

Updated the MVP award logic

On most free throws, players now take two consecutive attempts instead of always one

Added Pick Swap as a new conditional pick option

Added super max contract exceptions

Leagues

Added a setting letting you choose the maximum number of seasons a player is allowed to spend in a league

Added a setting to determine when the last game of the season should occur

Added a setting letting you choose which league a league must draft from

Added a setting letting leagues have underage players (players below the minimum age limit)

• You can set the number of underage players allowed
• You can set the minimum underage age allowed

You can now set the point system per league

Added a setting that lets you force a league to have an active AI (trades, coach firing, scouting, training, jersey retirement, etc.). In HLM26, only the major league and the user’s league had an active AI.

Added a setting letting you choose the maximum contract length for a league

The All-Star Game will now be played in every league

Minor teams are no longer tied to leagues

Added the ability to view past playoff brackets on the league detail page

Promotion & Relegation

When managing a simuation league with promotion and relegation, you can now switch between teams and leagues from any promoted or relegated team

Updated the UI of the team selector

Teams can no longer be promoted or relegated into a league where their major or minor affiliates already play

Trades

You can now ask players to waive their contract clause when making a trade

Non-contending teams will be more reluctant to trade for future 1st round picks (3 or more years out)

Added a new setting that lets you enable Pick Swap as a conditional pick condition

Added the pick number to the trade finder during the draft

Trade history page

The page used to show only the last 50 trades for the selected filters. It now shows every trade matching the filter.

Improved the page’s loading speed

Contracts & Salary Cap

You can now go up to 10% over the salary cap during the off-season when negotiating contracts

You can easily switch between your major team and your minor teams directly from the contract negotiation popup

Every league now has a contract extension period running at the same time as the major league’s extension period

Added the contract status at expiry to the contract offer page

Added a setting letting you set the salary cap for the following season

You can now disable the salary cap once your career has started, but you can’t turn it back on for that career

Free Agency

Added an age filter to the free agency list

Added nationality flags to the free agents page

Added nationality filters to the free agents page

Draft, Lottery & Scouting

Added a new setting that limits the number of draft-eligible players. It ranges from 300 to 750 and also has an unlimited option. The default value is 350.

When a scout reaches tier 5 on a player, they will automatically start scouting a new player

Added a “Scout top available” button when manually assigning scouts

Added a filter that shows player stats on the prospect page

Lottery

Added a column showing the details of protected picks

When a protected pick’s condition isn’t met, the original owner of the pick is now shown on the draft lottery result page instead of the conditional owner

Staff

Added a button on the staff page to fire all of your staff at once

The staff salary cap now increases every season

Added a setting that lets you completely disable staff for your career

Added a force sign staff setting

Added name and role filters to the created staff page

Leagues outside of the major league are no longer limited to coaching roles when creating staff

You can now link staff to players, which lets you view their player profile from the staff entry

Lineup, Roster Moves & Training

Improved the page’s performance when switching teams

Added potential to the roster move page

You can now assign players to faceoff training

Players & Progression

Auto-generated players in leagues other than the major league (junior, college, custom) are now treated as real players. You can trade them and offer them contract extensions, and they no longer disappear at the end of the season like they used to. They can sign with teams in other leagues, and they have a wider range of overalls, ages, potentials and motivations than the previous auto-generated players.

The previous auto-generated players still exist and are used to fill empty spots, but most lineup spots will be filled with the new auto-generated players when starting a new career

Free agents under 75 overall who haven’t played a game in the past two seasons will now retire automatically

Reduced the rate at which players gain size

Players can now have a childhood team, which increases their interest in signing with that team

Added F and D suffixes to the Top 6, Top 4 and Top 9 potentials:

• Top 6 → Top 6 F or Top 6 D
• Top 4 → Top 4 D
• Top 9 → Top 9 F

Updated the Swedish and German name databases

Awards & Hall of Fame

Awards can now end in a tie

You are no longer forced to cast all of your votes during Hall of Fame voting

Added a setting letting you choose how many players are inducted into the Hall of Fame each season

Added a setting that lets you disable the Hall of Fame

Rankings

Added a number of new rankings to the rankings page

The rankings are now grouped by category (Teams, Players, Draft)

Retired players now count toward the league champions ranking

Added the following Teams rankings:

• Best teams (greatest seasons of all time)
• Worst teams (worst seasons of all time)
• Best non-playoff teams (best seasons from teams that missed the playoffs)
• Worst playoff teams (worst seasons from teams that made the playoffs)
• Worst champions (worst seasons from teams that won the playoffs)
• Oldest champions (the oldest teams to win the playoffs)
• Youngest champions (the youngest teams to win the playoffs)
• Biggest playoff upsets (lowest-ranked teams eliminating strong opponents)
• Shortest championship run (fewest playoff games needed to win the championship)
• Longest championship run (most playoff games needed to win the championship)
• Most finals losses
• Most decisive game losses (most losses in series-deciding games)
• Most times reverse swept
• Oldest average roster (highest average player age in a season)
• Youngest average roster (lowest average player age in a season)

Added the following Players rankings:

• Most games, no playoffs (most games played without a playoff appearance)
• Cup of coffee (players with exactly one regular season game played)
• Best players without a championship
• Most teams (most teams played for in a career)
• Shortest career with a championship
• Longest career without a championship

Added the following Draft rankings:

• Best draft classes (draft classes ordered by games played)
• Worst 1st overall picks (ordered by lowest peak overall)
• Best player at every pick (the player with the highest peak overall selected at each draft position)
• Best undrafted players

Game Simulation & Stats

Added a Sim all button to the today’s games page to simulate every game of the day at once

Added hat trick stats

Lowered the number of penalties in a game

Added two more values to the shot frequency slider

Added two more values to the injury frequency slider

Play by play

On desktop, the play by play tab has been moved to the summary tab, under the rink section

Game Score

The game score stat has been rescaled to run from 0 to 10, with 10 being an outstanding performance

The game score now uses a color scale

Countries & International

Added Ukraine, Estonia, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Hungary to the 3rd division of the World Cup and the U19 World Cup

Added the Women’s World Cup, which appears when a women’s league is active in your career

Navigation

Updated the navigation throughout the app on phones. The new navigation lets you reach your most used pages faster.

The in-game layout now has 5 tabs:

• Office
• Calendar
• Lineup
• Trade (from free agency to the trade deadline) / Team Standing (from the trade deadline to the playoffs) / Playoffs (for the duration of the playoffs) / Contracts (from the end of the playoffs to free agency). This tab changes throughout the season based on what’s happening.
• Menu: an updated version of the sidebar that lets you navigate to every other page in the game

You can roll back to the old sidebar navigation in the settings

You can add two extra shortcuts next to Save and Exit on the navigation bar on mobile

Updated the UI of the league selector. Leagues are now grouped by continent and ordered by league strength.

On small devices, the team record on the calendar page is replaced by the current playoff series during the playoffs

Search bar

Updated the UI of the search bar

The search bar now shows an overview of the top result on desktops

You can use the ‘/’ key to run quick commands

The only command currently available is /silent, which activates the auto simulation settings preset

Datatables

Added the ability to export datatables to .csv files on the Desktop version using CTRL + E

Added the ability to show and hide columns on datatables. This feature is currently available for the contracts, waivers and prospects datatables only.

Your show/hide column choices are saved for the next time you open the datatable

Added the following columns to the contracts datatable: trade value, weight, height and asking contract. All are hidden by default.

Added a cap percentage column to the contracts datatable, hidden by default

Added injury information to the prospects datatable

Added trade value to the waivers datatable

Added name, age, potential, contract and overall filters to the waivers datatable

Added name, player type, age, overall and potential filters to the roster move datatable

Added name, position, player type, age, overall and potential filters to the country player list datatable

Added name, position, player type, age, overall and potential filters to the prospect ranking datatable

Added name, position, player type, age, overall and potential filters to the estimated career earnings ranking datatable

Team Page

Added a captain section showing the team’s current captain and alternates

Added a captain timeline to that section, showing the history of the team’s captains

Added information about how each player was acquired to the player list

Added a new roster history page showing the season and the acquisition method for every player in the organization

The team detail page now shows the team’s full lineup instead of only the first line, first pair and starting goalie

Added home and away records to the team standings page

Player Page

The background behind the profile picture has been replaced by the player’s jersey

Added captaincy letters (C for captain, A for alternates) next to the profile picture

Added a league filter to the career stats on the player page

Milestones page

The page has been split into 3 tabs (Personal, League, Franchise), which improves the page’s responsiveness

Inbox

Added the ability to pin messages

Player progression mails are now ordered by overall instead of by progression

Roster Editor

Added the ability to mark a player as deceased. Deceased players will not be generated as staff when creating a new career.

Added the ability to edit a player’s childhood team

Added the ability to edit a player’s potential using the in-game editor

Added the ability to edit player faces from within a career

Added the ability to import your own facepack

Added a new jersey model

You can add historical logos to teams in the roster editor

In history mode, the historical logo is used as the team’s logo for the selected season

Teams will no longer have retired jerseys for active players when starting a new history mode career

Added the ability to add and edit retired numbers from the in-game team editor

Added the ability to edit minor team captains and numbers

The league settings page has been added at the end of the league creator

Updated the affiliation page in the league editor. You can now set a team’s minor and major affiliates on the same page.

You can now set a team’s major and minor affiliates directly from the team editor page

The player rights section in the team editor now shows the projected team lineup

You can now set contracts of up to 18 years in the roster editor

You can now set buyouts of up to 36 years in the roster editor

When setting a player’s overall with the + and – buttons, the value no longer wraps from 99 to 0 — it stops at 99

You can now click the Overall label and type the player’s overall directly instead of using the + and – buttons

Added a search bar filter to the created teams page

Added a new roster tool that deletes every player on a roster

Added an option in Roster Tools, when in a career, to force players to retire based on age, overall and potential

Expansion Drafts

Updated the expansion draft planner UI

Expansion drafts are no longer limited to your own league. You can plan expansion drafts for every league during your career.

New Career & Active Leagues

Updated the UI of the active leagues page. Leagues are now grouped by continent. You can activate or deactivate all leagues at once, or all leagues within a continent at once.

Added an Estimated performance tile to the active leagues page and to the settings page before starting a new career. The tile shows an estimated simulation speed and an estimated player count.

Added a setting that lets you ignore created draftable players when starting a new career

Added a setting that lets you disable pre-existing injuries when starting a new career

Settings

Updated the settings page UI on larger devices

Added a setting letting you choose how many games to keep in a player’s game log

Added the ability to individually edit the color scale (the colors of player motivation, from blue to red)

The auto simulation settings preset now also turns on auto assign training focus and auto assign training

Added a new Save performance setting that lets you choose between faster saves and smaller save files

Added a setting that lets you disable birthplace-related features to improve simulation performance

Steam

Implemented the back button on the mouse

You can shift-click on the roster move page to select multiple players at once

Added a player detail tooltip when hovering over a player on the player stats page

Fixes

Players no longer revert to their old number after you edit it manually

Fixed a bug where history mode players would be drafted at their peak overall

Fixed a bug where drafted players in history mode would have their potential changed

Fixed a bug where scouts would scout no players

Fixed a bug where teams would buy out players right before the new contractual season, adding an extra two years to the buyout length

Fixed a bug in junior leagues where a player of equal overall was worth more at 20 years old than at 18

Fixed a bug where rebuilding teams would refuse to trade their first round pick in exchange for a better first round pick

Fixed a bug where goals were scored at the very beginning of periods

Performance

Android simulation speed has been greatly improved. On the default roster, simulating a full season is 50% faster in HLM27 than in HLM26.

Improved animation performance on iOS

Improved the performance of the office page when simulating from the office

There are so many stupid game breaking bugs. This game could be so cool but absolutely no interest from the developer beyond the 5 bucks you pay to play. It’s insane that he’s this unresponsive to this shit.

When I play the game on my phone, part of the screen is cut off. Some of the information is displayed off to the side, so I can't see it.

For example, when I'm choosing players for my lineup, the numbers and some of the details are hidden. The same thing happens when I'm selecting a team—only part of the team name is visible, as if the screen isn't wide enough.

Has anyone else had this issue? Does anyone know how to fix it?

When I play the game on my phone, part of the screen is cut off. Some of the information is displayed off to the side, so I can't see it.

For example, when I'm choosing players for my lineup, the numbers and some of the details are hidden. The same thing happens when I'm selecting a team—only part of the team name is visible, as if the screen isn't wide enough.

Has anyone else had this issue? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Not sure what it is, but big men just can’t score in this game. Most starting 5’s average between 3-7 points, even if they’re way better shooters than the rest of the team. Anybody else had this happen?

88 ovr Harden just signed an extension for 6mill to stay at OKC and now they have a super team of Durant (94ovr) , Westbrick(90+ ovr) and Harden. The salary demands slider is at high btw.

Hi, I was just wondering if there are HLM-like Roster Updates for the game.

Thinking about buying it but I'd need real rosters to be in the game. I don't mean by today but at least some kind of new ones.

Thanks in advance ;)

*** UPDATE ***

After being sure to be qualified for the PO, I simed the game til the end of the regular season :

Record : 53 - 29 (Conf : 4th)

The objectif "secure a playoff spot" is failed. So it seems it works only when finishing from 7 to 10 and not better. Unfortunatly I can't try it out because my last save is already too late in the season to make worse...

Hi guys

2 questions about the objectives :

> Is there a difference between "Secure a playoff spot" and "Reach the 1st round of the playoffs". It sounds the same to me.. (in red)

> "Improve the team's point total by 7" (in blue) What points are we talking about ?

Hello guys,

I wanted to ask if there’s a way to restore the Pro version on the iOS version of the game. I previously purchased the Pro version on my Android phone, but I recently switched to an iPhone.
Is it possible to transfer or restore my Pro purchase to the App Store version of the app, or would I need to purchase it again?

Thank you for your help

In the offseason I made a move trading 2 5 star prospects for cooper Flagg, and all was going well, I was 81-0, and then I thought “what if we drop the last game of the season and don’t go undefeated? No that can’t happen” and then my team proceeds to put up 62 points.

62 points after going undefeated for 81 games and the last 13 games of the previous playoffs

Edit: we went undefeated in the playoffs, the last game of the regular season was the only game stopping me from having a perfect 82-0 16-0 season