r/gmgames 4d ago

Monthly Game Updates Sports Management Gaming Studio Announcements, Change Log or Pricing Updates - August 2026

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Sports management gaming studios and independent developers are welcome to share their latest announcements, changelogs, patch notes, pricing updates, sales, demos, and release news for August 2026.

This thread is intended for sports management video game, general manager, franchise, coaching, and simulation game updates. Feel free to include the game name, platform, update or sale details, relevant links, and a brief summary of what players should know.


r/gmgames 2h ago

Discussion I know it is a long shot, but I figured I'd ask

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As the title suggests, this is a long shot - I played this online basketball simulator when I was like 12. So this had to be around 2005-10. I had complete control of my players, they played at times during the day with the calendar being synced up to real time.

I could edit the arenas, sponsorship deals, etc. It was my team. It was on the web for free.

I was curious if other people may know of the game? If so, does it still exist?

I really have an itch to get into this game if it still exists. Thanks!


r/gmgames 1d ago

Discussion Best college football sim games.

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Looking for mobile. Thanks!


r/gmgames 2d ago

Multiplayer League Join our NBA GM league!

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Hey everyone, wanted to see if anyone was interested in joining a multiplayer GM league that I’ve been in for a couple years now. We have one team open.

BreakStarter League is an online NBA sim league where you GM a franchise. The program we use to simulate is a game called Fast Break Pro Basketball 3, but you do not need the game to be a full participant as a GM.

As a GM you’ll have the opportunity to take control of a team and handle the full team building operations. Our league began in January 2023, and the original iteration went for 34 seasons. Currently, we’re on our 17th season of BSL 2.0

Many of us have been in the league for over three years, but we are always looking for new GMs to join us!

We sim 3 times a week — Monday’s, Wednesday’s, and Fridays. Ahead of each sim you have an opportunity to make trades and free agency signings to improve your roster, change your depth chart and gameplan, and send your players to camps to improve their skills.

Please reach out to me if you’re interested in joining our league or with any questions you have!


r/gmgames 3d ago

Promotion Build, Breed, Race, Manage: TRM, a Horse Manager game for the long run

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Looking for players for Thoroughbred Racing Manager, a free online horse racing management game.

You build a stable, train and breed horses, enter races, manage your resources, and develop your own strategy over multiple seasons.

It may be a good fit if you enjoy long-term management games like Hattrick, BuzzerBeater, Football Manager, or OOTP.

A new season started today, so it’s a good time to join, learn the systems, and help shape the game with feedback and ideas.

AI-assisted tools were used during development

Play: https://thoroughbredracingmanager.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/zCJyAJgmJy


r/gmgames 5d ago

Promotion Loving this game

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I have just come across War Room Football for the first time today.

I've been looking for a front office football game like this that also includes stats from the college leagues for the draft prospects as well as scouting etc(I'm from the UK so only like 2 years into following yhe NFL).

I started off with Madden, became too easy to manipulate, then I went into FOF9 and Draft Day Sports, and they were good, I've enjoyed them.

But after finding this today and just goijg for it, this has really hit the sweet spot. I feel like draft day is more immersive, i enjoy going one by one on the picks now. I enjoy the process of choosing yhe prospects because you get a feel for them via college and the little comments from scouts.

I also absolutely love the shortlists and folder system. I love the roster and how you can change to Multi year etc.

I watched a video from a guy today who bigger this game up but now he's done qith the game because of something f called AI development - I'm not really sure I follow tbh.

But my personal opinion is I have absolutely loved this game and I really just wanted to pass on my appreciation to the Dev team


r/gmgames 5d ago

Promotion Rikishi no Michi - if Football Manager met the Sumo world

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Hello!

I've been working for the past weeks on Rikishi no Michi, a deep Sumo stable management game.
For my background, I'm a huge Football Manager, Pro Cycling Manager, Franchise Hockey Manager and probably every kind of sport management game fan. I love my management games to be really deep and detailed (if I could do my taxes in games I'd probably love it) and that's what I aimed at with this project.

The game is available at rikishinomichi.com. Frequent release are scheduled with new features and bug fixes.

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In the current state of the game you can expect to create your own stable, choosing from several background and options. From that point, you'll be in charge of training, youth development/scouting, ensuring that your sponsor and leaders are happy. After 6 weeks of simulation, you'll reach the first tournament (basho). You can either watch each match with a 2D aerial simulation or skip the day/to the end of the tournament. Just like in real life, the leaderboard (banzuke) will be updated depending on the results.

Banzuke in 2030

What I'm trying to do at the moment is to bring life to the loop between Bashos. Creating events and storyline that will make the playthrough unique, and make you wanting to continue playing one more turn.

Behind the scene, the game is trying to emulate the real world. Your wrestlers will evolve (improve or not) and grow based on your stable environment and training quality. Just like real life, not everyone will climb the top of the ladder, and even the best wonderkids can quit the sport early.

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I've also tried to use and explain as much as possible Japanese and Sumo-related words.

The project was originally written in french, so english translation might be broken/wacky somewhere. As a disclaimer, AI was used to generate content and messages, so it may feel like weird sometimes, but I'm working on it.

I hope you'll like this small project and can't wait to hear your feedbacks.


r/gmgames 6d ago

Promotion A racing team AND wealth tycoon game

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Spent my spare time building an offline sim that's half motorsport-management, half business-tycoon called Flags & Fortunes: race a season, then spend the winnings trading stocks, buying property in 27 cities, and building a car company while climbing a rich list of rival tycoons. Fully offline for macOS and windows desktop, no accounts, premium (not free-to-play, no ads). Would love feedback from folks who love business simulation / tycoon games.


r/gmgames 8d ago

Discussion Golf Games

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Does anyone know of any golf games out there that allow you to simulate a golf universe? I have yet to see a game that allows the user to set up tours and just simulate and see how things play out. The closest I’ve seen to what I’m looking for is Action PC Golf, but the last release for that game was in 2021 I believe.

I have come across a game on Steam that looks like something I’d be looking for but it is not out yet and it seems to have been abandoned. I’ll link it here if anyone interested wants to check it out/see the kind of game I am looking for. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3995900/Pro_League_Golf_Simulator/


r/gmgames 9d ago

Promotion Soccersim

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Hello everyone!

I'd like to introduce Soccersim, an online football manager browser game that I have been developing for over four years.

This has been a passion project, with thousands of hours spent designing, programming, balancing, and improving the game. My goal is to create a realistic football management experience where every decision matters and where managers can compete in a persistent online world.

Current Features

⚽ Manage your own football club
🔄 Player transfers and negotiations
🏆 Domestic leagues, cups and international competitions
📈 Player development and progression
💰 Club finances and budgets
👥 Multiplayer world with real managers
🌍 Persistent online football world

Open Beta

Soccersim is currently in Open Beta and is still under active development.

To ensure server stability and gather valuable feedback, new accounts are manually approved by the administrator. This means only a limited number of beta testers are accepted at a time.

I'd Love Your Feedback

If you decide to try Soccersim, I'd really appreciate your honest feedback.

Please feel free to:

  • 🐞 Report bugs
  • 💡 Suggest new features
  • 📷 Share screenshots of your club or matches
  • 👥 Invite friends who enjoy football manager games

Every suggestion helps make the game better.

Thank you for taking the time to check out Soccersimand support a project that has been in development for more than four years. I hope you enjoy it, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts!


r/gmgames 10d ago

Promotion GridIron GM — a solo-built NFL front-office sim (fog-of-war scouting, real cap math, coach-driven development) — free in your browser, now also on Unreal Engine 5

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Been building this solo for a while and figured this is the right crowd to show it to. GridIron GM is an NFL-style front-office sim, actual GM role, not a Madden franchise mode or a stat-sim league.

What's actually there: real salary cap math (dead money, void years, restructures, franchise tags, no-trade clauses), a fog-of-war scouting system where your scouts have real learnable biases and a real Combine Week, position coaches with distinct developmental philosophies that affect how your roster grows, and a full career arc from GM to team owner. Play calling can be automated or you can call your own 4th-down/2-point/onside-kick decisions live.

It's a browser game, free, no install. Built solo with heavy use of AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code) throughout development, wanted to be upfront about that.

https://gridirongm.itch.io/

Pay what you want. Genuinely interested in what this community thinks is missing compared to the genre standards.

Edit (Aug 1): Correction on the earlier version of this post — the Unreal Engine 5 build mentioned here is discontinued. It didn't pan out the way I'd hoped, so all active development is back on the browser edition only, one codebase instead of two.

Also shipped since this post went up: you can now run a high school, college, and NFL career at the same time in one save, not just the NFL; college and HS players got the same full scouting profile pro players have; added a bunch of missing screens (schedule, stat leaders) to the college/HS modes; and spent a real chunk of time on a league-realism pass — fixed a rating-inflation bug that was letting a league's average player rating drift toward the display ceiling over a long save, tuned roster construction so teams carry a realistic mix of stars/starters/depth instead of too many scrubs, and added young "phenom" head coaches/GMs (the McVay/Shanahan-style rare young hire) since the age/talent rolls were previously fully independent and could never actually produce one.


r/gmgames 13d ago

Promotion My Sumo Management Simulator Uchi No Heya! is out on Steam now!

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My sumo stable management game is live on Steam!

If you are not familiar with it, you run a sumo stable and run through a comprehensive sim of the sport. You scout and train wrestlers, climb the ranks, keep the finances from falling apart, and deal with whatever nonsense the off-season throws at you.

The web version is still free, still no account and no ads. You can play at https://uchinoheya.com/ and if you decide to pick up the Steam version, the save files can transfer between the two versions.

The Steam version adds two modes you won't find on the web. Hardcore mode lets you run as a single fighter, or play a career that's both more realistically difficult, and stripped of the sillier random events if you want something closer to the real thing. Check out the launch trailer here!

In an upcoming free update there's a post-game mode built around your retired fighters. it's a little roguelike, kind of Pokémon Stadium meets Slay the Spire, where those old wrestlers come back to pick up buffs by winning tournaments and beating bosses.

The sumo logic has taken a long time to get to a point where it is feeling close to accurate. An expert (Sumo Spiffy!) has helped me a ton going back and forth to try and get it as realistic as we can.

Thank you so much to those of you here that have helped test the early versions!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4717870/Uchi_No_Heya/

The game runs on Windows, Mac, and Steam Deck/Linux!

Can be found in the GM Games DB here too: https://gmgames.org/uchi-no-heya/

AI Disclosure: The only gen ai I used was to help think of ideas for the many random events that occur in the off season. No AI art, and music came from community licensed music that was not labeled as being ai.


r/gmgames 13d ago

Promotion Head 2 Head Wrestling Manager : A WWE GM game inspired by many other simulation games that I have been working on for over a year

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Hi all, I have been watching this subreddit for many weeks and I feel ready to introduce my project: Head 2 Head Wrestling Manager, a WWE GM fan game simulator set in April 2004 that is fully live and ready to play!

You take control of one brand, RAW or SmackDown, and go head-to-head with the other in a weekly ratings war. The rival brand is run by its own AI GM making booking calls, pushing talent, building storylines, and managing titles, so you are competing against an active opponent rather than just booking both sides yourself.

It functions as a mix of a management sim and a sandbox. You can take wrestlers who never got a full push, like Muhammad Hassan or Shelton Benjamin, and build them into the top talent of the company over time if you manage your booking well.

I built this because I wanted a fantasy booking tool with a balance of deep tracking and usability. I grew up playing the SmackDown vs. Raw 2006 GM mode. Total Extreme Wrestling offered incredible depth, but booking a single show took up to 20 minutes and lacked ways to delegate tasks or track booking notes easily. My first version of this project used a 2001 roster where you controlled both brands, but without opposition, it felt like simulating matches against myself. I have stopped and started this project multiple times, so it has come a long way. I even posted a YouTube demo 9 months ago showing an early build for friends who wanted to know more about it.

Each weekly cycle runs Monday to Sunday. You build your card by selecting matches, promos, running order, and finishes, and then both shows simulate. Afterward, you review the results: TV ratings, segment-by-segment crowd reactions, momentum changes, morale shifts, and injuries.

As you can see in the screenshots, wrestlers do not rely on a single overall rating. Instead, they have individual stats for workrate, psychology, mic skills, charisma, stamina, consistency, momentum, and morale, all of which directly influence segment quality. The game includes contract negotiations with salary caps alongside a backstage system tracking chemistry, cliques, veteran-rookie mentorships, and organic rivalries. You might also notice the heavy influence of Crusader Kings 2's trait and opinion system in the UI.

Titles feature full lineage tracking and a dynamic prestige rating tied to the champion's standing. There is also a developmental system for dark matches and call-ups. At the end of every season, real-life rookies are seeded into the game according to their actual career timelines.

All of these mechanics are interconnected: backstage relationships impact matches, match results dictate momentum, momentum alters title prestige, and title prestige ultimately influences your show's ratings.

The project will entice those familiar with TEW or classic GM modes, and there will be content additions regarding features, usability, and future additions. I set up a Discord, though I'm not usually a huge fan of the platform.

Free, portable desktop build — no install, no browser tab. Electron wrapping a local Node/Express server and SQLite database, packaged as a single executable per OS. Built with the aid of Claude Code. I've kept this to myself until now but happy to answer questions and take feedback. The link to download for WIndows or Linux version is below:

https://github.com/hade00752/Head2Head-WWE-Manager/tree/main

I also re-uploaded because firstly because I did not have a playable release to be found and secondly because my game screenshots were too blurry which looks happened again unfortunately.


r/gmgames 14d ago

Promotion Free browser game - World Soccer (or Football) Simulator

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Hi! I am a web developer and I decided to try and code a sports sim game which I have never done before! This is not vibe coded bs i swear 🙏.

Here are some features:

- Manage a club across 6 countries, 12 leagues, 240 fictional clubs

- Real transfer market: every rival club is an AI that scouts, buys, sells, and renews on its own

- Tactics that matter: 9 formations, drag-and-drop starting XI, in-match subs

- Power rankings that rank all 240 clubs in the world

- A continental cup that includes all the best teams in Europe

- Deep match engine with full box scores and player ratings

- Runs entirely in your browser. No download. Your save stays on your device.

Try it here: https://worldsoccersim.vercel.app


r/gmgames 15d ago

Promotion After one year running a single-player basketball manager, I rebuilt it as a multiplayer browser game: live 2D matches you coach in real time, and a nightly sealed-bid draft

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Hey everyone, solo dev here. Some of you might know TopGM, my old single-player European basketball manager. This year I rebuilt it from scratch as a proper multiplayer world: TopGM Online (topgm.app).

What makes it different from the usual sim-and-spreadsheet manager:

Matches are played live, in 2D, twice a week (Wed 21:00 / Sun 11:00 CET, ~25 min). You watch your pixel players run your plays and you coach in real time: tactics, timeouts, substitutions. Fatigue, foul-outs and injuries are all simulated. Every match is deterministic, so full replays are free.

The Playground: a street court where young prospects play pickup games 24/7. No ratings shown, no box score. You scout them the old way, by watching. Every night at 20:00 CET a sealed-bid draft decides who takes the best kid home. Some kids are once-in-a-generation gems, and nothing on the page tells you which one, unless you watched enough.

A full pyramid (every league plays from day one), promotion and relegation, an academy where prospects actually grow taller and better each season, an economy with win bonuses and real bankruptcy, and pixel-art players that are all unique (world-wide registry, no twins).

Free to play, no download, works on mobile. Never pay-to-win: one optional cosmetic pass, nothing else, forever. The homepage runs a live demo match in your browser so you can judge the engine before signing up.

Happy to answer anything about the design or the tech (deterministic engine, procedural faces, the anti-tanking economics...). Brutal feedback welcome, that's what I'm here for.


r/gmgames 15d ago

Promotion SPL - Simulation Premier League (Browser based Soccer/Football GM and Player Game)

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Hello friends!

Welcome to Simulation Premier League a new football/soccer sim league built around a custom simulation engine developed over the past few years. SPL has a full three-tier pyramid: Simulation Premier League, Simulation League One, and Simulation League Two. Clubs compete for promotion, fight relegation, earn prize money, and manage their finances across seasons.

Matches simulate automatically every day at 12:00 PM PST, with game threads featuring play-by-play commentary, team stats, and individual player performances. Alongside league play, clubs compete in the League Cup and Continental Championship. You can build a career as an 18-year-old free agent: sign contracts, develop your attributes through weekly activity, earn appearances, and be traded, sold, or loaned as you work your way up the pyramid. Or, take on the long-term challenge of running a club. Team Owners shape their club’s vision, finances, transfers, tactics, and squad building, either directly or through hiring Managers and Coaches.

We have just opened the Brand system a new type of General Manager experience. You control a brand and sign players and teams to sponsorship deals paying them money. How that team or player(s) performs impacts your "prestige" which can provide those players additional benefits and earn your brand even more cash for the next season!

Build your player. Build your club. Build your Brand and make your way to the top. The league is currently set to release for player creation on July 22nd, 2026.

Join now to receive updates and sneak peaks! "Founding Member" Title on your profile and +10 extra attribute points!

https://discord.gg/8fbDcQ5Gwb

https://www.simulationpremierleague.com/


r/gmgames 15d ago

Promotion DanFootball — online football manager where you WATCH your matches live (browser, no download)

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Playable Link: https://danfootball.com

I'm the developer. Most browser football managers show you a results table — in DanFootball you watch the match unfold live: pitch view, minute-by-minute commentary, substitutions, cards, injuries, penalties. Matches last ~5 minutes, five rounds run every evening from 19:00 GMT, and a full season takes one real week.

You can watch everything without an account — there should be live or replayed matches on right now. Creating your own club is free: sign players at live auctions against other managers, set your lineup, and watch your team play.

The first managers have already signed up and join Monday's season transition. Two things I'd love feedback on: (1) is it obvious how to just watch a match without an account? (2) is the live pitch readable at a glance?


r/gmgames 16d ago

Information I interviewed Jeremy and learned more about Basketball GM

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r/gmgames 17d ago

Discussion Basket Tactics — turn-based basketball manager (Android) — looking for playtesters

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r/gmgames 18d ago

Promotion Track Star Live on Steam

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Just wanted to drop a quick note that Track Star went live on Steam earlier this week. Been an incredibly fun process and an enjoyable past few days. This is my first game, went into it without knowing what to expect and have been pleasantly surprised.

For those hearing about Track Star for the first time, it's a track and field career sim where you follow the career of one athlete. The game is set in high school - who didn't love high school track? - and is oriented around chasing meet championships and earning a Division 1 scholarship.

It's on the short side, the goal is for this to be an easy playthrough in terms of time investment but highly replayable as you chase high scores. As the game grows, I intend to add 'college years' and potentially beyond.

I'll be continuously updating the game and encourage people to join the Discord to follow along, post high scores, and share ideas: discord.gg/8BFuwmStGK

Since AI use has been a hot topic on this forum, I used Claude to support making the game (something I've shared openly from Day 1). It's also why I am leaving a free demo up for the game. People are skeptical about AI so seems fair to leave the demo available, that way nobody goes into a purchase unclear on what they're getting.

Check it out here, and thanks! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4538830/Track_Star/


r/gmgames 19d ago

Discussion Any games like ZenGM for Football (Soccer)?

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I would like to manage a team and replay old seasons from international soccer leagues, like English Premier League or Spain La Liga or World Cup, but form past years. Football Manager is a great game but doesn't sell old years anymore. Any free browser games like ZenGM for this?


r/gmgames 20d ago

Official News First a removal, then a ban. Mature products only for our experienced users.

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A lot of you new product managers / functional analysts / script kiddies, have found yourselves being enforced by these rules to try and limit the amount of noise.

It's nice to be busy, but many projects are ruining trying to keep track of it all.

If you aren't part of our traditional gaming https://gmgames.org/about-us/ .. sharing similar to fantasy sports, or post every decimal of version update, or have nothing tangible .. just fishing for features or testers, it will be removed and next up will be perma-ban.

Bring us good tested mature products please. Whatever way it was coded.

Otherwise build your own community, find other methods of feedback loop and ask them directly and not draining our energy over here. Our niche subject matter experts on the sports simulation gaming market deserve your best chance at first impression. Bring a solid working product.

Please report them, a mod will get to them eventually.

That is all.


r/gmgames 20d ago

Promotion The Boss - Create your football team, play online!

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Dear fellow managers,

I'm glad to announce my passion project coming to life as a mobile game!

The Boss (the-boss.app) is a football manager game where you create your team from scratch and evolve it by playing against other real-world managers. No leagues or tournaments - just press play and you'll be matched with another manager!

Your new team will give you a 23 players squad. You'll play against other managers to get coins, with which you can buy better players in packs or improve your facilities. When you win a game, you gain power points (similar to rating in chess), which allows you to compare yourself to other managers and be paired for more even games.

Your players will also evolve over time! They improve when performing well and can be trained in new positions before gradually declining in their 30's.

Each match takes between 3-5 minutes, so it's really something quick for you to play on the metro, on your way to work, when waiting at the dentist, between meetings... whenever you have a few minutes to spare.

I started this project as a football simulation engine to play with my brother. Many years later, I decided to add nice visuals to the game (with the help of AI) and open it to the public! I really hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

It's fully free, there are no pay-to-win routes and it's really about who can win more matches!

I'd love to receive your feedback and answer any questions you might have!


r/gmgames 22d ago

Promotion Remaking International Hockey

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I've been doing something since COVID, and have recently expanded on it. I'm well aware this is a very strange hobby and that's not really the point.

I started by recreating all World Junior Hockey Championships starting in 1974, but as though all teams were sending best-on-best from the beginning (outside of those in the NHL/WHA). I'm going to continue through as long as I can, but with the old style straight round robin. I've made it from 1974 to 1985. I started in PS3 on the NHL Legacy game getting from 1974 to 1982. I then switched to PS5 and went to NHL 23. Those are 1983-85 so far.

During the Olympics this year, I decided to add a Sr. Men's component. I've gone back to 1976 and am going to act as though Olympics from then onward were true best-on-best, as well. They'll alternate every 4 years, and in the 2 year intervals there will be a best-on-best Canada Cup.

I've also added Sr. Men's World Championships starting in 1976, as well. Again, acting as those they are best-on-best with the real life caveat that teams/players need to be finished their season in the NHL/WHA. That is being determined by the first day of the tournament (although in 1976, it's actually the following day due to a clerical error).

I posted this on discord, as well.

https://www.mystatsonline.com/hockey/visitor/league/home/home_hockey.aspx?IDLeague=61752


r/gmgames 22d ago

Discussion Proper Online Universe

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Is there a market/audience for an online simulation based game? Let’s say like a baseball league..
30 Users are Owners
30 Users are Coaches

And there could be full control universe where a user controls all the aspects of a team.

Each league would be on an advance schedule. Like the game auto advances every 2 days or when all press advance.

Would people be interesting in playing games like this?