What this is

Hoops Redraft is a single-player basketball game. You take over a real club in a real season, any year from 1976-77 through 2020-21, and run it forward. The list you inherit is the one that club actually carried. Every other club keeps its real list too. From there the league is played again, and the calls are yours.

Each off-season the real draft class comes onto the board in the order those players were really taken. You pick in the slots your club really held. A player is rated on what he did that season, so a career rises, peaks and ends on the years it did in life. Someone who did not play his own draft year is still on that board. Larry Bird in 1978 and Nikola Jokić in 2014 are both in the file that way. The number beside the name is his first recorded season.

A run can be one season, or five, ten, fifteen or twenty, as long as the file still has those years. At the end you get a letter grade against what that club really did over the same seasons. Titles count first. Wins are compared after short real seasons have been scaled to an 82-game pace, so the 50-game lockout in 1998-99 is not an easy win on paper.

The game is free and does not ask for an account. The run stays in this browser. How to play walks through a year. Ratings and grades explains the numbers. The guides read a few draft classes straight out of the player file. Every draft, redrafted has the real board and a re-ranked order for each class since 1976. The FAQ answers the common questions. Hoops Redraft is a fan project. It is not affiliated with the NBA or the NBPA, and a club is named by its city.