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Dash & Court View

How it works in HoopSim: Dash, live room, 3D replays, clips.

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Every number here is the one the engine uses. Your commissioner can change the settings; the rules stay the same.

The gameA free basketball GM sim in your browser. You run one of 30 pro clubs.
The leagueThe other 29 are AI GMs, your friends, or both.
The priceFree to play. First season free; the next is earned with points or a season pass.
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The Dash

The phone's bottom bar has five tabs that never move: Start, Messenger, Dash (the gold ticket in the middle), Team and Coaching. The Dash is your front page: your team card, a peek at your wall, the Last sim strip, a Needs you stack of things to deal with, your upcoming games, your wall and the trade block, plus rails that change with the season. Pinned pages (the ones you star in the Start menu) show as tiles; they're saved on that device.

Last sim covers the league's most recent advance: each of your games as a ticket stub (OT marked, tap for the box score), then a retro TV playing your team's best plays from that run with Share the cut and Watch in 3D, then every other final from the same run. A rival's team page shows their last sim the same way, and you can post your cut on their wall.

The live room

When the league sims games, everyone online is taken into one shared live room. A wall of game cards fills in quarter by quarter, each showing the favourite's live win chance until it goes final, and your own final lands as a full-screen card. How long each night airs is the league's Live sim pace: Quick, Standard (about 45 seconds a night) or Slow (about 90). Continue appears once the run and the night's broadcast are done. You may get a push when a run goes live, and ten minutes before a scheduled one.

Every run is kept, so you can replay a run, a night, one game or a chain of games at 1×, 2×, 4× or Moments only. The first time you open the app after a sim you missed, a welcome back card sums up the nights, your record and each game in a line, with a button to replay it all. Only box-score and play-by-play facts are ever shown.

Court View

Court View is a 3D replay of any finished game in your league, acted out from the stored play-by-play. It decides nothing: the same game always replays the same way. Players are drawn at their real heights. A name tag pops up over a player when they make a box-score play, two makes in a row means heating up and three means on fire until they miss (that's just for show). Big finishes can play in slow motion with the Matrix switch, and you can lower the picture quality on older phones. The timeline, speeds, win chance and spoiler-free mode are in Stats & Film.

Highlights and HoopCenter

After each sim night, HoopCenter, a parody highlight desk, posts the night's Top 5 plays to Media, puts the Play of the Night in League chat and posts a clip from every human GM's game; it may DM you about your worst moment. The Highlights of the night page has the top plays across the league that day. Every game also has a reel of its best plays.

Clips

A clip is one play, a game's reel, a whole night or a team's cut. It isn't a video file: every phone draws it from the play-by-play. Share one from Court View, the Highlights page or your Dash to League chat, a DM or a team wall, with a suggested trash-talk line built from public facts.

Still stuck? The FAQ and the glossary cover the rest, or go back to the rulebook.