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HoopSim, full screen

Vol. 3 · Oct 4, 2026. Open HoopSim on a computer and it now fills the window: your team on a wide sheet, Messenger beside it, every page a click away. Here is the tour, with screens and the five things worth knowing.

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The gameA free basketball GM sim in your browser. You run one of 30 pro clubs.
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HoopSim
HOOPSIM · OFFICIAL COLUMN VOL. 3 · OCT 4, 2026
State of
the Game
NEW · FULL SCREEN
SPECIAL EDITION · HOOPSIM ON A COMPUTER
Dr. PossessionAri Lindqvist · @DrPossession · Engine & realism

HoopSim, full screen

Open HoopSim on a computer and it now fills the window: your team on a wide sheet, Messenger beside it, every page a click away. Here is the tour, with screens and the five things worth knowing.

Until today HoopSim was a phone game. If you opened it on a computer, it sent you back to your phone. That changes now. Sign in at hoopsim.app on a laptop or a desktop and the game fills the window.

It is the same league, the same team, the same game. Nothing about the sim changed, and nothing you set on your phone is lost. What changed is the room you have to work in.

FULL SCREEN · YOUR TEAM
The Team page full screen: the roster table on a wide sheet with Messenger open on the right
The Team page on a computer: the roster on a wide sheet, Messenger beside it.

What you are looking at

Three parts. A line across the top with the main pages. A wide sheet in the middle with whatever you opened. And Messenger down the right side, open the whole time, so the league chat and your DMs are there while you work on the roster.

FINDING YOUR WAY · FIVE THINGS
  1. 1
    The top lineDash, Team, Coaching, League and Stats run across the top. One click takes you to each.
  2. 2
    Every pageThe menu button at the top left opens the Start menu, with every page in the game.
  3. 3
    FindClick the search box, or press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac), and type a player, a team, a page or a command.
  4. 4
    MessengerLeague chat, Media, your DMs, agents and your staff sit in a column on the right. The arrow at its top folds it to a slim rail.
  5. 5
    PlayersClick any player for a panel with your scouts' read, the stats and what you can do next. The up and down arrows step through the list, and Esc closes it.

The Start menu and Find

Two ways to get anywhere. The Start menu lists every page in the game, grouped the way they are on your phone. Find is faster once you know what you want: a player, a team, a page, or a command like proposing a trade.

TWO WAYS TO GET ANYWHERE
The Start menu: your pinned pages, then every page in the game in groupsStart menu
Find: a few typed letters bring up matching pages and commandsFind
Left: the Start menu, opened from the top left. Right: Find, with the arrow keys and Enter.

Messenger stays with you

On a phone, Messenger is a place you go. Here it is a column that stays put, with the same tabs: Office, League, Media, DMs, Agents and your staff. Click any player, anywhere, and that player's panel slides out beside it.

ALWAYS BESIDE THE PAGE
Messenger as a column: its tabs above the league chatMessenger
A player's panel: the card, salary and stats, then your scouts' readA player
Left: Messenger and its tabs. Right: a player's panel, with your scouts' read.

When you want the full width for a big table, fold Messenger away. It remembers how you left it.

MESSENGER FOLDED
The Team page with Messenger folded to a slim rail, the roster table using the full width
Folded to a rail on the right, the page takes the whole width.

Coaching with a mouse

The depth chart is where a bigger screen helps most. Switch Drag on and you can pull a player from the bench into the starting five. Edit unlocks the lineup, and Done saves it.

COACHING · DEPTH CHART
The depth chart full screen: the starters, the bench and the minutes for each player
The starting five, the bench underneath, and the Drag switch above the lineup.

The league on one page

Standings, the schedule, the bracket, transactions and the rest of the League pages are tabs across one sheet.

LEAGUE · STANDINGS
The standings full screen, with the League tabs above the table
League pages are tabs across the top of the sheet.

Phone or computer

SAME GAME · TWO SCREENS
AT YOUR DESKFull screenBig tables, the depth chart, the cap sheet and trades, with Messenger open beside them.Opens by itself when you sign in on a computer.
IN YOUR POCKETThe appAlerts, quick replies, and sim night from the couch.Calling a game live in 1 on 1 stays here.
One account, one league. Use whichever is in front of you.

Sim nights still open the live room on their own, and it takes the whole window. On a big monitor the whole game scales up instead of sitting small in the middle. And if you ever want the phone pages on a computer, add ?view=phone to the address.

“Same league, same team, same game. More room to work.”
STILL IN THE PHONE LAYOUT FOR NOW
11 on 1. Calling a game live stays on your phone.
2Solo franchises. A solo league's Dash still shows the phone page in the middle of the window.
3A few commissioner pages. Content Studio and the offseason wizards still open in the phone layout.

Use it for a night and tell me where it gets in your way.

— Dr. Possession