Dunk Manager: Basketball GM App-Analysen für 8. November

Two days to the trade deadline. Your starting point guard wants a max extension, the front office expects a playoff run, and the 20-year-old at the end of your bench might be worth twice what you're paying him. What do you do? Dunk Manager is a basketball GM game. You don't shoot and you don't dribble: you make the calls, as general manager and head coach, and you live with them season after season. THE AMERICAN LEAGUE Thirty franchises, a draft lottery, the salary cap and the luxury tax. Scout the class, move up or down, build multi-player trades with future picks thrown in, work free agency and decide who gets paid before someone else does. The other GMs have their own plans, and they'll turn down a lopsided offer. THEN THERE'S THE REST OF THE WORLD Seventeen leagues in all. Top and second divisions in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Turkey and Greece, plus Lithuania, Israel, the Adriatic league and the Philippines, with two European cups for the clubs that finish on top. You pick which leagues make up your world, and players move between them. The kid you passed on in the draft might show up three years later in Istanbul, playing against you. Fair warning: the bigger the world, the slower the sim. EUROPE IS A DIFFERENT JOB Over there, your budget is your cap. You pay transfer fees, negotiate buyout clauses, upgrade your arena and facilities, hire your assistant, trainer and doctor. Finish last and you get relegated. Start in the second division and the only way up is winning. THE PHILIPPINE LEAGUE, DONE PROPERLY Three conferences in one season, three titles up for grabs. The import rules change every tournament: none in the first, one in the second, one under 6'6" in the third. The top four seeds get twice-to-beat in the quarterfinals, the salary cap is hard, and the rookies come out of the college leagues. SCOUTING Send your scouts across six continents. At first all you get on a prospect is a range, and the longer they watch him, the tighter it gets. Bring the best ones in for a workout before draft night.