Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2 is a very in-depth text base simulation game made by Wolverine Studios which was released this past fall.
It's features includes:
Brand New Assistant Coach mode
For the first time ever you don't have to be the top dog. You'll get the opportunity to play in the game world as an assistant coach specializing in one of the three assistant coach jobs (recruiting, scouting, practice) - your decisions will have a direct impact on the success of your team. Along with this feature comes the enhancement of the computer assistants - your assistants will be more important than ever and it will be important for you to hire the best assistants possible as well as the ones that fit best with your philosophies.
Brand New Alternate Universe : Promotion/Relegation
Looking for a new challenge to the game? Try this mode and watch the collegiate universe get turned upside down. All 352 teams are stripped from their conferences and placed into 22 16-team conferences with the 16 highest prestige teams in "Conference A" and so forth. At the end of each regular season the top 12 teams advance to the conference tournament and the postsesaon plays out as it normally does with each conference tournament winner getting an invite to the big dance. However, since the basic system remains the same the at large bids certainly will be weighted towards the best conferences. The top four teams in the regular season standings are promoted to the next best conference in the following season with the four who missed the conference tournament being relegated down a conference. In this mode conference affiliation also plays a major role in determining the budget for each school to spend on coaches and recruits so the advantages to being in (and staying in) "Conference A" are certainly numerous.
The "DII Challenge" / New Teams
The team list has been bumped up to 352 teams - 5 of which are participants in the "DII Challenge". These teams serve as Independents in the game, playing a full season schedule against each other and the other DI teams with some major differences. Aside from the lowest recruiting budgets in the game, DII teams don't have to adhere to the game's minimum grade requirements allowing them to take the players who do not qualify for the DI schools but they are not eligible for postseason play and without that draw will see good players want to transfer out to more prestigious schools later in their careers. The challenge for you is to string together a significant number of successful seasons and bring your school's prestige above zero to be a fully qualified DI school in the game. Are you up to the challenge?
Brand New "GameView" Coaching mode
We've added a brand new way to coach out your games in DDS: College Basketball 2. If you're not a fan of the 2D display then you can play out your games in this mode which streamlines all the game information into one screen area while replacing the full screen court with a small display for shots taken and a vibrant play by play recap area in addition to the full text play by play.
Brand New Postseason - 68 Team Tournament and 3rd Postseason Tournament
The primary postseason tournament has been redone to mimic the 68 team setup, allowing for four play in games. In addition to that a third, 16-team postseason tournament has been added into the mix allowing even more teams to go to postseason play.
Progressive Injury Healing
This has always been an area of the game I wanted to improve on from the “realism” factor. Sure the player was out for two months with a broken wrist but in the past that meant that for 60 game days he was at 0% health and then 100% back on day 61. Now players will heal progressively over time giving you the opportunity (and risk) of bringing a player back early. So yes, you can play that player with a torn ACL two weeks before his injury was supposed to be healed…he might be at 90% only and you’re risking re-injury but now the game realizes and accounts for the 11.5 months he has already sat out and had surgery and rehabbed making this much more realistic of a feature.
Many Requested New Minor Features
Your feedback has always been the driving force in the game and some of the most popular items suggested are already in with many more to be added during FirstAccess. The list includes a lockable sub matrix you can reset back to after you have made changes for injuries or other reasons, the ability to play without being fired from your school, revamped and functionally improved recruiting screens, tracking of assistant coach's jobs over his career, tracking of double doubles and triple doubles by season and career, the ability to delete all emails at once, brand new team and individual stat leader screens and so much more!
http://www.wolverinestudios.com/ddscb2p2.html
OS review on the original game back in 2008
http://www.operationsports.com/revie...ge-basketball/
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It's features includes:
Brand New Assistant Coach mode
For the first time ever you don't have to be the top dog. You'll get the opportunity to play in the game world as an assistant coach specializing in one of the three assistant coach jobs (recruiting, scouting, practice) - your decisions will have a direct impact on the success of your team. Along with this feature comes the enhancement of the computer assistants - your assistants will be more important than ever and it will be important for you to hire the best assistants possible as well as the ones that fit best with your philosophies.
Brand New Alternate Universe : Promotion/Relegation
Looking for a new challenge to the game? Try this mode and watch the collegiate universe get turned upside down. All 352 teams are stripped from their conferences and placed into 22 16-team conferences with the 16 highest prestige teams in "Conference A" and so forth. At the end of each regular season the top 12 teams advance to the conference tournament and the postsesaon plays out as it normally does with each conference tournament winner getting an invite to the big dance. However, since the basic system remains the same the at large bids certainly will be weighted towards the best conferences. The top four teams in the regular season standings are promoted to the next best conference in the following season with the four who missed the conference tournament being relegated down a conference. In this mode conference affiliation also plays a major role in determining the budget for each school to spend on coaches and recruits so the advantages to being in (and staying in) "Conference A" are certainly numerous.
The "DII Challenge" / New Teams
The team list has been bumped up to 352 teams - 5 of which are participants in the "DII Challenge". These teams serve as Independents in the game, playing a full season schedule against each other and the other DI teams with some major differences. Aside from the lowest recruiting budgets in the game, DII teams don't have to adhere to the game's minimum grade requirements allowing them to take the players who do not qualify for the DI schools but they are not eligible for postseason play and without that draw will see good players want to transfer out to more prestigious schools later in their careers. The challenge for you is to string together a significant number of successful seasons and bring your school's prestige above zero to be a fully qualified DI school in the game. Are you up to the challenge?
Brand New "GameView" Coaching mode
We've added a brand new way to coach out your games in DDS: College Basketball 2. If you're not a fan of the 2D display then you can play out your games in this mode which streamlines all the game information into one screen area while replacing the full screen court with a small display for shots taken and a vibrant play by play recap area in addition to the full text play by play.
Brand New Postseason - 68 Team Tournament and 3rd Postseason Tournament
The primary postseason tournament has been redone to mimic the 68 team setup, allowing for four play in games. In addition to that a third, 16-team postseason tournament has been added into the mix allowing even more teams to go to postseason play.
Progressive Injury Healing
This has always been an area of the game I wanted to improve on from the “realism” factor. Sure the player was out for two months with a broken wrist but in the past that meant that for 60 game days he was at 0% health and then 100% back on day 61. Now players will heal progressively over time giving you the opportunity (and risk) of bringing a player back early. So yes, you can play that player with a torn ACL two weeks before his injury was supposed to be healed…he might be at 90% only and you’re risking re-injury but now the game realizes and accounts for the 11.5 months he has already sat out and had surgery and rehabbed making this much more realistic of a feature.
Many Requested New Minor Features
Your feedback has always been the driving force in the game and some of the most popular items suggested are already in with many more to be added during FirstAccess. The list includes a lockable sub matrix you can reset back to after you have made changes for injuries or other reasons, the ability to play without being fired from your school, revamped and functionally improved recruiting screens, tracking of assistant coach's jobs over his career, tracking of double doubles and triple doubles by season and career, the ability to delete all emails at once, brand new team and individual stat leader screens and so much more!
http://www.wolverinestudios.com/ddscb2p2.html
OS review on the original game back in 2008
Where $5,000 is the expense to bribe players with celebrity meetings
As mentioned above, a bulk of your time is spent on recruiting. This has always been an issue with college sports text games—how much should the game simply be about recruiting? Unlike professional games, where you can have 10 or even 15 years with the same star quarterback or shooting guard, you have constant turnover in college games. Also, the nature of recruiting is much different than a professional draft/free agency.
In this area, Draft Day really provides a fun recruiting experience: The season starts every year with the team buying scouting reports, regionally and nationally. Then, you choose which national summer tournaments to scout in-person, and thus get more accurate player ratings. After that, you must become surrogate girlfriends with the players, as you must call them, invite them to your school, visit their homes, and watch them in live games. Also, in a clear nod to the Kelvin Sampson school of recruiting, you can still woo players who have committed but not yet signed Letters of Intent.
As for the phone calls, Draft Day has brought a new innovation, in that when you call a recruit, you can choose among three categories: General (get info about parents and interest in your school), Pitch (what is important to the recruit), and Bribe (you can offer a celebrity meeting $5,000 or even an apartment $20,000). The Bribes will get you busted with sanctions from the NCAA if you offer it up too much, but offering a new car to a hot recruit may not even lasso them in, as the player may remark that is “not my style.” The whole thing screams Nick Nolte and "Blue Chips."
The recruits seem to have a believable balance of skills and the talent seems to be spread accurately across the country, though the No. 1 recruit my first season was a 5-foot-9 point guard.
As mentioned above, a bulk of your time is spent on recruiting. This has always been an issue with college sports text games—how much should the game simply be about recruiting? Unlike professional games, where you can have 10 or even 15 years with the same star quarterback or shooting guard, you have constant turnover in college games. Also, the nature of recruiting is much different than a professional draft/free agency.
In this area, Draft Day really provides a fun recruiting experience: The season starts every year with the team buying scouting reports, regionally and nationally. Then, you choose which national summer tournaments to scout in-person, and thus get more accurate player ratings. After that, you must become surrogate girlfriends with the players, as you must call them, invite them to your school, visit their homes, and watch them in live games. Also, in a clear nod to the Kelvin Sampson school of recruiting, you can still woo players who have committed but not yet signed Letters of Intent.
As for the phone calls, Draft Day has brought a new innovation, in that when you call a recruit, you can choose among three categories: General (get info about parents and interest in your school), Pitch (what is important to the recruit), and Bribe (you can offer a celebrity meeting $5,000 or even an apartment $20,000). The Bribes will get you busted with sanctions from the NCAA if you offer it up too much, but offering a new car to a hot recruit may not even lasso them in, as the player may remark that is “not my style.” The whole thing screams Nick Nolte and "Blue Chips."
The recruits seem to have a believable balance of skills and the talent seems to be spread accurately across the country, though the No. 1 recruit my first season was a 5-foot-9 point guard.
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