Hoops Auction

A free basketball auction game you can play with friends online or on one device, in the browser with no sign-up. Every player in the sport comes out one lot at a time and you never know who is next. Five slots, a hundred million — bid well, because the roster you buy is the roster that plays.

How a game works

• Ten lots come up. You each end up with five players and a hundred million to spend.
• Whoever calls the lot picks the position; the room picks which player walks out.
• Ten seconds a lot. Any bid resets the clock; when it runs out, it is sold.
• Or sell it silent: one sealed envelope each, and the largest takes him at the price it wrote.
• You choose where he plays after you have won him, not before.
• The five you bought then play a simulated game that settles it.

Ways to play

• Against the computer, at four difficulties.
• Against friends online, with a room code — or pick a game off the list of rooms looking for players.
• Two players on one device, taking the paddle in turns.
• A league of three to eight bidders, online or at one device, ending in a round robin or an 82-game season with a real franchise.
• This season's league, or every era at once with each player at his peak.

Where the ratings come from

Nobody typed the numbers in. Every player's overall and six attributes are computed from the public statistical record — each stat scored against the rest of that player's own season, so a 1962 line and a 2026 line can be compared at all — with an impact anchor, role weighting, and an accolades pillar on the all-time scale. The workings are published, not asserted.

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How to play, how the ratings work, how players are priced, the all-time list, every player rating, this season’s ratings, questions and answers, about this site, contact, privacy, terms of use.

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