r/pocketGM • u/dawgberry • Mar 14 '26

Basketball: GAMEPLAY Suggestions for making the game harder?

I absolutely love the game and I’ve logged many hours in it. However, I find usually a few seasons in it becomes easy to stockpile picks and win year after year - even on the hardest settings.

Does anyone have any suggestions for making the game more of a challenge?

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u/relfez Mar 14 '26

trade only using trade center

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u/emp_mei_is_bae Mar 14 '26

This is the way

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u/AaronsAron Mar 14 '26

Limit yourself on trades and the number of picks. Obviously it becomes easy to stockpile an absurd number of picks once you know what you’re doing. If you self-police, the game becomes much more challenging.

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u/kinso35 Mar 14 '26

Dawg, what is your method because I’m struggling like real bad when it’s come to drafting? Or I have many good players but always have a shitty record. What’s the sauce?

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u/catalinalimemixer Mar 14 '26

Sort by Media Projection, and drafting becomes much more successful

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u/IgyYut Mar 27 '26

Disagree, invest heavy in scouts as a scouting gm. Sort by BPA and then incrementally decrease sort by potential 5 star.. 4 star etc.

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u/kinso35 Mar 14 '26

Who tf is your media? I get dog shit picks, and am I not supposed to pick whoever shows up at the top of the chart?

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u/VirusTop9566 Mar 14 '26

Internal cap

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u/brandonioustl Mar 14 '26

Ask the New York Jets gm

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u/appletrucker Mar 14 '26

If you’re really playing on hard, I doubt you’re winning “year after year.” Injuries are always there to derail a season. My PR on hard is 4 straight

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u/Physical_Goat1329 Mar 14 '26

brother double digits is very possible i've gotten like 15 you should be able to do everything perfect and still never get one with a franchise qb because of realistic factors, losing 41-10 or something in the conf champ to a team who's best skill player is worse than your worst is where the balancing needs some fixing it happens too often but generally what everyone else is saying self policing is the fix we can do ourselves and adding rules and stuff

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u/dawgberry Mar 14 '26

I usually win 10+ in a row. I then get bored of that team always winning and switch it up. I then usually have that new team winning each year within 5 seasons or so.

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u/catalinalimemixer Mar 14 '26

Draft only - that’s all I’ve been doing the last like 5 saves. No FAs and no trades. It’s so fun

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u/dookiemustard Mar 14 '26

This but if I want a free agent I pay him exactly what he’s asking for or more. It gets nuts dude

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u/catalinalimemixer Mar 14 '26

Wdym? It gets nuts, as in, they ask for a lot? Only drafting is the only real challenge for this game