Era Draft gives every day one simulation era - a decade of basketball whose rules and trends shape the season you are about to run. You draft by spinning a roulette of franchise eras: each spin lands on a team and a decade (the 1990s Bulls, the 1960s Celtics, the 1970s Kentucky Colonels), and you pick any player from that team-era roster to fill a slot. You fill five starting positions and four bench spots, then draft a coach, and you get exactly ONE respin for the whole draft - burn it wisely. Players perform at their rating from that decade, taxed for playing out of position or far from their home era. When your nine are locked, the season simulates instantly: 72 games in 50s and 60s sims, 82 otherwise. Win half your games to make the playoffs and chase the title through an era-accurate bracket. Your first run of the day is the scored one - after that, redraft in practice mode as much as you like.
Era Draft is the airball.gg take on the era-roulette team builder. The wheel spans every viable franchise-decade in the database - over two hundred team-eras from the 1950s to the 2020s, including the ABA's finest - and every player is rated on what he actually did INSIDE that decade, from his real season lines and honors, never a career average smeared across eras. The roster sheet shows those REAL peak-season lines - airball's own sim ratings stay under the hood, so drafting is reading history, not sorting a column. Role tags are airball's own read of the data and are labeled as such. The daily scored run uses a shared wheel: everyone faces the same spins in the same order, so the leaderboard compares drafting skill on identical luck. The season simulation is fictional - real names appear in text only, next to the standing simulated-results disclaimer - and it varies run to run, so even a perfect draft has to survive the schedule. Practice mode is unlimited, unscored, and where the 82-0 chase lives.
What does the era of the day change?
The season's length (72 games in 50s/60s sims), the bracket's shape, and the channel weights the sim scores your roster on - older eras reward the glass and the paint, modern eras reward spacing and creation. Out-of-era players also take a penalty that grows with the distance from their home decade.
Can I draft anyone from the team the wheel lands on?
Anyone who played for that franchise in that decade and has a rated line - roughly the era's top forty for that team, best first. The player's rating comes from that decade of his career specifically.
How does the one respin work?
Once per draft, on any spin, you can throw the result back and spin again - and you must live with the second result. It is the game's biggest decision.
Is the scored run fair if the wheel is random?
Yes - the daily scored run uses a shared seeded wheel, so every player faces exactly the same spins in the same order. The leaderboard measures what you did with the same luck as everyone else.
Can I play more than once?
Your first completed run of the day is the scored one. After that, practice mode is unlimited - fresh random wheels, no points, no leaderboard, all bragging rights.
Player stats, rosters, and career data reflect the most recently completed NBA season until the new season is underway.
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