# Front Office Hoops

> Front Office Hoops is a free basketball general manager game that runs in your web browser. You run one of 30 franchises: draft, trade, sign free agents, hire coaches, and sim season after season. Start with a generated league of fictional players or with current NBA rosters. There is no download and no sign-up, and once the game has loaded it keeps working offline. Saves live in your browser on your own device.

Play: https://play.frontofficehoops.com

## Start here

- [FAQ](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/faq): Short answers on cost, accounts, offline play, phones, realism, imports, and saves.
- [The Manual](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki): Index of every guide to how the game works.

## The Manual

- [Real Players](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/real-players): Where the built-in roster of current players comes from and how its grades are made.
- [Importing leagues & Basketball GM files](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/importing-leagues): What carries over from a league file, and why imported ratings are rescaled.
- [Player ratings & letter grades](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/ratings-and-grades): How ratings map to letter grades, and why an A is rare.
- [Coaching staff](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/coaches): One head coach, two assistants, and how schemes shape your team.
- [Starters, rotations & out-of-position play](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/rotations-and-positions): Building a lineup, pinning slots, minutes, and playing out of position.
- [Free agency, Bird rights & the cap](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/free-agency-and-the-cap): Cap holds, Bird rights, the re-sign window, RFA matching, and extensions.
- [Trades, the deadline & pick protection](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/trades-and-the-deadline): Reading the trade verdict, making a legal deal, and protected picks.
- [Your saves & your data](https://frontofficehoops.com/wiki/your-saves-and-data): Local storage, backups, offline play, and what updates do to a league.

## The Desk (posts)

- [Closing the Gap to the Real NBA](https://frontofficehoops.com/desk/v1-2-realism): What we changed in the sim for v1.2, with our numbers beside the real 2025-26 season.
- [Five Million Games Later](https://frontofficehoops.com/desk/five-million-games): What the calibration runs found across thousands of test seasons.
- [Meet the 30](https://frontofficehoops.com/desk/meet-the-30): A division-by-division tour of all 30 franchises and their identities.
- [Opening Night: v1.0 Is Live](https://frontofficehoops.com/desk/v1-is-live): What shipped at v1.0 and what changed for saves.
- [The Road to v1.0](https://frontofficehoops.com/desk/road-to-v1): The v1.0 roadmap: what was built and where the game goes next.

## Changelog

- [Changelog](https://frontofficehoops.com/changelog): Every release, newest first.