NEW PLAYER PERSONALITIES
All new personality types allow each player, coach and general manager to have unique characteristics for you to manage and for them to interact with each other in the game. Each particular personality type has its own tendencies towards the game’s ratings in loyalty, motivation, consistency, greed, winning, work ethic and demands for playing time for each player to shape players in a certain relatable fashion.
NEW FREE AGENT MEETING SYSTEM
Free agency has been totally revamped with the addition of a player meeting system. Have in game meetings with free agents you are courting, get feedback from them on what they are looking for in a new team and explore the new promise system which allows you to entice free agents by making them certain guarantees about your team. Fail to live up to them though and end up with unhappy players demanding trades.
NEW SCOUTING SYSTEM
Rookie scouting has been completely overhauled to give you a much more clear and useful system to scout your future stars. Assign your scouting points to specific tasks that will benefit you most in your decision making so that when draft time comes around you are armed with the details you want whether it is basic overall ratings for each player or a time consuming deep dive scouting report looking for diamonds in the rough.
NEW NBA PLAY-IN TOURNAMENTS
For full sized leagues enjoy the new play-in tournament feature. A mini tournament between the 7th-10th seeds in each conference at the end of the season determines who makes it to the final two playoff spots and who heads to the draft lottery. If you are a general manager needing a playoff berth to hold onto your job the end of the season just got way more exciting!
Link your league with Draft Day Sports: College Basketball for a totally immersive game experience. You can automatically import draft classes as well as keep tabs on the standings, stats, and rosters from your college game world all right inside of DDS:PB22. Use the expanded scouting tracker to keep tabs on players who will be in future draft classes as well as the upcoming one.