Opening Night: v1.0 Is Live

It’s opening night: Front Office Hoops is officially out of beta, and v1.0 is live at frontofficehoops.com. Your beta save upgrades in place the next time you open the game, and you’ll see a backup prompt first in case you want a copy of the old file.

Back in July I promised the launch announcement would land on this blog, so here it is. Thank you to everyone who played through the beta summer and told me what was broken. Reports from you all shaped a real chunk of this release, and the game is better for every one of them.

What’s in 1.0

The full list lives in the changelog, but here’s the tour:

• Everything from the beta: running your team, setting lineups and rotations, working the draft and free agency, and simming season after season. That core carried the summer and got sharper the whole way.
• Leagues, plural: run multiple saves side by side, and share a seed like crimson-fadeaway-77 with a friend to get the identical league. First to a ring wins.
• A trade market that thinks: picks priced the way real front offices price them, protections included. Counters you’d consider, and CPU teams that call you.
• Coaches with careers: schemes, scheme fit, player development, and a hiring market where coaches have wants of their own.
• Training camp and the G League: allocate camp yourself, send rookies down, call them up when they’ve earned it.
• A cap that behaves like the CBA: Bird rights, holds, extensions, and a re-sign phase where your own guys have leverage.
• Endgames worth watching: fouling, catch-up pace, desperation heaves, and yes, overtime.
• Start anywhere: a fresh league, today’s NBA rosters, or a league file imported from elsewhere.

And all of it still runs entirely in your browser, keeps working when your connection drops, and never asks you to sign up.

What’s next

The board doesn’t empty out because the beta tag came off. Near the top: player morale, named injuries with tough play-through calls, and a live play-by-play mode. The loudest requests from the subreddit move up the list, same as they did all summer.

Found a bug? Post it on r/FrontOfficeHoops with your exported save (Settings, then Export) and I can reproduce exactly what you saw.

See you at the arena. :)