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2022 BuzzerBeater Knowledge Base

All of these statements are made by BB's. None are guesses, estimations, or made by the general public. They have all been pulled from conversations with BB's in public forums and DM's and accumulated into one space for your benefit.

With the introduction of new and active BB's, we have been slowly receiving more information about the game. I took the liberty of scouring all public forums (BB Forum, Discords, offsites...) and accumulated all released knowledge about the game of BuzzerBeater in the past year. Instead of making it a treasure hunt to go out and find these tips, I wanted them to exist in one space where we can continue to add to it and reference from it.

This post will be updated as new information is posted and as more is found. Please comment below with more links to forum posts or images of conversations with BB's so we can collectively grow this database of niche facts about the game.

Game Engine
- How fast stamina is consumed is only determined by your tactics. Your opponent cannot impact your rate of stamina consumption. Fast tactics consume stamina faster. Slow tactics consume stamina slower.
- Focus GDP has more weight than pace GDP in terms of impact to ratings.
- FDC: Only takes into account the starters stamina and how their positions are set in the lineup. It does not look at backups stamina or the skills of starters or backups when deciding substitution patterns.
- DMI is not at all used by the game engine
- If you blank 3 or more starters, the coach will reset the entire lineup.
- 3-2 zone defense: SG and SF defend the same categories. PG defends slightly more outside shots and slightly less inside shots.
- 2-3 zone defense: PG/SG defend 3's the most, SF/PF slightly. PG/SG/SF/PF defend jumpers at the same rate. C defends most IS, PF/SF some, SG/PG very little
- In a vacuum a player with better FT skill would have a higher FT%, but during a game there are other factors like stamina, game shape, and experience.
- A players skills will be increased or decreased by a certain percentage based on their GS

Players
- ATG is the top 5% of HOF. Hall of fame is 10.00-10.94 while ATG is 10.95 and above.
- All players over 34 have an 8% chance of dropping 10% amount in a skill twice each week (8% + 8%). The drops are percentage based and can both be in the same skill. Career extension specialists decrease this % chance of encountering a drop. Each age over 34 increases this % chance of encountering a drop.
- Aggressiveness: Is a hidden stat; players foul more, draw more fouls, increased chance to steal or cause a turnover.
- Shooting Fouls: Increasing a players ID or OD does not change their foul rate. SB will slightly decrease their foul rate.
- Non-Shooting Fouls: Increasing a players ID or OD will decrease their foul rate. These are assigned by comparing a players aggressiveness, OD, and ID with the teammates currently on court.

Last edited by CM-Alonso at 11/25/2022 13:46:40

Training
- Game Shape training diminishes for every time it was used in the past 4 weeks. This resets every season.
- The gym gives you 1, 2, or 3 more cross training slots based on level.
- Ball handling trains HA, DR, and a little bit of OD.
- The training seen on the home screen is rounded (46.50-47.49 will show as 47). 47.00+ is full training.
- There is no cap to elastics benefits (ex: 22 HA helps more than 20 HA) and the returns above 20 are not diminishing
- 18 and 19 year olds whose minutes are out of 45: 94.7% training at 43.8 minutes and 93.4% training at 43.5 minutes

Miscellaneous
- Taping injuries can heal all injuries in-game whether they are permanent or not.
- Fan Survey is normalized across the rest of your league. Therefore, how good your attendance makes is based on the league average fan survey and not your individual rating.
- Fan Survey: Player Role (Draws a paycheck, Regular Starter, etc...) does not impact fan survey
- Fan Survey: I am familiar with the star players, and am not afraid that they will be transferred is based on # of transfers per season and average tenure of your players.
- Fan Survey: TV games and Rival games have the same impact on fan survey.
- National Team merchandise is given so long as they are on the 12 active players set on a lineup. This merchandise is a percentage of their salary.
- Merchandise store is not impacted by your players. It is a flat increase
- Bot teams are not included in league averages
- Box Score points per 100 possessions statistic: Shot quality is calculated before calculating whether there was a foul, altered shot, or block. So those are not reflected in that stat specifically.
- All-Star Voting: A player is only qualified for 1 position. That position is the most minutes he played in league games this season. One of the biggest factors in voting is rating. A player only needs 1 game to qualify for voting.
- Merchandise: If a player doesn't qualify for League Rankings because of # of league games, it will impact your merchandise.

Last edited by Apex at 06/09/2022 15:22:13

This is gold.

A little confession: I had one document called "BB-Justin posts" where I was putting together all relevant info I found in his posts, but it doesn't even contain 20% of what you collected.

Thanks a lot!

You're very welcome!

I noticed, you, me, and just about every top manager was all making lists like these and I figured it would be easier if we all had access to it and worked on it together!

Also, I don't think I got a chance to tell you personally but I really enjoyed the podcast you did with EBW. Listened through it all and it's amazing to hear how a BB genius navigates B3 and team management. I never knew that you were made to choose a team between Utopia and your main to compete each season either haha.

Best of luck to you this season and I pray that for my sake we do not meet in B3

The training seen on the home screen is rounded (46.50-47.49 will show as 47). 47.00+ is full training.

Is this true? I thought full training was 48:00+

It's been recently changed to allow a bit more leniency. 18 and 19 year olds are 45 minutes+ now as well.

Last edited by Apex at 05/10/2022 16:25:58

Thnx! I knew about the 18-19yo but I didn't knew about this change. This week 2 of my trainees (main team + utopia) played less than 48:00 (just 48'), I am really happy with this change

Of course, yeah that updates been taken real well by the community.

Just FYI, in the recent news post they announced that players 27 years old and above will only need 40 minutes of training starting next season. This is because exhaustion is being implemented in all league matches and it only impacts players of that age group.

I knew that too but thank you!

You’re welcome! And yes I did get a BB’s permission to post this. I’m in close contact with a few of them.

It is a shift from what’s been going on but with new BB’s providing more information and being more active with the game; we will be getting much more information, announcements, and updates in the following seasons.