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EUROLEAGUE DRAFT · 5 PLAYER RUN

Draft your starting five.

Roll a club. Pick any available player. Build a roster strong enough to make a run.

2025–26 rosters · Player ratings are PlayBasket estimates.

YOUR STARTING FIVE

Court view

01 / 05 LOCKED
HALF-COURT SETTIER · BUILDING
Choose any available player from the club draw.

NO CLUB DRAWN · ROSTER

Choose an eligible player.

ANY OPEN POSITIONAll positions stay visible

EUROLEAGUE DRAFT & SEASON

Build a five and see how far it can go.

Choose players from the 2025–26 EuroLeague roster pool, fill the five positions on the court and put your lineup into a simulated season. Every draw gives you a club and an eligible group of players; the roster you build shapes the tier and the odds of reaching the postseason.

01 · DRAFT

Roll a EuroLeague club

Reveal a club and select one available player. Each draw is used for one pick, then you roll again. One optional re-roll is shared across the entire draft, not renewed for each pick.

02 · LINEUP

Complete the starting five

Fill two guard slots, two forward slots and one center slot. A pick locks into an eligible open position; the fifth pick starts the season automatically. There is no undo or transfer budget.

03 · SEASON

Follow the simulated run

Inspect the league table, then use Advance to start the available postseason path. Its results reveal automatically; New Draft becomes available when your run finishes.

Data scope: The pinned 2025–26 dataset was compiled on . It supplies 20 clubs and 289 draft-eligible players, not every registered player or a live transfer feed. Ratings use the captured season's production, including available Play-In and postseason records, with sample-size adjustment. Player ratings are PlayBasket estimates, not official EuroLeague grades. See our source and simulation policy or report a roster or rating issue.

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Why is a player unavailable, and how does the re-roll work?

A player must belong to the drawn club, be unpicked and fit an open guard, forward or center slot. A full position stays visible but cannot accept another player. If a player has multiple eligible positions, choosing their entry in a position column prefers that slot. The same player cannot fill two places.

You have one Re-roll team for the whole draft. It replaces the current club with a different club that still has an eligible pick; it does not undo a locked player. Later normal draws may return a previous club if that club still has an available player for your open positions.

Are these current EuroLeague rosters and official ratings?

No. This game uses the published completed-season snapshot, not today's squads. Draft eligibility requires a usable rating and complete player-profile fields. The rating model needs at least five games and 60 minutes; a missing player can therefore reflect coverage or sample limits rather than real-life ineligibility.

Overall ratings combine recorded production with position weights and sample-size adjustment on a 0–99 game scale. They are not scouting grades, official player rankings or a claim that a player's real value can be reduced to one number.

How is the lineup tier calculated, and does Elite guarantee a title?

The finished five's average Overall sets its tier: Elite at 86 or above, Contender at 76, Playoff at 66, Competitive at 56, and Rebuild below 56. Before all five slots are filled, Building or Promising is only a preview.

For a fictional example, ratings of 90, 85, 80, 75 and 70 average 80: Contender, not Elite. Tier adjusts the lineup's simulated strength, but opponent strength, home advantage and seeded game outcomes still matter. Even Elite does not guarantee a championship; these are game-model chances, not predictions or betting odds.

What happens after the draft and during the playoffs?

Your five replaces the club used for your first pick in a simulated 20-team table. Every entry plays 38 games. Seeds 1–6 qualify directly, 7–10 enter the Play-In and 11–20 are eliminated. Quarterfinals are first to three wins, followed by a one-game semifinal and championship game. This follows the broad 2025–26 EuroLeague competition format, not its actual results.

Use Advance for an available postseason path; the game then reveals results automatically at short intervals. The record shown above remains the regular-season record. Simulation limits matter: standings ties use point difference then club ID, drafted players are not removed from opponent rosters, and there is no third-place game. This is a simplified model, not an exact official tiebreak or roster-management engine.

Can I save a draft or replay the same lineup for a different result?

This game keeps the draft and season only in the current page session. Reloading or leaving loses that run; it does not use Career Simulator's save or My Careers archive. After completion, New Draft clears the five picks and restores the single re-roll.

Club draws are random, but season results are seeded from the selected player-ID sequence. Recreating the same selections in the same order, with the same club assignments and unchanged dataset, reproduces the season. A new draft is not a promise of a fresh outcome for an identical setup. Draft & Season is replayable, not a shared Daily puzzle or a starting-lineup guessing quiz.