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NBL SuperCoach: The Manual
The frameworks that decide NBL SuperCoach seasons, broken into 8 chapters. Read them in order the first time, then come back whenever you're stuck.
Contents
The Schedule Is King
If you only learn one thing before NBL27 tips off, learn this: the schedule beats the player.
Read chapter →Chapter 2The Henshall Rule: Why Your Gun Isn't Rising
This is the one that catches out more coaches than anything else in the game, and it's the reason the schedule article came first.
Read chapter →Chapter 3Boosts: Your Four Bullets
You get four. That's the whole allocation for the season, and once they're gone they're gone.
Read chapter →Chapter 4Cash Is King
Nobody wins SuperCoach with the squad they picked in round 1. They win it with the squad they built by round 12 — and they build it with cash.
Read chapter →Chapter 5Sorry to Burst Your Bubbles: The Points-Dependency Test
This is the most useful piece of analysis in this entire series, and it takes about ninety seconds per player to run.
Read chapter →Chapter 6Fool's Gold: The Trap Archetypes
Every season, the same players wreck the same squads for the same reasons. Not because they're bad basketballers — most of them are excellent — but because something about their…
Read chapter →Chapter 7Reading the Imports: The G-League Translation Method
Every NBL club runs imports, and every season a big chunk of the SuperCoach relevance in the league belongs to players who have never taken an NBL possession. You have to price…
Read chapter →Chapter 8Rotations, Coaches and Minutes
Minutes are the only input you can't work around. A player who doesn't play can't score, can't rebound, can't make you money and can't hold a spot in your squad.
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