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I would expect it around Bowl Game/Championship time. CF20 was released January 28th 2020. First access will probably start 1st quarter of next month.

9 times out of 10 it's GM only, unless I'm doing a college style game where there isn't really a gm.

With Franchise Hockey manger 7 being released this past week, it was time for a new Dynasty. Hopefully one I actually make it a few seasons into. My original thought was doing a "what if" 1979 season. What if the NHL took all 7 WHA teams, including Wayne Gretzky's Indianapolis Racers. But that's gonna take alot more time to set up with logos and rosters. So for the time being, I'm gonna start with a modern day NHL dynasty. Please welcome back, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.   Anaheim announces changes

In a surprise move the Anaheim Ducks are making multiple changes in the organization. Up first is the team name and branding. For the first time since the 2005-2006 season the team will once again be called the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. They will also be reverting back to their inaugural logos and jerseys. Anaheim won the Stanley Cup the first year they dropped the “Mighty” but they have not been to the Stanley Cup Finals in the past 13 seasons since.
The Mighty Ducks also announced a new GM in the same press conference. After back to back seasons of not qualifying for the playoffs and getting swept by in-state rival the San Jose Sharks the last time they did make the playoffs, ownership announced it was time to look for new or in this case old blood.
Taking over the GM responsibilities for the newly renamed Mighty Ducks will be a very familiar face for Duck fans, the teams 1st ever draft pick and 4th overall in 1993, Paul Kariya. Kariya played for the Ducks for 9 seasons from 1994-2003.
Changes in AHL affiliate for the Mighty Ducks

In other news the the team announced they have also changed their AHL affiliation and have cut ties with the San Diego Gulls, who have been their affiliate since 2015. The Mighty Ducks have annoucned they are bringing back the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks to the AHL. Cincinnati was the affiliate from 1997-2005.
The Mighty Ducks open preseason tomorrow night against instate rivals San Jose Sharks. The Sharks finished 8th in the Pacific last season, going 29-36 and failing to qualify for the playoffs.

As big of a hockey fan as I am, I never have played either of those games. By the time I moved to PC gaming both those games were highly outdated. Only experience I have is with Franchise Hockey Manager. So sorry I can't help you any.

HORNETS ANNOUNCE GM CHANGE
The Charlotte Hornets have not won more then 36 games since they won 48 in the 2015-2016 season. And they have not reached the playoffs since that season, and have only finished with a winning percentage better then .450 one season since then.
The Charlotte Hornets announced today they have parted ways with Mitch Kupchak, who to be fair has only been in that position since April 8th 2018. In his place they have agreed to terms with 40 year old Indiana native Sam Fisher. Fisher played college ball at Indiana State before playing 2 years over in Europe.
“I’m excited for the opportunity” said Fisher at the press conference today, “I have lofty expectations for myself. I want and expect to win to bring Charlotte their first championship.” Fisher wasn’t brave enough to guarantee or promise how soon that will happen. When asked what his first order of business was, he said “getting ready for the draft coming up.”

The pretty much unknown Fisher The Charlotte Hornets will have the 3rd pick in the upcoming draft. The WSSN mock draft has them taking 19 year old SG Anthony Edwards from Georgia.


The mock draft ended up being right, as the Charlotte Hornets selected SG Anthony Edwards with the 3rd pick in the 1st round. Edwards will fill a hole the Hornets have at SG, as the Hornets only had 22 year old Malik Monk on the roster. With the 2nd round pick the Hornets selected PF Tyler Bey from Georgia and with the final pick the Hornets selected PF Yoeli Childs from BYU.

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It's a massive new User Interface upgrade. Some like it, some don't. Great thing about Wolverine Studios is they always offer a demo that can be downloaded on their website. I like it better then 20 but I still don't like it as well as PB21 or even CB20.

CB20 was released March of this year. So would expect 21 to be March of next year.

I would expect it around Bowl Game/Championship time. CF20 was released January 28th 2020. First access will probably start 1st quarter of next month.

This is great!

NASHVILLE, TN --- It was announced today that Music City Baseball has bought the Tampa Bay Rays. For the start of the 2020 season they will be moving to Nashville to play at the newly finished Music City Field as the rebranded Nashville Stars. With the move to Nashville, the AAA Nashville Sounds will be moving to Durham to become the Durham Bulls (the former Tampa Bay AAA affiliate). Nashville will add a AAA affiliate in Lexington Kentucky. They unveiled their logos and jerseys today for both teams today.

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And their AAA affiliate will based in Lexington Kentucky as the Kentucky Bootleggers.
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Thanks, New to the forum, trying to figure out best way to post the image and make it full size. Not the tiny thumbnail, so people can read it without having to click anything. Or clicking it and it taking you to imgur. To keep all my dynasty's uniform looking, I normally update them all to my wordpress blog and then take a screenshot and then post to forums. I may just have to link my wordpress site. My lastest blog post for this dynasty can be found here: https://drummerj99.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/2020-21-season-october-18th-24th/
And my full blog can be found here: https://drummerj99.wordpress.com/

Thanks. The game is officially being released today. So I will continue it more often. I always try and take my time during the beta stages of First Access just in case a update screws it up.

GOLDEN STATE CONTINUES THEIR UNDEFEATED SEASON
Steph Curry put on a show for 17,702 in attendance at the Chase Center and the millions watching around the world. Curry would play 40 minutes and put up 52 points on 21-33 shooting and 10-19 from 3. Even with all that, the Hornets still kept the game close.
The Warriors would lead by 9 at the end of the 1st quarter before Charlotte would outscore Golden State 33-17 in the 2nd quarter to go into half with the lead 57-50. IT was a back and forth game the 2nd half. With Golden State outscoring Charlotte 59-47 in the 2nd half.
Klay Thompson would be the only other Warrior to end the game in double digit scoring, scoring 16 points in 33 minutes of action. Devonte Graham would put on a show for any Hornets fans watching, as he’d score 37 points in 39 minutes of action. He’d go 13-21 from the field, while shooting 8-14 from beyond the arc. Center Cody Zeller would fish the game with 11 points and 9 rebounds.
The Hornets would have 2 players coming off the bench score 14 points in Chinanu Onuaku & Terry Rozier. The Hornets have 2 days off before finishing the west coast swing in Phoenix versus the Suns (2-2, 1-1 Home).
SUNS WIN EASILY VS HORNETS
The Pheonix Suns made it look easy when they hosted the Charlotte Hornets tonight. They would get out to a 28 point lead at one point before actually winning by 24.
Glen Robinson III would lead the Hornets with 14 points, while only playing 16 minutes.Cody Zeller would add 12 points with 6 rebounds in 22 minutes. The Hornets bench would see alot of playing time in this game, with rookie playing his season high of 29 minutes. He’s also score his season high of 13 points in 29 minutes.
Devin Booker lead all players, scoring 30 points with 10 assists and 3 rebounds in 34 minutes. Ricky Rubio would also have 10 assists, while scoring 18 points in his 38 minutes. Mikal Bridges led the Suns bench scoring 15 points in 22 minutes.
WINLESS PISTONS PICK UP FIRST WIN VS HORNETS
Maybe the Hornets expected it to be a easy win but the Pistons proved no team in this league is a easy win. Devonte’ Graham continued his strong start to the season, scoring 26 points on 9-18 shooting from the field, while going 4-11 from beyond the arc. He’d also grab 4 rebounds and get 7 assists, while playing 30 minutes. Center Cody Zeller added 12 points and 5 rebounds.
Terry Rozier continued his strong start coming off the bench, he’s averaging 15 points a game with 4.8 assists. Tonight he scored 12 points in 18 minutes, while grabbing 3 rebounds and 3 assists.
24 year old Luke Kennard led the Pistons, scoring 21 points in 30 minutes. He went a perfect 9-9 from the free throw line and also had 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Derrick Rose had 7 assists while also scoring 19 points in 33 minutes. Terence Davis led the bench for the Pistons, scoring 12 points in 15 minutes.


Next week the Charlotte Hornets play 3 games, with 2 of those being here in Charlotte at the Spectrum Center, starting with the Brooklyn Nets on Monday, followed by the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday. Before they head north of the border on Thursday to visit the Toronto Raptors.

Just finished 1st season at Indiana State. I've been tracking this dynasty over at Wolverine Studios forum but figured I'd start tracking it here as well. So I'll pick up here just after the NIT and NCAA Tournaments.

 
VALPO HANGS ON FOR SLIM WIN IN MVC TOURNAMENT
For fans watching tonight, it looked like Indiana State might finally get the edge against Valparaiso (Valpo has beaten ISU twice this season) and the Sycamores would go into half with a 7 point lead, leading 40-33. But as has been the case alot this season, the Sycamores would allow their opponent to come back. Valpo would out score Indiana State by 10 in the 2nd half, 51-41 to pick up the 3 point win.
Indiana State would have their chance to tie it with time running out, as Junior PG Jeff Davis would attempt a 3 with 2 seconds remaining and was unable to hit the mark. Davis probably wasn’t the best person to take that shot, shooting .311 beyond the arc on the season. SR SG Jason Stanley (who’s still fighting back spasms) was shooting .423 beyond the arc and if fully healthy would have been the better option.
Freshman C Rashif Murray once again led the Sycamores in scoring, this time with 12 points on 6-7 shooting in 20 minutes of action. Aforementioned Senior SG Jason Stanley would also score 12 points with 5 rebounds and 4 assists. Junior SG Clifford Walker had one of his best outings, matching his season high coing off the bench and scoring 11 points and 4 rebounds.
Sophmore SG Carl Graham led the Crusaders with 19 points with 5 rebounds and 2 assists.


It seems fitting that the team that led the Missouri Valley Conference all season would end up winning the tournament. Northern Iowa got out to a commanding 14 point lead at halftime before Bradley would make a game of it in the 2nd half.
Senior PF Jamel Marvray would lead the Panthers with 20 points, 3 rebounds and 3 blocks in his 26 minutes of game time.

Round 1 News:
#14 New Mexico State upsets #3 Marquette 87-70.
#13 Troy upsets Saint Josephs 78-65.
#12 Lehigh with buzzer beater to upset #5 Cincinnati 67-66
#13 North Carolina A&T upset #4 Oklahoma 58-47
#12 Xavier upsets #5 Illinois 80-67.
Round 2 News:
The Battle of #12 Xavier and #13 North Carolina A&T, goes to Xavier 72-66
#10 Memphis stuns #2 Kentucky with buzzer beater to win 73-72
The Final four is set with 3 #1’s, and will feature 2 teams from the Big 10. #1 Ohio State will face #1 Iowa, as #1 West Virginia will face #3 Michigan State.
#1 Ohio State beats #1 West Virginia 82-77 to win the National Championship

It was a battle of #7 seeds in the NIT Tournament finals, as Nicholls State and Iowa State would face off. Iowa State would pick up the 14 point win, 76-62.

For me personally I've always hated sports manager style games. I always wanted to "control the action". So I was a big franchise gamer on the console. But as console gaming shifted more and more away from single player and franchise mode into the pay to win and online crap. I've have no choice but to move on from those games to more realistic options. To me nothing compares to ESPN NFL 2k5 and their franchise mode. Should have known back then it was gonna be all downhill from there.

New here and to DDSPB21. Excited for something better than 2K.

Have been enjoying some sport manager games such as Football manager and OOTP and played them for years.It's nice to meet you guys!

It's currently available for preorder with First Access, which not only saves you 10% but also gets you a free Steam key for the game. They have not set a official release date yet, as far as I know. But last years version came out on November 29th. So would expect it somewhere between November 15th-30th.

Never thought about that. After playing around some more I can download DarkReader extension for Chrome and Firefox to turn the background of WordPress black. So think that'll be the easiest way to post updates on here.
 
HORNETS SEND FANS HOME HAPPY ON OPENING NIGHT
Devonte’ Graham made the statement on why rookie Anthony Edwards shouldn’t see the starting rotation soon, as Graham led the Hornets tonight scoring 21 points in 30 minutes of action. He was 7-14 from the field and 5-10 from beyond the arc. He would add 4 rebounds and 9 assists in the process. Cody Zeller added in 16 points in 31 minutes of action, while grabbing 4 rebounds.
It wasn’t all great for the Hornets though, SF Miles Bridges would injure his foot and will probably miss 5 days. Before the injury he had a great night as well, scoring 14 while grabbing 10 rebounds.

It’s finally Opening Tip for the Charlotte Hornets and their new GM. The Hornets will play 4 games this week, starting with a 2 week home stand against the Milwaukee Bucks and the Minnesota Timberwolves before heading on a west coast road trip to take on the Sacramento Kings and LA Lakers, Hornets will finish that west coast swing next week by visiting the Golden State Warrors and Phoenix Suns.
HORNETS SEND FANS HOME HAPPY ON OPENING NIGHT
Devonte’ Graham made the statement on why rookie Anthony Edwards shouldn’t see the starting rotation soon, as Graham led the Hornets tonight scoring 21 points in 30 minutes of action. He was 7-14 from the field and 5-10 from beyond the arc. He would add 4 rebounds and 9 assists in the process. Cody Zeller added in 16 points in 31 minutes of action, while grabbing 4 rebounds.
It wasn’t all great for the Hornets though, SF Miles Bridges would injure his foot and will probably miss 5 days. Before the injury he had a great night as well, scoring 14 while grabbing 10 rebounds.
Khris Middleton led the Bucks with scoring 30 points with 3 assists. Giannis Antetokounmpo would grab 11 rebounds with 6 assists, while adding 26 points.
 

It does post as rich text if you just highlight the whole blog entry on wordpress from html and then paste it in to a new entry here as rich text. You'll lose the entirety of the white background but at least it's not black text on black background.

With Draft Day Sports Pro Basketball 21 now in First Access with expected full release in the next couple weeks, I decided it's time for a new dynasty. And since I have a account here now to download the PB21 player pack, figured might as well add some content to this forum, as well. Hopefully I can get this one going longer then my Pacers one last year. Was looking for something different and a team that has never won a NBA Championship. So welcome to my Charlotte Hornets dynasty.

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