The owner can fire you.
Your board sets a target before the season. Its confidence moves every week. Lose the room, and you lose the job.
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Board confidence · last 8 weeks
Rafters Early Access Beta · Waitlist open
Build a dynasty.Or get fired trying.
Rafters is a basketball front-office game. Pick a club. Your owner sets the target, twenty-nine rival front offices negotiate back, and the deadline does not wait for you.
Deep enough for the sickos. Simple enough for everyone.
The job offer · East
Harbor City Admirals
Last season41–41
Payroll$168.9M
Board58
Owner
Roman Sterling is 35. Win this year, or start the rebuild.
The GM's phone Deadline day, 1:14 AM
1:14
Thursday, February 6
1:14
HCA
TRADE DEADLINE06:00:00
−3BOARD58
The game
This is your office.
Real screens from the current build. You run the club from here: the roster, the books, the board and every call on deadline day.
The board keeps score. It sets a target before the season, and its confidence moves every week. Miss the mandate, and they find someone who will not.
The books are real. Payroll, the tax line and both aprons. Every dollar over the line costs more than the last.
Rafters is set in the Heartland Basketball Association (HBA), a fictional league of 30 clubs. Screens from the current build.
The job
Everything a GM answers for.
Pick any club. The league moves around you whether you are ready or not.
Twenty-nine rival front offices
They build to a plan. They counter. They say no.
Rival GMs · 29
Deadline day
Offers, counter-offers and calls that go quiet at 2:59 PM.
3:00 PM ET
Rookies who become stars
Draft a nineteen-year-old and watch him grow into your best player.
Draft · develop
Veterans who mentor
The right veteran makes your rookie better. The wrong one does not.
Locker room
Fans who notice
Lose at home and you hear it. Win, and the building fills up.
Fan Pulse
Playoff series as a story
Seven games. One roster. Every adjustment is yours.
Best of seven
No season limit
Build a dynasty that lasts as long as you do. Or rebuild the one you broke.
Season 1 · 2 · 3 · …
Deadline day
Some deals go through. Most do not.
Every call you make runs through the real rulebook, and every rival GM has a plan of their own.
06:00:00to the trade deadline
For the sickos
Salary capLuxury taxFirst and second apronMid-level exceptionBird rightsDead money
Two ways to play
Run everything. Or make the big calls.
You pick your mode when you start a new save, and it stays for that save. Both modes use the same league, the same owner and the same deadline.
You run the whole club.
Rotations, tactics, training, scouting and the books. Every call in the front office is yours.
Made for players who know management games.
You make the big calls.
Your assistant runs rotations, tactics, training, scouting and the finances. You make the trades, run the draft, work free agency and watch the games.
Made for basketball fans new to GM games.
Cap rulesBoth modes can use either rule.
REAL CBA
The full rulebook. The cap follows league revenue every summer, and new contracts move with it.
FIXED CAP
A flat salary cap with one hard apron. Less of the fine print.
Pro starts on Real CBA, and Lite starts on Fixed cap. You can change this on the new-save screen.
The Expansion Class
Play it first. Shape it.
Before the Early Access Beta, we sign a small group of testers. You play early builds, report what breaks, and help decide what comes next. Founding members get their name hung in the rafters: a credit in the game itself.
Applications open on our Discord soon. Join the waitlist and you hear first.
SIGNED
STANDARD CONTRACTTWO-WAY
You've been signed to a two-way contract.
Welcome to the Rafters Expansion Class.
ClubHarbor City Admirals
TermEarly builds
DutiesPlay. Break. Report.
BonusName hung in the rafters
SIGNEDYour name
The Early Access Beta is coming.
The waitlist gets the first invites. Take the job before someone else does.
Join the waitlist