Draft Companion vs HoopSim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draft Companion
Experience a basketball career sim that focuses on the life decisions between games. Choose your path from high school to the pros, manage NIL deals, and navigate recruiting to chase your league dreams.
- Three career paths: High School, College, Pro
- 123 lifestyle events shaping your story
- NIL deal system
- Recruiting flow
- Draft stock tracking
- Cloud sync across devices
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Draft Companion is a player-lock career management companion designed to work alongside the basketball simulation game you already play. Play your games on your console or PC, enter your results in Draft Companion, and turn every performance into progression, decisions, and a long-term career story. Start in high school, college, or the NBA and carry your player through an entire career. HOW DOES IT WORK? Most players begin in the franchise mode of their preferred basketball game: 1. Create a custom player. 2. Enter the player’s starting attributes and draft details in Draft Companion. 3. Enable player lock in your basketball game. 4. Play your games on your console or PC. 5. Record your stats in Draft Companion. 6. Earn XP and use it to upgrade attributes and develop badges. Draft Companion keeps progression connected to your actual performance. Instead of freely increasing ratings after every game, your recorded results determine the XP and upgrades your player earns. BUILD A COMPLETE CAREER • Create and manage multiple career saves • Begin in high school, college, or the NBA • Track games, seasons, playoffs, stats, awards, and milestones • Earn performance-based XP • Upgrade attributes and develop badges • Navigate recruiting, camps, college roles, NIL opportunities, and draft stock • Manage contracts, agents, trades, endorsements, finances, and relationships • Respond to interviews and career events • Build your reputation, fanbase, chemistry, and legacy • Review supported screenshot imports before saving detected information CHOOSE YOUR EXPERIENCE Lite provides a focused play, log, earn, and upgrade experience. Pro expands the journey with high school, college, the draft, professional contracts, agents, endorsements, relationships, lifestyle decisions, and long-term legacy systems. IMPORTANT TO KNOW • Draft Companion does not include playable basketball games • No console, PC, or mobile basketball game is included • You play your games separately and enter or import the results • Optional CourtLink Beta connects supported attribute upgrades to one linked offline MyNBA player in NBA 2K26 on Windows. It requires the separate CourtLink Windows app and a supported local editor. Console players can continue updating their player manually. You provide the action on the court. Draft Companion builds the career around it. Draft Companion is used by thousands of players around the world who want a deeper, more structured player-lock career experience. Annual Lite and Pro subscriptions are available through in-app purchase. Features and save limits vary by plan. Draft Companion is an independent companion experience and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any video game publisher, professional sports league, team, or players’ association. Learn more at 2kdraft.com. Privacy: https://2kdraft.com/privacy Terms: https://2kdraft.com/terms Support: 2kdraftcompanion@gmail.com
HoopSim
Simulate basketball games across different eras with a statistical model. Build rosters, play single matchups, full seasons, or live versus games with friends. Offers multiple draft and game modes for endless replayability.
- Cross-era player simulation
- Statistical box-score modeling
- Matchup, Season, and Versus modes
- Roster building with free picks or salary cap
- Live multiplayer versus games
- Historical player-season data
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HoopSim is a cross-era basketball simulator. Pick any player-season from 1951–2025, build 10-man rosters, and let a statistical model decide the box score. THREE MODES • Matchup — One game, head-to-head. Build two teams from any era and simulate a single game, or run hundreds of sims for win odds and score distributions. • Season — Full season + playoffs. Draft your roster (free picks or salary cap), face a league of rivals, then chase a title through a best-of-7 bracket. • Versus — Play against friends, live. Share a 6-character join code, chat in lobby, and settle it in a best-of-7 series. HOW IT WORKS HoopSim runs stochastic box-score simulations on a hosted model — the same engine powering matchup odds, season games, and Versus series. Rosters are player-seasons (e.g. Jordan ’98, Jokic ’23), so you can mix eras freely. FREE TO USE No accounts. No in-app purchases. No ads. For entertainment only. Not affiliated with the NBA, NBPA, or any team. Player names and statistics are derived from publicly available NBA data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HoopSim at 5.0 against Draft Companion's 3.4. HoopSim also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Draft Companion sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. HoopSim asks for nothing beyond the download.
HoopSim holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
Draft Companion ships an update weekly, HoopSim every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Draft Companion | HoopSim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 269 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ERIC GEORGE JUNIOR PINK | Samuel Spink |
Customer experience
Draft Companion
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In-app purchases
Draft Companion
- Draft Companion Lite$9.991 Year
- Draft Companion Pro$19.991 Year
HoopSim
No in-app purchases
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