Comparison

Draft Companion vs HoopSim

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Draft Companion4 screens
HoopSim4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Draft Companion ships an update weekly, HoopSim every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Draft Companion versus HoopSim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraft CompanionHoopSim
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size269 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperERIC GEORGE JUNIOR PINKSamuel Spink

Customer experience

Draft Companion

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

HoopSim

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Draft Companion

Subscriptions2
  • Draft Companion Lite$9.991 Year
  • Draft Companion Pro$19.991 Year
None

HoopSim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Draft Companion free?
Draft Companion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HoopSim free?
HoopSim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Draft Companion or HoopSim?
HoopSim is rated higher. Draft Companion averages 3.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while HoopSim averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Draft Companion or HoopSim have ads?
Neither Draft Companion nor HoopSim shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Draft Companion or HoopSim?
Draft Companion ships an update weekly, and HoopSim every 9 days. Most recently, Draft Companion was updated on October 31, 2026 and HoopSim on October 31, 2026.

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