EraBall vs Gaffa XI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EraBall
Draft legendary basketball players from different eras and simulate seasons to see how they perform. Build your dream team with various draft modes and compete in challenges or head-to-head multiplayer.
- Draft players from all basketball eras
- Simulate full seasons and playoffs
- Multiple draft modes (Normal, Salary Cap, Sandbox, Era Gauntlet, Weekly Challenge)
- Draft real coaches with career records
- Head-to-head multiplayer
- Roguelike Era Gauntlet mode
- Single-player RPG 'The League' mode
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Draft real players from every era of basketball history and simulate full seasons to see how legends from different decades match up. Or take over a team today and run it for decades in Franchise. 4,500+ players. 360+ real coaches. Eight decades, from the 1950s to today. NEW: FRANCHISE Take over any team with today's real rosters and contracts, or start from a fantasy draft, then run it for as many years as you like. Trade with front offices that act like the real ones: contenders buy, rebuilders sell, and everyone counts the cost of the luxury tax and the aprons. Scout and work out prospects, sweat the lottery, run draft night, chase free agents, manage the cap, set your rotation and send young players to the Minor League. Watch players develop, age and retire, hang their numbers in the rafters and send the greats to the Hall of Fame. PICK YOUR ERA Choose from basketball's greatest periods, from the early pioneers of the game to today's stars. Every era plays with its own historically accurate style, pace, rules and strategy. BUILD YOUR ROSTER Draft in five modes: • Normal/H2H: Classic draft, pick the best team you can. • Salary Cap: Player tier limits force real trade-offs. • Sandbox: No limits, build your dream team. • Era Gauntlet: Draft and survive a roguelike run through basketball history. • Weekly Challenge: New draft and sim rules and a new leaderboard every week. DRAFT YOUR COACH Every coach carries their real career record: grades, championship pedigree, and franchise pairings with select players that boost each other's ratings. SIMULATE & COMPETE Watch your squad play a full, historically accurate season and playoffs. The engine runs a real basketball simulation: spacing, pace, defense, rebounding, experience, all of it. ERA GAUNTLET A roguelike run through basketball history. Draft nine players, then survive four segments per act while the owner's patience runs down. Sign free agents, develop your roster with badges, and hop forward a decade at a time as your legends age. Every act ends against a real dynasty boss, from the 1957 Celtics to the 2025 Thunder. Four maps, including a full eight-decade Odyssey. Run out of patience and you're fired. WEEKLY CHALLENGE New rules every week, with its own leaderboard: locked eras, strict tier limits, banned traits, bigger boosts. HEAD-TO-HEAD Challenge friends in real-time multiplayer. Draft against each other and let your teams battle it out in the finals. THE LEAGUE A single-player tabletop RPG. Build your player by choosing an era, class, origin, frame and abilities, then work your way from open runs to college, the draft and the league. Roll dice off your build to win the games that define your career. Your choices shape the story: relationships, endorsements, money, standing and more. MINI GAMES Four quick games with a daily puzzle and an unlimited mode: Daily Card, Higher or Lower, Franchise Roulette and State Hunt. LEADERBOARDS A board for every era in every mode, plus a weekly board. Your score counts more than wins: records, point differential, team rating, your coach's grade and roster bonuses. Compete globally, synced with the web version, or against your Game Center friends. ACHIEVEMENTS, CARDS AND YOUR PLAYER CARD 130+ achievements, from common to legendary. Unlock cards by winning titles with the exact player, team and era shown. Your shareable player card shows your rating, record in every mode, placements, and the players and coach you keep coming back to. Lifetime stats track every season you've played. Built for basketball fans.
Gaffa XI
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Spin a club. Pick a player. Build your XI. Sim the season. Then go again, straight away. No energy bar, no timers. HOW IT WORKS - The board picks your formation. - The wheel lands on a club; take one player from its squad. - Eleven times, then sim the season and watch the table move. LEGENDS: EVERY SEASON SINCE 1992/93 Draft from any English top-flight season from 1992/93 to 2025/26 and find out if your XI would have won it. Or draft Superliga Legends: 14 Danish clubs, each with its all-time squad, 1992-2016. Legends drafts come with Gaffa XI Pro or the one-off Legends Pack; the free Daily challenge visits a Legends season regularly. A FAMOUS EUROPEAN NIGHT Draft from 36 clubs across nine European leagues. The draw gives you eight opponents, and on the last matchday all 18 games kick off at once. Then two-legged knockout ties, penalties kick by kick and a one-match final. Share your run and dare your mates to beat it. TODAY'S TOP FLIGHTS Draft from current squads in six European top flights, Denmark included. Join a division, climb from Bronze towards The Gaffer's XI and stay out of the drop. Weekly and all-time leaderboards, worldwide or just your country. LEAGUES WITH YOUR MATES Make a league, share the code and play one shared wheel every day. One go each, no rerolls. Today, weekly, monthly and overall tables. EVERY STAT Records for every league, a player index and your full career. DAILY One board a day, the same for everyone. One go, no rerolls, ratings hidden until your XI is in. Three quick warm-ups sit alongside it, and your streak gets one rest day a week. Afterwards, one practice go at the same board; it never counts. DUELS Challenge a mate with a six-character code. Same clubs, same wheel, 24 hours to play. Sharper picks win. DRESS YOUR GAFFER Your manager has a look of their own: faces, coats, hats and frames. Most items are earned by playing - drafts, wins, duels and streaks. A few colour variants come with Pro. The rarest ones can only be won, never bought. OUR OWN RATINGS Every rating is our own, built from appearances, goals, assists and seasons played. No borrowed numbers. GAFFA XI PRO, LEGENDS PACK AND REROLLS Gaffa XI is free to download. Today's top flights, A Famous European Night, the Daily, Duels and leagues with your mates are free, with three free drafts a day (the Daily, Duels and leagues don't count). One optional advert adds three more for the day. Every draft includes 1 reroll of the club wheel. Extra rerolls: an optional rewarded ad, or reroll packs of 3, 10 or 25 (one-off consumable purchases). The Legends Pack is a one-off purchase that unlocks Legends drafts for good. Gaffa XI Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription: - No adverts - Unlimited drafts every day - Every Legends season since 1992/93, plus Superliga Legends - 5 rerolls every draft instead of 1 - Pro colours for your gaffer and a PRO mark on the leaderboards Plans: Gaffa XI Pro Yearly, with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers, Gaffa XI Pro Monthly and Gaffa XI Pro Weekly. The App Store shows your local price before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or at the end of the free trial if you have one. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gaffaxi.com/privacy Support: https://gaffaxi.com/support Gaffa XI is an independent game. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any league, club, player or governing body. Club and player names are used factually to identify real teams and people. All ratings are our own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Gaffa XI at 16.4 against EraBall's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. EraBall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gaffa XI sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
EraBall ships an update every 3 days, Gaffa XI every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EraBall | Gaffa XI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (96 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 81.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Typical Evening Pictures LLC | Daniel Rasmussen |
In-app purchases
EraBall
- Remove Ads$4.99
Gaffa XI
- Gaffa XI Pro (Weekly)$2.997 Days
- Gaffa XI Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Gaffa XI Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- 3 Rerolls$0.99
- 10 Rerolls$2.99
- 25 Rerolls$4.99
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- Legends Pack$5.99









