One college basketball universe across three pages: players are recruited out of high school, play their college careers in the simulation, and leave through the NBA draft.
Watch the official universe, run your own, or both.
BYTHERIM runs the official season and publishes it to the site. Everyone sees the same results: the draft board and draft night on the Draft RP, the transfer portal and college careers on Recruiting, and the current week on the RP Hub.
It moves forward each time a new week is published.
Press New Save in the NCAA Sim to start a universe of your own from the same rosters and recruits. Your save never changes the official one.
It lives in this browser on this device. Use Export Save in the sim's menu to back it up or move it to another device, and Import Save to bring it back.
The season plays out in the NCAA RP and the draft in the Draft RP; the other pages follow along.
Simulate a week at a time, or watch any game live with play-by-play, a box score and a win-probability chart. Standings, the Top 25, award races and every player's stat line update as you go, and the Draft RP's big board moves with every game.
Seeded conference tournaments, Selection Sunday, then the NCAA Tournament, one round at a time, with every game watchable live. Each conference tournament and region names a Most Outstanding Player, and the Final Four names its own. Big performances in big games move draft stock, both ways.
Once a champion is crowned, players declare. In the Draft RP you run the combine (measurements, athletic testing, shooting, interviews), the lottery, team workouts and the withdrawal deadline. Every step moves a prospect's stock. The NCAA RP waits for you.
Sixty picks, revealed one at a time. Teams lean toward players who impressed them in workouts. The pick stays on his college record, and every past draft and final big board stays in the Draft RP.
Back in the NCAA RP: players transfer, the next recruiting class enrolls, rosters are set, and the new season tips off.
Class and school rankings, prospect profiles and commitments. The Transfer Portal tab lists every school change: Scheduled moves written into the BYTHERIM rosters, Portal moves the simulation made, and Upcoming ones that take effect next season. Once a recruit plays, his profile shows his college seasons and draft pick.
02 · NCAA SimEvery Division I program: schedules and results, team and player pages, standings, the bracket and the archive of past seasons. Start a new save or continue your own from its home screen.
03 · Draft RPAll season: a big board and mock draft built from every college player. After the tournament, the whole pre-draft cycle — combine, lottery, workouts, the withdrawal deadline — and draft night. Past drafts and final big boards are a click away. Build My Big Board from any prospect; it's saved in your browser. When you have your own save too, switch between Official and My Save at the top.
New here? This is everything you need for your first save. Prefer to be shown? Take a quick tour of the NCAA RP, Recruiting, the Draft RP or the RP Hub.
Open the NCAA RP and press Start a new save. It builds the universe from the official rosters and recruits, plays the summer before the season, and drops you at the preseason. It's saved in your browser automatically; sign in with Google (top right) to also keep it in your account and play on another device.
Press Simulate Week to play a week. Skip ahead jumps to conference play, the conference tournaments, the NCAA Tournament or the offseason. On the Dashboard, Watch any upcoming game live, or click any score for its box score (starters are marked) and play-by-play.
Teams has every program: roster, stats, schedule, and Team History, where any past season opens as its own team page. Team Stats and Player Stats are the national leaderboards, each with a search box. Standings, Bracketology, Awards, Recruits, History and the Record Book follow the season. Click any player for his page; the school in each of his season rows opens that year's team.
Conference tournaments are seeded from the standings. Selection Sunday reveals the 68-team field, then the tournament plays one round at a time. Big games move draft stock.
After the title game the NCAA RP walks you through the offseason, one step at a time: the season wrap-up, the NBA draft (run it in the Draft RP: combine, lottery, workouts, withdrawal deadline, draft night), the transfer portal, the summer circuit (AAU and the FIBA youth World Cup, playable on the Recruiting page) and final rosters. Along the way players develop and the coaching carousel turns. Then the next season tips off.
Your save stays in this browser until you clear your browsing data. From the … menu you can Export a copy, Import it later, or save it to your account.
For the curious: what's under the hood.
Every player has an overall rating. Young players with room to grow and real minutes improve the most each offseason; seniors and bench players change less. A recruit's high-school, AAU and FIBA numbers shape how he plays in college: his shooting, his free throws, how often he takes threes, how much he passes.
Coaches start their best five, keeping two or three guards and at least one big. A player listed at two positions (like a PF/C) can cover the other spot when the lineup needs it. Top freshmen get an early leash; after a dozen games, form decides who keeps his job, and a blue-chip freshman who loses his often transfers.
The two classes still in high school are recruited as your seasons play. Lists shrink from a dozen schools to a top 8, a top 5 and a final 3. Programs pull by prestige, how they're trending, last March, their coach and teammates already there; a coaching change can reopen a commitment. Commitments written on the official sheet never move. Overseas prospects can come to college or stay pro.
Prospects are scored on production, efficiency, age, size, athleticism and pedigree, and big games move them. International pros are judged on upside, some have breakout seasons, and a thin college class leans on them more.
A program's prestige follows its history, its recent seasons and its coach, and decides the level of recruit it can sign. Coaches get fired and hired every spring, and some players follow their coach.
Recruits are rated out of 100: 90+ is a five-star, 80+ four stars, 70+ three. The national rank follows the ratings. RSCI is a recruit's national rank coming out of high school.
No. Every player and recruit in BYTHERIM RP is fictional, made up for the RP. If a name matches a real person, that's a coincidence. The schools and conferences are real; the players are not.
Each save plays out on its own. Some picks are set in advance by BYTHERIM and land in the same slot in every save, but the rest depends on how your seasons go.
Not on its own, but it's stored in your browser. Clearing your browsing data, or using a private window, removes it. Export your save now and then to keep a copy.
Yes. Everything works on a phone; simulating whole seasons is quicker on a computer.
Whenever BYTHERIM publishes new results. The RP Hub always shows the current week and where the draft stands.