Basketball Strategy
BGG rank
BGG #26,711
BGG rating
5.6

Basketball Strategy

1974

Rules assistance for Basketball Strategy

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 2.1/5

Rules assistant for Basketball Strategy

For 2 players

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Basketball Strategy is a board game released in 1974 for 2 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Don Greenwood and its main mechanics are Simulation and Rock-Paper-Scissors.

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About the game

As with other games in the The Avalon Hill Game Co sports Strategy series, each player has an identical generic team to coach through a game. Included are a set of campaign game counters to allow players to draft unique teams. Player counters have 5 performance ratings which are used to determine shooting and passing outcomes. You make play by play decisions which are resolved by cross-referencing offensive and defensive choices on a matrix. As coach you make decisions about line up, defensive match-ups, time outs etc. A full (four quarter) game would take 2+ hours.

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Publishers

  • The Avalon Hill Game Co

Questions and answers

Basketball Strategy supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.