NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[davez]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Loving the game overall so far, but I gotta say I'm really, really disappointed there's no way to practice alternate freestyle offenses in MyLeague again this year.

All that work Czar put in to creating this deep, robust freestyle set of options and there's no way to access it and use it for your team outside of games. So you basically have to use the games themselves to learn and practice.

I'm sorry, that's just a gap in the mode. Scrimmage does not let you access the freestyle menus.

Will make sure this is something we discuss when we finalize our 2K17 feature list for the franchise modes.

[cbpo]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Can you explain the issues you're having in more detail, please?

Not sure if this is patchable but are you able to take a look at the simulation stats regarding really high number of assists with players like durant and wade averaging over 8 a game, and melo averaging 6? Def unrealistic lol. It may be a problem with just teams averaging too many possessions.

[JohnnyCash2015]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Not sure if this has been posted or not, but has anyone made any good sliders for My League?

I'm going to do some testing over the next few days and I'll probably post something once I've figured out the best setup.


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[CookNBA03]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Can you explain the issues you're having in more detail, please?

It skips over numbers. If I'm editing a contract to $10.00, I can't because it'll skip to say $10.57 or something.

[davez]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Not sure if this is patchable but are you able to take a look at the simulation stats regarding really high number of assists with players like durant and wade averaging over 8 a game, and melo averaging 6? Def unrealistic lol. It may be a problem with just teams averaging too many possessions.

If it's just the assists, it is something that is roster-based, so it can technically be fixed with any new roster update (or by tweaking the ratings yourself). The Dish to Open Man tendency plus the Passing attributes are the big things that influence the assist stats -- so it could be either they're too good at these or their teammates aren't good enough.

If it's because of the possessions, we may not be able to do anything about it even though it would be a roster issue. Gameplay had us set all the coaches to have basic POE's because the AI adjusts these during the game based on how things are flowing, but the simulator doesn't work the same. The generated coaches will have some randomness here, so the possessions per game do decrease as your progress in the mode.

I'll bring this up with Stauffer, Tim, and Leftos.

[davez]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

It skips over numbers. If I'm editing a contract to $10.00, I can't because it'll skip to say $10.57 or something.

Thanks, I'll ask around and see if this is something that's fixable in a patch.

[BluFu]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Draft Class editing throughout the season won't be able to be fixed in any of the patches. We want to get this in early for 2K17, though.

Is tattoo customization being looked at for 2K17 as well? Also, I've noticed in the defensive shot charts that great rim protecting bigs give up 50%+ in the paint area. Does this actually affect sim stats? Gobert's rim FG% was around 40% last season in real life.

Not sure if this is patchable but are you able to take a look at the simulation stats regarding really high number of assists with players like durant and wade averaging over 8 a game, and melo averaging 6?

That seems fixable to me. I'd like BPG to get an uptick though.

[vtcrb]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I thought I had read we could Relocate ALL 30 teams in MyLeague. It seems the Limit is 3 teams. Is this a Patch Fix or Did i misread earlier information?

[LorenzoDC]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Will make sure this is something we discuss when we finalize our 2K17 feature list for the franchise modes.

Thanks, Dave.

As part of that, I'd really recommend asking what scrimmage mode is for? In my mind, I think it's for practicing against live opponents. And if that's the case, especially in the franchise modes, then it follows we should be able to practice anything that's available to us in games.

So that would include:

• access to full offensive and defensive POE's
• access to full defensive settings
• access to freestyle offensive options
• play style by the CPU opponent that follows along sim principles, instead of a bias toward fast breaks and three point shots -- that allows for better and more realistic practice when playing defense in half court

Historically, scrimmage has been a kind of playground five on five type of game where people just kind of run and shoot and mess around. If you control one side and choose not to play that way, to try to practice, it's a one sided practice, you only get to try to practice offense and fast break defense.

I'm not sure that has value in MyLeague or MyGM. There's no need for an experience that's more like the Park against the CPU. It's good to not have the shot clock, but in other respects, the mode should be like gameplay.

[davez]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I thought I had read we could Relocate ALL 30 teams in MyLeague. It seems the Limit is 3 teams. Is this a Patch Fix or Did i misread earlier information?

We're limited to 3 on consoles because of the max save file size that's allowed. Erick & I pushed extremely hard for 30, but it just couldn't happen. PC users aren't limited to 3 (unless you're just out of HD space).

[vtcrb]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

We're limited to 3 on consoles because of the max save file size that's allowed. Erick & I pushed extremely hard for 30, but it just couldn't happen. PC users aren't limited to 3 (unless you're just out of HD space).

Thank You for the response.

[davez]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Thanks, Dave.

As part of that, I'd really recommend asking what scrimmage mode is for? In my mind, I think it's for practicing against live opponents. And if that's the case, especially in the franchise modes, then it follows we should be able to practice anything that's available to us in games.

So that would include:

• access to full offensive and defensive POE's
• access to full defensive settings
• access to freestyle offensive options
• play style by the CPU opponent that follows along sim principles, instead of a bias toward fast breaks and three point shots -- that allows for better and more realistic practice when playing defense in half court

Historically, scrimmage has been a kind of playground five on five type of game where people just kind of run and shoot and mess around. If you control one side and choose not to play that way, to try to practice, it's a one sided practice, you only get to try to practice offense and fast break defense.

I'm not sure that has value in MyLeague or MyGM. There's no need for an experience that's more like the Park against the CPU.

Honestly, as I'm sure you've noticed, it's been something mostly ignored in franchise development the past few years (I didn't see a ton of people talking about it, so I wrongly assumed nobody really cared about it). What you point out makes perfect sense and we'll discuss improving this stuff in 2K17 now that I know people actually use this feature.

By the way, we've been discussing this and there's a chance we may be able to get some of the easier improvements -- like having the freestyle stuff available -- in Patch 3.

[Mikelopedia]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Relocation:



The arena designing is pretty cool -- different arena types have different crowd capacities, some on the small side (16k) and some larger (21k). Arena can be decked out in team colors or other colors or no colors. Floor types are rather limited -- about five I think, but the honeycomb floor is there (for you Hornets fans).

One thing I'd like to expand on and Dave I was hoping you could shed some light on this, is it doesn't seem we're able to edit or recreate current arenas.

I pointed this out in another thread and basically I was hoping the Design Arena feature would also allow us to simply design new courts for current arenas. As it is, I cannot create a new floor design scheme for say the American Airlines Arena without having to contruct a "new building," even if it's still called the American Airlines Arena.

As this is something many teams do each year without obviously changing seats or the jumbotron, etc, I hope this is being looked into as a possibly for this year if not 2K17 for sure.

[davez]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Is tattoo customization being looked at for 2K17 as well? Also, I've noticed in the defensive shot charts that great rim protecting bigs give up 50%+ in the paint area. Does this actually affect sim stats? Gobert's rim FG% was around 40% last season in real life.

It would be a shame if we didn't get the tattoo stuff that you can do to your MyPLAYER in for the edit player in 2K17.

The shot chart stuff wasn't really looked at deeply in the simulator tuning. It works best with played games or SimCast Live games (which are played games). Just tuning the simulator at a high level (trying to get the guys at 1-10, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 300 to match up as close as possible to the real-life stats over the course of 80-year franchises) was a hell-ish task that had me drinking a bottle of vodka or whiskey every night to help me fall asleep over a four week period. The lower level stuff just wasn't in the realm of possibility (getting shots charts perfect or specific players perfect).

[davez]

Re: NBA 2k16 MyLeague: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

One thing I'd like to expand on and Dave I was hoping you could shed some light on this, is it doesn't seem we're able to edit or recreate current arenas.

I pointed this out in another thread and basically I was hoping the Design Arena feature would also allow us to simply design new courts for current arenas. As it is, I cannot create a new floor design scheme for say the American Airlines Arena without having to contruct a "new building," even if it's still called the American Airlines Arena.

As this is something many teams do each year without obviously changing seats or the jumbotron, etc, I hope this is being looked into as a possibly for this year if not 2K17 for sure.

There are technical and legal reasons why we couldn't do this. We'll probably re-visit the idea again, but while the technical reasons may be something we can overcome, I'm not sure if the legal ones can be.