2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?

**CaseIH** · 05-02-2017, 11:37 PM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

Well I had to start over with MyLeague, because I accidently screwed things up. Luckily I had another save file.

So I won the final 2 games of the season to go 42-40 with the Pacers, and got the Cavs in the 1st rd. Didnt fair so well in game 1, losing by 16 pts. Cavs just couldnt miss, and I stayed close, then in the 4th qtr I my guys went cold from the floor, and the score got out of hand. It was a high scoring game with the Cavs winning 126 to 110, I think thats what the final score was, something like that anyway.

For some reason for the life of me, I struggle with PG13 shooting the ball. Yet I do well with Teague and his funky release. I think PG13 ended up with 36 pts, but he only shot 39% from the field. Every since they messed with the shooting sliders Ive had a difficult time shooting, especially with PG13. I also cant hit a shot with Ellis for the life of me, but I guess thats much like real life with Monte these days,lol.

**lewie100** · 05-06-2017, 12:29 PM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

Started a new MyLeague using a 2015-16 database to play as the 2k16 Thunder, but added myself in the game as a FA and signed myself (82 overall, 96 potential. Don't care if cheating)

Season 1:

Traded Kanter and Adams to Lakers for Randle + 2 1st round draft picks (2019 and 2020)

Traded Ibaka to Raptors (go figure) plus 2nd round picks for Norman Powell and a 1st round pick (2020)

Finished 57-25, got 1st seed based on Division record (GSW finished on 57-25 as well)

Surprises:

Lakers get 5th seed in West, beating out the 6th place Grizzlies, 7th place Kings and 8th place Pelicans as they got a record of 47-35 with the help of Kanter and Adams.

The streak is over: San Antonio Spurs finish 9th and miss out on playoffs in Tim Duncan's penultimate season.

Jazz disappointed, finishing 13th in the West behind the T-Wolves and Nuggets.

Out East, the Wizards had a disastrous season, finishing dead last, with a poor record of 23-59. Hawks did dreadfully as well, finishing 30-52.

Magic surprise all, finishing 45-37 as that grants 4th seed. This would help them recruit a top free agent.

MVP - LBJ
RotY - Lew Roberts (me)
6MotY - Brandon Knight
DPotY - Lew Roberts
MIP - Steven Adams

Scoring Crown - Kevin Durant (32.8 ppg)
Rebounding Crown - Lew Roberts (13.7 rpg)
Assist Crown - Chris Paul (10.3 apg)
Steal Crown - John Wall (3.5 spg!)
Block Crown - Lew Roberts (2.9 blk)

Finals - Oklahoma City Thunder 4-3 Cleveland Cavaliers (Game 7 - Quicken Loans Arena)

Finals MVP - Kevin Durant

Major FA moves:

Steph Curry - Orlando Magic ($27.04m/4yrs)
Paul Millsap - Boston Celtics ($31.55m/4yrs)
Dwayne Wade - Minnesota Timberwolves ($30.12m/4yrs)
Zach Randolph - Philadelphia 76ers ($12.83m/3yrs)
Tim Duncan - Indiana Pacers ($1.01m/1yr)
Kobe Bryant - Memphis Grizzlies ($1.01m/1yr)

That's all for now, as you can see, I've made no changes in play (Tim D to Pacers, Kobe to Memphis), I'll keep you updated.

**JazzMan** · 05-08-2017, 08:05 PM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

Starting a new Fantasy Draft ML just for the fun of it. Going to add 6 expansion teams at the start to spread the talent out in the league even further. Really seperate star players from bench guys.

Expansion teams: Seattle Supersonics, Montreal Expos, Cincinatti Royals, Omaha Storm, Vancouver Huskies, and the Las Vegas Aces.

I'll likely control one of the expansion teams, probably the Expos or the Aces.

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**scooterperpetual** · 05-13-2017, 02:50 AM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

So I finally decided to get started with a MyLeague and unfortunately since the Rockets lost I decided to go with Start Today. My plan was to wait until the playoffs over/whenever the Rockets got eliminated to start.

Upon simulation the Cavaliers beat the I believe Celtics in 5 games. The Spurs somehow beat the Warriors in 6 or 7 after taking the first 2 in Oracle. The Cavaliers beat the Spurs in 6 games to go back-to-back, LeBron was of course named Finals MVP.

So in the offseason is where things get very interesting.

We will start off with the NBA draft.

With the #1 overall pick the Boston Celtics took Jayson Tatum, I mean not a huge shock but it was a little bit surprising. The Timberwolves who somehow got the #2 pick took Markelle Fultz pretty much guaranteeing that team is going to be a contender for a very long time (As if they weren't going to be already). The Suns decided to take Josh Jackson #3 and the 76ers with pick 4 and 5 took Dennis Smith and Malik Monk.

Lonzo Ball dropped all the way to #8 which is the Kings. lol gg LaVar.

With our 2 second round picks we took Marcus Keene a 5'9" Point guard who has elite shooting potential and L.J. Peak a 6'5" small forward but more likely a shooting guard. Both were signed to 1+1 contracts.

Now is where things get VERY interesting. Wanting to make a bit of a splash in free agency I decided to trade Lou Williams, I hate playing with him in 2k and he was a very easy to move piece. I traded Lou and my 2nd rounder this year for Will Barton. Barton is entering his contract year and I am assuming the Nuggets did not want to pay him as I dont believe he is restricted.

With that money freed up I was able to sign Serge Ibaka to a 4 year 89M contract. This gives us a decent stretch 4 but more importantly gives us some MUCH needed interior defense and allows Ryan Anderson to come off the bench which in my opinion he is better suited for. At the end of the day it was basically Lou+2nd Rounder for Ibaka and I am very happy with that deal.

This capped us out but I had also offered Joe Ingles a contract, he is an elite shooter and a decent defender and he agreed to terms to a 3 year 26M contract. Obviously I didnt have room so I unfortunately had to part with Ariza. I would not want the Rockets to do this in real life and I love Ariza but in the game Ingles is a cheesy shooter and I can sign Ariza next year at the vet minimum.

The Ariza trade was as follows:
Ariza, Harrell, Onuaku, 2018 Top 3 Protected pick for Magics 2nd round pick next year.

I may have been able to get more but it was imperative I get no salary in return as this would give me exactly enough to sign Ingles. Harrell is really just not a fit for the Rockets offense, Onuaku is undersized and Ariza is a valuable piece but at the end of the day it was just a pure salary dump.

I expect Ingles to give comparable defense to Ariza and better shooting while playing a bit less minutes.

So at that point we were looking at a lineup and bench of: Harden-Beverley-Ingles-Ibaka-Capela / Gordon-Barton-Dekker-Anderson-???.

I signed Nene back to a vet minimum contract to take the backup Center role.

I also signed Omri Casspi for pure depth nothing else really unless someone gets hurt then I have a good shooter ready to step in.

After all of these transactions and after summer league I re-signed Wiltjer to a 1+1 deal as well as Center Stephen Zimmerman. Zimmerman impressed me a lot in Summer league as a 7 footer who can rebound and he is only 21 so I have high hopes for him being able to potentially take Nene's role next year.

My Rotation to start the season:

PG: Harden(36) - Gordon(26)
SG: Beverley(27) - Barton(19)
SF: Ingles (29) - Dekker(9)
PF: Ibaka(30) - Anderson(18)
C: Capela(30) - Nene(16)

In Game 1 @ the Lakers which I played we won 120-97 with it being a tight game up until the end of the 3rd when the Lakers bench came in and Harden went off.

Harden finished with a career high in assists finishing with 37/15/19 on very efficient shooting.

Ibaka finished with a career high 35/6/5 as well as a career high in 3pt makes and attempts lol (5-13)

Gordon struggled a bit to start but finished with 14 points.

Capela was very strong on the glass finishing with 10/15.

Ingles did exactly what I want from him which was hit his shots he finished with 9 points on 3-5 from deep and 3-7 from the field.

Other than that everyone else was about where you would expect them. Anderson finished with only 5 points but he didnt get many good looks.

Barton and Dekker both finished with 0 points as well, Barton was honestly quite bad he had a team worst -11 +/-.

My own recap for that game was when Harden was in we were unstoppable on offense when he was out if fell apart and we were blowing leads every time we got them. I want to say we got a double digit lead 3 or 4 times and we blew that lead 2 or 3 times. The team chemistry however is all jacked up and that messes with stuff in 2k I know.

The only other thing I noticed was that I NEED to have one of Capela or Ibaka on the floor at all times otherwise its open season on the paint.

That is all I am looking to play around 10 games in the regular season give or take. I will update probably again at the trade deadline.

**Johnnythelegend** · 05-13-2017, 04:09 AM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

Started a new ML with the Hawks, i like that they are being called the "Spurs of East" but everybody knows they are poor man's Spurs. I want to make them a legit team and a system that relies on the team play but in a more successful way.

I like the majority of the team, i don't want to do the complete overhaul and change the team upside down right away, i want to slowly build it from a mediocre team that it is at the moment to the team that can compete with the Cavs and become a best team in the Conference as LeBron gets older.

I did 2 trades tho. I traded Ilyasova, Delaney, 2017 warriors 2nd draft pick and Wizards 2019 2nd draft pick for Brandon Knight and Ronnie Price whom i released right away.

I think that Knight is a talented player who can be brought at a low price since he doesn't really fit with the young Suns and there isn't really much playing team for him. I don't see Schroder as being good enough to hold that PG place for the most of the game so i think they him and Knight are going to be a nice PG duo. Knight will be a 6th man and he is expected to carry the offense when starters are resting.

The other trade was Humphries and Dunleavy for Asik and Quinn Cook. I wanted to get rid of Dunleavy and Humphies to make some playing time for Prince and i think Asik can be a nice 3rd center if Howard or Muscala get injured. I released Cook right away.

As i had 2 empty roster spots because i released Price and Cook i was looking who to sign. I realized i needed some depth at SG position. I was that Gary Neal is a free agent and i remembered his best days with the Spurs and i thought he is going to fit well in what we are trying to build and he is going to come off the bench to replace Hardaway for about 15 minutes. The other player whom i signed was Jordan Adams. A very talented still young player who was a 22nd 1st round pick just 2 years ago but he got some major knee problems that made Grizzlies release him. I decided to give him another chance, i think he still has something to show and prove.

So my rotation looks like this
PG : Schroder
SG : Hardaway
SF : Sefolosha
PF : Millsap
C : Howard
6th man : Knight
Role players: Muscala, Bazemore, Neal, Prince

I don't want to aggressively try to rob the CPU, i want to build a contending team in a realistic way so i will not be i don't know trying to sign LeBron or something like that. As i said, i want to build a team first system. I do look to make playoffs and try to get in the conference finals and then try to challenge the Cavs but at the same time i want to develop youngsters, i think Hardaway, Schroder and Prince all have the potential to be a part of the future team and we have many picks aswell that could turn out to be a part of that too.

I played the first game against the Wizards at home and i won 108-106, Wall had a chance to win the game but he missed it. It was a really tough game against a really good opponent but we managed to win it, and it feels great to win the first game in the season. Next 3 games are against the Sixers, Kings and Lakers so the schedule is not hard in that periord and if we play like it is expected of us we can start a season with a 4-0 record, that would be great.

DC · 05-13-2017, 01:25 PM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

Scouting

For people that KNOW the actual prospects, and use realistic draft classes, how do you "play stupid" in MyLeague to make the Draft experience less.........................predictable?

**scooterperpetual** · 05-14-2017, 08:25 AM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

Finished out the season in my Rockets franchise finishing 54-28 one less win than last year but this year we finished as the 2 Seed tied for 3rd best team in the league.

Harden won the MVP after putting up a very efficient 29/9/12 shooting 49/41/88 with 4 turnovers a game. He also made an all defense team. Now I am a huge Rockets and Harden fan but that is ridiculous lol. He finished averaging 1.9 steals which is what im assuming put him on as Westbrook made a team last year, once again lol.

I just do my best to ignore that anyways we had a ridiculous game we put up 171 points and held the Jazz to 94, I dont even know how it happened to be honest I think this may be one of if not the biggest blowout of all time.

I played about half of this game when I saw we were winning by 40 at half time I decided to hop in but mainly because Harden had like 35 points and 10 assists already. He finished the game putting up the greatest triple double of all time and almost a quadruple double finishing with 60/11/23 and 9 steals with only 3 turnovers on 24-28 shooting and 9-11 from deep and only 3 free throws(WTF?). I have never seen anything like this before in 2k let alone from Harden. Normally I have to tweak his tendencies like crazy just to get him to average double digit assists. And its not my sliders I know this for sure.

But I will take it as it secured him his first ever MVP award after being snubbed 2 out of 3 years. The funny thing is he led for most of the race but the last 2 weeks LeBron took the lead and before this game Harden was down to 3rd place in the race but after this game he won the MVP. I guess 2k scripted in the reactionary voting

A recap on how our season went we dealt with a lot of injuries and were a 500 team through most of December. However from January 23rd until the All-Star break we went 14-2. We then struggled like crazy in March and April to close out the season going only 15-11.

The biggest problem I noticed with this game was our lack of ability to close out games. We would have sometimes a 20 point lead and then we would blow it and get blown out by double digits to finish the game. Was a little to real for me hah. No lead is safe. Well maybe the near 80 point lead but you never know!

Some stats:
James Harden - 29/9/12 - 49/41/88
Eric Gordon - 17/2/4 - 46/43/88
Serge Ibaka - 17/7 2bpg - 45/30/85
Clint Capela - 14/11 2bpg - 57/12/53
Will Barton - 11/4/5 - 40/28/76
Ryan Anderson - 11/4 - 44/42/87
Joe Ingles - 8/4/5 - 40/35/69
Pat Beverley - 8/4/6 - 37/36/70
Sam Dekker - 6/4/1 - 46/35/61
Nene - 5/3 - 52/0/49
Iman Shumpert - 5/2/1 - 47/37/80
Omri Casspi - 5/2 - 49/50/66
Stephen Zimmerman - 2/3 - 52/0/35

LOTS of injuries, players that missed 5+ games:
Eric Gordon (73gp)
Serge Ibaka (70gp)
Will Barton (43gp)
Ryan Annderson (61gp)
Joe Ingles (77gp)
Patrick Beverley (70gp)
Nene (46gp)

Now a lot of these guys played 70+ games which as long as that happens I am okay but about 90% of these injuries happened before January even rolled around. The biggest shame is that Ibaka was averaging 20ppg before going down and was never really the same after coming back but his shooting did improve. I am really not sure how he averaged 20 lol. But I have high hopes for him next year.

Now onto the playoffs.

We beat the Trail Blazers in 5 in Round 1 but it was a very tight series one of the games was decided off of a waved off buzzer beater by Lillard (Flashbacks D

In round 2 we took on the 6 seed Pelicans who swept the Jazz. They took a 2-1 lead but we won the next 3 to secure the series. The first 3 games were tight the next 3 were blowouts in our favor.

Things in the conference finals started very poorly for us. We went down 2-0 to the 1 seed Warriors who beat San Antonio in Game 7 and Minnesota in 5 in round 1.

In Game 3 Harden led us to a 117-104 victory finishing with 30/10/16
In Game 4 Harden was amazing again as we won 129-111 Harden finishing with 33/14/16

In Game 5 the Warriors took the 3-2 series lead in blowout fashion 123-83 with a combined 93 from Curry Durant and Thompson.

We stole Game 6 as we had trailed most of the game including 2 double digit leads for the Warriors but with a great 3rd quarter we were able to eke one out and walked away winning 115-107. Harden finished with 47/12/14

Now we are in Game 7 and the winner of Game 7 will face the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Finals who beat the Raptors in 6 who beat the Cav's in 7.

In all honesty the winner of this series is the favorite to be the NBA champions.

I would like to take a moment to talk about Eric Gordon was a monster this year for me. He had multiple 30 point games this season along with a 44 point game. Easily the 6th man in real life but the video game said NO.

I decided to simulate Game 7 against the Warriors as it only seemed right after playing 2 major games in the series (G3 and G6). I didnt want too much impact coming from me as this year I am trying to build a team that can win on its own and with me playing.

We lost Game 7 110-109. We had a chance to win it but I decided to go ahead and let the simulation finish and we came up short. Harden gave it his all finishing with 32/12/16 but it just wasn't enough. This off season we are reloading and I WILL bring a second star to Houston.

The Warriors won the finals in 6 games and Durant was named finals MVP.

**mpac** · 05-14-2017, 11:57 PM

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

Started myleague with the bucks. Im surprised this team brought my interest back in playing 2k given the young talent they have and the corner freelance execution.

So far i am playing well with middleton and greek freak but struggling a bit with brogdan and jabari. But the core seems to be set but i need to upgrade the bench and improve the salary cap status of the team. We need a good point guard but i think i can instead improve brogdan and use him in this position.

Currently on a 5 game winning streak. 7-2 2nd in east