***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

[OSUPiper]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

Piper, I'm using the sliders and I'm loving them as always. I'm running a coaching career over at DSM with them...

http://www.digitalsportsmania.com/fo...d.php?t=177236

I have a MaddenMania account, but not a DSM account, so I can't access. Is that a CH2k8 legacy?

[NoleFan]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

You know what? Over the last couple weeks I've really been gravitating toward cpu vs. cpu over coach mode. I even played the last 2 games of my 2K7 legacy as cpu vs. cpu games. I love watching how my team really responds to changes that I make in the coach strategy sliders.

[BubbleFour]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

I am happy they work for you because I love them and they have been a joy. I let my membership run out so I don't have the patch. I will get a membership maybe in a week or two then I will get the patch. once I get the patch I will test it. or when you play you can let me know what you see so I can prepare myself. I am praying that the on the fly sub work. I don't understand how the testing department missed this.

Are you sure you need a membership? I think(?) my membership has expired, in that I can access Xbox Live but can not access any tourney or on-line games. I am able to download 2kShare files, though. However, I did download the patch when it was available.

I was assuming that the reason I can't access any games is that my membership has expired. I never played many on-line games to begin with, though.

[BubbleFour]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

So am I to assume that Cad4life and me are the only ones that are playing coach mode on the nextgen systems? Nobody else plays this with a 360/ps3? If so how have the games been since the patch? Any difference?

I cant wait until this weekend when I will finally get a chance to play some. I will say though that I took 3 minutes to load it up and check to see if "on the fly" subbing worked and it did!!!

Also I am asking about anyone else because while I like cad4life's sliders, they are basically the only ones that I have tried to use for coach mode so I wanted to just try some others out to see if there is anything that I or cad4life might be missing. Anyone know who might have coach mode sliders out that are realistic?

No, I am playing a coach mode legacy with 2k8 on the 360 at Tennessee-Martin. I just haven't had much time to read or post messages on the forums.

Before the patch, UTM was 5-4 in the OVC and 6-10 overall. They had lost four out of five just before the patch, including road games against the two toughest teams in the league - Tennessee State and Austin Peay. However, individual confidence levels of my five starters were high, as 9 out of my 10 pep talks have been used up.

After the patch, UTM has won four straight moving into 3rd place with a 9-4 OVC record and reaching .500 for the first time at 10-10. The team won at Samford, at Jacksonville State, home vs. Eastern Kentucky, and home vs. Tennessee Tech.

The Skyhawks had earlier defeated both Samford and Jacksonville State at home. My fast-paced coaching style seems to always do well against superior Samford teams, as my Morehead State teams were 4-0 against them in 2k7. Jacksonville State is in a tailspin, falling into 9th place in the conference - 1.5 games behind Murray State and OVC tourney qualification.

The two home games were among the best that I have played with 2k8 so far, almost like chess matches with the constant coaching adjustments (coaching sliders, player matchups, pressuring players, both offensive and defensive play-calling) by both the CPU and myself. In the end, the 6th man momentum still played a role in helping the Skyhawks prevail in both games, imho.

Inside scoring has improved, in my observation. This has forced the CPU to defend the post a little bit more, which in turn has opened up opportunities for my sole 3-pt shooter a bit.

The biggest news in the four games, though, was that with 9 minutes to go in the Eastern Kentucky game, the SkyHawks' best player and only senior - Gerald Robinson - is lost for the season with a torn ACL. This loss alone lowered my team rating from 68 to 67.

In recruiting, UTM's top target is a 3-star PF from Nashville, rated #105 in the country and #13 among PF's. Only two teams are interested, UTM and Jacksonville State, both offering scholarships and tied with interest level at 88% pre-patch. UTM was #1 for the early season, but JVSU moved up to #1 after UTM lost 4 out of 5. After the patch, UTM has moved back up to #1 with both teams at about 90% interest.

How much of these changes are due to the patch? I don't know, but four games are far too little a sample to make a fair conclusion.

[grismosw]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

BubbleFour,

What sliders are you using?

[BubbleFour]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

BubbleFour,

What sliders are you using?

Ok, here are my current slider settings......

 
 
GAMEPLAY
Mode:          Simulation
Level:         All-Conference
Half Length:   18 minutes
Sim Half Ln:   20 minutes
Game Speed:    50
Player Speed:  50
FT Difficulty: 50
Real FT%:      On
Clutch:        On
 
RULES
All Settings:     On
All Other Fouls:  50
1-and-1           7 fouls
Double Bonus      10 fouls
Foul Out          5 fouls
 
PRESENTATION:
Cut Scenes:    On
 
GAME SLIDERS
Shooting (100 max)
Inside           36
Mid Range        46
3pt              50
Dunk Success     50
Layup Success    50
 
Tendencies (100 max)
Close            43
Mid              48
3pt              34
Drive            76
 
Attributes (100 max)
O Awareness     100
D Awareness      50
Dunk             50
Ball Handling   100
O Rebounding     50
D Rebounding     50
Block            50
Steal             0
Speed            50
 
Gameplay (100 max)
Team Unity      100
Dunks in Traffic 50
Screen Success   62
Screen Strength  55
Steal Success     0
Help Defense     50
Help Recovery    50
 
Fitness (100 max)
Fatigue Rate     50
Recovery Rate    50
Injury Freq      50
Injury Effect    50

All values are identical for both Human and CPU.

I like these sliders in that it makes the game sensitive to coach decisions. In other words, you can affect the amount your team fouls by controlling your coach's pressure setting. Likewise, an opponent's tendency at 3-pt shots vs. driving to the hoop is very dependent on the defensive play calls that I make.

These are basically the same sliders that I eventually migrated to with 2k7, with a couple of exceptions. After playing some practice games with 2k8, I needed to adjust all foul sliders from 100 to 50. Also, Blocks were adjusted back to 50 with 2k8. All slider adjustments were made pre-patch for the 360.

[grismosw]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

Just played my first game with those BubbleFour, I'm pretty happy with them but I shot 7/9 from 3 as a team. 50 seems a little high, I'll try a few more games before tinkering. Thanks for posting.

[OSUPiper]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

Play several games before making adjustments. You don't want a set of sliders where teams shoot 75% from 3 consistently, but you also don't want a set where a team could NEVER shoot 7 for 9.

[grismosw]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

Play several games before making adjustments. You don't want a set of sliders where teams shoot 75% from 3 consistently, but you also don't want a set where a team could NEVER shoot 7 for 9.

Agreed, the two guys who shot the majority of my 3's have ratings of 80+ in 3pt so I'm not too worried. I played the first 6 games before switching to Coach Mode and the one guy was shooting 65% from three before the last game but as a team we were shooting around 35%. So I don't think the 7/9 is too unrealistic.

[OSUPiper]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

Agreed, the two guys who shot the majority of my 3's have ratings of 80+ in 3pt so I'm not too worried. I played the first 6 games before switching to Coach Mode and the one guy was shooting 65% from three before the last game but as a team we were shooting around 35%. So I don't think the 7/9 is too unrealistic.

65% is pretty high after 5 games, but possible. How was the level of competition?

[grismosw]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

He's coming back to earth, he shot 1/7 last game.

[jb1903]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

I just recently picked up this game and am looking for some good coach mode sliders for the PS3. What I'd really be interested in is not only ones that produce good/realistic stats, but also provide a realistic game of basketball complete with fouls, mistakes (throws out of bounds, backcourt and 3 sec violations, etc) and good game play AI. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Jukeman]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

I just recently picked up this game and am looking for some good coach mode sliders for the PS3. What I'd really be interested in is not only ones that produce good/realistic stats, but also provide a realistic game of basketball complete with fouls, mistakes (throws out of bounds, backcourt and 3 sec violations, etc) and good game play AI. Anyone have any suggestions?

u can check out my cpu vs cpu sliders which should work wit coach mode

[jb1903]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

Thanks Juk -

Can you describe to me what the game play is like? Do you see a realistic game of basketball - not just number of shots or types of shots but do you see mistakes made? Just curious.

[grismosw]

Re: ***OS's Official College Hoops 2k8 Coach Mode Central***

Unless you turn Off Awr and Ball Handling down to zero I don't think you are going to see a realistic amount of mistakes, even then I doubt you would.