How is YOUR Career Legacy going?!?!

[ripham23232]

Re: How is YOUR Career Legacy going?!?!

I usually sim my career legacies and play open ones. I am doing an open legacy with Illinois State right now using RaiderFan's rosters. The best closed legacy I ever had started at UC Riverside, lost in the first round both years, then went to Boston University. I was there for four or five years, making the tournament twice and going to the Sweet Sixteen once. From there I went to Hawaii, where I was only there for two years again, making the Sweet Sixteen both years. It was on to a subpar Kentucky team after that.

[gbpackers94]

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Started off with the updated rosters and chose UTSA. After four seasons around .500 I take a job at Boston. The first year I go 21-9 get a 13 seed and upset Kansas in the first round and then lose to Providence in the second round. Next season I went 27-4 and got a 10 seed but lost to WVU in the first round. After that I took a job at Gonzaga and went 18-14 but lost in the first round of the NIT. That offseason I finally signed a 4 star recruit named Andy McDowell a SO from a JC. And thats where I am now. I'm currently pursuing a bunch of four and five star recruits, trying to build Gonzaga into a power house.

[Raider131]

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I just picked Campbell The Fighting Camels, because I can't think of any other school that would have a worse mascot, Thinking this team was terrible (69) best player was a 67 I believe and he got injured in the first game and sadly my second best player is a 59 so I was close to just restarting seeing as how we would have NO chance at all to do anything well, they proved me completely wrong. They went on a 17 game win-streak beating (Ole Miss, Arizona, Memphis, Miss St, UCLA, Penn State and then some other unimportant small schools. We they we're scoring 80 and only giving up 61). Then my star player came back, I was thinking we could go undefeated the whole rest of the year... well they responded in dropping 4 of their next 5. So I take my best player out of the line-up and bring him off the bench, they go through the whole division with no problems losing once and run through the conference tournament. We finish 24-5 no to say I'm amazed would be an understatement but I was pretty sure that was the end of the run once we got to the tournament and pulled a 13 seed playing against a 4 seed MSU, We whooped them badly (32) the next game was against Xavier who had upset someone and we won by (17) then sadly our run really did stop against #1 seed Uconn who beat us by 19 but to say I wasn't proud of my team would be a major understatement!

[bjh909]

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Just started playing around with legacies... I'm a big fan of simming... I like seeing how the game plays things out... I'm also a numbers guy, so I like the RPIs, SOS, the science that goes into being a part of the selection committee... so here's what I'm doing, and I'll be sure to update people:

Open legacy... picked a low-ranked independent team (NJIT)... next go-around I'll pick the lowest ranked RPI team, so it doesn't really affect much of anything, since I'm not going in and making any adjustments.

Made a really cool spreadsheet where I enter the results, standings, and it gives me conf. tourneys, RPI, SOS, etc. Gonna sim through the conf. tourneys, and rather than let the game do the Selection Sunday show, I'll pick my own field of 68 and see how close I get to the game (and I may pick the NIT 32 too, why not...). Then like another thread, I'm going to CPU vs CPU my tournament to see it through.

For the next season, I'm going to start a new open legacy, but I stored all the orders the teams finished the previous season, along with how they did in real life before the season the game mimics (07-08)... then I'll go in, and under "switch conferences", I'll switch teams around within conference to give them different schedules according to how well they did the year before. Rather than see the same schedule over and over... it does remove things like local OOC games but it's a video game, there's no travel fatigue...

Anyway, just wanted to post in here, since I think it's pretty different, and I'll be updating what I've come up with when I have my selection committee of 1 meeting. I just got through the regular season to March 4 on the calendar, the first day of conference tournaments. Going through some of the conf tourneys on CPU vs CPU rather than sim.

[Cre8]

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Just started playing around with legacies... I'm a big fan of simming... I like seeing how the game plays things out... I'm also a numbers guy, so I like the RPIs, SOS, the science that goes into being a part of the selection committee... so here's what I'm doing, and I'll be sure to update people:

Open legacy... picked a low-ranked independent team (NJIT)... next go-around I'll pick the lowest ranked RPI team, so it doesn't really affect much of anything, since I'm not going in and making any adjustments.

Made a really cool spreadsheet where I enter the results, standings, and it gives me conf. tourneys, RPI, SOS, etc. Gonna sim through the conf. tourneys, and rather than let the game do the Selection Sunday show, I'll pick my own field of 68 and see how close I get to the game (and I may pick the NIT 32 too, why not...). Then like another thread, I'm going to CPU vs CPU my tournament to see it through.

For the next season, I'm going to start a new open legacy, but I stored all the orders the teams finished the previous season, along with how they did in real life before the season the game mimics (07-08)... then I'll go in, and under "switch conferences", I'll switch teams around within conference to give them different schedules according to how well they did the year before. Rather than see the same schedule over and over... it does remove things like local OOC games but it's a video game, there's no travel fatigue...

Anyway, just wanted to post in here, since I think it's pretty different, and I'll be updating what I've come up with when I have my selection committee of 1 meeting. I just got through the regular season to March 4 on the calendar, the first day of conference tournaments. Going through some of the conf tourneys on CPU vs CPU rather than sim.

Interesting, if nothing else... lol

Sounds like A LOT of work!

[jcofor25]

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Just won Back-to-Back championships with Siena with the second being a perfect season.
Now that I have built a dynasty, I am moving back to a power conf. school to have more competition in Conference play.

All that being said, Moved to Georgia Tech (Live 10 mi from school) and now the 2nd game is against Siena. Wanted to go to GT mainly because of the center logo. Thought it would be great to run up and down the court with a huge center logo.

This is my 1st year so I dont have the players to fit my play style yet, but we have a few good shooters and came here with the best C out of the newest class of recruits coming in for at least 2 years

Wish me luck!!

[moose141]

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Currently started a Legacy with Pitt (my school) using the 2010-11 rosters and I customized Pitt's schedule to at least have the correct OOC schedule, as I can't change their Big East schedule which varies each year. Started out the year so far 9-0, won the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic with 10 point wins against #11 Kentucky and Richmond at MSG. Also, barely squeaked by RMU 72-70. I'm having a blast playing so far, loving getting back to college hoops and whatnot.

I have #13 Tennessee (7-1) looming on the schedule, so that should be a good test for the squad.

[Suntan Superman]

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So I haven't posted before, but I started a Career Legacy back in '08 when the full rosters came out, and have stuck with it, coaching every game since then, I'm now in my 29th year at wisconsin after 5 years at Eastern Illinois(made tourny 4 years) and 5 years at Southern Illinois(made tourny 3 years), I've now made the tourny 25 straight years with wisconsin, and have won eight national championships, made it to 14 Final Fours, and have a career record of 998 wins and 367 losses. working on recruiting my grandson(virtual, only 22 IRL), and I'm still not sick of this game.

Now shutting the books on my 35th year at Wisconsin, I have the Final Four and possibly the National Championship to coach(#10 if I make it) Straight from the game, my notable accomplishments...

Career Record 1166-401
37 Regular Season Championships (4 E. Illinois, 3 S. Illinois, 30 Wisconsin)
35 Conference Tournament Championships (4 E. Illinois, 3 S. Illinois, 28 Wisconsin)
145 All-Conference Players
45 NCAA All-Americans
34 Conference Coach of the Year
8 NCAA Coach of the Year
3 Player of the Year
122 Pro Draftees
38 NCAA Tournament Appearance
29 Sweet Sixteens
18 Final Fours
9 NCAA Championships
1 NIT Championship(at S. Illinois)
12 #1 Recruiting class rankings
at least 17 #1 recruits
at least 20 In-State Mr. Basketballs
31 Consecutive NCAA Tournaments
around a 65 consecutive win streak
14 Preseason #1 rankings


Have I mentioned I love this game?

[Suntan Superman]

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Also in case any Wisconsin fans are out there, don't worry, Bo Ryan lives on through me, my entire career I've played Flex offense(basically pick and rolls, with a few custom plays, mostly like the Spurs pick and kick), my offensive tempo is 0, defensive pressure is 90, trans d is/crash is 35 and my def reb/fast brk is 30.

I've used the default sliders the entire 45 seasons.

I am thinking about starting a new one though.

[l3ulvl]

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Now shutting the books on my 35th year at Wisconsin, I have the Final Four and possibly the National Championship to coach(#10 if I make it) Straight from the game, my notable accomplishments...

Career Record 1166-401
37 Regular Season Championships (4 E. Illinois, 3 S. Illinois, 30 Wisconsin)
35 Conference Tournament Championships (4 E. Illinois, 3 S. Illinois, 28 Wisconsin)
145 All-Conference Players
45 NCAA All-Americans
34 Conference Coach of the Year
8 NCAA Coach of the Year
3 Player of the Year
122 Pro Draftees
38 NCAA Tournament Appearance
29 Sweet Sixteens
18 Final Fours
9 NCAA Championships
1 NIT Championship(at S. Illinois)
12 #1 Recruiting class rankings
at least 17 #1 recruits
at least 20 In-State Mr. Basketballs
31 Consecutive NCAA Tournaments
around a 65 consecutive win streak
14 Preseason #1 rankings


Have I mentioned I love this game?

That's amazing. I wish I didn't get so sim-happy with my legacies, I'd love to see what kinda numbers I'd get if I actually played all the games that long. Great stuff.

[HarkTheSound]

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Recently started up a career legacy with the Columbia Lions from the Ivy League...Would appreciate some more followers!

[NoDakHusker]

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Finished out my first year at Grambling, losing to Iowa State in the first round of the NIT. It was a close game, but they were lights out from beyond the arc and I just didn't match up that well to begin with. We hung in there until about 5 minutes to go and things just started to let go.

That said, it was a great season finishing 19-8. I lose a few solid players going into next year and recruiting was awful not helping myself down the road at all...that said the best part of my team will return so I'm optimistic about the next season.
My leading scorer PG Derron Hobbs(averaged 13 PPG) earned 1st team All SWAC honors and C Frank Snow made the SWAC Freshman team.

National Champion was the #1 overall seed Pittsburgh who beat another #1 seed, Clemson(yes, Clemson was a 1 seed). Surprisingly there weren't a lot of upsets, most of the higher seeds won.
On another note, I created myself as a recruit and I ended up going to Minnesota. I really, really dislike this. Obviously my virtual self doesn't get how much my real self can't STAND the Gophers. But whatever. I always like to follow my guy's career, it's fun to see how they do.

[KClolz]

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Finally got a PS3 for Christmas and getting a chance to play all of the great games that I’ve been missing out on. I picked up NBA 2K8 and College Hoops 2K8 for around $3 (each) for the awesome game-play, the in-depth Association/Legacy mode, and the fact that I can import the draft classes between the games. I just finished my first season in CHoops2k8 with Eastern Illinois in a “Closed” Legacy…

Coach Sauber – Eastern Illinois Panthers – Year One (07-08)

I had a blast controlling this small school in the first year of my legacy. My rotation was fun to work with as the Panthers consisted of their star PG Michael Robinson (70 Overall; best on the team) along with SG Romain Martin. The Panthers started off hot going 5-2 in non conference play with big wins overall rival Western Illinois and even upsetting Iowa in the 3<SUP>rd</SUP> place game in the Hawkeye tournament.

Once conference play started the Panthers went on a few hot and cold streaks. We had some big wins like beating the eventual OVC regular season champions, Austin Peay at their home court. The Panthers ended up finishing out the regular season with a 14-13 (9-11) record. Romain Martin (who had an 80 3-Point rating) started off the season at the 6<SUP>th</SUP> man, but by the end of the season he was starting and led the team in scoring with around 15 PPG.

The Panthers went 9-11 in Ohio Valley Conference and clinched a seven seed in the OVC Tournament. We defeated Samford for second time in the first round before losing to the eventual winners of the tournament, Tennessee State in the semi-finals. It was so much fun playing at The University of Tennessee’s home court throughout the tournament; the arena was packed and defiantly had that “big game” atmosphere.

The Eastern Illinois Panthers finished the 07-08 season with a record of 15-14 (9-11). I’m very happy with the fact that I ended up with a winning record in my first season as coach. I for sure have some rebuilding to do with losing three starters after this season, but then again I do have five scholarships to use. In the 08-09 season I’m only losing two seniors, so it’s going to be a fun time rebuilding this young Eastern Illinois team. Both Robinson and Martin will be returning next season to help the Panthers try and contend for an above .500 record along with possibly a run in the OVC tournament.

Other news around the NCAA… Michael Beasley won National Player of the Year along with Freshman of the Year. I expected Memphis to run the table but that was not the case when PG Derrick Rose went down with a broken ankle and was out for about a month. Memphis ended up getting back into the rankings but lost about 10 games in the season. Washington ended up winning the NIT Tournament while in the “Big Dance” the Final Four consisted of (1)Georgetown vs. (1)Vanderbilt and (4) Arkansas vs. (7) Marquette. It ended up being a clash of the Big East in the title game as Marquette (who looked to become the lowest seed to win the NCAA tournament) faced Georgetown. Marquette couldn’t pull of the “upset” as Georgetown with Roy Hibbert and company won thus making Georgetown the 2007-2008 NCAA Basketball National Champions.

[Preo32]

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I havent played this game in a good 6 weeks. Got back into Fifa like crazy and havent touched anything since. Goin on spring break and since my Fifa Ultimate Team is on my roommates XBOX, imma try to get back into CH2K8 or NBA2K11 and get a season going. I enjoy the legacy of CH more, but with the season ending and NBA gettin close to the playoffs, its tough to not play 2K11. Been even longer since ive played that tho

[BBaller24]

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I just started a Career Legacy with the Samford Bulldogs. We've got some pretty good talent on the team. The best player is our starting SG who drains constantly from 3. The rest of the rotation is solid for only a 69ovr team but there is one problem. The only PG on the roster is a 50 overall. So i've decided to run my backup SG at the point instead and recruit a true PG like crazy during the season. Hopefully everything goes well and we can make a NCAA Tourny birth.