The Senator's All Time Save 1.0
(PS4)
PSN: SenatorPhillips
-133 created players at this point
-No duplicate players, I tried my best to balance each team out as such
-A mix of players dating back to Pre-NBA days up to the present day, the very best of the best
-All players represented at their best, default classics given their best stats in spite of the lack of an editable age
-The Pelicans don't have enough of a legacy to truly have an all time team, so I turned them into Anthony Davis and a smorgasbord of players from defunct teams, players who could have achieved greatness, some who didn't have space on any roster of a team they played for, and a few off the wall selections
Well, here it is. Months of work, starting from my wish to have a few more classic players on the roster, turned into an obsessive project to fill out every single roster in the league with a dream selection of almost every player I would ever want to see in the game. I do have a bit of a focus on paying tribute to older players and pioneers with this, and found the research fascinating in figuring out how to make them. I tried to balance the older players out with the current players, both to respect the evolution the game has taken, without devaluing their own skills. I do warn people that I'm a lifelong Bulls fan, and that bias might show up a bit on the save.
I plan to update this sporadically, and do welcome constructive suggestions. I know I didn't do much with the strategic part of things, other than to swap out a few playbooks. If we could create coaches, it would be different, but on that side, we're stuck with what 2K provided. I do know that 1.1 will feature edited salaries/contracts across the board and potentially a few more players if I see the need.
Credits:
Too many sources to list every one of them. As I said, this was my first time doing any extensive 2K editing past making trades and doing basic attribute upgrades. As such, it was enormously valuable to be able to look up video templates from some of the accomplished editors out there. Here's a few who gave me a starting point to work with using their many useful templates, but I was certainly not restricted to only these three, sometimes taking notes from multiple creators on a single player(or none at all at times):
-Franchise Play Brian Mazique
-TGor
-2K16 Historic Rosters(YT video maker)
Templates got me started and helped me complete many, many players, but I also put a ton of my own research into this. Some of the sites that I got my info off of:
-The Wilt Chamberlain Archive on YT was an incalculable aid in the massive amount of early footage it provided.
-Basketball Reference is an indispensable site for finding basic and advanced stats, and the fact that it lists the player's age for each season was very, very useful.
-The Naismith Hall of Fame site gave me some very good anecdotal information for many of the pioneers, allowing me to set their tendencies and badges.
-NBA.com's historical content is robust, and the narratives on many hall of fame players were well worth reading, and not just for research purposes.
-Nat Holman's 1922 book Scientific Basketball is scanned and freely available online, and gave me remarkable insight not just on how to recreate his shooting form, but on the tactics of the era.
-2KMT Central has info on every My Team card, which I used at times to figure out what 2K would rate a player, and how they would set tendencies. Of course, with all the massive inflation on the better cards, this was a starting point rather than a finish, but still useful.
I also had a good amount of books, magazines and other paper sources that I used. It was a good time trawling through the ol' library for that elusive bit of info I could have missed out on otherwise. These in particular were of assistance for my project:
-Zander Hollander's Complete Handbooks from anywhere around the late 70s through the 90s, if you were a basketball head back in the day, you had many of these
-Many copies of Basketball Digest, the head to head comparisons were especially illuminating
-Bill Simmons Book of Basketball, a true joy to read for any NBA fan, and the Pyramid ranking helped jog my memory. I don't necessarily agree with some of his rankings and some of the endless Boogie Nights references get old, but it's still one of the most re-readable books on the subject that I've ever read.
(PS4)
PSN: SenatorPhillips
-133 created players at this point
-No duplicate players, I tried my best to balance each team out as such
-A mix of players dating back to Pre-NBA days up to the present day, the very best of the best
-All players represented at their best, default classics given their best stats in spite of the lack of an editable age
-The Pelicans don't have enough of a legacy to truly have an all time team, so I turned them into Anthony Davis and a smorgasbord of players from defunct teams, players who could have achieved greatness, some who didn't have space on any roster of a team they played for, and a few off the wall selections
Well, here it is. Months of work, starting from my wish to have a few more classic players on the roster, turned into an obsessive project to fill out every single roster in the league with a dream selection of almost every player I would ever want to see in the game. I do have a bit of a focus on paying tribute to older players and pioneers with this, and found the research fascinating in figuring out how to make them. I tried to balance the older players out with the current players, both to respect the evolution the game has taken, without devaluing their own skills. I do warn people that I'm a lifelong Bulls fan, and that bias might show up a bit on the save.
I plan to update this sporadically, and do welcome constructive suggestions. I know I didn't do much with the strategic part of things, other than to swap out a few playbooks. If we could create coaches, it would be different, but on that side, we're stuck with what 2K provided. I do know that 1.1 will feature edited salaries/contracts across the board and potentially a few more players if I see the need.
Credits:
Too many sources to list every one of them. As I said, this was my first time doing any extensive 2K editing past making trades and doing basic attribute upgrades. As such, it was enormously valuable to be able to look up video templates from some of the accomplished editors out there. Here's a few who gave me a starting point to work with using their many useful templates, but I was certainly not restricted to only these three, sometimes taking notes from multiple creators on a single player(or none at all at times):
-Franchise Play Brian Mazique
-TGor
-2K16 Historic Rosters(YT video maker)
Templates got me started and helped me complete many, many players, but I also put a ton of my own research into this. Some of the sites that I got my info off of:
-The Wilt Chamberlain Archive on YT was an incalculable aid in the massive amount of early footage it provided.
-Basketball Reference is an indispensable site for finding basic and advanced stats, and the fact that it lists the player's age for each season was very, very useful.
-The Naismith Hall of Fame site gave me some very good anecdotal information for many of the pioneers, allowing me to set their tendencies and badges.
-NBA.com's historical content is robust, and the narratives on many hall of fame players were well worth reading, and not just for research purposes.
-Nat Holman's 1922 book Scientific Basketball is scanned and freely available online, and gave me remarkable insight not just on how to recreate his shooting form, but on the tactics of the era.
-2KMT Central has info on every My Team card, which I used at times to figure out what 2K would rate a player, and how they would set tendencies. Of course, with all the massive inflation on the better cards, this was a starting point rather than a finish, but still useful.
I also had a good amount of books, magazines and other paper sources that I used. It was a good time trawling through the ol' library for that elusive bit of info I could have missed out on otherwise. These in particular were of assistance for my project:
-Zander Hollander's Complete Handbooks from anywhere around the late 70s through the 90s, if you were a basketball head back in the day, you had many of these
-Many copies of Basketball Digest, the head to head comparisons were especially illuminating
-Bill Simmons Book of Basketball, a true joy to read for any NBA fan, and the Pyramid ranking helped jog my memory. I don't necessarily agree with some of his rankings and some of the endless Boogie Nights references get old, but it's still one of the most re-readable books on the subject that I've ever read.
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