1969-70 NBA/ABA Roster w/50+ Draft Classes (PS4)

[RocketsFan1993]

I'm actually looking forward to this roster, even though these years were 20+ years before my time.

[Chederer]

Quote: Originally Posted by sra9888

Im down to help with draft classes. Just need the formula you use for ratings and I can jump right in starting with 70 and go from there.

Thanks man! Appreciate it. I care more about potential than OVR for draft classes, and don't really have a formula, but I wrote up some "rules" that I was gonna follow.

I wanted to keep it somewhat uniform, so only X amount of players can get a 90+ potential.

Spoiler

- 60 players per Draft Class x 50 years (1970-2019) = 3000 players, **** lol

- Potential Rating = the best possible version a player. EX – LeBron James’ is 99 Potential, because LeBron is a superhero unlike anything we’ve seen on a basketball court before. Rafael Arujao’s potential is 50ish, because Hoffa played like a trash can full of vanilla pudding on skates, and he wasn't ever going to be better than that.

- 250 of the 3000 players get a potential rating of 90 or above

(Potential Multi-time NBA All-stars, 5 per draft class on avg. That may be generous but hey, it's a video game. Not everybody will hit their potential. AND DONT TELL ME Eddie Griffin didn't have a 90 potential lol. But yeah if anybody really disagrees with any rating, I'm all ears)

- 50 of those players have a potential of 95 or above (Potential NBA Superstars, 1 per class on avg)

- 10 of those players have a potential of 99 (Transcendent Players, Potential 2k godz, come along once every 5 years on avg)

- Any 3-time NBA All-Star (post-NBA/ABA merger, ASG was pretty weak in the 70s it seems?) gets at least a 90 potential.

- Any player in the top-25 for All-time NBA points, or top-15 for rebounds or NBA assists gets at least a 90 potential.

- All of the remaining 2k-autogen players get set to at least 30 years old & lowest possible ovr

I actually have the 250 players who get 90+ written out, I can send ya that if you would like, and/or post it in this thread. Again, I kinda just threw it together off the top off my head, open to suggestions.

Glad to hear people are excited for this though, I'm gonna get going on the ABA teams.

[Zeke11]

How in-depth are you going with the rookies? Are you editing all their sigs shoes accessories etc. I’m currently at 1983 players, and thinking I may possibly stop and just play with yours when the years intersect.

[Chrome_Claymore]

Holy moly, this is indeed a MASSIVE project! I did a similar thing with 2K19 only with draft classes from 1977-1997 with 30+ players for each one. It was super tedious especially I did all of them myself. Glad you're doing this one and putting them onto Google Sheets which could help others like myself if we want to get this on other platforms.

[Chrome_Claymore]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chederer

- Potential Rating = the best possible version a player. EX – LeBron James’ is 99 Potential, because LeBron is a superhero unlike anything we’ve seen on a basketball court before. Rafael Arujao’s potential is 50ish, because Hoffa played like a trash can full of vanilla pudding on skates, and he wasn't ever going to be better than that.

I sorta disagree with this. Busts should have high potentials but their Peak Starts and Ends should be really low (like early twenties or have them peak the same age they are drafted so they never drastically improve) so the AI will draft them high (if we're going for realism here). The CPU will sometimes draft based on potential as long as their OVR isn't too far from the current players they can select when drafting.

For instance, Darko Milicic was hyped as hell. Of course this meant his potential was high and got drafted within the top 5. We all know what happens after.

If we rate every players' potentials according to their eventual skill level, you'll always have players like Stockton, Drexler, Malone, etc. drafted in the top 5 every single time.

[Chederer]

Oh I agree with the sentiment, I just picked one specific guy who sucked *** in Arujao.

Darko, for example, gets a 90 potential. Eddie Griffin didn't have an NBA Career but was amazing in HS and his one NCAA year and will get a 90 POT with a peak start / end adjustment.

Planning on editing shoes to be era-specific. Like all the guys in the 69-70 starting base are wearing Cons. Sigs I can do for the really important guys but I'm no expert on those.

And yeah this is a big project, but the way I see it, I won't be buying 2k21 and depending on how 2k goes with next gen, it could be years before I buy another NBA game, if ever. May as well go out with a bang, haha.

[RocketsFan1993]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chederer

Oh I agree with the sentiment, I just picked one specific guy who sucked *** in Arujao. Darko, for example, gets a 90 potential. Eddie Griffin didn't have an NBA Career but was amazing in HS and his one NCAA year and will get a 90 POT with a peak start / end adjustment. Planning on editing shoes to be era-specific. Like all the guys in the 69-70 starting base are wearing Cons. Sigs I can do for the really important guys but I'm no expert on those. And yeah this is a big project, but the way I see it, I won't be buying 2k21 and depending on how 2k goes with next gen, it could be years before I buy another NBA game, if ever. May as well go out with a bang, haha.

Dude, this would be an awesome project to go all out on. Would you ever take player suggestions for the draft classes?

[Chederer]

Yeah, absolutely. Post em in here?