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

[GetBuckets]

Quote: Originally Posted by GetBuckets

I'm not sure to what extent the market factors in. It definitely predetermines what budget your owner is willing to give you, and it should make it easier for you to generate profit, but to what extent - I'm not sure. I go about handling the finance differently depending on the team I'm using and their situation. The common denominator is always making sure the pricing are balanced, so that I take the maximum price I can get away with while not scaring customers away, and that the funds allocation is balanced out nice and evenly, allowing me to generate revenue simultaneously to signing good staff members and players. If you're trying to rebuild, the optimal situation is to have a group of young guns on cheap contracts, who will peak around the same seasons. This allows you to extend their draft contracts for four years. Just before you have to pay them the max, you have the option to go out and sign another max player to surround them with, and then pay them the max afterwards, because you can then go above the cap due to bird years. If you're trying to win now you don't have to think too much about it. Just do what's necessary to get that chip. It's a good idea to have a few cheap, young guns on a contending team, to ease up the transition period, but in regards to cap space, worry about that afterwards. It's always smart to assess your team every season. If you've been contending for numerous seasons, and your star players are getting there age-wise, you might want to look a bit further. Either look to replace them with young talent or draft picks, or get ready to tank for a few years when your stars' contracts do expire. If you're legit tanking, make sure that you're spending as little as possible on contracts, always great to take advantage of that situation and create some profit that way around. I always try to have my most expensive players expire the same year, as it gives me great freedom to re-assess the team, but that's hard to do and definitely not a necessity.

Off the top of my head, I'll assume my championship teams - that I build through a complete rebuild - usually ends up looking a bit like this in regards to contracts:

(Not adjusted for inflation)
1st option: 25m (drafted and extended to max contract)
2nd option: 20m
3rd option: 15m
4th option: 10m
5th option:8m
6th: option 5m
And then 9 guys on minimum deals: 9m
Total: 94m

[Insight23]

Quote: Originally Posted by maxvansoest5

Question is there any trick to not having so many big name free agents stay with their teams? Second year I had Blake,CP3 and Hayward all stay and it seems like most guys end up staying with their team. Any fix for this or is my Only option user controlling all teams to seemsome More movement take place in free agency?

In my experience, if you lower their loyalty in edit player there is more of a possibility they will leave. I think CP3's loyalty is a 90 which makes him stay pretty much all the time but if you lower it to about 56 or so I think he'll look to head elsewhere or even still be open to staying. Sim a season or two & mess with it.

[SirGaryColeman]

I just joined an Online MyLeague after having played 100% MyCareer for the last few games.

The AI Defense is TURRIIIBLLLEE. Any tips for Defensive Settings?

I feel like the paint is always wide open, should I just play man-to-man and protect the paint with my Center?

I can beast at 2k with 1 guy, but controlling 5 guys has been difficult... the help is awful and my cpu teammates are really really stupid compared to playing with humans.

I'm super frustrated, any tips?

[Housh123]

Iv run prob 10 total seasons of MYGM and it does get extremely easy and your teams get extremely OP eventually.

To combat this I just made a new one and said screw it and used a legends roster so now everyone should have an OP team for a couple seasons at least.

This plus tweaking of sliders has at least after 30 games made me feel like I was playing in an even league. I drafted a team according to what I thought my playstyle was gonna be and I ended up losing a lot. I'm around 18-13 right now and iv only just gotten my first good win streak at 5. I had 3 starters out for like 6-8 weeks. I figured out I'm a pick and roll guy who likes to push off rebounds so I got some guys who could push pace really well and Iv seen improvement.


I'm just glad it isn't super easy anymore. At this rate I'll finish 4th in my conference and I have no idea if I can win a title. That's how I like it


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[Housh123]

Quote: Originally Posted by SirGaryColeman

I just joined an Online MyLeague after having played 100% MyCareer for the last few games. The AI Defense is TURRIIIBLLLEE. Any tips for Defensive Settings? I feel like the paint is always wide open, should I just play man-to-man and protect the paint with my Center? I can beast at 2k with 1 guy, but controlling 5 guys has been difficult... the help is awful and my cpu teammates are really really stupid compared to playing with humans. I'm super frustrated, any tips?

That's why I don't play ranked matches


It seems like everyone but me knows the right defense to play in this years game


The best guys Iv played seem like they are playing tight on shooters, collapsing the paint on drives and manually moving their computer defenders into position very quickly.


On offense they seem to have varied techniques but most guys end up running picks and rolls and going one on one with their center hoping for a foul.

I too have a problem where it seems like my defenders are stupid. I know I'm just bad at the game but it seems like stuff isn't responsive. I know what I want to happen but I don't know the game and settings well enough to relay to the game what I want.




If I had complete control I'd want all picks switched, I'd want guys guarding shooters in the corner to NEVER play help D, I'd want guys at the top of the key to give their man cushion and I'd want guys to trap guys like Harden LeBron Kyrie and Curry of screens.



Ranked and leagues turn me away anyway because no one is ever friendly on the mic. As soon as I mic up to say hi I get cussed out for no reason. Like dudes have never won a game of 2k before


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[FerdBrown]

Quote: Originally Posted by SirGaryColeman

I just joined an Online MyLeague after having played 100% MyCareer for the last few games. The AI Defense is TURRIIIBLLLEE. Any tips for Defensive Settings? I feel like the paint is always wide open, should I just play man-to-man and protect the paint with my Center? I can beast at 2k with 1 guy, but controlling 5 guys has been difficult... the help is awful and my cpu teammates are really really stupid compared to playing with humans. I'm super frustrated, any tips?

In settings there's player lock. Not sure if it's available for online.

[Steven123]

Sup peeps,

Finally, 2k fixed the contract glitch in MyLeague, I started a Start Today with the Knicks.

Trades:
First move, moving Carmelo Anthony. I brought his Intangibles rating up to mid 80's, this brought his overall up to 88 - thus bringing his trade value up. I had to turn his NTC off because he will turn down the trade no matter what.

There are realistically only 3 teams that would trade for him - The Clippers, Celtics and Cavs, and those are the only 3 teams I received offers from in trade finder.

Celtics - offered Avery Bradley & Jaylen Brown
Clippers - offered DeAndre Jordan & Austin Rivers
Cavs - offered Kevin Love & Richard Jefferson

After debating between all the offers, I felt that the Cavs offer would be most beneficial to both teams with the Cavs offering me a better deal for what I planned. (More on that later)

I adjusted the deal to make it sweeter for both teams.

Knicks get: Kevin Love (87)
Iman Shumpert (72)
Cavs 2018 First Round

Cavs get: Carmelo Anthony (88)
Courtney Lee (78)
Mindaugas Kuzminskas (73)

Cavs get an upgrade at both the PF and SG positions to make another title run and I get Kevin Love as trade bait and an extra 1st rounder for next year. I like Willy Henangomez way too much to replace him with Love, I want to develop him and have him play side to side with Porzingis for a long time.

After the trade, I flipped Kevin Love (would have loved to do a 3 way but for some reason Cavs decline it no matter what) for Khris Middleton (he has the stats spread for my ideal SF).

The Bucks get an upgrade to Greg Monroe (made sure he went to FA for sake of fairness) and Malcolm Brogdon takes over at the 2. I move Khris Middleton as my starting 3.

More to come...

[FerdBrown]

Why is the 2K Summer League (not the Samsung Summer League) always happen at the Orlando Magic court? Regardless of playing teams, example Spurs v Pacers.