My Player Progression Strategy

[exodus0313]

I've been playing 2K10 now for about a week and I'm addicted to the My Player mode. I'm in the middle of the first season now, and the Blazers just knocked my down to the D-League. The good thing though is I'm killing them in the D-League, so I'm getting a lot of skill points.

So, it made me think... for the people playing this mode, what's been your strategy for your skill points? I'm a scoring point guard, so I started first trying to up all of my shooting ratings into the mid 70s. At this point I've decided to balance how I distribute the ratings so I can try to up everything at the same pace. But I'm starting to wonder if it would make more sense to just focus on a couple of ratings and max those out and then move onto another set, max them out, etc. etc.

What are you guys doing?

[weylum]

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See this is what I'm wondering.....what strategy is best for me.

I'm a 6'5" athletic SF. 23 games into my 1st year.....avoided the clone glitch and all.

What I did initially was put most of my skill points into the physical attributes (vertical, speed, quickness, stamina, etc)

Stamina is crucial because the longer you have energy, the more effective you can be. When you're tired you get subbed, slower, and have overall less influence on the court.

Being athletic, I also started to put points that add to the overall athleticism, like layup, dunk, and standing dunk especially.

Now my offense is pretty potent, it isn't the greatest, but i can usually shoot around 50%. But it's time to add to the defensive side of things. Had a game against Indy and Granger lit my a** up. Couldn't stay in front to save my life.

I'm just wondering would it be better to let skill points stack for a few games? As of now i've been upgrading after every game. Would really like to get my speed up (only 81 right now) but the points are uber expensive.

I'm on 10 min quarters currently, and getting real good scores.

[kcarr]

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First off, how did you avoid the clone glitch? This is the one terrible thing about the game.

As for points, if you want to be a dominant player right away it is best to choose one area and go with that. The easiest way to do this is offense, either shooting, driving, or posting. One thing that really helps any offensive game is consistency. it really helps you keep your player from going cold and keeps you from having off games. Once you get that to where you can really attack most defenses then either round out your offense to make you a more consistant, dominant scorer or try to go defense.

If you want to have the best overall rating then improve the mental ratings. This won't make you a great player but it will boost your overall for cheap.

Personally I try to balance it more so my player improves in all areas and is the best all around player he can be. This might limit my ability to dominate and take over games at first bu it allows me to put up decent all around numbers.

The last player I tried was a 6'10" back to the basket PF. By mid december I was a 60 overall, starting, scoring over 20 most games and having one with 38, grabbing double digit rebounds about half the time and being close the rest of the time, blocking a few shots here and there, around .8 per game, averaging over 2 assists per game and less than a turnover per game.

What I was doing was adding 5 points to an offensive rating, then 5 to defense, then 5 to physical, then 5 to mental. Most of my offensive ones went to the post game since that was my bread and butter but I put some into shooting and offensive rebounding as well. Defensively I spread it out between rebounding, blocks, post defense, and a little on ball defense. Physical I went mostly with stamina but put a little into vertical to help with the rebounding and shot blocking and a little into speed to help guard the occasional SF that I got stuck on and a little into strenght to help with the post defense. Mentally I went mostly with consistancy and a little into clutch offense.

[exodus0313]

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I'm on 10 min quarters currently, and getting real good scores.

How were you able to change the games to 10 minute quarters? I'm stuck playing 5 and couldn't figure this out to save my life!

[kcarr]

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How were you able to change the games to 10 minute quarters? I'm stuck playing 5 and couldn't figure this out to save my life!

To do it you have to have the DC and import a player from there. They are fixing that with the patch. To do it set all the settings how you want, save the settings, and the import your player.

[weylum]

Re: My Player Progression Strategy

First off, how did you avoid the clone glitch? This is the one terrible thing about the game.

As for points, if you want to be a dominant player right away it is best to choose one area and go with that. The easiest way to do this is offense, either shooting, driving, or posting. One thing that really helps any offensive game is consistency. it really helps you keep your player from going cold and keeps you from having off games. Once you get that to where you can really attack most defenses then either round out your offense to make you a more consistant, dominant scorer or try to go defense.

If you want to have the best overall rating then improve the mental ratings. This won't make you a great player but it will boost your overall for cheap.

Personally I try to balance it more so my player improves in all areas and is the best all around player he can be. This might limit my ability to dominate and take over games at first bu it allows me to put up decent all around numbers.

The last player I tried was a 6'10" back to the basket PF. By mid december I was a 60 overall, starting, scoring over 20 most games and having one with 38, grabbing double digit rebounds about half the time and being close the rest of the time, blocking a few shots here and there, around .8 per game, averaging over 2 assists per game and less than a turnover per game.

What I was doing was adding 5 points to an offensive rating, then 5 to defense, then 5 to physical, then 5 to mental. Most of my offensive ones went to the post game since that was my bread and butter but I put some into shooting and offensive rebounding as well. Defensively I spread it out between rebounding, blocks, post defense, and a little on ball defense. Physical I went mostly with stamina but put a little into vertical to help with the rebounding and shot blocking and a little into speed to help guard the occasional SF that I got stuck on and a little into strenght to help with the post defense. Mentally I went mostly with consistancy and a little into clutch offense.

Wow man you have this down to a science.

I definitely hear you on the consistency tip, I have mine at 99 and it totally prevents your player from having off nights.

But to answer your question, I avoided the clone glitch by doing this: Once I finished my summer league games, there was a screen asking me to select which team's training camp I wanted to attend. At that screen, I didn't select anything, and instead exited straight out of the game to the xbox dashboard. I restarted the game and once I loaded my player, it said that I was invited to Cleveland's training camp, which was the same team I did summer league with, thus avoiding a duplicate player on another team. As of now, this is the only workaround until the patch.

But again man I dig your strategy. How far into the season are you? Only gripe I have is that now I get the starting nod over LeBron some games, and I think we could be more effective if LeBron and I started. His minutes and status are well below what he's accustomed to. I'm only putting up 21 and 8 boards, playing strictly within the offense.

Let's here some more strategy/stories fellas! I'm an addict for this mode!

[kcarr]

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Yeah, it sucks that they won't let you start out of position even though you can play out of position. In my latest one with washington at first the starting lineup was arenas, foye, butler, jamison, and oberto. However, I really should have been starting at the center spot even though I was a power forward and every game I would get subbed in at power forward at the fist dead ball. There was a stretch of 10 games where I actually tracked the times I got put in in the first quarter and the longest it took them to put me in was 28 seconds. Most of the time I was in within 15 seconds and was playing starter minutes at the center spot and not playing power forward at all.

They then started having me start rather than jamison and at the first dead ball they would sub him in and move me over to the 5. They need to be able to actually set up the starting lineups like this when it would make for the best lineup.

Also, they need to really look at trying to have the CPU use the matchup thing so that if for instance when I am playing boston if I am our best post defender they match me up with KG no matter what position he is playing. I hate going up against him for a little bit, keeping him from taking over the game and doing what I can to slow him down and then either him or me moving over from the 4 to the 5 or vice-versa and him dominating oberto or jamison and getting hot then having to switch back and stop him when he is already rolling. Now that I am starting one as an athletic 3 I can see this really being a problem with some of the big athletic 2s and 3s like kobe, melo, wade, bron etc once I become a real defender.

I am actually going to start a new one now to avoid the clone glitch, too annoying when I am putting up over 20 points and my average of 15 is dropping because my clone is playing but not scoring. Now I am just waiting for 2ks servers to work so I can get started, sure with we could do this without having to depend on their servers.

My first one I made it a little ways into december with houston and decided that I wanted to up the minutes a little bit so had to start over. My latest one I was 26 games in with washington and had them in position to be in the playoff race and was in contention with griffin and harden as a possible ROY canidate despite my clone killing my averages.

[Synchromesh]

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If you're a wing player I like to start out by upgrading speed + layup, you can get a number of easy-non-cheesy buckets just by filling the lane correctly on fastbreaks.

[weylum]

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Kcarr, I agree with you in terms of cpu matchup AI. Being an athletic SF, a lot of times I get thrown in at the SG spot, and many of the guards are much quicker than me which essentially gives the other team a mismatch, and I'd definitely do better if I was locked in at the three. And I'm pretty small for a SF, so when they put me at the PF position sometimes I have trouble guarding taller defenders. These are reasons that I definitely want to raise my defense related attributes.

I can't stress how alluring it is to want to improve my speed moreso than anything else at the moment.

[kcarr]

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Yes, and when one team has a star player or a player who is their most dangerous threat like kobe, wade, bron, etc on the perimeter or howard or bosh or boozer in the post the game needs to recognize that and regardless of position put the best either perimiter or post defender on him. They shouldn't have shane battier guarding anthony parker when bron is on the court just because battier came in at the 2 or parker moved over to the 3. The CPU needs to recognize their top defenders and the opponents top weapons and try to match them up.

[kcarr]

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Another thing, I have found that the rebounding drill is really easy and a good way to pick up guaranteed points. Also, in the combine it was sometimes better to take the silver in the drill as you would get points that you could spend wherever you wanted whereas with the gold you just got +1 for one rating and it was sometimes worth less than the 150 skill points. However, in the actual game when you get gold you get 400 points plus the +1 for the rating which I just found out the other day.

[Fiasco West]

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Haha my guy is a scoring SF 6'6 and he's not very athletic right now. Can't dunk, speed is like 60, but his vertical right now is over 70 and i've only played 4 dleague games.

He's like a mini Paul Pierce though, he's able to score effectively though.

My strategy isn't that complicated or anything, I just simply improve on what I feel needs to be improved on. So if i'm missing a lot of mid range shots i'll improve that, consistency, shots in traffic, shot off dribble. These are the stats im worried about now. The basic stuff, i'll worry about getting him able to dunk and stuff later.

I like playing at SG since they are smaller I can score on them a variety of ways. Like post up, and i've got his handles up.

But yeah, the mode has been great.

[blkdiemend]

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If you upgrade the offensive and defensive awareness first, you can get your overall rating pretty high. I just finished my first game in training camp, got my defensive/offensive awareness up to 95/95 and my Overall rating is at 60. I followed the same strategy from the beginning of the combine and was drafted 1st round pick 27.

[kcarr]

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I just got my 6'8" athletic SF drafted by new orleans in the first round 21st overall which brings up another thing that kinda irritates me, they still get collison who they really drafted with that pick. Anyway, with him I have bumped up his dunk to 65 with my points from the drills so I can have the athletic guard dunk package and now I am working on my mid range shooting and shoot off dribble on offense, on ball defense for my defensive rating, vertical and stamina for physical (speed is way to expensive for the time being for what it is worth) and consistancy for mental.

[weylum]

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I just got my 6'8" athletic SF drafted by new orleans in the first round 21st overall which brings up another thing that kinda irritates me, they still get collison who they really drafted with that pick. Anyway, with him I have bumped up his dunk to 65 with my points from the drills so I can have the athletic guard dunk package and now I am working on my mid range shooting and shoot off dribble on offense, on ball defense for my defensive rating, vertical and stamina for physical (speed is way to expensive for the time being for what it is worth) and consistancy for mental.

Wow I didn't know that 65 unlocked the athletic guard dunk package. Let me know how he turns out.

My player should be a better ball handler now that I think about it.....hmmmmm lol