Is the NBA 2K Insider a joke?

[NYCD@Future]

They had rubio 3pt rating at 1 point at 87 and kobe mid range at 78 at one point right? Answers the question ha..

[sword1986]

[2_headedmonster]

at this point 2k are the parents perpetuating the Santa Clause myth...

[domidomdomz]

I don't care if that's one person or one group as long as the 2K Insider gets his job done. At least, assign non-generic shoes to most of the role players.

[Gatorfan Frank]

It just seems like too much information for one guy to keep track of. Take the hotspots for example. Half the players don't even have them on 2K12, and the other half with hotspots are questionable.

Somehow Durant had no hotspots in close or midrange. Tony Parker is has cold spots in his real-life sweet spots.

Hopefully the "Insider" has access to advanced stats such as visual analytics for player shots.

Courtvisionanalytics.com is a really good website with tons of real-life hot and cold spots. There's also a good article on the highest percentage shooters on different areas of the court. I'm sure there are a lot of other resources the 2K team can turn to, so there's really no excuse for half to players to not have hot and cold spots.

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorfan Frank

It just seems like too much information for one guy to keep track of. Take the hotspots for example. Half the players don't even have them on 2K12, and the other half with hotspots are questionable. Somehow Durant had no hotspots in close or midrange. Tony Parker is has cold spots in his real-life sweet spots. Hopefully the "Insider" has access to advanced stats such as visual analytics for player shots. Courtvisionanalytics.com is a really good website with tons of real-life hot and cold spots. There's also a good article on the highest percentage shooters on different areas of the court. I'm sure there are a lot of other resources the 2K team can turn to, so there's really no excuse for half to players to not have hot and cold spots.

Anyone with that role/responsibility shouldn't be manually editing this anyways. Video game development is software development. Ratings, tendencies, etc. are based upon data. Data that should be stored in a proprietary data model in a relational database.

This means that there's no excuse for attributes, tendencies, hot spots, and hot zones to be defined by any different process than the ones used by analysts like Kirk Goldsberry (one of my favs BTW). There are open source libraries out there right now to pull in every box score from the NBA into a relational database within the same business day.

Again, one FTE is not the limitation here. Having the right process in place so that the person is not making subjective decisions unless absolutely necessary is the most important thing.

[MarvinOida]

If the insider does Ratings, Tendencies, Animations, and Gear, then he is pretty lazy. Personally, it should evolve to a teams, ratings, animations, tendencies, gear and the other things like Playbooks, Coach Profiles, Players Looks. They also be divided it should be Gameplay Team (The Player Ratings, Coachs Profiles, etc.) and the Art Team (Gear, Animations, Dynamic Player looks, etc.)

[fang]

He's the Insider 2K deserves, but not the one it needs right now.