Brazil has been completed overnight. You can start testing that team too.
Next order of business:
1. Croatia Roster
a. Create 7 missing players, scouting has been done
b. Correct jersey numbers
c. Correct starting lineup
d. Correct playbook
e. Correct playing minutes and depth chart
2. Croatia Jersey
a. Based jersey on the one that Da InFaMoUs NY created for 2k16
3. Croatia Court
a. Possibly Zagreb Arena, where Group C of Eurobasket 2015 was played
All these items have an ETA of tonight if possible, if not Friday night.
Then for Friday too, complete 5 missing Australian players. They are already in the game in Team Australia but we can't make them playable on other modes. So we will copy the ratings and looks and paste them into newly created players.
The idea is by Friday to have 9 playable teams.
1. USA
2. France
3. Serbia
4. Lithuania
5. Spain
6. Australia
7. Croatia
8. Brazil
9. Argentina
During the weekend we will start scouting Venezuela, China and Nigeria. It will be a very hard task, as we will have to watch as many games as possible to scout those players, including 2016 Olympic Games, 2015 FIBA Americas (Venezuela beat Argentina in the final), AfroBasket 2015 (Nigeria beat Angola in the final) and 2015 FIBA Asia Championship (China beat Philippines in the final).
Of these three teams only one player has been created by the game, Yi Jianlian. All 35 missing players will be handcrafted by us. Before that we will track NBA 2k16 and NBA 2k15 to see if 2K had a chance to create any of those players on earlier versions, to make them as close as possible.
After creating these 12 teams we will start a test and tweak phase before we expand our universe to 36 FIBA teams. Run a few tournament to see how real results are being simulated and adjust as needed.
Finally, we will decide what to do with roster spot 13. NBA teams carry 13 active players; under FIBA rules games are played for only 40 minutes, teams carry 12 players.
Currently we have a 25 overall player filling that spot to mimic real life. But we know the engine can make that player play some minutes in blowout games. So we may change our decision. We may add a real player to fill that spot.
We don't want to complete it with a player that can be better than the 12 current ones. ie Lebron James on Team USA or Marc Gasol on Spain.
So we are looking for rosters on U19 Tournaments where we may find a good prospect for each team that can act as a backup and does not destroy our roster. Just as filler, create them and and do not designate any playing minutes. But if the engine decides he should play, the game does not look too bizarre.
Currently we think for example on Team USA, 19 year old Devin Booker who was part of the USA Select team will fill that spot. And 20 year old Marc Garcia who played for Spain the 2015 FIBA World Championship U19.
2K has already created an extra player for Australia, 21 year old Dante Exum who was not part of the Olympic Team.