Played a whole season?

[IamLEGENDsince87]

has anyone played a whole 82game season without simulating? how far did u go and how long did it take u? was it fun?

[Gotmadskillzson]

I haven't done that since 2k3. Took 2 1/2 months for the regular season and another month for the playoffs. After that I vowed to never do that again. Takes WAYYYYYYYYYY too long.

[Guggy107]

im 50 games in on 12 minute quarters. i started in early march, so at this rate assuming i make the playoffs i should be done by june. so 3 months. im having a blast with it. im really excited to get to the offseason, and beyond that hopefully i can keep it up. on 2k8 i played a whole season and about 15 games into the second season before giving up on it. though i quit playing only because my game kept freezing. otherwise id probably still be playing.

[USF_Guy]

I usually try to play a full season after the real NBA trade deadline has passed so i can have pretty good rosters. But i end up getting bored and quit. The last time i actually tried to play a full season was nba 2k8 with Golden State....only made it to 42 games

[Heiks]

I've been playing 10-12 minute quarters and 58-game seasons on 2k8 with Portland. I'm halfway through my third season and it has taken about 14-15 months. I've had my ups and downs, but usually I play about two or three games a week.

It was about to get boring somewhere during the second season, but i decided to overhaul the entire league and trade players (back) to their respective teams in the beginning of the 2008-09 season. That and turning off CPU trades pretty much saved it for me. Another thing that helped were accurate draft classes and re-adjusting CPU players' tendencies to replicate the current NBA season. Right now I've put so much effort into this save game that wouldn't even think about starting another one.

I'm pretty much a stat freak and I even been thinking about starting a 82-game season when 2k10 comes around. It would be awesome if they kept track of all the different records concerning season and career totals for players, coaches, team records, etc. That would definitely be a further interest boost for me to start a full 82 game season.

[mrchiggs]

Yeah I haven't done that since 2K5. I played about 65 games of the franchise mode i'm in now... Thats why AI won MVP! lol

[SimBaller]

Quote: Originally Posted by Heiks

It would be awesome if they kept track of all the different records concerning season and career totals for players, coaches, team records, etc. That would definitely be a further interest boost for me to start a full 82 game season.

You'll need to be more specific as most of that stuff is already there. Individual career records are available on the player card. Team and League Game/Season/Career/Playoff records are available in NBA.com.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by SimBaller

You'll need to be more specific as most of that stuff is already there. Individual career records are available on the player card. Team and League Game/Season/Career/Playoff records are available in NBA.com.

I would say if people aren't seeing it and you need to point it out to them, then there's either one or two things:

1) People don't actually LOOK for these sort of things.

or

2) You can do a better job of making this sort of information accessible.

I think there can be some improvements to making this information more accessible than the way it was organized this year.

You can't stop people from not looking... this is obvious when people ask questions that can be answered by reading the instruction book. But you can provide a few more "indicators" for these sort of things, especially in Franchise mode.