Fellow O/S Roster makers! If you're interested in finding attributes and tendencies for your roster, current or historic, you're in luck.
What's SportsCrunch?
Its my fancy name for software I've been writing in my spare time the past few years, dedicated to generating ratings for sports games based on real sports statistics. It's a database that scrapes and compiles data from top stats websites like NBA.com, Basketball-reference.com, 82games.com, and others to have the most comprehensive compilation of statistics anywhere. It then uses this data to give you a ratings model of an NBA player given several different input variables. Want ratings for a player based on stats that span his whole career or just with a single team? Want Kobe's ratings based on all his playoff performances? All are possible.
Are you making your own roster?
Yes, for 2K18 I plan on doing a few rosters. Depending on time, I really hope to make a current 2017-2018 current rosters with weekly updates. Every week the ratings would be updated to reflect the stats from the previous week. There are also a couple of historic rosters I wish to tackle as well. My hope is still that some of the other brilliant roster makers get wind of this and make their own roster designs even better using these realistic ratings.
What are your formulas?
I'm totally open to discuss strategies I took coming up with these formulas, but straight up giving the formulas would not be completely useful. My system uses lookup tables to figure out the ratings from the generated values of the formula, so you'd need both in order to get the end result you'd want. Since I'm directly giving you almost all the ratings you'd possibly need to generate anyways, the work has been done for you.
Plus, modern stats websites are still lacking in reliability. Basketball-reference is still incomplete in some ways like shot types, and unfortunately NBA.com's stats for anything more than a couple years old are full of gaping holes, missing entire quarters worth of play-by-play data in some cases. So I painstakingly took on the task the past couple years to fill in those gaps using data from other sites to make sure everything was complete. For older stats, I trust my database more than any website out there.
Are you going to show us the ratings already?
Yup. You'll find the google doc spreadsheet at:
Sonicmage NBA 2K18 Ratings 2017-18 season
Sonicmage NBA 2K18 Ratings 1997-2017
Sonicmage NBA 2K18 Ratings 1973-1997
Sonicmage NBA 2K18 Ratings All-Time
Feedback is welcome. Let me know in the comments below if you plan on incorporating these into your rosters. If you're on PS4, I'd be glad to download them and give them a go! Enjoy!
Release Notes
10/27/2015: First release. Shot tendencies for 2000-01 season through 2014-15.
10/30/2015: Added Blocking and Shot Block Tendency. Added players dating back to the 1985-86 season.
11/01/2015: Corrected tendencies for Shot Under Basket, Shot Close, Shot Midrange, Shot Three, and Blocked Shot. Changed from linear to exponential scaling.
11/04/2015: Added Touches Tendency.
11/15/2015: Added Midrange and 3pt Shot location tendencies. Temporarily removed Block Attribute while scale is being fixed.
11/18/2015: Added improved Block attribute.
11/22/2015: Added Steal attribute. Added Pass Interception and On Ball Steal tendencies.
12/04/2015: Added Alley Oop Pass tendency.
12/05/2015: Bug fixes for shot location tendencies, and tweaks to shot distance rating tables.
12/21/2015: Added Standing Layup, Driving Layup, Standing Dunk, Driving Dunk, Alleyoop, and Putback tendencies.
12/31/2015: Added Close Shot location tendencies. Fixed Shot distance and Shot area definitions to match 2K's.
01/11/2016: Added Stepback Jumper, Use Glass, Floater, Post Hook Left, Post Hook Right, Post Fade Left, and Post Fade Right tendencies.
01/28/2016: Added Dish To Open Man tendency.
01/31/2016: Added tendencies going back to the 1973-74 season.
02/03/2016: Added tendencies for ABA players.
02/15/2016: Added 3pt, Shot, Dish To Open Man, and Block Shot tendencies for the 2015-16 season, along with full rosters for each team.
02/21/2016: Added Free Throw attribute. Weekly update of the 2015-16 season.
02/22/2016: Added Block, Steal, and Touches for the 2015-16 season.
02/29/2016: Weekly update of 2015-16 ratings.
03/07/2016: Weekly update of 2015-16 ratings.
03/16/2016: Weekly update of 2015-16 ratings. Added Offensive Rebound attribute.
03/28/2016: Weekly update of 2015-16 ratings. Added Defensive Rebound attribute. Added Eraser, Offensive Crasher, and Defensive Crasher badges.
04/04/2016: Weekly update of 2015-16 ratings. Added Pass Interception and On Ball Steal for the 2015-16 season. Added Lob City Passer, Interceptor and Pick Pocket badges.
04/26/2016: Added Standing/Driving Layup, Standing/Driving Dunk, Putback, Stepback Jumper, Floater, Use Glass, Alley-oop, Alley-oop Pass, and the Lob City Passer Badge for the 2015/16 season.
06/01/2016: Added Standing Shot Close, Mid, and Three rating columns. Added all Durability attributes.
06/02/2016: Added Bank Is Open, Post Hook Specialist, Corner Specialist, Fade Ace, and Lob City Finisher badges
07/23/2016: Added Standing Layup attributes. Added attributes for the 2015-16 season.
07/24/2016: Added Post Hook and Post Fadeaway attributes. Added some tendencies for the 2015-16 season.
08/19/2016: Added Driving Layup, Moving Shot Close, Moving Shot Midrange, and Moving Shot Three attributes. Added Tear Dropper and Dimer badges.
09/19/2016: Changed spreadsheet to represent ratings for 2K17 that match those already completed for 2K16. Added Passing Vision attribute.
09/20/2016: Added Shot Close attribute.
10/07/2016: Re-adjusted shooting rating scales. Adjusted badge scales, adding Hall of Fame level. Added Putback King badge.
10/20/2016: Added extended summary support for reduction of N/A's when surrounding season stats are available.
10/25/2016: Added foul tendency.
10/28/2016: Added Shoot From Post & Roll Vs Pop tendencies.
11/07/2016: Added first player ratings for 2016-17 season, for games through 11/03.
11/09/2016: Added shooting Hot Zones. More 2016-17 ratings, for games through 11/07.
11/30/2016: Shot Close readjusted to create correct percentages in sim stats.
12/23/2016: Standing Layup and Driving Layup have been adjusted for correct percentages in sim stats.
01/10/2017: Offensive Consistency, Defensive Consistency, and Defensive Anchor badge added to the sheet.
03/16/2017: Play Types added to the sheet.
03/22/2017: Pick & Popper and Pick & Roller badges added to the sheet.
07/09/2017: Open Shot Three and Contested Shot Three added to the sheet.
07/13/2017: Off Dribble Shot Three added to the sheet.
07/18/2017: Contested/Open/Off Dribble Shot Mid-range added to the sheet.
08/03/2017: On Ball Defense IQ, Low Post Defense IQ, and Pick & Roll Defense IQ added to the sheet.
08/04/2017: Defensive Stopper badge added to the sheet.
08/19/2017: Speed added to the sheet.
08/20/2017: Speed With Ball added to the sheet.
08/24/2017: Added sheet for all-time rosters (15 teams complete)
09/08/2017: Finished sheet for all-time rosters.
09/15/2017: Added sheet for post-2000 and all-time rosters for NBA 2K18.
09/17/2017: Added sheet for pre-2000 rosters for NBA 2K18.
09/20/2017: Added Play Types sheet with new 2K18 play types.
09/25/2017: Added Spot Up shot/drive tendencies and Off Screen shot/drive tendencies.
09/26/2017: Added post and midrange shooting badges.
10/18/2017: Added Draw Foul attribute.
11/14/2017: Added first release of 2017-18 ratings.
11/22/2017: Tweaked Post Hook, Floater, Post Hook Left, and Post Hook Right
11/29/2017: Tweaked Tear Dropper badge.
11/30/2017: Tweaked Post Fadeaway, Post Fade Left, and Post Fade Right
03/06/2018: Contested Shot Three tendency added for historic players.
If you are making rosters with these edits, PM me your 2Kshare info, the platform, and a link to any posts here on O/S regarding your rosters, and I will add it to the list below.
ROSTERS THAT USE THESE EDITS
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2K17
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NBA 2k17 Historic Roster by D-Will254 (Xbox One)
2K16
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Historic Roster 2k16 by D-Will254 (Xbox One)
Sonicimage tendencies by Thetruth +others by Chmielu9123 (PS4)
2000-01 Roster (PS4) by CD90 (PS4)
Best of the 2000s Work in progress by Jaiveer (PS4)
NBA 2K16 10-11 Roster Now done V1 by Jaiveer (PS4)
09-10 Roster Now Done and Shared by Jaiveer (PS4)