I recently just finished a massive historical roster project and wanted to create a post detailing information so anyone can do an entire re-sim of the past 20 years.
To begin this roster has 29 full teams (the pelicans are a filler squad in this) each with at least 13 real players and a specific. salary filler, either created by me or edited from the base roster. I did my best to create quality created players, and did multiple test sims to make sure nothing was too out of the ordinary.
With that out of the way, I'm going to start detailing things that I made to go with this roster.
First off I have a ready save under my gamertag Lgoldberg12. So if you go to start a MyLeague, you can download and use my save. It has everything set up except for Mike Miller. His age and years pro are incorrect because I just very recently updated his player model. It's an easy fix though, you just have to look up his age at the time on Basketball Reference and set years pro to 0.
Anyways If you use this save, I recommend looking at the MyLeague settings to make sure everything is to your liking. I also need to mention that you can't change the rule making the conference quarterfinals 5 games.
Also look at the sim control settings. I set it to draft manually because I prefer the drafts to go similarly to how they did in real life. Make any changes you want to.
If your not going to use my save you must know that your going to have to set all these rookie years pro to zero. Does not take long though.
Kenyon Martin
Darius Miles
Jamal Crawford
Hero Turkoglu
Quentin Richardson
Desmond Mason
Morris Peterson
Deshawn Stevenson
Mark Madsen
Eduardo Najera
Michael Redd
Brian Cardinal
Etan Thomas
I made sliders for gameplay and my league. Both under my gamertag. There is also another set of sliders for the 08-09 season that will be used up until about 2015.
I also have a full collection of draft classes, me and multiple people put together. So shoutout BawdyIntegral33, Wonzie, and ColinDaBoss.
Some of the classes are a bit thin, but all of these have at least 17 players and no auto gen players who will end up being good.
01 Lgoldberg12
02 Lgoldberg12
03 Lgoldberg12
04 Lgoldberg12
05 Lgoldberg12
06 CheerfulCap808
07 CheerfulCap808
08 CheerfulCap808
09 CheerfulCap808
2010 BawdyIntegral33
2011 ColinDaBoss
2012 ColinDaBoss
2013 ColinDaBoss
2014 ColinDaBoss
2015 OH331614
2016 OH331614
2017 Lgoldberg12
2018 OH331614
2019 OH331614
2020 CheerfulCap808
Some rookies in these draft classes have incorrect vitals. That is partially my fault for using player dna, but partially 2K's for not allowing me to edit years pro in draft classes. It is mostly just players having extra years pro. That's an easy fix, just sort each team by age and find the rookies who are not listed in the rookie report.
Here is a list of yearly adjustments you can consider doing. These are things that happened in real life that you can pretty easily do if you want to.
The Year corresponds to the offseason you should do these in
2001 - MJ assigns himself to his Wizards (playerdna is under my gamertag)
Andrei Kirilenko to Jazz (Overseas but his playerdna is under my name)
First Rule Changes
Revert to 2018 lottery
Players 18 years are eligible for draft
Top 3 seeds are division winners
Rookies Vs. Sophomores game
2002 - Adjust Ricky Davis Freelance Tendency (make him a ball hog)
Give Manu 87 potential (Overseas)
New Kobe (2003-2004 Lakers version)
2003 - Shaq Weight
Nash Freelance Boost (Touches)
2004 - Fill squad becomes hornets
Hornets become bobcats
Michael Redd Freelance Tendency boost
2005 -New Ray Allen (Bald version)
2006 -Division winners are not guaranteed top 3 seeds (rule change)
2007 -
2008- New Manu Ginobili (Older version)
Sonics Become Thunder
New Sliders
2009 -
2010 - New Lebron (Heat version)
New Melo (Knicks version)
New Bosh (Heat version)
New Dirk (Championship Mavs version)
2011- New Kobe (Old version if possible)
Ron Artest Name change to Metta World Peace
2012 - Nets to Brooklyn
2013 - New Harden (Bigger Beard Rockets version)
2014 -
2015 - New Sliders
New Derrick Rose (Current version)
2016 -
2017 -
2018 - New Draft Lottery Rule
2019 - New Lebron (Current version)
New Dwight (Current version)
2020 -
Feel free to let me know of any adds to this list.
Lastly I'm going to link another post by a Playstation roster creator named clutch. He has a full image of all the rebrands that happened between these times. It's very useful, and very accurate. So shoutout to him.
https://forums.operationsports.com/f...-year-sim.html
For picking these rebrands out though, I recommend using the branding from guys like Travis and PATRIOTFANATTIC. They have some of the better ones. However sometimes the courts bug.
Again shoutout to those that helped me on this. This was a near 5 month process, and I'm glad that I finally get to share this with the 2K community.