You are doing a great job on this roster. looks good.
alot of Alby's Roster is based on vannwolfhawks tendency edits/blogs/plays. I believe that alby integrated most of vannwolfhawks suggestions.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0h-vo ... 7MQ/videos
https://forums.operationsports.com/vannwolfhawk/
The little project i'm working on ---utah jazz rant haha 
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Being a Jazz fan that watched most of their games last season.....The only problem that i have with all these rosters is they severly underrate the utah jazz. I believe the default alby roster had jazz 30th in offense and 3rd in defense.
watching the jazz most last season, i personally felt that they were middle of the pack offense and easily first in defense. end of season stats showed that my insticts (jazz offense/defense ... relative to the rest of nba league) was correct:
https://stats.nba.com/teams/advanced/?s ... r%20Season
anyways, if you sort by offenseive rating and deffensive rating .... jazz offense is 16 and 1st in defense. obviously there is so much more to a basketball game, but all the rosters i have tried severely punish the jazz.
Anyways, I can see the difficulty of rating the jazz in the 2k universe. I've had trouble really settling on good jazz team ratings. Because of the length of gobert and favors.... with joe ingles being one of the best 3point shooters in the nba.... and mitchel being a volume shooter.... you can make gobert and favors good defenders ... you can make ingles a good 3point shooter ..... you can give mitchell a 90percent touch tendancy to make him a volume shooter ..... and they break the game. it's too many outliers on one team.
seriously, try rating ingles properly and he alone breaks the game (
https://www.sportingnews.com/au/nba/new ... tcfbo9uid8
) then add gobert and favors in the middle with mitchell on the outside, and like i said, too many outliers on one team for the 2kbasketball universe to try to balance.
if you rate the jazz 1st in defense (which they most definitly are in the nba) and 16th in offense..... in a simulated season the Jazz stomp all opponents easily due to how 2ksports value length and height. so, in order to obtain Realistic Nba results (team wins, opponent shooting percentage, etc etc ) you have to nerf the jazz offense into oblivion..... to give the opposing teams a level playing field. otherwise the jazz players break the game.
I mean, last season the jazz started out 16 - 24 and then the 2nd half of the season they went 32 - 10. the problem wasn't they were winning, it was they were usually winning by 15 - 30 points in the second half of the season.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/te ... /2018.html
if you look at the bar chart in the middle of the page .... there were very few wins that were close (during the second half of season against the "bad" nba teams).
Anyways, as a jazz fan, i've been trying to adjust the utah ratings where they can blow out the bad teams in the nba, but stay close to the good teams. It has been a challenging project haven't reached anything conclusive yet.
Oh, one thing i've noticed.... at the roster editor.... if you go to the coaches tab (where it shows GM ratings and coaches ratings) The coaches have Ratings and Badges. Those Ratings and Badges directly influence how the team plays and the team ratings and stuff. I think it is not a good system. I've tried putting all coaches to bad ratings, took away all badges, put coaches to all A+ ratings..... haven't found a balance. But the coaches ratings/badges directly influence the players actions. It is not a good thing because there is not much documentation about how the coaches stuff influence the player stuff. because with the complexity of player ratings and tendecies and badges, then you throw unkown coaching values on top of all that which change the roster..... it is very bad. I havent seen anyone here or on OperationSports mention how the coaches change the players on-court playing..... Hell, i just noticed it last week and I've been fiddling with rosters since 2k18 launched.
You can test the coach stuff..... take a bad team like the Suns, put a few badges on the coach and put the coach ratings to A+ .... then, all of the sudden, the bad suns players (bad ratings, bad tendencies, etc) are playing like All Stars. It's an unkown factor that you should look into. since you seem to have a grasp about roster stuffs. Just letting you know.
One last tip: intangibles attribute .... that attribute is actually very important. Again, you can test this with the Suns. Change nothing, but put the intangibles all to 99 for the whole team and they will start playing like All Starts. There's alot going on behind the scenes with that 1 attribute (intangibles). So using Alby as a base, one you get all ratings correct (mid range, layup, etc) then get all tendencies correct (touches, drives, etc).... then there are the unkowns between coach badge/ratings and intangibles that effect some stuff in the backround just on those 2 things. Just so you know.
Anyways, enjoying the roster. i'll let you know if i find a balance for the jazz. I doubt i can make the jazz acceptable due to the rules and limitation of the 2kbasketball universe. Alby's roster should be a great base for the next season.... just need some playbook and touches adjustments for lakers with Lebron.
Oh, Alby has sliders that he recommends to use with his roster. They are under his name, the sliders, username: Bad Desire. You could download his Sliders that correspond with his roster. Not sure i mentioned that, but it would be good to put in your roster posts/blogposts if you are using his base roster. download his gameplay sliders from the sliders download option
EDIT: writing this post about the Jazz/mitchell reminded me of this play.
... (reddit thread source). Jazz up by 20 againt the pistons ... no offense, kicks it out to mitchell. That's pretty much how the 2nd half went with the jazz... up by 10, 15, 20 against the "bad" nba teams. Amazing thing is Mitchell catches the ball with 0.6 seconds and shot is of at like 0.4 seconds. Anyways, the jazz did this many times last year... play breaks, throw it to mitchell/ingles for the offense. problem is, 2k18 does this as well.... just gotta make mitchell less effecient, maybe. dunno.
Edit2: complete sidenote... look at blake griffen on that play... after gobert passes it, he looks from gobert to mitchell to gobert, like, you crazy gobert. funnything is, jazz did that so much with mitchell and ingles, we pretty just expect them to make something happen.
