Uploading a Draft Class to Mygm 2k18

The details of NBA 2K19 MyLEAGUE (online and offline) and MyGM new features have been revealed, with a massive amount of new info on the modes, including customizations, create-a-role player, player-Dna, sliders, the draft, and much more.

Read beneath for the full details on MyLEAGUE & MyGM from Erick Boenisch, Senior Producer for NBA 2K19:

Howdy anybody! As always, this is Erick Boenisch, Senior Producer for NBA 2K19. Can you believe it has already been a year since we last did this? On the heels of a very successful NBA 2K18, MyLEAGUE and MyGM are back, and both are (way) better than ever. Dave Z and his team have done a fantastic task this year executing on the feature set that, through various mediums, you have all requested.

The team here at Visual Concepts spends an inordinate amount of time consuming feedback from you lot, our consumers. Nosotros read the forums, follow through social, and report emails and letters sent from our fans all around the globe. For me, personally, I find the information incredibly valuable.

There are 2 approaches you tin take when designing a game. You tin can forcefulness your own personal calendar for the game onto the fans (which may or may not be want the fans desire), or you can merely take their direct feedback and apply all of that to the game. I'm a big fan of the latter. I always like to say, this isn't our game, this is YOUR game. Why guess what your fans want when they tell y'all loud and clear what they want?
With all of that said, let's review what we've cooked up for NBA 2K19!

MyLEAGUE Online

Nosotros introduced MyLEAGUE Online into our characteristic set dorsum in NBA 2K16. It was a very well received manner that proved to be quite stable. NBA 2K17 saw a big pace forwards with the concept of an offseason surrounded by the drafting of players and full general player movement. In hindsight, I'd say there was a 50/50 carve up between fans who actually enjoyed the simplicity of playing multiple seasons with their friends, and those who were non big fans of the 'Keeper' approach, fifty-fifty if they enjoyed information technology more than than our offering in NBA 2K16.
For NBA 2K19, we invested a considerable amount of time into MyLEAGUE Online with a unified singular goal: Bring everything that is offline directly into MyLEAGUE Online. This ways financials/contracts, league expansion, and every other related item that has been omitted from previous editions. The squad did a marvelous job on this goal; the only detail that didn't make it over is in-flavour Player Training. Everything else is in. Let'southward get into some more details on this…

What's in 2K19's MyLEAGUE Online:

· Full Contracts! The 'Keeper' design of NBA 2K18 is no longer.

· This means you will at present have a live, real-time free agency period with all of the other GMs in your league! From personal experience, I tin tell you this an incredibly fun outcome. During the course of each in-game 'day', y'all will get notifications in your ticker when a player receives an offer from another squad. How do y'all react if this is a actor yous are also targeting, just have withal to make an offer? Should you make your offer now? Does your offering come in higher than it otherwise would have? Or peradventure you already have an offer in on the player. Should you go back and enhance your offer? These are the thoughts that volition race through your caput equally y'all live the life of a real NBA GM!

· Since nosotros are now a real-fourth dimension full-on MyLEAGUE Online mode, you now also take real-time Staff Signing, a existent-time NBA Typhoon, real-fourth dimension League Meetings (voting on rule changes), existent-time everything. Information technology's a whole new MyLEAGUE Online.

· League Admins will accept total command over the pace of the league. MyLEAGUE Online now works on a 'timer' system. Everything has a timer, specifically in the offseason:

– When creating a new MyLEAGUE Online, the Admin can choose to have 'Live' Timers. Live Timers permit yous to feel and consummate the offseason in a single sitting with short advancement timers for each offseason period.

– Alternatively, Admins can gear up the league upwardly with 'Daily' Timers. This gives your league members a full twenty-four hour period to consummate each of the offseason time periods. For those looking for a slower pace, or perhaps more time to make franchise irresolute trades and signings, this may be the way to go for yous. Personally, for me, zip can beat the real-fourth dimension drama of a Alive Gratis Agency. To that end…

– Since this IS MyLEAGUE, customization is the proper name of the game. Admins tin create 'Custom' timers for their league advancement that allow you to have some events be live, fast-paced events, and others a little slower and methodical. The team here actually thought through HOW people will be playing this mode, and thus provided as many options as possible to cater to every type of histrion out in that location!

– Every bit you might gauge, we take also given League Admins the ability to break the progress of any and all timers whatever time they wish. Sometimes real life happens. On the same token, Admins can also advance past timers and move things along quicker should the demand arise. The system is very flexible.

For NBA 2K19, MyLEAGUE Online was developed with one simple goal: Bring everything that is available offline directly into MyLEAGUE Online. This includes a Alive offseason with existent-fourth dimension free agency, NBA typhoon, and more. This handy new 'League Members' panel can be brought up from anywhere in the manner and gives you quick admission to what is going on in your MyLEAGUE Online!

New this year is the 'League Members' panel. From whatever screen in the style, you can access information technology by flicking downwards on your right stick. This panel is broken down into three parts:

– The top portion of the console lists all of the members in the league and their current online status (this is incredibly helpful when trying to coordinate your games against other league members!). Additionally, this portion of the panel is as well used heavily in the offseason as a 'Ready-Up' indicator. This tells other members of the league when you lot have finished and are ready to advance to the next offseason time flow. When all members of the league are officially 'Prepare', the league will advance, even if there is time left on the timer. There are other ways y'all tin customize your 'Set up' timer (e.chiliad. such as setting information technology upwardly to automobile-advance you lot through the residuum of the offseason). When I said earlier that the team actually thought through how people volition play through this experience, this is i case of that. Usability is key.

– Another surface area of the panel is the 'Notifications' area. In previous years, you could really only admission this from the Calendar menu. Now, whenever you receive a trade offering, or invite, or league notification, you can quickly and easily access it from anywhere!

– The final area of the panel is the 'Deadlines' section. While useful during the regular season when information technology comes to things like the trading deadline, this really shines in the offseason as it gives yous a total run-downwards of all the deadlines for each upcoming time period of the offseason, so you can plan accordingly.

· Need to review something that happened before in the offseason? No trouble. Now you tin go dorsum in fourth dimension and review the results of every offseason time catamenia. Maybe you forgot what happened at the Draft Lottery, or possibly you want to re-review the outcome of the League Meetings. This information is all bachelor at your fingertips, no matter where y'all are in the offseason. Note that this feature is likewise new this year for offline MyLEAGUEs.

A fully envisioned MyLEAGUE Online is something the squad has sought since we first implemented the concept back in 2K16. The final step that we took this twelvemonth was long, backbreaking, and absolutely worth every 2nd. Earlier in the twelvemonth, I had a 'Wait, What?' moment when a fellow sports game announced they were removing their online-based franchise mode entirely. I'yard probably as dislocated and baffled today as I was and then. When I play this fashion, I take so, so much fun. I can speak for everyone that worked on this when I say nosotros sincerely hope you enjoy the effort put into MyLEAGUE Online this year. Let us know what you recall of it!

Ultimate Customization – Tuning Sliders

The customization suites available inside MyLEAGUE and MyGM are unarguably one of the strongest elements of these modes and what truly separates them from similar modes constitute in other games. With NBA 2K19, we are going to continue to innovate on this front by exposing more game control than any other franchise mode has before.

Building a franchise mode is an incredibly complex attempt. There is a fine balance between emulating a real-life league (in our case, the NBA), while too streamlining the experience, and sometimes the rules, so the casual fan tin can play along as a would-be GM. Over the years, I've heard it all when it comes to how our modes function: Trading is likewise easy. Trading is too hard. This guy shouldn't sign for that much money. Too many players are rated ninety after a few years in the league. Nosotros hear yous, loud and clear.

NBA 2K19 is taking the very aggressive approach of adding a COMPLETE set up of sliders that will let you to customize the manner the game thinks and behaves. Y'all tin customize, to your liking, how much players sign for. You can customize HOW teams value their players. You tin customize how much a role player's age factors into their trade value. Yous can customize how much draft picks are worth, not in isolation, just how much they are worth for each team state (Contending teams, Buying teams, Selling teams, and Rebuilding teams).

This won't be a comprehensive listing of what you tin edit, simply I'd like to take y'all on a quick journey, with a little more detail on the types of things you'll be editing this year in MyLEAGUE and MyGM.

Trade Sliders

· To beginning off, select whatever player in the league as a sample player to demonstrate how your slider changes volition affect the league as a whole. Y'all can now toggle through each team, i at a fourth dimension, to view how they evaluate that player based on the four bachelor team states.

· With your player notwithstanding selected, you tin can dispense the 'Team Style Importance' slider. This will suit the perceived value of the histrion by the evaluating team based on how much value they put on the player's fit to their fashion.

· Yous can then adjust the 'Histrion Fame Importance' slider, which volition modify how much a squad values the player'due south historical contributions/proper name value.

· Next, we move on to the 'Overall Rating Importance' slider, which volition show you lot how much value teams put on the role player'south raw talent.

· Moving on, you can adjust:

– The discount on trade value for 'Draft & Stash' players (think of them similar future players, like typhoon picks).

– How much of a premium on trade value teams will add for players who were recently signed by them.

– How much of a premium on trade value teams will add together for players on their untouchables list (lower this value for more high-end thespian movement).

· As the NBA and your league evolves, you lot can alter the types of players that have value past completely rebalancing how much trade value Accommodating players accept, or how much merchandise value Athletic players accept, or Defensive-oriented players, or Rebounding-oriented players, or Playmakers, or anything you want. The tools to create the league of your dreams are at your fingertips.

· As I mentioned above, you lot can adjust how much typhoon picks are valued past each squad state. You tin too adjust a slider for each of the iv team states that allows you lot to set their Draft Selection Importance, or rather, how much that type of team values picks (time to come players) relative to players already in the league.

· Yous tin completely adjust Draft Pick Depreciation for the next 5 years. Speaking of which, we now let y'all to trade picks 5 years out! With this ready of sliders, this means you can adjust the pct a choice's value is discounted from 1 to 5 years before its draft. This is washed to replicate the incertitude that tin can be had for time to come picks. Generally speaking, it's non too hard to gauge where the current or next year's choice is likely to finish up. After that, there are so many variables in play that information technology often becomes a guessing game.

· And aye, there is fifty-fifty more you can adapt for trades…

Contract Sliders

· Like with Trade Sliders, you volition get-go off by selecting any thespian in the league every bit a sample actor to demonstrate how your slider changes will affect the league equally a whole. The player volition have two values underneath him. The first value is his 'Expected Salary'. This is the baseline salary that the player will expect. And so you have his 'True Salary'. This is the actual salary worth of the actor (note that this value may exceed CBA-related salary restrictions such equally rookie scale contracts, max contract values, etc.). With these items gear up, you can now start manipulating sliders to see how they affect player value!

· The first set of sliders here let y'all to either raise or lower both the Expected and True salary. I've heard a number of comments over the years that sure types of players sign for too much (or too piffling) in Gratuitous Bureau. Practice you call back low rated players sign likewise cheap? Do y'all recollect fringe All-Star players enquire for too much money? This is your risk to customize all of that to your liking!

· Side by side upwardly, you can adjust the importance a immature player's potential factors into their worth.

· You tin can and then suit the importance of a player's immovability and how that affects their worth.

· In that location is fifty-fifty a slider that allows you to conform the importance of minutes played in the previous flavour for a thespian'southward worth when signing a new contract. This is one that I personally enjoy tweaking and playing with.

· As with merchandise value higher up, you lot can fully accommodate the importance of fame/name recognition for a given histrion's worth.

· Another of import slider I similar to tweak is the 'Thespian Non-Financial Ambitions' slider. This adjusts the importance of actor role and team success in contract negotiations, allowing you to emphasize (or deemphasize) how much a player values 'fit' versus getting the best payday possible.

Progression Sliders

I suspect all of you will be highly interested in this set of sliders:

· The first items here y'all tin accommodate are the 'Player Progression Rate' and 'Player Regression Rate' sliders. The former allows y'all to adapt how rapidly players develop and reach their truthful potential, while the latter allows y'all to adjust how chop-chop players decline once they are by their superlative.

– For these two sliders, if you lot REALLY desire to go downwardly the rabbit pigsty, you can actually adjust the progression/regression rates of each and every aspect in the game, individually! For instance, this ways you tin can, at a micro-level, suit how apace players develop a specific attribute. You can then suit how the attribute behaves once the player reaches his acme (does it terminate growing entirely, or maybe ho-hum to a crawl but go on to grow?). And then you tin adjust how speedily it will pass up once they are past their meridian, etc. These are incredibly powerful tools that won't find in any other game, anywhere.

· With respect to our robust In-Season Training feature, there are a number of sliders you can adjust that affect thespian evolution:

– First and foremost, y'all tin manipulate the 'Training Effects' slider, which adjusts how speedily players progress when using the In-Season Training feature.

– Next, y'all at present have control over how quickly players progress during the flavor at each of the available training intensity levels (Rest, Very Low, Depression, Medium, High, Very High).

– Moving on, you lot tin can now command how quickly players progress during the season with respect to their Piece of work Ethic (Medium, Loftier, Very Loftier). If y'all recall players with a Very High Work Ethic aren't getting the gains y'all would expect, tweak and tune this slider to your heart'due south content.

– Another interesting fix of sliders allows y'all to adjust how specific mental Badges (Team Role player, Extremely Confident, etc.) affect how quickly players develop during In-Season Preparation.

We have ever prided ourselves on offering the well-nigh robust fix of customization tools of any sports game on the market…Menses. With the additions added this twelvemonth with the Tuning Sliders, nosotros are completely confident that our users will be able to create their perfect franchise down to every…terminal…particular.

Oh, 1 more thing. Considering of how immensely detailed these Tuning Sliders are, we have added the power for you lot to save and upload your sliders for other users to download and inject right into their existing MyLEAGUEs. It couldn't be easier.

Built strictly from the feedback of our fans, NBA 2K19 features a make new Create Player facial sculpting organisation that allows for more customization than ever before!

All-New Created Player Characteristic

This feature isn't exclusive to MyLEAGUE/MyGM, but I have a feeling you absolutely desire to hear about it! Easily one of our virtually requested features coming out of 2K18, nosotros'll be showing this off a niggling more than as we get closer to launch. Create Player (or CAP, if you will) has seen a LOT of improvements year-over-twelvemonth, all based 100% on the feedback from yous, our fans.

Let's get-go with Facial Sculpting. Yep, information technology is fully in! In NBA 2K19, you can apply both presets and full sculpting sliders to:

– Fully customize the shape and size of the Skull.

– Fully customize the shape, size, and prominence of the Forehead.

– Select and colorize the Eyebrows from a library of choices.

– Fully customize the Eyes by selecting their color and decision-making every aspect of the eye and eyelids with six sculpting sliders.

– Fully customize the shape, size, angle, and rotation of the Ears.

– Fully customize the position, width, and prominence of the Nose with six unique sculpting sliders.

– Fully customize the shape and size of the Cheeks.

– Fully customize the Rima oris along with the thickness and prominence of the Lips with a host of bachelor sculpting sliders.

– Select and colorize Facial Hair from 50 unique choices.

– Fully customize the width and prominence of the Chin with a set of five unique sculpting sliders.

– Fully customize Skin Color from a library of choices, while also maintaining command over Blemishes, Discolorations, Freckles, and Pock Marks.

– And finally, FULLY customize the style and color of the Hair. Many hairstyles also let for the customization of the length of the hair (very cool), the blueprint shaved into the pilus (think lines, Jumpman logos, etc.), control over the fade, and fifty-fifty how yous shape the hair corner on the dorsum of the neck (are you a round or a abrupt corner kind of person?).

In MyLEAGUE and MyGM, y'all will be able to utilize this new suite of tools both when you desire to create a new player for your league and when you lot want to edit a Typhoon Class prospect. With what has been created here, I fully expect we will see some of the most unique and robust user created draft classes in any NBA 2K game to-date.

MyGM: The Saga Continues (& Traditional MyGM!)

NBA 2K18 innovated on a number of franchise fronts, with one of them being a major story/franchise hybrid in MyGM: The Next Chapter. We received a LOT of positive feedback on this mode, and to be fair, some constructive feedback on areas nosotros could ameliorate on in 2K19 (sorry about the forced trade!).

Before I tell you most what NBA 2K19's MyGM: The Saga Continues characteristic is all about, I want to start off with this. One of the areas of feedback we received from last yr was that while many of you enjoyed the story narrative, you felt that the playthrough was a erstwhile thing and subsequent playthroughs resulted in a lot of push mashing as yous already knew how the story played out.

In NBA 2K19, you will now have the option of starting a 'MyGM: The Saga Continues' OR you can start a 'Traditional MyGM' experience. Traditional MyGM has all story elements removed from it and is much more akin to what the MyGM experience was similar in NBA 2K17 and prior. Actually, this is a best of both worlds situation. Depending on your mood, you can play your story-based MyGM, or you can play classic MyGM. Everyone wins! Thank yous all for the feedback here. We think you lot will dear this arroyo!

A few more quick words on Traditional MyGM. You tin now start with expansion, customize the league, start in the offseason, etc. Information technology is much more flexible than you remember. In add-on to all of this, you can now choose a difficulty level based on how skillful you are at being a GM:

· Piece of cake– A casual and relaxing experience that casual players can bound correct in and relish. If this is your first foray into MyGM, this is a dandy starting indicate!

· Medium – A realistic experience that slots in right effectually the difficulty level of past editions of MyGM.

· Hard– A challenging experience that volition put your GMing abilities to the test. I would just recommend this level to the true MyGM fans out there!

· Custom<– Customize the sliders to your heart's content to mix and lucifer difficulty settings and sliders to create your very own MyGM feel.

In NBA 2K19's MyGM: The Saga Continues, you will detect yourself at the helm of a brand new expansion franchise equally you lot manage the wishes of your owner and all of the details that are involved in getting a completely new franchise off the ground. This fresh accept on the franchise narrative feel will go on y'all entertained and delighted all throughout!

At present, allow's talk virtually what exactly MyGM: The Saga Continues is all about. With lessons learned, we've got another swell experience for yous this year! The Saga Continues is a loose continuation of where 2K18's The Side by side Affiliate left off. Through some creative compulsion from your current owner, you will find yourself taking the reins of a brand new expansion franchise and all that goes into getting that franchise off the ground

The uniquely compelling approach to telling the narrative this yr means near all of the story volition play out before your team even plays their first NBA game. Your eccentric owner, Tex Towers, is a tried-and-true Texan who is a businessman through and through. He's non the nigh knowledgeable person near the NBA, merely he wants a profitable franchise and is willing to take a step back to allow you brand all of the important decisions. He trusts yous. He believes in yous. And you will absolutely not believe how many Texas sayings the guy has in his arsenal.

Y'all volition detect yourself convincing people to join your backroom staff, designing your uniforms, designing your loonshit, and more. As this is a continuation of where we left off concluding year, Bob Sanderson and everyone's favorite punching bag Andrew Sanderson volition be making appearances in the story likewise. Andrew Sanderson learned a lot during NBA 2K18'south The Next Chapter, and is ready to bear witness yous that he has matured into a stand-upward man. He will be heading up another team that is going through this process alongside you. I'd warn yous to lookout out for Sanderson, but I call back y'all already know he is only the decoy. The existent problem lies elsewhere. But where? And what is this problem?

Everything you read in the story has meaning and volition come dorsum subsequently. So, pay close attention to every detail. One of my favorite aspects of NBA 2K19'southward MyGM: The Saga Continues is how much y'all become to interact with the story and the characters this year. Easily my favorite scene in the narrative, you will find yourself conducting a full on investigation, while interacting in total back-and-forths with a number of characters, simultaneously. Pay close attention to what people say in the story! Ok, no more spoilers from me!

If you were a fan of The Next Chapter last year, this narrative is going to capture and consume yous. If you lot were someone who gave it a try terminal year, but were turned off by some of the choices (e.g. the forced trade), I would implore you to take a look at the offering this twelvemonth. The writing is fantastic, and it's genuinely a lot of fun to live out the dream of creating a new NBA franchise from the ground up. Let us know what you think!

New NBA Draft

Ane of the crown jewels of the NBA flavor is the NBA Draft, where teams gamble on their futures with the youth of today. It's 1 of the few days where every team is bristling with promise as ANYTHING can happen. Every bit I watched the draft experience play out in our game in NBA 2K18, I ofttimes felt a sense of confusion every bit to what this was all virtually. Who are these players?

When you watch the real NBA draft, you e'er feel a little more 'in the loop' as you are getting expert analysis explaining the strengths and weakness of each player. In addition to a brand new look and experience, I endeavored to capture that feeling of being educated equally I watched the draft unfold in the game this year. As you play through NBA 2K19'southward typhoon, an array of media pundits volition provide insightful analysis on every player every bit they go selected, while often providing a little bit of context as to why the electric current team selected them. Perchance the team had an expiring player at a position they don't intend to re-sign. Possibly the thespian had the best vertical at the Draft Combine and the squad couldn't pass that up. Perhaps the player measured with the longest wingspan in the draft. Or perhaps he was naught more than the best player available.

This all sounds like a subtle alter, just I take found myself making it all the way through drafts where in years by I would probably make my picks and sim the rest of the draft. NBA 2K19's new NBA draft is a all-time-in-class showpiece that will keep you entertained all flavor long!

NBA 2K19'south all-new NBA Draft features a new wait and experience to support the new media analysis engine, which provides detailed feedback near every prospect every bit they are selected.

Historical Draft Classes

I should probably put this i downwardly lower, only I admittedly geek out over features similar this. Our Import Draft Form feature has silently been a highly used characteristic for a number of years at present.

In NBA 2K19, nosotros now have pre-created typhoon classes for the following drafts:

1960 – Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and more
1965 – Gail Goodrich, Rick Barry, Jerry Sloan, and more
1969 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jo Jo White, and more
1970 – Bob Lanier, Pete Maravich, Dave Cowens, Rudy Tomjanovich, Nate "Tiny" Archibald, and more
1974 – Bill Walton, Jamaal Wilkes, Maurice Lucas, George Gervin, and more than
1976-2017 – ALL of the modern NBA!

You lot accept the selection of importing ane of these classes at the showtime of every NBA flavor. If you are a fan of the fictional draft classes, nosotros still offer those as well!

I don't retrieve I need to explain to you lot how much fun this feature is equally yous can bring Kareem, Magic, Bird, Jordan, The Admiral, Iverson, Timmy Duncan, rookie LeBron, and and then many more back into the NBA for your chance to guide their careers.

I recently had what turned out to be one of my all-time favorite MyLEAGUE sessions where I ran through xl years starting with the 1976 class and loaded each subsequent class all the mode through 2017. It was a ton of fun, and made every draft 'must-watch' as I waited to run into where all the stars would state, knowing those franchises would be inverse forever. I highly recommend you give this a endeavour!

Player Mentorships

Equally young players enter the NBA, savvy teams ensure they have a veteran presence in the locker room to guide the players and ensure they go most things the right way. In NBA 2K19, a new Player Mentorships characteristic has been added that allows you to assign a Mentor to any player on your team in an endeavor to customize how that player develops (via his badges).

Players are at their peak learning chapters during their beginning iv-5 years in the league. It is during this time in our game where they will experience their largest surface area of growth. Players acquire all-time (simply not exclusively) from elderberry players at their own position (PG, SG/SF, PF/C). If you assign J.J. Redick to exist Joel Embiid's mentor, it will naturally limit the amount of skills that Embiid is able to acquire (Embiid is but unable to acquire some of Redick'south skills due to their very different archetype). On the other hand, if you lot take a guy like Lonzo Ball and assign Rajon Rondo to be his mentor, I can selectively ask Rondo to start educational activity Brawl how to earn the Ankle Breaker badge, or the Lob City Passer bluecoat, or the Pick Pocket badge, or…you lot get the idea.

The really interesting dynamic this adds to our game modes is that it really causes you to think and strategize even further about your free agent/merchandise acquisitions. Aye, you want to e'er build the best team possible. All the same, if you lot happen to take a potential young star waiting in the wings, it may exist wise to put thought into acquiring a veteran player that can pass on the skills you lot want your young histrion(s) to acquire.

CPU teams will be taking advantage of this new feature this year as well. They volition always be actively pursuing players to assistance grow their young star talent. Expect free bureau to be…a little different this year thanks to the Thespian Mentorships feature!

NBA 2K19'south brand new Actor Mentorships feature allows you to control the progression of your younger players. When assigning a veteran on your team to mentor a younger player, that younger player tin learn select Badges from his mentor!

Traded Player Exceptions

We pride ourselves on our aspirations of consummate authenticity when it comes to delivering y'all the most realistic experience possible. To that end, nosotros are very careful with what features nosotros choose and how we deliver them to you lot. While it may appear elementary on the surface, the NBA rulebook is filled with intricacies and addendums upon addendums added to cover previous loopholes. When nosotros add a feature, we do then in a manner that remains true to the dominion, but as well in a manner that makes the characteristic highly usable to you, our consumer.

In NBA 2K19, we have added a long, long, long requested feature: Traded Player

Exceptions! Explained just, a merchandise exception is what is created following a trade where 1 team moves more than salary than information technology gets in return. The team that traded the larger bacon receives a trade exception, which is eligible to be used at any betoken over the subsequent 12 months. In the game, we allow y'all to easily see whatever Merchandise Exceptions your team has (and those that opposing teams have) in addition to the expiration date for each.

A recent existent-earth example of this exception in action is when the Pistons traded for Blake Griffin dorsum in Jan. I attribute of the trade that I personally felt was nether-reported was how the Pistons created a $7M trade exception in the trade. That is a powerful chip for a team looking to make a big move.

There are some features you add for the sake of realism. For that immersive cistron. Then there are others you lot choose to add because they genuinely amend the quality of the game experience. We accept found that Traded Actor Exceptions actually tick both of those boxes. The creativity it will now allow you when trading is something the game sorely needed, in hindsight. In a world of condign ever more realistic, NBA 2K19 is hands the almost realistic feel we have delivered all the same!

New All-Star Format

The NBA has been experimenting with their All-Star Weekend template for a number of years now. The 2018 All-Star game in Los Angeles saw the about dramatic format change to date. With the acme vote-getter in each briefing being named equally Team Captains, those two players perform a schoolyard pick from the remaining starters. Once that is settled, the ii captains so draft from the remaining 14 players, selected by the NBA caput coaches. Equally this is MyLEAGUE, y'all volition have control over the draft and who plays on which team. There is also an option to just auto draft the teams if this isn't your cup of tea.

Additionally, we at present also offer a proper Rising Stars game as part of our All-Star Weekend. A game intended to showcase the young talent of the league, the format will follow the NBA'due south lead with Team USA competing against Team World. Relish!

In NBA 2K19, you will participate in the NBA's new All-Star Typhoon, where the captain for each briefing selects their squad from the fan voted and coach selected players!

New Summer League

Starting this summer, the NBA adopted a new format for the NBA Summer League. Now, all thirty NBA teams participate in the ever-growing effect. In our endless quest for authenticity, nosotros have gone alee and implemented a total replication of the entirety of the new Summer League format. In this new format, teams will compete in 3 preliminary games earlier beingness seeded into a tournament that culminates with the Title Game. Each squad will play, at a minimum, v games. Depending on how they perform in the tournament, teams can play upwards of 8 games. It'southward all here in NBA 2K19's MyLEAGUE and MyGM modes!

Injury History Menu

This is a nice under-the-radar feature that, every bit its name implies, will bear witness you lot the injury history for every player in your MyLEAGUE/MyGM. When players become injured, you tin visit their injury history page for full details of the injury (appointment injured, projected recovery date, whether the injury is playable or non, what positive effects a protective accessory might have on the injury, and more).

The injury history is archived for every player moving forward, such that y'all can review this information BEFORE you choose to mortgage the farm for that side by side big free agent signing. We've fabricated all of this information easily accessible not merely from the new Injury History menu, merely you lot can also view the information of any actor in the league with the link directly on their Player Menu.

Typhoon Pick Tracking

NBA 2K19 includes a uncomplicated new interface that allows you to view all of your owned draft picks for the next 5 years, all in one single menu. This includes all the information yous need, including what team the choice originated from, and any details on choice protections (if applicative).

In addition to this, you can toggle over to another view that shows all of your team'south picks (fifty-fifty if you no longer ain them) for the side by side 5 years. This is a very handy tool if, say, you are considering 'tanking' next season and would like to become your 1st circular selection back before doing so. Never bulldoze the tank without your ain 1sts! I like this feature a lot.

New this year is the ability to rapidly view the draft picks that every team has along with the diverse protections those picks have. Plotting out your rebuilding process has never been more streamlined than it is in NBA 2K19!

Choose Your Own Dominion Changes

NBA 2K17 saw the introduction of Dynamic Rule Changes, a characteristic that has turned out to be a fan favorite based on all of the "add this rule thought" feedback we continue to receive on information technology. One of the limitations of the feature was that you lot were limited to whatsoever five rules the game chose for you to vote on. In NBA 2K19, we are giving you the ability to replace any proposed dominion to one of your choosing from our ever-growing list of dominion changes. In fact, I expect many of you will be quite surprised by the multifariousness in our library when information technology comes to rule changes…enjoy!

New Rule Changes

Continuing on with the rule changes topic, we have added a modest handful of new dominion changes this yr; a few of which I want to highlight as they are either topical to current NBA discussions, or in the case of the final 1, a little fantastical. We are all here to accept a little fun, correct?

The offset dominion change I want to talk about is quite simple. When enabled, 8 teams will still make the playoffs from each conference, however, all 16 teams that make it are ultimately seeded ane to xvi. Yep, this means you tin can have foes from opposite conferences squaring off in the first round of the playoffs and rivals from the same conference meeting in the NBA Finals. There has been so much discussion in the media about how we can 'relieve' the playoffs format with all the talent moving West. Here is your take a chance to alive it out and let us know what you think!

And now on to the fantastical. The other dominion alter I want to call out (that is an office favorite) is 1 we have added that creates the concept of a lottery tournament. When this rule is activated, the teams that do not make the playoffs enter into their own bracket. The stakes? The stakes are high! The winner of the lottery tournament volition land the #1 pick in the draft, while the remaining lottery picks volition be determined by placement in the tournament. Tankers demand non utilize here! Nosotros actually have a few variants on this rule change where the meridian pick or top 2 picks are determined by the tournament (the loser in the Finals gets that #2 pick), while the remainder of the lottery picks are determined by team tape.

As a reminder on the rule changes feature, it is entirely optional! You will now have complete control over how little or how many rule changes affect your franchises.

Thespian DNA

I detailed our new incredibly robust Create Histrion characteristic up to a higher place. Actor Deoxyribonucleic acid is a new feature that ties into it in that information technology that allows you lot to download, create, and/or share templates of created players via Edit Role player to utilise in custom rosters or draft classes. With Actor Dna, you lot tin can choose to import everything about any actor (past or present), simply the player's likeness, or just the actor's attributes.

Y'all may find this handy when creating a typhoon class and you want to create a player in the mold of another thespian. Or perhaps you just want to create yourself while giving yourself every detail of LeBron's game. This is yet some other feature created at the asking of you, our fans; we look forwarding to see what yous tin all practise with it!

Updated Draft Lottery

Starting with the 2019 Draft Lottery, the NBA volition change the draft lottery format to a system that will reduce the odds so that the team with the three worst records will share the same chance of receiving the #1 overall draft pick (fourteen%). Teams outside of the top 3 will take a amend adventure than e'er at jumping up into that top 3.

NBA 2K19 fully incorporates this new Draft Lottery organisation into both MyLEAGUE and MyGM for your enjoyment. As an added bonus, the former lottery rules have been added every bit an eligible rule modify in the above-mentioned Rule Changes feature.

More Typhoon Picks For Trading

I mentioned this one in passing upwardly above, but I desire to bring information technology up over again so it does not get overlooked. NBA 2K19 adds another year's worth of draft picks at your disposal. While 2K18 only allowed you access to your next 4 years worth of draft picks, 2K19 now allows you admission to your adjacent *5* years' worth of draft picks. A subtle alter, but one that allows you more than flexibility when plotting out your ain dynasty!

User Controllable Season Awards

This characteristic falls directly into the category of "The fans take demanded it!" We have a fairly circuitous logic system in place that looks at every variable possible before determining the season ending awards (MVP, ROY, etc.) to players. For the people who really want to make those decisions for themselves, NBA 2K19 at present allows yous to override the flavour awards that we select to those of your choosing. Total customization carries through!

On-The-Wing Lineups

This is a quick and great piddling feature that allows y'all to set up quick lineups for different types of situations (Quickness/Fast players, Best Defenders, Best 3-PT Shooters, Best Gratuitous Throw Shooters, A full Demote lineup, Your Tallest Players, and a Custom lineup slot that you can use to make your own On-The-Fly Lineup). These lineups are all easily customized by you, the user, and are very easily accessed in-game by pressing downwardly to activating the On-The-Fly-Coaching (OTFC) feature. I've found these to be very helpful and simple to use.

Closing Thoughts

I say it every yr, and at this bespeak, the proof is merely in the pudding. Nosotros believe strongly in the franchise experience here at Visual Concepts. Innovation. Authenticity. Engagement. We live by that tenet, and it has served the states well.

The continual feedback, passion, and enthusiasm from our fans fuels united states. For the team, it is a peachy reminder that what we do here positively affects millions of people all around the world. A reminder that giving annihilation less than 110% is just unacceptable. Don't ever stop sending ideas to us; and my promise to you lot is we won't ever cease making them a reality. We hear you!

Dave Z and his team of Jeff, Tim, Leftos, John, Yu, Daniel, Ash, and Brad put in extra time this twelvemonth to brand all of the above possible for yous. A huge hat tip from me to all of them. And to all of you still reading, thank you for allowing me the time to tell yous what these truly talented people accept accomplished.

Until next fourth dimension, my friends. Enjoy NBA 2K19; the squad went all out for this 20th Anniversary edition!

Erick Boenisch
aka SimBaller

P.South. This is not the concluding y'all will hear from me this twelvemonth. I've actually spent a lot of time helping to revitalize another aspect of the game that I am incredibly eager to tell you most (and I will!). Stay tuned and I'll run across you lot again earlier the game launches on September 7th!

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