AreaOfEffect wrote:I appreciate your work man. Thanks. I just want to know if this is already compatible to any new save?
Trust me, it'll be BIG news when full 2K12 compatibility hits, and you'll know it. I'll make it EXTREMELY obvious. Right now, I can't give you any ETA. I can only tell you that Vlad himself confirmed in the REditor thread that he's working on Team Stats, and we have plans for a special cooperation between NST and REditor.
What you're seeing right now is me working on NST as a tool independently of NBA 2K. However, every feature is designed and thought through to be compatible with NBA 2K when the time comes. Once NST is done, we'll have a much better tool to analyze our Associations and favorite leagues we want to keep track of. And it'll work for 2K13, 2K14, 2K whatever, as soon as Vlad finishes REditor each year.
The only reason 2K compatibility is still an issue, is that Vlad never had a really good reason to actually work on decoding the Team Stats from the save files, because never before had we such a big bug in them to take care of. The mere fact is that NST began as a workaround to fixing just that specific bug. Then I got more and more ideas. I thought, hey, I've decoded the Team Stats, so why don't I do more with that? Get averages, get rankings, get scouting reports. Then people said "boy it'd be great if that worked with other leagues", and then I created the custom leagues feature. The custom league feature was an afterthought, a secondary feature. The tool's main purpose was still to handle 2K saves and fix the stats.
But then ideas just kept coming to me. Ideas of what "NBA 2K12 Correct Team Stats" could be come. A full-fledged basketball analysis tool. Where every data table could be translated into a nice scouting report if you didn't have the time to go through the numbers. Where you could keep track of opponents' stats and, using a mobile app, you could download these reports to your phone, click on an opponent's name that you need some tips on, and get his scouting report. How good he is offensively. What are his defensive weaknesses. Whether he was injured lately. How many games he missed.
And then it hit me. Our NBA 2K associations are nothing more than another "custom league" the tool has to handle. So when Vlad told me he would get on decoding the Team Stats, and that with his help I no longer had to worry about 2K compatibility (since REditor would act as an intermediate between NST and the 2K saves), I presented my idea to a university teacher of mine, and got the tool to become my thesis.
And here we are. Nearly a week after I started working on the new NBA Stats Tracker, and now we have support for Player Stats, full Box Scores including players, and there's still more to come. Players will get the full treatment Teams have, with split stats, stats before and after a trade in a year, best performances, metric stats, head-to-head comparisons with other players. Teams will get a best performers screen where you'll be able to scout your opponent's most dangerous players based on both their season stats as well as their most recent ones. Nearly every screen on NST will have a Scouting Report for it in natural language. We'll get full 2K compatibility, courtesy of Vlad. And when all this is done, if you're a real coach (or just like to show off to friends), you'll be able to upload your NST stats and reports to the cloud and download everything to your mobile.
So, the TL;DR version is this: No, 2K compatibility is not there yet, but it'll be there in its full glory soon. And along with it, will be one of the best tools you've ever used for NBA 2K, as well as a great solution to keep track of any basketball league you want.