by I Hate Mondays on Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:45 am
16/17 will actually be a general roster to reflect the whole season of a team. There were many things taken into consideration when building the rotations and the actual roster of a team. First of all, we went with all the transactions made during the all-star period. Cousins will be on the Pelicans for example. Also, the ratings and stats of a player reflect their whole season, just before the playoffs. So the 16/17 roster is more of an "April-just-before-the-Playoffs" than an "October-before-the-start-of-the-season". The only difference between what happened in real life in April and our roster is that we made a general rotation pattern for all the players that put their foot on the court more than 10 minutes/game, even though they were injured.
We used real NBA stats related to minutes/game. Lebron will get as many minutes as possible, Joel Embiid will be a starter, but his initial minutes will be limited to 20 (he might get to 25-28 if he is killing it during the game).
So for example, Zach Lavine will get solid minutes in our rotations because his injury happened all of a sudden even though his minutes were in the high 30 before the accident. The same stuff can be said about Jabari Parker or Rudy Gay.
Guys like Ben Simmons and Chris Bosh WON'T be part of our rotation (despite the fact that they don't actually have any injury in our 16/17 roster) because they didn't play a single minute for their teams this season.
Guys like Plumlee of the NYK or Beasley of the Denver Nuggets WON'T be getting any minutes, even though they had playing time in the stats we used for the rotations. That's because other guys played more and we tried to keep the rotation between 8 and 12 players the most.
So the answer a few question here and there, for MyCareer I would recommend you guys use the 16/17 roster. It won't be accurate as of 31st October - 2016, but the overall feel will make you forget about that.