Hello, so I've briefly gained a little interest in Live 08 modding. I began revisiting Live 05, 06, and then 08. Nostalgia I guess.
I ran my fictional rosters through dynasty and season mode, and was reminded how awful the simulations are. I didn't care initially, I mean, my rosters are fictional-- but then when looking at the 05 and 06 simulations I wanted them to be similar.
So I dug around in the forums, and found some useful information:
http://www.nba-live.com/nbalivewiki/ind ... Sim_Engine
viewtopic.php?f=111&t=52058&start=100 (page 3 at the bottom)
http://nba-live.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=53626 (page 1 near the middle, its where the image below is from)
I've started by making changes to the records so they match this image. I use 12 minute simulation, and 12 minute in-game. When testing simulation with the fictional rosters, well, there were very unreal stats across the board. Games would end with both teams exceeding 100 points easily (I think the highest was 165).
Fortunately, it almost eliminated all-big-men-triple-doubles. Small Forwards and guards assists averages were insanely high. So I've been tweaking it to try to come down to something more real. The program I use is Hex Workshop, although in the third link (on page 2 or 3) it mentions hexprobe as another program that works.
What I'm going to release is directed towards the fictional rosters I've uploaded here, but you may try with other rosters-- the results may not be the same though.