NBA 2K22 player ratings are out

[Duke4life831]

Wait people still play this cash grab?

I bought the latest 2k game at Target not too long ago because it was on sale and just $20. So I thought I would give it a try, the exact game it has been for the last few years. There is zero improvements with these games. Same goes for Madden and all of them.

The reality with all of these sports games is they practically just do a copy and paste from the year before, will add one or two small features that really dont make any difference to the overall game, they will then advertise the crap out of those couple new "Huge changes!!!".

You're pretty much paying $60+ for a roster update. And with it is now that they do the roster updates all season long, youre pretty much paying $60+ for the addition of the rookie class, that is pretty much it.

[twyzted]

None of the games that come out yearly ever improve .2k , Madden and COD are the same every year with a few new animations added. The really good games have 2 or 3 years of development.

Agreed but 2K get much burn in my house....need to possibly get another PS5 cause we got our own squads and multiple people trying to get on...we need a schedule


The game is good for what it is...fun fact...Lebron, ad, bronny, and others in the basketball world already online in game complaining and it’s hilarious- twitch -

Do ad or lebron stream?

[chyau.00]

I'm so ancient I haven't really played basketball video games since NBA Live was better than 2K.

When was this ever the case lol. The one year you could argue that Live made it close was when they introduced the freestyle control in '03 which was a game changer imo.

Well Live was around before 2K. And in the very beginning of 2K, Live was still the better game imo.

Idk, maybe it's just me. I used to be a boss on Live and then when 2K took over I couldn't get used to the different controls and became grumpy about the whole thing. This was a million years ago obviously.

i miss the turbo + shoving in the early versions of live...

[CobraCommander]

None of the games that come out yearly ever improve .2k , Madden and COD are the same every year with a few new animations added. The really good games have 2 or 3 years of development.

Agreed but 2K get much burn in my house....need to possibly get another PS5 cause we got our own squads and multiple people trying to get on...we need a schedule


The game is good for what it is...fun fact...Lebron, ad, bronny, and others in the basketball world already online in game complaining and it’s hilarious- twitch -

Do ad or lebron stream?

Bronny does and people just show up at his house...and they all just get on and play.

Sometimes their gamer tags get leaked. Ayton was playing 2K and other games at like 4am before Finals games...no BS...it’s better than partying before the game...but he was up late/early

[Statlanta]

Zion being underrated is a preposterous notion considering he made the All-Rookie team, made the All-Star team and the media is dying to get New Orleans NBA games despite being the least historic NBA franchise.

[Funcrusher]

How do they come up with a player's overall rating? Do they rate all the player's skills in each category and then the overall rating is an average of that? Or they just come up with a number that looks about right?

yes

Anyone complaining doesn’t play the game.

Yes I know this is going to shock you guys but developers use analytics to determine game play....insane right. Plus the rating can change throughout the year as players play and stats come in...example...LukaGods FT might hurt him in game....and Trae’s 3pt % makes him not as good on the game as you would think.

They have had some crazy stuff in the past for retired players like 99s for guys that were never 99s in their career.

If you don’t game please don’t even look at these as representative of anything. Like Jrue being mid 80s makes perfect sense to gamers...

KD could argue for higher rating because he can shoot so damn well and is so long...in the game he can damn near play center...I would bet his numbers go up.

i... i play the game though

[Funcrusher]

Zion being underrated is a preposterous notion considering he made the All-Rookie team, made the All-Star team and the media is dying to get New Orleans NBA games despite being the least historic NBA franchise.

ok rando

[Klayforspicy]

Nobody even knows what the game looks like and yet its releasing next month. **** their ratings lol

[Funcrusher]

No, it's not. That rating is perfectly fine. It reflects a player who's at a borderline all star level which is exactly what Jrue Holiday is. The tendency for people online to want to base player's ratings on their team's success or tiny one or two game samples sizes when they got hot and completely ignore all of the flaws in their game is what's embarrassing.

He's not a borderline all-star though. And I'm not basing this on what he did in the finals, so don't blindly imply that please. In general 2k ratings don't make any sense. Tier 1 players (Curry, Durant, Giannis) shouldn't have that much separation against tier 2/3 players (Trae, Zion, Jrue, Middleton). There's no way on earth that Durant's ranking should be 8 points higher than Middleton's, as good as Durant is. And role players shouldn't have rankings in the 70's, that's **** ridiculous.

The separation on real life is way bigger than in the game. Trae, Zion arent nowhere near KD level, the separation is huge. Also in 2K series those young stars in 2 or 3 seasons are all 93-99.

Jrue Holiday is on some tiers below, he is a very good starter, almost an All Star, thats it.

nah, that's ridiculous. They're stars (superstars IMO). The separation between elite players and great players is miniscule (obviously significant, but still, miniscule). Hell, even the gap between stars and role players isn't that big. It's the NBA, literally the best talent in the world top to bottom is assembled here.

[pr0wler]

Jrue Holiday being that low is a crime. The team of casuals that work on this stuff are embarrassing.

Guy couldn't even make layups and was blackhole offensively in the playoffs/Finals. That rating sounds just about right

I just looked...48% TS in the playoffs LOL. Absolutely horrific. Great defender though.

Bucks were fortunate enough to have an extremely easy path in the post season, which artificially inflated the value of every player on the team.

If KD's toe was 2 inches back, everyone would be saying how bad Jrue is lmao

[Jellybeans]

New year same bitching and moaning about useless video game numbers

[jacoby1us]

Trae Young should definitely be in the 90's and Jru Holiday is certainly worthy of an 87/88 rating. Either way I do believe the ratings fluctuate throughout the season as the players progress or regress.

[taufblazers33]

does anyone have a last year/this yea side by side rating comparison?

[CobraCommander]

yes

Anyone complaining doesn’t play the game.

Yes I know this is going to shock you guys but developers use analytics to determine game play....insane right. Plus the rating can change throughout the year as players play and stats come in...example...LukaGods FT might hurt him in game....and Trae’s 3pt % makes him not as good on the game as you would think.

They have had some crazy stuff in the past for retired players like 99s for guys that were never 99s in their career.

If you don’t game please don’t even look at these as representative of anything. Like Jrue being mid 80s makes perfect sense to gamers...

KD could argue for higher rating because he can shoot so damn well and is so long...in the game he can damn near play center...I would bet his numbers go up.

i... i play the game though

Then you know how the initial rating is.... plus remember when iggy was damn near LBJ....it’s a game

[Bologna Smasher]

Wish they'd go away with the overall ratings and introduce some sort of star/tier system. Similar to how All Pro Football 2K8 did. Overall ratings mean very little in the 2K series. They've gotten to the point where they've introduced a rating (intangibles) who's only purpose is to increase or decrease the overall rating. Someone on 2K's Twitter complaining about Zion's overall rating being too low at 89? Next roster update he will be at 92 and the only thing changed was his intangible rating, yet nobody is bitching anymore.

Then again, none of that stuff matters if the game is still broken, which is most likely going to be the case.

[Funcrusher]

Wish they'd go away with the overall ratings and introduce some sort of star/tier system. Similar to how All Pro Football 2K8 did. Overall ratings mean very little in the 2K series. They've gotten to the point where they've introduced a rating (intangibles) who's only purpose is to increase or decrease the overall rating. Someone on 2K's Twitter complaining about Zion's overall rating being too low at 89? Next roster update he will be at 92 and the only thing changed was his intangible rating, yet nobody is bitching anymore.

Then again, none of that stuff matters if the game is still broken, which is most likely going to be the case.

I've actually heard intangibles has something to do with how clutch a player is towards the end of games, which... seems kind of stupid tbh, but I think it's been tested and proven before.

[CobraCommander]

Wish they'd go away with the overall ratings and introduce some sort of star/tier system. Similar to how All Pro Football 2K8 did. Overall ratings mean very little in the 2K series. They've gotten to the point where they've introduced a rating (intangibles) who's only purpose is to increase or decrease the overall rating. Someone on 2K's Twitter complaining about Zion's overall rating being too low at 89? Next roster update he will be at 92 and the only thing changed was his intangible rating, yet nobody is bitching anymore.

Then again, none of that stuff matters if the game is still broken, which is most likely going to be the case.

I've actually heard intangibles has something to do with how clutch a player is towards the end of games, which... seems kind of stupid tbh, but I think it's been tested and proven before.

Some of y’all that don’t play would hate that some of the golden boys miss FT and crap in 4th quarter....lol.

Fatigue....It’s in the game

[Bologna Smasher]

Wish they'd go away with the overall ratings and introduce some sort of star/tier system. Similar to how All Pro Football 2K8 did. Overall ratings mean very little in the 2K series. They've gotten to the point where they've introduced a rating (intangibles) who's only purpose is to increase or decrease the overall rating. Someone on 2K's Twitter complaining about Zion's overall rating being too low at 89? Next roster update he will be at 92 and the only thing changed was his intangible rating, yet nobody is bitching anymore.

Then again, none of that stuff matters if the game is still broken, which is most likely going to be the case.

I've actually heard intangibles has something to do with how clutch a player is towards the end of games, which... seems kind of stupid tbh, but I think it's been tested and proven before.

If that is the case, what makes it even more goofy is that they actually had clutch ratings for offense and defense at one point, but they were hidden and couldn't be edited through traditional means. Throwing them both into an "intangible" rating makes no sense, but it is 2K we're talking about.

[Scuall]

When was this ever the case lol. The one year you could argue that Live made it close was when they introduced the freestyle control in '03 which was a game changer imo.

Well Live was around before 2K. And in the very beginning of 2K, Live was still the better game imo.

Idk, maybe it's just me. I used to be a boss on Live and then when 2K took over I couldn't get used to the different controls and became grumpy about the whole thing. This was a million years ago obviously.

i miss the turbo + shoving in the early versions of live...

I remember injuring Karl Malone with Joe Crispin.

[NO-KG-AI]

How do they come up with a player's overall rating? Do they rate all the player's skills in each category and then the overall rating is an average of that? Or they just come up with a number that looks about right?

They decide who they want to be better than who, and they just boost stuff up and down to make them hit those marks. Instead of just putting in the ratings for the individual skills and letting them fall where they fall.

For instance, they had Zion with less strength than guys like Jarrett Allen and Anthony Davis last year, just because they didn’t want a young guy with so few games to be too high.

People get so bent out of shape over who is higher in overall, even though a guy with a lower overall can play way better in game if his attributes are in the appropriate thing.