From FragrantDogsnob in this thread at OS
http://www.operationsports.com/forums/n ... tches.html
FragrantDogsnob wrote:After hours & hours of trawling through the NBA 2k forums on here and hours of wasted time playing Association mode only to have to restart it because of glitches/bugs, i've decided to compile relatively short but essential list of what to do (settings) & why when starting an Association.
1. Player Roles: Turned off (Only if you have downloaded Patch #2) - This will stop a glitch where the Bigs in the game will throw stupid amounts of 3pt/Long range shots causing their stats to be messed up.
2. CPU Trades: Turned off - This will stop the most stupidest CPU trade logic in a sports game from ruining your Association (top players being traded to 5-6 different teams within a single season!) To get around this: Only turn cpu trades on at the start of February (that way you only get 2 weeks of crap trading before the trade deadline)
3. Alter all D-League players stats: Offensive & Defensive awareness stats lowered by 20 & potential lower to 37(This stops the cpu from signing all the D-League players and leaving all the free agents to get old and ****ty - its just not realistic)
4. Set the cpu to sort out Pre-Draft workouts: This will 9/10 avoid you losing the pre-game team & player intros in the rest of your seasons.
If anyone has anymore suggestions or if i've missed anything off the list then please post them up.