NBA Live ratings: 2004 vs. 2003

Getting to know NBA Live 2004 ratings

As most people know, NBA Live 2004's ratings will be from 0 to 99. (unlike Live 03 where it was 50-99...duh) EGarrett thought of the formula to find out what Live 2004 players would be rated (overall) if they were in Live 2003 ([2004rating] /2 + 50 = [2003rating] ...simple). Lately, I've been interested in this, i've been wanting to get an idea of what ratings in Live 04 would be good, and which are bad, so i thought i'd make a table to compare the two rating bases because i'm impatient and i can't wait to get the game...

Code:

Live 'o4 |  Live '03
_________-__________
   99    |    99
   96    |    98
   90    |    95

   86    |    93
   80    |    90

   76    |    88
   70    |    85

   66    |    83
   60    |    80

   56    |    78
   50    |    75

____________________
   46    |    73
   40    |    70

   36    |    68
   30    |    65

   26    |    63
   20    |    60

   16    |    58
   10    |    55

   6     |    53
   0     |    50

So from this we can know that anybody in NBA Live 2004 that is rated 76+ is a star (in live 03, 76+ is the equivilent to 88+). We can also find out that 60-75 is a player who is very good and almost a star (or maybe used to be a star), the Live 03 equivilent of 60-75 is 80-87. A player who is average, but reliable would be rated 40-60. Which is 70-80 in Live 2003. Any player below 30 wouldn't be very useful.

So lets look at some players, and compare their NBA Live 2004 overall rating to what their Live 03 would be...

Kobe Bryant & Kevin Garnett, in NBA Live 2004 were rated 97 overall, which in Live 03 is 98.
LeBron James was rated 69 in Live 04, which would be 84 in Live 03. So i think we can pretty safely say that LeBron is a little overrated in Live 04. (Hey, he might prove us wrong.)
Antwan Jamison was rated 76 in Live 04, which is 88 in Live 03. That's a perfect rating for him.
Mike bibby was rated 67 in Live 04, which is 83 in Live 03. Also perfect.
Tim Duncan is rated 91 in Live 04, which is 95 in Live 03. Could be rated higher me thinks. But its probably lower because of his unathletiscm. meh.
Kenyon Martin is rated 74 in Live 04, which is 87 in Live 04.
Richard Jefferson is rated 67 in Live 04. which is 83 in 2003.
Mr. C. Center of the Charlotte bobcats is rated 24. which is 62 in Live 03...hehe.
Carmelo Anthony is rated 62 in Live 04, which is 81 in live 03. Sounds good.
Rashard Lewis is rated 73 in Live 04, which is 86 in Live 03.
Glenn Robinson is rated 69 in live 04, which is 84 in live 03.
Shareef Abdul-Rahim is rated 74 in live 04, which is rated 87 in Live 03.
Chris Kaman...56 in 2004...78 in 2003.
Josh Howard...49 in 2004...74 in 2003.
Dirk Nowitzki...87 in 2004...93 in 2003.
Tracy McGrady...92 in 2004...96 in 2003.
Shaquille O'Neal...92/96 also.
Jason Kidd...89/94.
J. Oneal: 85/92.
P. Pierce, V. Carter, S. Fracis, A. Iverson & C. Webber: 2004: 87... 2003: 93.
I haven't seen Amare's rating yet, but i reckon it would be 64 to 70.

Well there you go. It should be interesting converting from Live 03 ratings to Live 04 ratings. But i do think Live 2004 ratings will be much better.

nice post nick , it's an enlightment for me and im starting to think this live's ratings are gonna be better and have more difference between stars and non-stars(this is also i hughe improvement for rookie development imho)

Good post, and will be very useful to a lot of people. I agree that the rating system of 00-99 gives more flexibility. It also makes more sense than a 50-99 system. So overall it's better. For now though...it just feels awkward compared to all the Live games of the past. My knee-jerk reaction to seeing someone rated 69 is still that they're awful. I guess I'll get used to it.

Something else to note...you can take a player's 3 point shooting percentage from last season and just double it to get that player's three-point rating. For example...Kobe shot around 37.5% last year from three...making his three-point rating 75...

I definitely support the new ratings system. Its good to have genuine role players. Players who you know can only do things a fraction of the level of stars. And its also good for trading so these guys are genuinely scrubs.

the 0-99 rating is more adapted to the game. in live 2000 when you do dbf editing you got to give ratings between 0 and 99, then the game converts it from 50 to 99 so now there's no longer this adaptation that didn't really make sense

I made this little spreadsheet some time ago, somebody i know only just found out then that live04 has a different ratings system, lol, well no shit... so i sent him this spreadsheet, which reminded me to upload it.

If you want have a look-see, |click here|.

actually i like the ratings this year better..but some players are rated way too low...and about this years rating the all-starz rili stand out from okay players...

[b]Getting to know NBA Live 2004 ratings

LeBron James was rated 69 in Live 04, which would be 84 in Live 03. So i think we can pretty safely say that LeBron is a little overrated in Live 04. (Hey, he might prove us wrong.)

[b]

25 pts, 6 rebs, 9 asts, and 4 stls with 12/20...definitely proved you wrong.

0-99 seems much more versatile and I think once I get the game, I'll prefer it more.