Live 09/360/Raptors Dynasty

I recently just came across this forum and I believe this is a great idea, and I have decided to come on here to share my dynasty.
I've noticed that many of you play older versions of Live for PC, which has caused me to think about my decision to display my dynasty in this thread, but I will give it a chance.
Hopefully, you all will bare with me as I adjust to this and I hope I can come away with something useful from this experience.

Live 09 is far from perfect and definitely does not have the best gameplay in the series, but I will do my best to bring you the most realistic stats in my dynasty. I will be using the dynasty I have already started, which I use the Toronto Raptors. I currently boast a 13-2 record, which I find is not realistic enough, but it is what I have been able to do the last 15 games. Now, enough with the intro (which I would like to apologize for), but yeaa..here it goes...

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Team: Toronto Raptors
Schedule: 82 games, 7-7-7-7 Playoff Format
Console: XBOX 360
Game: NBA Live 09
Sim Quarter Length: 12 min.
Play Quarter Length: 9 min.
Sliders: Playmakers XBOX 360 sliders (I think)
Difficulty: Superstar
Rosters: Oct. 21 NBA Live 365 Update


Record: 13-2
Coach: Sam Mitchell

CURRENT ROSTER


STARTING FIVE


PG - Jose Calderon
SG - Anthony Parker
C - Jermaine O'Neal
PF - Chris Bosh
SF - Jamario Moon


BENCH/IR


6 - Chris Douglas-Roberts
7 - Sean Williams
8 - Jason Kapono
9 - Kris Humphries
10 - Cheick Samb
11 - Hassan Adams
12 - Roko Ukic
IR - Nathan Jawai
IR - Joey Graham


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Tomorrow: Offseason/Preseason Recap, Regular Season Game Scores, Transactions, League Leaders, Raptors Player Statistics

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I will try to provide screenshots, and Sprite Highlight Reel Replays, but being that I play on 360, and do not own a TV Tuner, I expect the quality to be ridiculously horrible. I shall try my best to keep this updated. I also am handicapped when it comes to graphic design so do not expect any original/surprising concepts, but I'll try to keep interest at a moderate to high level.

Opinions/Comments/Criticisms on my first dynasty?

Good to see a newcomer with proper grammar and respect. I look forward to your updates and I'll reserve judgment for the first recap.

Welcome to the Forum! Dynasty threads based on the 360 version are certainly welcome so please don't hesitate to take part in the Forum and posts updates about your Dynasty here in this section.

I like your roster, I'm guessing that's a fun starting five to play with. Looking forward to seeing your transaction listings and other stats.

Help on making games more difficult? I'm finding that I'm winning pretty easily, but I don't want to simulate games often because I would rather play the games and enjoy a hardly fought victory, as opposed to a simulated win or loss. I would like to keep my record to something realistic and not something like 34-5, but I'm finding that a challenge.

Turning up the interception and steals sliders really forces you to take care of the ball. Giving the CPU an edge in the field goal sliders (raising theirs, lowering yours) can also make things more challenging. You might also want to try setting the CPU difficulty to All-Star while leaving the user difficulty set to Superstar.

I already have CPU Steals reasonably high, and I don't wanna raise their interceptions because I find it happens way too much as it is.

Random Comment: Damn, you're old, you joined this on my 11th birthday, hahaa..

Not too old, still on the right side of 25.

In that case you might want to stick with giving the CPU an advantage in shooting, perhaps lowering your own defensive sliders a bit.

Real big change as trading Bargnani for Williams. I would say that is good idea as you already have O'Neal and Bosh under there. And yes you should put computer sliders on shooting higher a bit and yours lower then it will be harder.
Good luck, really enjoying this one

Statistics as of Oct. 28, 2008 (through 15 games, 7 sims)

[table][mrow]Player[mcol]PPG[mcol]RPG[mcol]APG[mcol]BPG[mcol]SPG[row]Jermaine O'Neal[col]15.3[col]10.9[col]1.0[col]2.5[col]0.8[row]Chris Bosh[col]23.8[col]10.1[col]2.1[col]2.0[col]1.4[row]Jamario Moon[col]8.6[col]2.5[col]0.5[col]0.8[col]1.1[row]Anthony Parker[col]11.3[col]1.6[col]1.1[col]0.3[col]1.0[row]Jose Calderon[col]12.1[col]1.0[col]10.9[col]0.1[col]1.5[row]Chris Douglas-Roberts[col]17.3[col]1.9[col]6.3[col]0.2[col]1.1[row]Sean Williams[col]7.0[col]4.3[col]0.3[col]1.9[col]0.3[row]Jason Kapono[col]6.5[col]1.6[col]0.3[col]0.1[col]0.3[row]Kris Humphries[col]1.6[col]1.2[col]0.2[col]0.1[col]0.4[row]Cheick Samb[col]1.6[col]0.6[col]0.0[col]0.4[col]0.2[row]Roko Ukic[col]4.3[col]0.3[col]3.0[col]0.0[col]0.3[row]Hassan Adams[col]2.4[col]0.6[col]0.4[col]0.0[col]0.2[/table]

Power Rankings:
1. New Orleans Hornets
2. Toronto Raptors
3. Utah Jazz
4. Boston Celtics
5. Cleveland Cavaliers
6. Portland Trail Blazers
7. Houston Rockets
8. Minnesota Timberwolves
9. Detroit Pistons
10. Dallas Mavericks


League Leaders:
[table][mrow]PPG[mcol]RPG[mcol]APG[mcol]BPG[mcol]SPG[row]1. C. Paul (30.1)[col]1. A . Stoudemire (11.9)[col]1. J. Calderon (10.9)[col]1. Y. Ming (2.8)[col]1. B. Davis (2.1), A. Iverson (2.1)[row]2. C. Billups (29.3)[col]2. Y. Ming (10.9), J. O'Neal (10.9)[col]2. D. Fisher (10.1)[col]2. J. O'Neal (2.6), A. Bynum (2.6)[col]3. D. Wade (1.9)[row]3. P. Pierce (27.6)[col]4. D. Howard (10.5)[col]3. D. Williams (10.0)[col]4. B. Wallace (2.3)[col]4. V. Carter (1.8)[/table]


Standings:

West
1. NOH 14-1
2. PHX 11-6
3. UTA 11-7
4. MIN 9-6
5. DAL 9-7
6. HOU 8-9
7. LAL 7-7
8. SA 7-9

East
1. TOR 13-2
2. CLE 13-4
3. BOS 12-6
4. DET 9-6
5. NYK 9-7
6. IND 8-8
7. MIL 9-10
8. ORL 9-8

Last edited by manifesTO on Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:53 am, edited 2 times in total.

Games Played:
110 92
97 124
112 104
122 125 (OT)
105 99
102 88
95 120
81 92
88 103
100 91
115 103
108 105
91 101
104 114
80 94