Presentation - The tournament!

Hi there! Welcome to the site where I will keep track of the All-NBA Championship that I will simulate in NBA 2K12! :) I will use the Ultimate Base Roster to do it, and in a little I'll get into what this is really about.

This tournament is kind of a new chapter in something I've really been a fan since I was a kid: creating huge and unfeasible projects and tournaments in sport videogames. I really like this and it is something I wanted to enjoy and take my time on it (I tend to rush over these things, get them done -or get bored of them- very quickly and then forget about them), and I wanted to share it with you guys. The idea behind is one that is recurrent as heck in everyday press: which team has been the ever best? So using the 180 classic teams that appear in the mod, I will simulate a competition in which we will have kind of an answer! (I cannot stress enough the kind of). 

So, how is it going to work? There are 180 teams, from 1946 to 2013. The tournament will consist of '8-and-a-half rounds':

 - The League: 12 groups of 15 teams each. This phase will follow a NBA regular season format: 82 games and 8 seeds in each group for the next phases. 96 teams will advance!

- 1st Round: the 96 teams remaining will clash in a 1 game elimination round. The games will follow a play-off seeding, that meaning the 1st of the group will face the 8th and so on. And, of course, 48 teams will go to 2nd Round (yeah, it's amazing I'm able to do THAT math)

- 2nd Round: another elimination game! Which teams will face each other will still follow the playoffs format (as I will simulate up to the 3rd round in Season mode). After this... only 24 teams will remaing!

- 3rd Round: this round will be kind of the mid-ground of the tournament. A best-of-3 round that will advance to the next phase (the Re-Seeding, I'll talk about it right now!). Things would get a little complicated as 12 teams will advance, so (this is important) the 4 losers of this round that had the best records in The League will be given a wild card to the next phase.

- The Re-Seeding: since the previous rounds depend on which group each team is, in this round the 16 remaining teams will be mixed up. They will be ranked according to The League record, and put in two 8-teams groups. They''ll play 1 game against each other and get their final seeds for the rest of the tournament. No team will be removed in this phase!

- Sweet 16 Round: after the Re-Seeding pause, we enter again in play-off mode. This will consist of a best-of-3 series (yep, I love elimination games and short series, it makes the tournament kind of wild). 

- Quarter-finals: the 8 best teams will face a best-of-7 series! Things start being kindof-majestic!

- Semi-finals: the best 4 teams in History (at least up to 2013 xD). Again (as for the next round) best of 7 will reach The Finals.

- The Finals: nothing to add about this. We will meet the Best team ever.

Sooo this is the format of the tournament. As there are so many teams, I have made the 12 groups chronologically. Beginnin from 2013 and counting backwards, and from 1946 and counting onwards, alternating 1 and 1. So 2013 teams are in groups with 1950s teams, and teams from the late 80s and early 90s are together in the groups (prepare for Michael Jordans killing each other).

I think this is going to be great, I will keep posting updates, so if you want to follow the blog you are more than welcome. This is going to be amazing, I'm so hyped!