NBA 2K13 Team Up Mode

Fuzz's picture

Good morning all,

This weekend I participated in the first NON IPX related NBA 2k13 semi organized tournament. The first was Sanga’s DUNKIT, which was awesome, and we will do again soon!

However.. I picked up a few things from our international counterparts about the weird and wonderful ways team up works. Our most common complaints were:

1) Shad / me: why are we always on opposite teams?
2) Why is it always terrible teams? Why can’t I choose the team
3) Can I control which player I get assigned?

Some of these questions I now have a bit more of an understanding of, and I’ll be collating all the info I have picked up into a page on our site for future use.

In the meantime, I’m writing this page as a request for any info, from anyone, IPX or external to add their info as a comment here.

Regards,
Fuzz

PS. Much of the credit for the info I’ve learned goes to teamupallday who has been as pissed as we are about 2K sports efforts with Team Up in the last few years, leaving us to have to write pages like this when it should never have to be this complex… But we all know how fun a good team up game is, so for now, this is worth it.

Comments

Fuzz's picture

Playing on same team

Which team you are put on is controlled by which order you enter the game.

Odds go on one side, evens the other.

eg.
Team 1:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Team 2:
2, 4, 6, 8, 10

If you join the game and are not the ideal position, you can quit and rejoin once another person has joined.
eg.
Shad and I want to play the same side. He joins 1st. I join second. I should quit, then wait until Shad says a second player has joined, then I can join as position 3. This is the closest we can get to manipulating which team we are on.

Fuzz's picture

What Teams Play

Regularly poor teams are selected (Bobcats, Raptors, Hawks, Hornets) etc. Then randomly Team IPX vs Team USA will appear. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to manipulate this.

The closest we can get to manipulating it is to have several people online at the same time, join and quit until we find a game we are interested in playing in.

PS. There may be more info here.. in the tournament I was playing this morning Cavs vs Bulls appears regularly. Unsure why this was the case.

Fuzz's picture

A little unrelated but...

How to score with 0.4 seconds left in team up mode. Credit to teamupallday. Haven’t tried this one yet:

Situation:
0.4 seconds left in the 4th quarter. Down by 1. Time will expire before you can get a standard shot up. So you’re beat right? Wrong…

“You can do a out of bounce play with your team mates like an alley oop if you have advanced the ball 2 mid court at least…its quite easy if ya know what 2 do…1st.team8 sets a backdoor pick for the 2nd team8 that cuts 2 the basket …the 3rd team8out of bounce ( usally C or Pf ) need 2 read the situation and press the alley oop buttons at the right time his team8 sets up free in the lane…if accurate and set up perfectly ….Buzzzzzzzzz….your Team comes up with some of the sweetest and surprising Upsets of them all…Have Fun Trying…”
teamupallday

(Fuzz: will rewrite this – helping TeamUP with his english :) He’s got the right ideas… they just need some translating sometimes heh)

Fuzz's picture

What player will I get?

As mentioned earlier, you can’t determine which team will be selected for Team Up mode. However, once the team is selected, it is pre determined which order the players will be given out.

The formula is basically Best to worst. The determination of order is done by NBA 2K13. We obviously don’t know this ahead of time, but over a few matchups we can start to remember and even document what they are. An example we do know this for however is:

Team USA vs 90s Dream Team:

Team USA: ( 1st.LeBron James PF, 2nd.Kobe Bryant SG, 3rd.Kevin Durante SF, 4rd. Chris Paul PG ,5th Tyson Chandler C )

Dream Team: (1st.Michael Jordan SG, 2nd Robinson C 3rd Charles Barkley PF, 4rd Magic Johnson PG ,5th Larry Bird SF)

With that knowledge your team and your opponents can enter the online teamup lobby now in those orders they choose 2 play those match-ups:

eg. If Fuzz and Shad want to play on Dream Team. Sanga and Akenn want to play on Team USA.

Team 1

Fuzz:
Team: Dream Team
Position: Power Forward (“Sir Charles”)
Queue Position: 5

Shad:
Team: Dream Team
Position: Point Guard ( “Magic”)
Queue Position: 7

Team 2

Sanga
Team: Team USA
Position: Point Guard (Chris Paul)
Queue Position: 8

Akenn
Team USA
Position: Power Forward (LeBron James)
Queue position: 2

etc…

In the above example you can see you would need at least 8 players because you need 8 Players in order to get up to the eighth position (spot) in the team-up lobby queue

Remember the more players you can get into communication and into the pre-game lobby, the more choice you and your team mates have.

Online Teamup-mode

Quote: “…How to score with 0.4 seconds left in team up mode… Haven’t tried this one yet…” (Fuzz)

But Teamup- has…saw it live… i was the one who cutted 2 the Basket and yelling 2 him 2 pass the ball..we won that dramatic one..

“ Uncle Drew “

5. ..a little bit unrelated but...

…can you try 2 transcript those lines 2 the NTP community plz…thx in advance

… Uncle Drews special “Hail Larry” set-play..named afte larry bird..;)

- at least 2 players needed – eg. with 3 players – at least advance the ball 2 halfcourt-call immediatly timeout (farer away i think an alley can never be thrown …) – 1st inbound passer should change his player slot to power poward or center position – 2nd player set an off sreen on the top of the key for the 3rd player – 3rd should be the best reciever and most athletic in team – 3rd need to cut into the lane in the moment the screen is set… – 1st need to press the alley oop buttons ( pass + shoot )in the moment the 2nd cuts into the lane – the timing is a bit difficult … but wins should never come easy…else you may become used to it…;) – BUUUZZZZ…and the winner is…

Fuzz's picture

Thanks for the contributions

UncleDrew. I’ll have a go at rewording it for you.

FYI…. register for an account on the site so you dont need to go through captch each time.

What player will I get?

(quote:Fuzz)”…However, once the team is selected, it is pre determined which order the players will be given out.
The formula is basically Best to worst. The determination of order is done by NBA 2K13. We obviously don’t know this ahead of time, but over a few matchups we can start to remember and even document what they are. An example we do know this for however is:…”

dont need document it m8 because we know this infos already …;)…because the 2k overall ratings !!! (best2worst)of each starting line up in each nba team reveal that to us…that just changes if a player got injured in real or displaced by another player in the real nba (weekly or monthly 2k update)!!!

…so if you know the top 5 overall rating players (always the starting five)in a team you know the starting line-up and there for the position in queue you need 2 be for every position in the team then (that what i meant with best2worst..;)..)…its quite easy. Have fun

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Project issue numbers (ex. [#12345]) turn into links automatically.
  • You can use Textile markup to format text.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Insert Flickr images: [flickr-photo:id=230452326,size=s] or [flickr-photoset:id=72157594262419167,size=m].
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • You may use [view:name=display=args] tags to display views.
  • Avast! This website be taken over by pirates on September 19th. Yarr!

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a Norwegian and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.