its so confusing not knowing any of these guys.
Trust me, it's better. This isn't meant to simulate the real league but to simulate running a team for a league. Not using real players forces you to look at ratings rather than names. Which is a good thing. In previous years we have done importing a file, 2 things have happened:
1) People bitch and moan because this guy and that guy isn't like they are in real life. Meanwhile, it's impossible to get everybody happy, and very time consuming.
2) People draft based on how the players are in real life, not how they are rated in this game. I've seen Devin Harris go top 5. Why? Because of his name. He was rated as C's across, the board, including potential.
3) A small issue of time. we sim 7-12 years in the time the NBA does 1. So, we'd be at around 2012 draft before the real nba got up to the 2005 draft. Talk about a problem.