The purpose of this forum is putting down notes for the category in the hopes that it won't be too long for me or someone else to run.

so far I've only had one idea that failed. Skipping every night/day will not get you the rep needed. Somehow I'll have to work in dunk contests, tourneys, or the nba challenges to get the required rep. What I've seen so far is that each game give you around 10-20 rep points.

If there is someone that knows or could help make a TAS please let me know!

I would love to see what we could do

If you want to make an optimal route you'd probably have to figure out exactly how much rep your gaining each game, tourney, nba game, dunk contest, etc. Either that or do what I did and just start off trying to get as much rep as possible. I also figured out during the run that if you decline those stupid rival matches you lose rep -_- The NBA games do your rep really well so if you think you're low on rep before you reach that point you're fine. I got drafted by the Nets and Jason Kidd & Vince Carter pretty much carried me lol.

here are the exact notes from my run: could probably beat this by a hour+ but this run is brutal timer froze about 5 hours in, ran on xbox because dolphin was dropping too many frames.

So, I said f the slam dunk contest pretty much. I started off with two big men and that got me a lot of easy boards early on. Eventually I pick up biggie littles and josh childress (remembered how useful he was in homecourt challenge). I wait so long to upgrade because I wasn't sure how many points I would use to max out stats. I picked up takashi knowing I'd have to upgrade my big man at some point and it got me through the rest of the run. The ending is kinda funky as I realized I could finish with 999 rep without a lot of the remaining tourneys.