If you are surprised to see the dude who is running the league conveniently in 1st place, consider me on your side. By the 2k team ratings, I supposedly have the third worst team but doing nothing other than simming the calendar has resulting in some shocking results for the team from the Rip City. Meanwhile mptrey and gerryred are supposed to be the best two teams by the ratings and they are just .500. I am guessing this is a sample size problem.
I do think some player performance weirdness is driven by the game determined coaching tendencies for the assigned teams which is something I can't really control for.