It's sad that a match as shitty as NBA 2K has 1000x offline modes compared to The Show
You would understand how they are, if you ever played the 2K games their livelihood and franchise mode. They make RTTS and NBA 2K MT Franchise look like pong. I stopped played 2K because I lost interest in basketball but now that I am playing The Show so much that I wish that they gave one fuck about their non money making modes.2K placed a lot more effort in their MyCareer series because that is the most popular sport mode to play and has online abilities folks pay for. In short MyCareer is the cash making mode of 2K.
I have played with 2K franchise and I don't think in case you don't have everything on auto manage it is nearly as in depth as the MLB that the Show Franchise. In the series you have more in depth training, manage the 40 man, movement and the small leagues rosters of rule-5 drafts, injury lists, coaches, trading service, gamers, line ups, rotations and much more. There are more things to control in mlb franchise whereas 2K just has the gram league that doesnt serve a great deal of purpose in match because they have moving parts like multiple levels under the majors and multiple drafts/more prospects.
However, the cpu at 2K does not seem to make as many suspicious moves as from the series franchise or rtts, As an example in 1 season, the braves turned fried and a prospect of morton at the start of the calendar year, then ahead of the deadline whilst holding a wild card spot and competing for the division, chose to dump morton and Buy NBA 2K20 MT Coins soroka for small return, ive never noticed any similar moves such as that in at least 50 franchises on 2K So yes there is more to do and control mlb the show which can make it more pleasurable, but it shows that SDS place way more time in their money making mode than franchise or RTTS.