Backtest report
We dug through old ESPN and Yahoo rankings. The model held up.
Eight preseason ranking boards, 1,438 player comparisons, and one very useful trip through the Wayback Machine.
Rookies excluded. A heavy portion of a rookie ranking is manual scouting analysis, which our live model applies but a backtest cannot run in a hindsight-free way. Every player compared here has at least one prior NBA season.
The method
Same players, same season, no victory lap math.
The version of our projection engine tested here is Model Zero, our published baseline. Every future improvement gets measured against it, and when one earns its keep we ship Model 0.1 and show you what moved.
We only used ranking boards that looked like standard category or head-to-head category fantasy basketball. Points leagues and salary boards stayed outside, where they belong.
For each source, we matched player names to our database, kept only players who actually reached the 20-game scoring floor and had at least one prior NBA season, and re-ranked everybody inside that same pool.
The main score is weighted rank miss. The best actual finisher in each shared pool counts 2x, and that weight declines smoothly to 1x for the last player. Missing a top-10 guy still hurts more than missing the 298th guy, without arbitrary cliffs between ranks 20 and 21.
We also treated the source boards as preseason artifacts, not living documents. ESPN was mostly recovered from archived pages. Yahoo was trickier: the public platform pre-rank pages we found were in-season or postseason, so the clean Yahoo candidates came from Yahoo Sports article pages that embedded Dan Titus category rankings. Not perfect. Better than pretending a December snapshot was a draft board, which would be analytics malpractice wearing a fake mustache.
How much we beat each board by
Positive bars mean Model Zero had the smaller weighted rank miss. Negative bars mean the archived board was closer.
The scoring pool
Every comparison got its own fair little sandbox.
ESPN might rank 150 or 200 players. Yahoo might have 199 or 277. Those are not naturally comparable shapes, so we made a shared pool for each source-year.
First-year players are left out of this comparison entirely, on both sides. A heavy portion of a rookie ranking is manual scouting analysis, which our live model applies but a backtest cannot reproduce honestly — writing those judgements for a past season would mean using the benefit of hindsight. Every player here has at least one prior NBA season.
The held-out 2024-25 season is included only in the expanded companion file used for this article. The original competition residual file stays untouched, because moving the goalposts after the game is frowned upon by most adults and several fantasy commissioners.
Weighted miss, side by side
Orange is Model Zero. Teal is the archived ESPN/Yahoo board. Lower is better, because this is fantasy basketball and pain should be smaller.
Error reduced vs ESPN
Across 5 ESPN boards, our weighted miss was 23.188 ranks. ESPN sat at 26.317.
Error reduced vs Yahoo
Our weighted miss was 31.647, against 32.94 for Yahoo. Model Zero was closer overall.
Joined player rows
This is not one cherry-picked season. It is 8 source-year comparisons after name matching, applying the same 20-game floor, and re-ranking inside the same pool.
A few receipts
Sometimes Model Zero walked in with the answer key.
These are not cherry-picked from our whole database. They are examples from the same joined ESPN/Yahoo comparison rows used above. A perfect call here means our projected rank and the player's actual finish landed in the same slot inside that source's surviving comparison pool.
| Player | Season | Call |
|---|---|---|
| Nikola Jokic | 2021-22 | shared-pool actual #1, projected #1 |
| Karl-Anthony Towns | 2021-22 | shared-pool actual #7, projected #7 |
| Jimmy Butler | 2021-22 | shared-pool actual #13, projected #13 |
| Pascal Siakam | 2021-22 | shared-pool actual #38, projected #38 |
| Lou Williams | 2021-22 | shared-pool actual #176, projected #176 |
Also, pain
And sometimes Model Zero needed a timeout.
The misses have a theme: role changes, defensive category spikes, and young-player leaps. Translation: Model Zero is pretty good at measuring yesterday and projecting tomorrow, but the NBA still enjoys throwing a chair through the window.
Christian Braun
2024-25shared-pool finish #54, projected #227. We would like to thank them for their service and apologize to anyone who drafted responsibly.
Jalen Johnson
2023-24shared-pool finish #51, projected #203. We would like to thank them for their service and apologize to anyone who drafted responsibly.
Markelle Fultz
2023-24shared-pool finish #215, projected #68. We would like to thank them for their service and apologize to anyone who drafted responsibly.
Vince Williams Jr.
2024-25shared-pool finish #234, projected #87. We would like to thank them for their service and apologize to anyone who drafted responsibly.
So what did we learn?
Model Zero is not magic. It still whiffs on role explosions, defensive-stat jumps, and the occasional player who wakes up one morning as a category monster. But against real archived boards from ESPN and Yahoo, it reduced weighted rank error overall. That is the point: not vibes, not brand names, not a confident paragraph written in September. Tested predictions.
| Source | Season | Players | Error reduced by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESPN | 2021-22 | 182 | +2.83 |
| ESPN | 2022-23 | 188 | +0.89 |
| ESPN | 2023-24 | 143 | +1.04 |
| Yahoo | 2023-24 | 244 | +2.74 |
| ESPN | 2024-25 | 140 | +6.98 |
| Yahoo | 2024-25 | 233 | +1.51 |
| ESPN | 2025-26 | 131 | +4.85 |
| Yahoo | 2025-26 | 177 | -0.98 |
The receipts drawer
Every ranked player from every source-year.
Pick a board below. The first rank is the ESPN/Yahoo preseason rank, the second is our preseason projected rank, and the third is where the player actually finished. Orange rows mean our projected rank was closer inside the shared comparison pool. Teal rows mean the source beat us. Gray means everybody gets to be equally smug.
ESPN 2021-22
Sorted by the original ESPN preseason rank. Miss columns use the same re-ranked 20-game pool as the benchmark.
| # | Player | ESPN projected | Our projected | Actual finish | ESPN miss | Our miss | Closer call |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikola Jokic | #10 | #10 | #1 | 0 | 0 | Tie |
| 2 | Stephen Curry | #2-4 | #3-3 | #6 | 4 | 3 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 3 | Luka Doncic | #3-24 | #22-5 | #27 | 24 | 5 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 4 | Damian Lillard | #4-42 | #8-38 | #46 | 41 | 37 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 5 | Giannis Antetokounmpo | #5-3 | #12+4 | #8 | 3 | 4 | Source closer |
| 6 | Karl-Anthony Towns | #6-1 | #70 | #7 | 1 | 0 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 7 | James Harden | #7-3 | #2-8 | #10 | 3 | 8 | Source closer |
| 8 | Kevin Durant | #8+6 | #9+7 | #2 | 6 | 7 | Source closer |
| 9 | Anthony Davis | #90 | #4-5 | #9 | 0 | 5 | Source closer |
| 10 | LeBron James | #10+6 | #57+53 | #4 | 6 | 53 | Source closer |
| 11 | Nikola Vucevic | #11-20 | #15-16 | #31 | 20 | 16 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 12 | Jayson Tatum | #12-3 | #11-4 | #15 | 3 | 4 | Source closer |
| 13 | Bradley Beal | #13-52 | #10-55 | #65 | 49 | 52 | Source closer |
| 14 | Bam Adebayo | #14-22 | #16-20 | #36 | 22 | 20 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 15 | Joel Embiid | #15+12 | #5+2 | #3 | 12 | 2 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 16 | Kyrie Irving | #16+11 | #6+1 | #5 | 11 | 1 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 17 | Julius Randle | #18-117 | #46-89 | #135 | 98 | 69 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 18 | Zach LaVine | #19-25 | #24-20 | #44 | 25 | 19 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 19 | Devin Booker | #200 | #29+9 | #20 | 1 | 9 | Source closer |
| 20 | Russell Westbrook | #21-200 | #71-150 | #221 | 132 | 81 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 21 | Rudy Gobert | #22+4 | #35+17 | #18 | 3 | 17 | Source closer |
| 22 | Paul George | #23+1 | #14-8 | #22 | 0 | 8 | Source closer |
| 23 | Chris Paul | #24+5 | #40+21 | #19 | 4 | 21 | Source closer |
| 24 | Trae Young | #25+14 | #18+7 | #11 | 13 | 7 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 25 | Jimmy Butler | #26+13 | #130 | #13 | 12 | 0 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 26 | Khris Middleton | #27-13 | #42+2 | #40 | 14 | 2 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 27 | Brandon Ingram | #29-34 | #23-40 | #63 | 33 | 37 | Source closer |
| 28 | Deandre Ayton | #30-12 | #21-21 | #42 | 14 | 21 | Source closer |
| 29 | Clint Capela | #31-37 | #25-43 | #68 | 36 | 40 | Source closer |
| 30 | Domantas Sabonis | #32-9 | #32-9 | #41 | 11 | 9 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 31 | Tobias Harris | #33-24 | #27-30 | #57 | 24 | 28 | Source closer |
| 32 | Fred VanVleet | #35+12 | #26+3 | #23 | 9 | 3 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 33 | Jrue Holiday | #36+2 | #39+5 | #34 | 1 | 5 | Source closer |
| 34 | Ja Morant | #37-8 | #110+65 | #45 | 10 | 61 | Source closer |
| 35 | Jonas Valanciunas | #38-1 | #49+10 | #39 | 4 | 10 | Source closer |
| 36 | Donovan Mitchell | #39+13 | #41+15 | #26 | 10 | 15 | Source closer |
| 37 | LaMelo Ball | #40+16 | #34+10 | #24 | 13 | 10 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 38 | DeMar DeRozan | #41+24 | #36+19 | #17 | 21 | 19 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 39 | Myles Turner | #43+22 | #20-1 | #21 | 18 | 1 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 40 | Christian Wood | #44-39 | #61-22 | #83 | 36 | 15 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 41 | Jaylen Brown | #45-17 | #620 | #62 | 18 | 3 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 42 | De'Aaron Fox | #46-40 | #33-53 | #86 | 37 | 46 | Source closer |
| 43 | Malcolm Brogdon | #47-6 | #45-8 | #53 | 8 | 6 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 44 | CJ McCollum | #48-8 | #58+2 | #56 | 10 | 4 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 45 | Kristaps Porzingis | #49+33 | #17+1 | #16 | 29 | 1 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 46 | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | #51+21 | #28-2 | #30 | 16 | 2 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 47 | Norman Powell | #52-20 | #60-12 | #72 | 20 | 7 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 48 | Andre Drummond | #53-104 | #83-74 | #157 | 80 | 46 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 49 | Mikal Bridges | #540 | #44-10 | #54 | 3 | 8 | Source closer |
| 50 | Robert Covington | #55+3 | #63+11 | #52 | 0 | 13 | Source closer |
| 51 | Kemba Walker | #56-132 | #54-134 | #188 | 89 | 86 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 52 | Anthony Edwards | #57+9 | #79+31 | #48 | 5 | 31 | Source closer |
| 53 | Kyle Lowry | #58-2 | #65+5 | #60 | 5 | 7 | Source closer |
| 54 | Tyrese Haliburton | #59+34 | #43+18 | #25 | 29 | 18 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 55 | Terry Rozier | #60+27 | #59+26 | #33 | 22 | 26 | Source closer |
| 56 | Gordon Hayward | #61-10 | #69-2 | #71 | 10 | 3 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 57 | Jaren Jackson Jr. | #62+25 | #50+13 | #37 | 20 | 13 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 58 | John Collins | #63+14 | #19-30 | #49 | 10 | 29 | Source closer |
| 59 | Mike Conley | #64-15 | #77-2 | #79 | 14 | 3 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 60 | RJ Barrett | #65-205 | #144-126 | #270 | 105 | 33 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 61 | Dejounte Murray | #66+54 | #52+40 | #12 | 49 | 40 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 62 | Jerami Grant | #67+8 | #66+7 | #59 | 5 | 9 | Source closer |
| 63 | Buddy Hield | #68-41 | #68-41 | #109 | 31 | 26 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 64 | Jarrett Allen | #69+41 | #55+27 | #28 | 36 | 27 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 65 | Richaun Holmes | #70-38 | #31-77 | #108 | 28 | 62 | Source closer |
| 66 | Lonzo Ball | #71+42 | #51+22 | #29 | 37 | 22 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 67 | Miles Bridges | #72+40 | #82+50 | #32 | 35 | 49 | Source closer |
| 68 | PJ Washington | #73-25 | #75-23 | #98 | 18 | 12 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 69 | Andrew Wiggins | #74-59 | #95-38 | #133 | 45 | 23 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 70 | Klay Thompson | #75+11 | #72+8 | #64 | 9 | 11 | Source closer |
| 71 | Bogdan Bogdanovic | #76-2 | #64-14 | #78 | 1 | 8 | Source closer |
| 72 | Chris Boucher | #77-65 | #47-95 | #142 | 48 | 73 | Source closer |
| 73 | D'Angelo Russell | #79+6 | #78+5 | #73 | 5 | 9 | Source closer |
| 74 | Draymond Green | #810 | #70-11 | #81 | 0 | 4 | Source closer |
| 75 | Jordan Clarkson | #82-76 | #141-17 | #158 | 54 | 1 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 76 | Jusuf Nurkic | #83-16 | #81-18 | #99 | 11 | 7 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 77 | OG Anunoby | #84+26 | #48-10 | #58 | 21 | 8 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 78 | Pascal Siakam | #85+47 | #380 | #38 | 40 | 0 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 79 | Rui Hachimura | #87-152 | #122-117 | #239 | 78 | 42 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 80 | Darius Garland | #88+53 | #104+69 | #35 | 45 | 64 | Source closer |
| 81 | Robert Williams III | #90+76 | #30+16 | #14 | 67 | 16 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 82 | Jakob Poeltl | #91+25 | #90+24 | #66 | 19 | 24 | Source closer |
| 83 | Coby White | #92-82 | #109-65 | #174 | 52 | 31 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 84 | Kevin Porter Jr. | #93-89 | #153-29 | #182 | 53 | 1 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 85 | Dennis Schroder | #94-92 | #103-83 | #186 | 54 | 41 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 86 | Steven Adams | #95-74 | #134-35 | #169 | 47 | 8 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 87 | Eric Bledsoe | #96-95 | #177-14 | #191 | 55 | 6 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 88 | Lauri Markkanen | #97+20 | #100+23 | #77 | 17 | 24 | Source closer |
| 89 | Caris LeVert | #98-49 | #76-71 | #147 | 33 | 47 | Source closer |
| 90 | Ricky Rubio | #99-30 | #130+1 | #129 | 21 | 11 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 91 | Bobby Portis | #100+33 | #118+51 | #67 | 27 | 47 | Source closer |
| 92 | Joe Ingles | #101-162 | #127-136 | #263 | 70 | 42 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 93 | Danilo Gallinari | #103-47 | #116-34 | #150 | 31 | 14 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 94 | Harrison Barnes | #104+17 | #102+15 | #87 | 14 | 17 | Source closer |
| 95 | Marcus Smart | #105+23 | #67-15 | #82 | 20 | 8 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 96 | Bojan Bogdanovic | #106-25 | #167+36 | #131 | 16 | 32 | Source closer |
| 97 | Moses Brown | #107-297 | #139-265 | #404 | 84 | 52 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 98 | Devonte' Graham | #109-70 | #121-58 | #179 | 38 | 22 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 99 | Kyle Kuzma | #110+14 | #175+79 | #96 | 15 | 63 | Source closer |
| 100 | Thaddeus Young | #111-165 | #132-144 | #276 | 68 | 45 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 101 | Wendell Carter Jr. | #112+36 | #97+21 | #76 | 31 | 23 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 102 | Cole Anthony | #113-13 | #196+70 | #126 | 7 | 46 | Source closer |
| 103 | Saddiq Bey | #114+8 | #112+6 | #106 | 12 | 15 | Source closer |
| 104 | Mason Plumlee | #115-153 | #136-132 | #268 | 59 | 36 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 105 | Kyle Anderson | #116-55 | #74-97 | #171 | 29 | 61 | Source closer |
| 106 | Derrick Rose | #117-10 | #128+1 | #127 | 4 | 11 | Source closer |
| 107 | Malik Beasley | #118-78 | #105-91 | #196 | 39 | 46 | Source closer |
| 108 | Kelly Olynyk | #119-75 | #86-108 | #194 | 36 | 59 | Source closer |
| 109 | Mitchell Robinson | #120+36 | #37-47 | #84 | 32 | 40 | Source closer |
| 110 | Kelly Oubre Jr. | #121-27 | #94-54 | #148 | 13 | 33 | Source closer |
| 111 | Gary Trent Jr. | #122+72 | #101+51 | #50 | 62 | 47 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 112 | Jae'Sean Tate | #124-40 | #96-68 | #164 | 19 | 39 | Source closer |
| 113 | Josh Richardson | #125-28 | #107-46 | #153 | 13 | 24 | Source closer |
| 114 | Montrezl Harrell | #127-11 | #106-32 | #138 | 3 | 16 | Source closer |
| 115 | T.J. McConnell | #128-9 | #115-22 | #137 | 1 | 7 | Source closer |
| 116 | Marvin Bagley III | #129-93 | #193-29 | #222 | 37 | 1 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 117 | Daniel Gafford | #132+25 | #164+57 | #107 | 25 | 50 | Source closer |
| 118 | Dillon Brooks | #133+11 | #146+24 | #122 | 12 | 27 | Source closer |
| 119 | Evan Fournier | #134-20 | #80-74 | #154 | 8 | 48 | Source closer |
| 120 | Donte DiVincenzo | #135-79 | #114-100 | #214 | 30 | 42 | Source closer |
| 121 | Kevin Huerter | #136-5 | #91-50 | #141 | 2 | 31 | Source closer |
| 122 | Obi Toppin | #137-105 | #347+105 | #242 | 36 | 24 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 123 | Keldon Johnson | #138+36 | #113+11 | #102 | 33 | 17 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 124 | Isaiah Stewart | #139-12 | #89-62 | #151 | 1 | 39 | Source closer |
| 125 | Al Horford | #140+93 | #124+77 | #47 | 79 | 71 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 126 | Doug McDermott | #141-112 | #215-38 | #253 | 33 | 4 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 127 | Will Barton | #142+30 | #160+48 | #112 | 30 | 42 | Source closer |
| 128 | Elfrid Payton | #143-286 | #270-159 | #429 | 54 | 9 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 129 | Delon Wright | #144-60 | #92-112 | #204 | 18 | 58 | Source closer |
| 130 | Grayson Allen | #145+5 | #188+48 | #140 | 12 | 34 | Source closer |
| 131 | Kevin Love | #146+29 | #135+18 | #117 | 30 | 25 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 132 | Lou Williams | #147-205 | #298-54 | #352 | 44 | 0 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 133 | Jalen Brunson | #148+57 | #172+81 | #91 | 50 | 62 | Source closer |
| 134 | Spencer Dinwiddie | #149-11 | #154-6 | #160 | 4 | 7 | Source closer |
| 135 | Nicolas Batum | #150+34 | #120+4 | #116 | 35 | 13 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 136 | James Johnson | #151-166 | #307-10 | #317 | 37 | 6 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 137 | Aaron Gordon | #152+32 | #174+54 | #120 | 33 | 42 | Source closer |
| 138 | Immanuel Quickley | #153-40 | #185-8 | #193 | 5 | 8 | Source closer |
| 139 | Alec Burks | #154+31 | #147+24 | #123 | 32 | 27 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 140 | Terrence Ross | #155-153 | #119-189 | #308 | 32 | 60 | Source closer |
| 141 | Darius Bazley | #156-10 | #219+53 | #166 | 9 | 33 | Source closer |
| 142 | Brandon Clarke | #157+56 | #85-16 | #101 | 53 | 5 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 143 | Jarred Vanderbilt | #158+37 | #158+37 | #121 | 38 | 33 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 144 | Thomas Bryant | #161-64 | #53-172 | #225 | 10 | 101 | Source closer |
| 145 | Aleksej Pokusevski | #162-97 | #306+47 | #259 | 16 | 17 | Source closer |
| 146 | Josh Jackson | #163-196 | #204-155 | #359 | 32 | 19 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 147 | Talen Horton-Tucker | #164-46 | #181-29 | #210 | 1 | 1 | Tie |
| 148 | Hamidou Diallo | #165-52 | #259+42 | #217 | 3 | 19 | Source closer |
| 149 | Killian Hayes | #166-60 | #318+92 | #226 | 6 | 25 | Source closer |
| 150 | Isaiah Hartenstein | #167+35 | #299+167 | #132 | 37 | 64 | Source closer |
| 151 | De'Andre Hunter | #168-63 | #125-106 | #231 | 5 | 38 | Source closer |
| 152 | Luguentz Dort | #169+45 | #202+78 | #124 | 44 | 50 | Source closer |
| 153 | Bruce Brown | #170+51 | #199+80 | #119 | 50 | 54 | Source closer |
| 154 | Landry Shamet | #171-127 | #258-40 | #298 | 17 | 2 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 155 | Monte Morris | #172+61 | #163+52 | #111 | 59 | 45 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 156 | Reggie Jackson | #173-17 | #211+21 | #190 | 15 | 21 | Source closer |
| 157 | Goran Dragic | #174-95 | #284+15 | #269 | 7 | 11 | Source closer |
| 158 | Davis Bertans | #175-168 | #123-220 | #343 | 17 | 59 | Source closer |
| 159 | Tyrese Maxey | #176+121 | #268+213 | #55 | 106 | 119 | Source closer |
| 160 | Derrick White | #177+102 | #84+9 | #75 | 91 | 14 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 161 | Nickeil Alexander-Walker | #178-110 | #190-98 | #288 | 9 | 17 | Source closer |
| 162 | Tomas Satoransky | #179-178 | #217-140 | #357 | 15 | 13 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 163 | Carmelo Anthony | #180+80 | #247+147 | #100 | 75 | 80 | Source closer |
| 164 | Blake Griffin | #181-105 | #205-81 | #286 | 5 | 9 | Source closer |
| 165 | Shake Milton | #182-89 | #197-74 | #271 | 1 | 10 | Source closer |
| 166 | Cody Zeller | #183-149 | #182-150 | #332 | 8 | 24 | Source closer |
| 167 | Dwight Howard | #184-73 | #328+71 | #257 | 7 | 21 | Source closer |
| 168 | Chuma Okeke | #185+71 | #126+12 | #114 | 69 | 20 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 169 | Otto Porter Jr. | #186+76 | #143+33 | #110 | 74 | 36 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 170 | Malik Monk | #187+69 | #236+118 | #118 | 68 | 64 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 171 | Serge Ibaka | #188-85 | #133-140 | #273 | 4 | 43 | Source closer |
| 172 | Tim Hardaway Jr. | #189+6 | #162-21 | #183 | 34 | 2 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 173 | Ivica Zubac | #190+77 | #99-14 | #113 | 75 | 4 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 174 | Dorian Finney-Smith | #191+94 | #137+40 | #97 | 89 | 43 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 175 | Malachi Flynn | #193-181 | #244-130 | #374 | 4 | 12 | Source closer |
| 176 | Tyler Herro | #194+109 | #108+23 | #85 | 98 | 25 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 177 | Kira Lewis Jr. | #195-200 | #274-121 | #395 | 3 | 6 | Source closer |
| 178 | Nerlens Noel | #196+52 | #56-88 | #144 | 57 | 65 | Source closer |
| 179 | Seth Curry | #197+108 | #165+76 | #89 | 97 | 61 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 180 | Eric Gordon | #198-13 | #209-2 | #211 | 31 | 12 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 181 | Matisse Thybulle | #199+111 | #149+61 | #88 | 100 | 54 | Ball Ranks closer |
| 182 | Zach Collins | #200+5 | #263+68 | #195 | 37 | 26 | Ball Ranks closer |