2020-21 NBA Season · 9-Cat

Fantasy Basketball Rankings

Last-season 9-cat value, punt-aware rankings, and sortable draft prep data. Ball Ranks ranks 416 NBA players on this board.

How this board is built

Ball Ranks' projection model is built by AI: frontier AI models propose changes to how players are projected, each one is replayed against 15 completed NBA seasons, and only the changes that hold up are kept. Changes that failed are kept on the public record next to the ones that worked, so the board is auditable rather than a black box.

Season

Mode


#1	Nikola Jokić	DEN	26	72	34.6	13.87	26.4	10.8	8.3	1.3	0.7	1.3	56.6%	86.8%	3.1
#2	Stephen Curry	GSW	33	63	34.2	12.24	32.0	5.5	5.8	1.2	0.1	5.3	48.2%	91.6%	3.4
#3	Joel Embiid	PHI	27	51	31.1	11.50	28.5	10.6	2.8	1.0	1.4	1.1	51.3%	85.9%	3.1
#4	Kyrie Irving	BKN	29	54	34.9	11.39	26.9	4.8	6.0	1.4	0.7	2.8	50.6%	92.2%	2.4
#5	James Harden	BKN	31	44	36.6	11.23	24.6	7.9	10.8	1.2	0.8	2.8	46.6%	86.1%	4.0
#6	Kevin Durant	BKN	32	35	33.1	11.21	26.9	7.1	5.6	0.7	1.3	2.4	53.7%	88.2%	3.4
#7	Kawhi Leonard	LAC	30	52	34.1	10.89	24.8	6.5	5.2	1.6	0.4	1.9	51.2%	88.5%	2.0
#8	Jimmy Butler III	MIA	31	52	33.6	10.69	21.5	6.9	7.1	2.1	0.3	0.5	49.7%	86.3%	2.1
#9	Damian Lillard	POR	30	67	35.8	10.48	28.8	4.2	7.5	0.9	0.3	4.1	45.1%	92.8%	3.0
#10	Karl-Anthony Towns	MIN	25	50	33.8	9.46	24.8	10.6	4.5	0.8	1.1	2.4	48.6%	85.9%	3.2
#11	Bradley Beal	WAS	28	60	35.8	8.86	31.3	4.7	4.4	1.2	0.4	2.2	48.5%	88.9%	3.1
#12	Nikola Vučević	CHI	30	70	33.5	8.82	23.4	11.7	3.8	0.9	0.7	2.5	47.7%	84.0%	1.8
#13	Myles Turner	IND	25	47	31.0	8.42	12.6	6.5	1.0	0.9	3.4	1.5	47.7%	78.2%	1.4
#14	Jayson Tatum	BOS	23	64	35.8	8.10	26.4	7.4	4.3	1.2	0.5	2.9	45.9%	86.8%	2.7
#15	Giannis Antetokounmpo	MIL	26	61	33.0	8.01	28.1	11.0	5.9	1.2	1.2	1.1	56.9%	68.5%	3.4
#16	Fred VanVleet	TOR	27	52	36.5	7.68	19.6	4.2	6.3	1.7	0.7	3.3	38.9%	88.5%	1.8
#17	Chris Paul	PHX	36	70	31.4	7.55	16.4	4.5	8.9	1.4	0.3	1.5	49.9%	93.4%	2.2
#18	Bam Adebayo	MIA	23	64	33.5	7.51	18.7	9.0	5.4	1.2	1.0	0.0	57.0%	79.9%	2.6
#19	Zach LaVine	CHI	26	58	35.1	7.22	27.4	5.0	4.9	0.8	0.5	3.4	50.7%	84.9%	3.5
#20	Rudy Gobert	UTA	29	71	30.8	7.09	14.3	13.5	1.3	0.6	2.7	0.0	67.5%	62.3%	1.7
#21	Kristaps Porziņģis	DAL	25	43	30.9	7.02	20.1	8.9	1.6	0.5	1.3	2.3	47.6%	85.5%	1.2
#22	Tobias Harris	PHI	28	62	32.5	6.75	19.5	6.8	3.5	0.9	0.8	1.3	51.2%	89.2%	1.7
#23	Jrue Holiday	MIL	31	59	32.3	6.68	17.7	4.5	6.1	1.6	0.6	1.9	50.3%	78.7%	2.2
#24	Paul George	LAC	31	54	33.7	6.68	23.3	6.6	5.2	1.1	0.4	3.2	46.7%	86.8%	3.3
#25	Michael Porter Jr.	DEN	23	61	31.3	6.65	19.0	7.3	1.1	0.7	0.9	2.8	54.2%	79.1%	1.3
#26	Domantas Sabonis	IND	25	62	36.0	6.51	20.3	12.0	6.7	1.2	0.5	0.8	53.5%	73.2%	3.4
#27	Anthony Davis	LAL	28	36	32.3	6.43	21.8	7.9	3.1	1.3	1.6	0.7	49.1%	73.8%	2.1
#28	Jonas Valančiūnas	MEM	29	62	28.3	6.33	17.1	12.5	1.8	0.6	0.9	0.3	59.2%	77.3%	1.6
#29	Clint Capela	ATL	27	63	30.1	6.32	15.2	14.3	0.8	0.7	2.0	0.0	59.4%	57.3%	1.2
#30	Richaun Holmes	SAC	27	61	29.2	6.21	14.2	8.3	1.7	0.6	1.6	0.0	63.7%	79.4%	1.2
#31	LeBron James	LAL	36	45	33.4	6.10	25.0	7.7	7.8	1.1	0.6	2.3	51.3%	69.8%	3.7
#32	CJ McCollum	POR	29	47	34.0	5.99	23.1	3.9	4.7	0.9	0.4	3.6	45.8%	81.2%	1.4
#33	Jamal Murray	DEN	24	48	35.5	5.98	21.2	4.0	4.8	1.3	0.3	2.7	47.7%	86.9%	2.3
#34	Trae Young	ATL	22	63	33.7	5.90	25.3	3.9	9.4	0.8	0.2	2.2	43.8%	88.6%	4.1
#35	Luka Dončić	DAL	22	66	34.3	5.85	27.7	8.0	8.6	1.0	0.5	2.9	47.9%	73.0%	4.3
#36	DeMar DeRozan	SAS	31	61	33.7	5.84	21.6	4.2	6.9	0.9	0.2	0.3	49.5%	88.0%	2.0
#37	Julius Randle	NYK	26	71	37.6	5.81	24.1	10.2	6.0	0.9	0.3	2.3	45.6%	81.1%	3.4
#38	Chris Boucher	TOR	28	60	24.2	5.75	13.6	6.7	1.1	0.6	1.9	1.5	51.4%	78.8%	0.8
#39	Brandon Ingram	NOP	23	61	34.3	5.72	23.8	4.9	4.9	0.7	0.6	2.3	46.6%	87.8%	2.5
#40	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	OKC	22	35	33.7	5.71	23.7	4.7	5.9	0.8	0.7	2.0	50.8%	80.8%	3.0
#41	Jaylen Brown	BOS	24	58	34.5	5.66	24.7	6.0	3.4	1.2	0.6	2.8	48.4%	76.4%	2.7
#42	Deandre Ayton	PHX	22	69	30.6	5.55	14.4	10.5	1.4	0.6	1.2	0.1	62.6%	76.9%	1.5
#43	Donovan Mitchell	UTA	24	53	33.4	5.55	26.4	4.4	5.2	1.0	0.3	3.4	43.8%	84.5%	2.8
#44	Khris Middleton	MIL	29	68	33.4	5.53	20.4	6.0	5.4	1.1	0.1	2.2	47.6%	89.8%	2.6
#45	Mikal Bridges	PHX	24	72	32.6	5.52	13.5	4.3	2.1	1.1	0.9	1.9	54.3%	84.0%	0.8
#46	Terry Rozier	CHA	27	69	34.5	5.46	20.4	4.4	4.2	1.3	0.4	3.2	45.0%	81.7%	1.9
#47	Pascal Siakam	TOR	27	56	35.8	5.32	21.4	7.2	4.5	1.1	0.7	1.3	45.5%	82.7%	2.3
#48	Malcolm Brogdon	IND	28	56	34.5	5.29	21.2	5.3	5.9	0.9	0.3	2.6	45.3%	86.4%	2.1
#49	John Collins	ATL	23	63	29.3	5.27	17.6	7.4	1.2	0.5	1.0	1.3	55.6%	83.3%	1.3
#50	OG Anunoby	TOR	23	43	33.3	5.22	15.9	5.5	2.2	1.5	0.7	2.4	48.0%	78.4%	1.7