2025-26 NBA Season · 9-Cat

Fantasy Basketball Rankings

Last-season 9-cat value, punt-aware rankings, and sortable draft prep data. Ball Ranks ranks 441 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


#54	Dyson Daniels	ATL	23	76	33.2	4.29	11.9	6.8	5.9	2.0	0.4	0.3	51.7%	61.5%	1.8
#55	Evan Mobley	CLE	25	65	31.9	4.23	18.2	9.0	3.6	0.7	1.7	1.0	54.6%	60.6%	1.9
#56	Kel'el Ware	MIA	22	77	22.1	4.16	11.1	9.0	0.7	0.8	1.1	1.2	53.0%	74.0%	0.8
#57	Immanuel Quickley	TOR	27	70	31.9	4.13	16.4	4.0	5.9	1.3	0.1	2.5	44.3%	82.1%	1.5
#58	Nikola Vučević	BOS	35	64	28.4	4.10	15.1	8.4	3.3	0.6	0.6	1.6	49.3%	82.8%	1.3
#60	Deni Avdija	POR	25	66	33.3	4.07	24.2	6.9	6.7	0.8	0.6	1.9	46.2%	80.2%	3.8
#61	Andrew Wiggins	MIA	31	68	30.3	4.04	15.4	4.8	2.7	1.1	1.0	2.0	47.5%	78.4%	1.5
#62	Kon Knueppel	CHA	20	81	31.5	4.03	18.5	5.3	3.4	0.7	0.2	3.4	47.5%	86.3%	2.0
#63	Josh Giddey	CHI	23	54	32.1	3.96	17.0	8.3	9.1	1.0	0.5	1.9	44.8%	76.3%	3.6
#64	Jaden McDaniels	MIN	25	73	31.7	3.96	14.8	4.2	2.7	1.1	1.0	1.4	51.5%	83.5%	1.8
#65	Neemias Queta	BOS	26	76	25.3	3.95	10.2	8.4	1.7	0.8	1.3	0.0	65.3%	70.3%	1.0
#66	Kristaps Porziņģis	GSW	30	32	24.0	3.92	16.7	5.2	2.5	0.6	1.2	1.7	44.6%	84.2%	1.3
#67	VJ Edgecombe	PHI	20	75	35.0	3.84	16.0	5.6	4.2	1.4	0.5	2.0	43.8%	81.8%	1.8
#68	Brandon Ingram	TOR	28	77	33.8	3.82	21.5	5.6	3.7	0.8	0.7	1.8	47.7%	82.0%	2.4
#69	Jarrett Allen	CLE	28	56	27.1	3.81	15.4	8.5	1.8	1.0	0.8	0.0	63.8%	70.9%	1.3
#70	DeMar DeRozan	SAC	36	77	31.2	3.75	18.4	2.9	4.1	1.0	0.3	0.6	49.7%	86.8%	1.2
#71	Matas Buzelis	CHI	21	77	29.2	3.69	16.3	5.8	2.1	0.7	1.5	2.2	46.3%	78.6%	2.1
#72	Giannis Antetokounmpo	MIL	31	36	28.9	3.64	27.6	9.8	5.4	0.9	0.7	0.4	62.4%	65.0%	3.2
#73	Tre Jones	CHI	26	65	27.0	3.57	14.1	3.1	5.4	1.2	0.2	0.6	55.3%	84.1%	1.4
#74	Norman Powell	MIA	33	58	29.6	3.57	21.7	3.5	2.5	1.1	0.2	2.7	47.0%	82.7%	1.9
#75	Reed Sheppard	HOU	22	82	26.2	3.56	13.5	2.9	3.4	1.5	0.7	2.8	43.0%	80.2%	1.5
#76	Julius Randle	MIN	31	79	33.0	3.52	21.1	6.7	5.0	1.1	0.2	1.4	48.1%	80.2%	2.7
#77	Mark Williams	PHX	24	60	23.6	3.52	11.7	8.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.0	64.4%	77.1%	1.1
#78	Grayson Allen	PHX	30	51	28.8	3.40	16.5	3.0	3.8	1.4	0.3	3.1	40.3%	85.7%	1.6
#79	Payton Pritchard	BOS	28	79	32.3	3.38	17.0	3.9	5.2	0.7	0.1	2.7	46.4%	89.0%	1.4
#80	Jalen Williams	OKC	25	33	28.4	3.37	17.1	4.6	5.5	1.2	0.3	0.7	48.4%	83.7%	1.9
#81	Franz Wagner	ORL	24	34	30.0	3.31	20.6	5.2	3.3	0.9	0.3	1.4	48.1%	82.3%	1.7
#82	De'Aaron Fox	SAS	28	72	31.0	3.27	18.6	3.8	6.2	1.2	0.3	1.8	48.6%	76.0%	2.3
#83	Saddiq Bey	NOP	27	72	31.2	3.14	17.7	5.6	2.5	0.9	0.1	2.1	45.1%	84.1%	0.9
#84	Jay Huff	IND	28	82	21.0	3.09	9.5	4.0	1.5	0.5	1.9	1.5	47.6%	82.8%	0.9
#86	Naz Reid	MIN	26	77	26.1	3.02	13.6	6.2	2.2	1.0	1.0	2.1	45.6%	73.2%	1.6
#87	Jabari Smith Jr.	HOU	23	77	35.1	3.02	15.8	6.9	1.9	0.7	0.9	2.3	44.9%	77.5%	1.4
#88	Keegan Murray	SAC	25	23	34.5	3.00	14.0	5.7	1.7	1.0	1.6	1.3	42.0%	77.6%	1.2
#89	Josh Hart	NYK	31	66	30.2	2.96	12.0	7.4	4.8	1.1	0.3	1.5	50.8%	72.0%	1.9
#90	Darius Garland	LAC	26	45	29.9	2.93	18.8	2.4	6.7	1.0	0.2	2.7	46.0%	86.1%	2.9
#91	Myles Turner	MIL	30	71	26.9	2.84	11.9	5.3	1.5	0.7	1.6	2.1	44.0%	74.0%	1.2
#92	Ayo Dosunmu	MIN	26	69	27.3	2.84	14.8	3.4	3.6	0.8	0.3	1.8	51.7%	87.6%	1.4
#93	Collin Gillespie	PHX	27	80	28.5	2.73	12.7	4.1	4.6	1.2	0.2	2.9	41.8%	87.4%	1.6
#94	Deandre Ayton	LAL	27	72	27.2	2.62	12.5	8.0	0.8	0.6	1.0	0.0	67.1%	64.5%	1.2
#95	Kyshawn George	WAS	22	48	29.0	2.57	14.8	5.1	4.5	1.0	0.9	2.1	43.8%	80.2%	2.6
#96	Donte DiVincenzo	MIN	29	82	30.4	2.50	12.2	4.1	3.8	1.3	0.4	3.0	40.6%	74.3%	1.4
#97	Ivica Zubac	IND	29	48	30.1	2.49	14.1	10.6	2.2	0.4	0.8	0.0	59.8%	71.1%	1.8
#98	Rudy Gobert	MIN	34	76	31.3	2.41	10.9	11.5	1.7	0.8	1.6	0.0	68.2%	52.6%	1.4
#99	Robert Williams III	POR	28	59	17.1	2.40	6.7	7.0	1.0	0.6	1.5	0.2	70.8%	59.6%	0.8
#101	Zach LaVine	SAC	31	39	31.4	2.39	19.2	2.8	2.3	0.7	0.3	2.5	47.9%	88.0%	1.9
#102	Miles Bridges	CHA	28	77	31.0	2.36	17.1	5.8	3.2	0.6	0.4	1.9	46.0%	82.2%	1.4
#103	Ajay Mitchell	OKC	24	57	25.8	2.35	13.6	3.3	3.6	1.2	0.3	1.1	48.5%	87.0%	1.4
#105	John Collins	LAC	28	69	27.1	2.30	13.6	5.3	1.0	0.9	0.7	1.3	55.2%	76.6%	1.4
#106	Jrue Holiday	POR	36	53	29.4	2.30	16.3	4.6	6.1	1.0	0.1	2.6	45.1%	83.8%	2.8
#107	Paolo Banchero	ORL	23	72	34.7	2.28	22.2	8.4	5.2	0.7	0.6	1.2	45.9%	77.5%	3.1