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


#330	Kobe Sanders	LAC	24	68	19.9	-2.90	7.3	2.3	1.6	0.7	0.1	1.2	46.6%	82.6%	1.2
#331	Sion James	CHA	23	82	22.5	-2.93	5.4	3.5	2.0	0.6	0.2	1.0	37.1%	83.7%	0.8
#333	Elijah Harkless	UTA	26	26	21.0	-3.00	6.8	2.0	2.9	1.2	0.2	0.8	33.5%	76.6%	1.0
#335	Pat Spencer	GSW	29	66	18.6	-3.04	7.2	2.4	3.5	0.7	0.1	0.9	42.7%	77.2%	1.3
#337	Nicolas Batum	LAC	37	74	17.5	-3.14	4.0	2.5	0.9	0.6	0.3	1.2	40.3%	81.8%	0.5
#338	Jared McCain	OKC	22	67	17.3	-3.16	8.3	2.0	1.3	0.5	0.1	1.5	42.5%	86.4%	0.8
#339	Sharife Cooper	WAS	25	41	17.1	-3.16	8.1	2.1	3.0	0.4	0.1	0.7	51.4%	83.3%	1.5
#340	Jarred Vanderbilt	LAL	27	65	17.3	-3.22	4.4	4.5	1.3	0.8	0.3	0.4	47.1%	58.9%	0.9
#341	Patrick Williams	CHI	24	72	20.5	-3.24	7.0	3.0	1.5	0.7	0.4	1.3	37.2%	72.0%	1.0
#342	Devin Carter	SAC	24	38	18.4	-3.27	8.9	3.3	2.7	0.9	0.2	0.8	41.4%	71.3%	1.4
#343	Trendon Watford	PHI	25	53	16.3	-3.29	6.5	3.3	2.5	0.3	0.4	0.2	51.5%	77.9%	1.2
#344	Killian Hayes	SAC	24	23	17.6	-3.30	5.5	2.3	3.5	0.9	0.2	0.7	30.4%	92.9%	1.2
#345	Ethan Thompson	IND	27	32	20.4	-3.35	7.0	2.2	1.8	0.6	0.3	1.2	37.8%	78.7%	0.8
#346	Tyson Etienne	BKN	26	24	15.8	-3.36	7.9	1.1	1.7	0.5	0.0	1.8	40.0%	83.3%	0.7
#347	Pete Nance	MIL	26	47	15.7	-3.40	5.4	2.7	1.0	0.3	0.3	1.1	51.5%	36.4%	0.6
#348	Caleb Love	POR	24	49	20.7	-3.42	10.4	2.3	2.5	0.6	0.1	1.9	38.8%	73.5%	1.3
#349	Tidjane Salaün	CHA	20	37	15.6	-3.47	6.0	4.0	0.7	0.4	0.2	1.0	50.3%	65.0%	0.7
#350	Kenrich Williams	OKC	31	56	15.3	-3.47	6.5	3.3	1.4	0.6	0.1	0.9	47.3%	63.5%	0.8
#351	Ryan Nembhard	DAL	23	60	19.5	-3.59	6.6	2.2	5.3	0.4	0.0	0.8	41.5%	80.6%	1.4
#352	Ousmane Dieng	MIL	23	57	19.3	-3.59	7.6	3.2	2.4	0.4	0.3	1.1	42.2%	71.1%	1.3
#353	Julian Strawther	DEN	24	57	15.1	-3.60	7.2	2.0	1.1	0.4	0.1	1.0	46.7%	81.4%	0.6
#354	Kobe Brown	IND	26	61	15.8	-3.60	5.8	3.0	1.3	0.4	0.2	0.9	46.9%	79.7%	0.9
#357	Jahmai Mashack	MEM	23	31	21.7	-3.70	6.2	2.6	2.2	1.2	0.5	0.6	39.5%	54.3%	1.6
#359	Josh Green	CHA	25	58	15.7	-3.75	4.3	1.8	0.8	0.6	0.1	1.0	45.9%	89.3%	0.6
#361	Nolan Traore	BKN	20	56	22.2	-3.80	8.9	1.8	3.8	0.8	0.4	1.1	38.0%	78.7%	2.3
#363	Rayan Rupert	MEM	22	64	16.8	-3.82	5.2	2.9	1.1	0.9	0.1	0.7	39.3%	77.8%	0.9
#364	Josh Okogie	HOU	27	78	17.4	-3.86	4.5	2.6	0.9	0.8	0.2	0.8	42.5%	59.4%	0.5
#366	Jordan Clarkson	NYK	34	72	17.8	-3.87	8.6	1.8	1.3	0.4	0.1	1.0	45.1%	83.0%	0.9
#369	Drake Powell	BKN	20	63	20.9	-3.91	6.5	1.8	1.4	0.6	0.2	0.8	40.2%	89.6%	1.0
#370	Guerschon Yabusele	CHI	30	67	15.0	-3.97	5.6	3.5	0.9	0.4	0.2	1.0	40.1%	75.0%	0.6
#374	Johnny Furphy	IND	21	35	18.4	-4.04	5.1	4.4	1.2	0.6	0.2	0.7	47.0%	48.6%	0.8
#377	Jalen Pickett	DEN	26	50	16.1	-4.07	5.2	2.3	2.3	0.3	0.1	1.0	42.2%	78.9%	0.7
#381	Bogdan Bogdanović	LAC	33	23	19.7	-4.11	7.4	2.6	2.2	0.4	0.1	1.4	38.8%	80.0%	1.2
#382	Gary Trent Jr.	MIL	27	65	21.2	-4.13	8.1	1.0	1.2	0.5	0.0	1.9	38.7%	76.9%	0.6
#384	Ochai Agbaji	BKN	26	62	15.7	-4.19	5.1	2.3	0.8	0.4	0.3	0.5	43.6%	83.7%	0.5
#385	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	DAL	25	22	16.4	-4.21	4.6	4.7	0.7	0.4	0.0	0.5	37.0%	94.4%	0.5
#392	Ben Saraf	BKN	20	44	20.8	-4.34	7.5	2.1	3.3	0.9	0.2	0.4	39.6%	83.0%	2.3
#393	D'Angelo Russell	WAS	30	26	19.0	-4.35	10.2	2.3	4.0	0.5	0.1	1.3	40.5%	71.7%	1.9
#394	Sidy Cissoko	POR	22	75	19.1	-4.35	5.1	2.2	1.5	0.7	0.3	0.8	39.8%	65.9%	0.9
#395	Tyrese Martin	PHI	27	46	16.9	-4.37	6.3	2.5	1.7	0.5	0.1	1.2	39.4%	67.9%	0.9
#399	Cole Anthony	MIL	26	35	15.0	-4.47	6.7	2.5	3.5	0.6	0.3	0.6	42.4%	61.5%	1.9
#403	Micah Peavy	NOP	24	61	15.0	-4.50	4.3	1.9	1.0	0.7	0.1	0.5	38.5%	75.9%	0.3
#404	Doug McDermott	SAC	34	29	15.1	-4.54	5.7	1.3	0.8	0.2	0.1	1.7	38.8%	88.9%	0.4
#405	Nikola Jović	MIA	23	47	17.2	-4.54	7.3	3.3	2.2	0.6	0.4	1.0	36.6%	68.3%	1.4
#409	Jaden Hardy	WAS	23	57	15.8	-4.60	9.2	1.5	1.0	0.3	0.1	1.8	42.4%	73.3%	1.1
#412	Cam Thomas	MIL	24	42	21.0	-4.67	13.5	1.7	2.6	0.2	0.1	1.2	41.0%	81.1%	1.8
#414	Gabe Vincent	ATL	30	53	16.6	-4.75	4.4	1.0	1.4	0.5	0.1	1.1	35.2%	87.0%	0.5
#423	Kam Jones	IND	24	37	16.7	-5.03	4.4	1.6	3.2	0.5	0.0	0.6	40.2%	50.0%	1.0
#427	Dorian Finney-Smith	HOU	33	37	16.8	-5.18	3.3	2.5	1.0	0.4	0.2	0.7	33.3%	88.9%	0.6
#435	Jalen Wilson	BKN	25	54	15.9	-5.54	6.4	2.1	0.9	0.4	0.0	1.0	39.6%	71.9%	0.7