2026-27 NBA player and team ratings

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What each column means

Player columns

#: Rank by Rating among players with enough recent playing time to rate reliably, plus rookies. Other players are shown but not ranked.
Player, Team: The player and the team on his 2026-27 roster.
Age: Age in whole years on the day this page was last updated. An age in gray is an estimate because the birth date is not confirmed yet.
Offense role, Defense role: Plain labels for how a player has played. Offense: Primary creator, Secondary creator, Creating big, Shooter, Stretch big, Interior big, Connector. Defense: Rim protector, Disruptor, Interior defender, Perimeter defender, Low-activity defender. Rookies and players with little recent playing time have no label.
Rating: Our projection of how many points per 100 possessions a player adds to a lineup of average teammates against an average opponent in 2026-27. Higher is better, and 0 is about an average player.
Off, Def: The two halves of Rating: points per 100 possessions added on offense and on defense. They add up to Rating.
Proj MPG: Projected minutes per game.
Avail: The share of games we expect the player to play, including any known absences.
Now, Min: Appear once games start: a live rating that updates through the season, and minutes played.
Flags: limited 2025-26 minutes: little recent playing time, so the rating is less certain. small sample: too little playing time on record to rank the player. rookie: rated from college performance because there is no NBA record yet. no history: no record at all, so a default rating is used.

Team columns

Proj wins: Our projected 2026-27 win total.
Line: The BetMGM win total, recorded October 10.
Roster rating, Roster rank: How strong the roster is: its players' Ratings combined by expected minutes and availability, in points per 100 possessions better than an average team, and its rank among the 30 teams.
Offense, Defense and their ranks: The same roster rating split into offense and defense.
Avg age: Minutes-weighted average age of the roster.
Top players: The team's five highest-rated players.

Rating is points per 100 possessions a player adds to a lineup of average teammates against an average opponent. It is our projection for 2026-27, not a record of what already happened. It is most reliable for stars and regulars; rookies, players with little recent playing time and players returning from long injuries are less certain. Offense and defense split the rating and always add up to it.

Teams. Roster rating combines the players' ratings by expected minutes and availability. Projected wins are our published totals.