2026-27 points-league rankings — 2026-27 Fantasy Basketball Encyclopedia

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Research cutoff: 2026-07-18, America/New_York. Intended use: 12-team redraft, head-to-head points. Position eligibility, replacement level, weekly schedule, fantasy-playoff schedule, roster slots, bonuses, and league-specific lineup limits are not priced.

Which table to use

This note now carries two ranked boards. They are not interchangeable, and picking the wrong one is a real draft error, not a rounding difference.

If the league is	Use	Where
Yahoo, or any league whose settings are PTS/REB/AST/STL/BLK/TO with no shot-event terms	The Yahoo-default board	Top 200
ESPN, or any league that scores FGM, FGA, FTM, FTA, and 3PM	The ESPN-default board	ESPN default top 100
CBS, or any custom league	Neither as published — copy the league's actual weights and re-run	see Platform-setting sensitivity

The two boards disagree meaningfully: 126 of the 253 ranked players move five or more slots between them, and 12 move fifteen or more. ESPN's −1 per field-goal attempt is the driver, and it is a genuine change in player value rather than a display artifact. If the platform is unknown, resolve it before drafting rather than averaging the boards.

Model, not consensus

The statistical inputs are the 30 independent team desks' median 2026-27 player cards, normalized in 2026-27 fantasy basketball player projections and Data/player-projections-2026-07-18.csv. The eligible comparison pool contains 261 players projected for at least 20 games and 15 minutes per appearance with complete counting-stat inputs. This note applies one formula mechanically and displays the top 200.

No market smoothing was added. A surprising rank therefore means “the projection plus this formula produced it,” not “the public agrees.” The current public-source audit found no trustworthy complete post-draft 2026-27 consensus, ADP sample, and projection set to substitute for a model. See Major fantasy media, Fantrax, and Hashtag Basketball.

Neutral illustrative scoring

\[ \mathrm{FP/G}=\mathrm{PTS}+1.2(\mathrm{REB})+1.5(\mathrm{AST})+3(\mathrm{STL})+3(\mathrm{BLK})-\mathrm{TO} \]

This is neutral only in the practical sense that it is simple, transparent, percentage-free, and broadly familiar. It exactly matches Yahoo's public default points weights at the cutoff and also matches the disclosed formula used by FantraxHQ's prior-season points board; it is not a universal fantasy standard. Yahoo default settings, accessed 2026-07-18 · FantraxHQ's disclosed 2025 points formula

Season FP is projected FP/G × GP.
Draft index, which determines the displayed order, is FP/G × sqrt(GP/82). It is the geometric mean of per-game value and 82-game-normalized season value, so availability matters without turning the list into a pure totals board.
Exact GP remains visible. A medical flag does not create a second penalty beyond the GP forecast.
Ties and tiny gaps are false precision; tier and settings fit matter more than one slot.

Bands and flags

The PG band and Total band columns translate rank within the 261-player comparison pool into 12-team draft shorthand: R1 = 1–12, R2 = 13–24, R3–4 = 25–48, R5–7 = 49–84, R8–10 = 85–120, R11–13 = 121–156, R14–16 = 157–192, and R17+ = 193 or later.

Avail is only the projected GP band: High = 70+, Med = 62–69, Low = 50–61, VLow = below 50. It is not a medical probability.

Flags are compact audit prompts, not automatic fades:

M — named medical, rehab, recurrence, or material rest-risk case in 2026-27 fantasy basketball injury and availability ledger.
R — role/minute sensitivity; projected at 25 MPG or less.
N — 2026 NBA rookie/first-year translation risk.
T — unresolved transaction, contract, or team-placement risk in the dossier.
No flag — none of these specific flags; ordinary uncertainty still applies.

Platform-setting sensitivity

Surface at cutoff	Relevant default or latest public weights	Who generally rises relative to this board	Who generally falls
Yahoo default	PTS 1, REB 1.2, AST 1.5, STL 3, BLK 3, TO −1	No formula-driven change; this board is a Yahoo-default baseline	No formula-driven change
ESPN default	PTS 1, 3PM 1, FGM 2, FGA −1, FTM 1, FTA −1, REB 1, AST 2, STL 4, BLK 4, TO −2	Efficient shooters, three-point volume, low-turnover assist guards, and elite stocks	Inefficient high-volume scorers and turnover-heavy creators
CBS Free, latest rules available	PTS 1, REB 1, AST 2, STL 1, BLK 1, TO −1; weekly player scores are game averages	Assist-heavy creators and high-volume scorers	Stocks specialists and rebound-dependent bigs relative to Yahoo
CBS Commissioner	Customizable across hundreds of scoring categories	Entire order can change; apply the league's actual weights	Any “CBS rank” without its settings is underspecified

ESPN's official explainer confirms both the shot-event terms and the heavier assist/stock/turnover weights, and states the eleven default values verbatim: Point 1, 3PM 1, FGM 2, FGA −1, FTM 1, FTA −1, REB 1, AST 2, STL 4, BLK 4, TOV −2. ESPN default points-league scoring explained

Correction 2026-07-18: this section previously judged an exact ESPN re-rank "impossible from projection rows that omit FGM/FGA and FTM/FTA" and offered only directional notes. That judgment is withdrawn. The shot volumes recovered in Data/player-projections-corrected.csv supply projected FGA and FTA for every pooled player, so the ESPN default is now computed rather than described — see ESPN default top 100. The withdrawn caution was partly right about the risk: 194 of 253 ranked players use attempts scaled from 2025-26 rates rather than stated attempts, which is why the ESPN board is published to 100 rather than 200. The directional paragraph below is retained because it was the basis of the earlier judgment, but the computed table supersedes it where the two disagree.

CBS's latest public Free rules at the cutoff were still labelled 2025-26, so they are a sensitivity anchor rather than a guarantee of 2026-27 settings. Its Commissioner product explicitly allows custom scoring. CBS Free official rules · CBS Commissioner FAQ

Practical examples: ESPN's extra block, steal, and three-point weights strengthen Victor Wembanyama, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, Walker Kessler, and low-turnover creator Tyrese Haliburton, while its doubled turnover penalty is harsher on Luka Dončić, Cade Cunningham, Trae Young, and Josh Giddey. CBS Free's one-point stocks weaken specialist cases such as Kessler and Dyson Daniels, while two-point assists help Young, Haliburton, Giddey, and James Harden. Shooting-event efficiency can offset or reverse these directional examples; run the actual league formula before drafting.

Correction 2026-07-18: the computed ESPN board contradicts half of the paragraph above. The rise claims hold — Haliburton moves 26 → 14, Kessler 34 → 29, Holmgren 37 → 32 — and Wembanyama and Gilgeous-Alexander hold at 2 and 4 only because they are already at the ceiling. The fall claims do not. Dončić stays 3rd, Young stays 27th, Giddey slips two slots, and Cunningham rises 8 → 5. The error was reasoning from the doubled turnover penalty in isolation: ESPN also doubles assists to 2, and for high-turnover creators the assist gain roughly cancels the turnover loss. The actual ESPN fallers are inefficient volume shooters, whom the −1 field-goal-attempt term punishes and whom this paragraph did not mention at all — Bennedict Mathurin drops 107 → 139, Julius Randle 31 → 56, Jalen Green 104 → 120. Treat the table, not this paragraph, as the ESPN answer.

Top 200

Verification 2026-07-18: an audit alleged this table had been generated with an undocumented +0.5 × 3PM term, making the published order inconsistent with the stated Yahoo formula, and proposed republishing it from the corrected_points_rank column of Data/player-projections-corrected.csv. The allegation was checked and does not hold, so the table below is unchanged. The points_score and points_model_rank columns of Data/player-projections-2026-07-18.csv do carry the +0.5 × 3PM defect — that part of the audit is correct — but this note never consumed them. Recomputing the stated formula from the raw projections reproduces every one of the 200 displayed FP/G values exactly, and reproduces the displayed order with a maximum deviation of one slot, entirely explained by the deliberate exclusion of unsigned free agent LeBron James at index rank 55. Against the defective 3PM-inflated ordering the same table misplaces 42 players by five or more slots, so it demonstrably was not built from it. The proposed replacement column was also unsuitable on its own terms: corrected_points_rank is a pure per-game rank that drops the availability adjustment, and adopting it would have silently promoted low-GP players — it ranks 60-game Kawhi Leonard 13th. No change was made.

Tier 1 — four-player apex (1–4)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
1	Nikola Jokić	DEN	66	Med	60.6	R1	4000	R1	—
2	Victor Wembanyama	SAS	68	Med	56.4	R1	3835	R1	—
3	Luka Dončić	LAL	66	Med	56.8	R1	3746	R1	M
4	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	OKC	70	High	50.5	R1	3532	R1	—

Tier 2 — rest of Round 1 (5–12)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
5	Giannis Antetokounmpo	MIA	60	Low	53.0	R1	3179	R1	M
6	Jayson Tatum	BOS	72	High	48.2	R1	3473	R1	M
7	Jalen Johnson	ATL	68	Med	48.4	R1	3291	R1	—
8	Cade Cunningham	DET	66	Med	49.1	R1	3238	R1	—
9	Cooper Flagg	DAL	72	High	45.7	R1	3288	R1	—
10	Scottie Barnes	TOR	74	High	44.5	R1	3293	R1	—
11	Tyrese Maxey	PHI	68	Med	43.5	R1	2961	R2	—
12	Alperen Şengün	HOU	70	High	42.8	R2	2997	R1	—

Tier 3 — Round 2 (13–24)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
13	Anthony Edwards	MIN	68	Med	43.4	R1	2953	R2	M
14	Josh Giddey	CHI	72	High	42.1	R2	3034	R1	M
15	Paolo Banchero	ORL	68	Med	42.8	R2	2910	R2	—
16	Donovan Mitchell	CLE	70	High	42.1	R2	2949	R2	—
17	Evan Mobley	CLE	68	Med	42.0	R2	2856	R2	—
18	Karl-Anthony Towns	NYK	68	Med	41.2	R2	2802	R2	—
19	Jamal Murray	DEN	66	Med	41.5	R2	2740	R2	—
20	Devin Booker	PHX	66	Med	41.4	R2	2732	R3–4	—
21	Kawhi Leonard	LAC	60	Low	43.2	R2	2594	R3–4	M/T
22	Amen Thompson	HOU	76	High	38.2	R3–4	2901	R2	—
23	Jalen Brunson	NYK	70	High	39.7	R3–4	2782	R2	M
24	Bam Adebayo	MIA	72	High	39.0	R3–4	2808	R2	—

Tier 4 — Rounds 3–4 (25–48)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
25	Austin Reaves	LAL	67	Med	40.2	R3–4	2691	R3–4	—
26	Deni Avdija	POR	70	High	39.1	R3–4	2740	R2	—
27	Tyrese Haliburton	IND	66	Med	39.8	R3–4	2624	R3–4	M
28	Trae Young	WAS	62	Med	40.7	R2	2522	R3–4	—
29	Jaylen Brown	PHI	67	Med	38.8	R3–4	2598	R3–4	—
30	Jalen Duren	DET	68	Med	38.1	R3–4	2591	R3–4	—
31	Kon Knueppel	CHA	78	High	35.6	R5–7	2774	R2	—
32	Julius Randle	BKN	70	High	37.1	R3–4	2600	R3–4	—
33	Domantas Sabonis	SAC	62	Med	39.5	R3–4	2447	R3–4	M
34	Lauri Markkanen	UTA	65	Med	38.1	R3–4	2479	R3–4	—
35	Walker Kessler	LAL	65	Med	38.1	R3–4	2477	R3–4	—
36	Stephon Castle	SAS	72	High	36.2	R5–7	2605	R3–4	—
37	Payton Pritchard	BOS	78	High	34.6	R5–7	2698	R3–4	—
38	Chet Holmgren	OKC	67	Med	37.3	R3–4	2499	R3–4	—
39	James Harden	CLE	64	Med	38.1	R3–4	2442	R5–7	—
40	LaMelo Ball	MIN	62	Med	38.7	R3–4	2399	R5–7	M
41	Cameron Boozer	MEM	72	High	35.9	R5–7	2586	R3–4	N
42	Pascal Siakam	IND	68	Med	36.9	R3–4	2512	R3–4	—
43	Desmond Bane	ORL	78	High	34.4	R5–7	2684	R3–4	—
44	Trey Murphy III	NOP	68	Med	36.8	R3–4	2502	R3–4	—
45	De'Aaron Fox	SAS	70	High	36.2	R5–7	2533	R3–4	—
46	Donovan Clingan	POR	72	High	35.5	R5–7	2557	R3–4	—
47	Brandon Miller	CHA	62	Med	38.2	R3–4	2369	R5–7	M
48	Kevin Durant	HOU	66	Med	36.9	R3–4	2435	R5–7	—

Tier 5 — Rounds 5–7 (49–84)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
49	Anthony Davis	WAS	50	Low	42.0	R2	2100	R5–7	M
50	Michael Porter Jr	BKN	65	Med	36.7	R3–4	2383	R5–7	M
51	Derrick White	BOS	76	High	33.8	R5–7	2572	R3–4	—
52	Dyson Daniels	ATL	74	High	34.2	R5–7	2531	R3–4	—
53	Ja Morant	POR	60	Low	37.9	R3–4	2273	R5–7	M
54	Alex Sarr	WAS	64	Med	36.6	R3–4	2342	R5–7	—
55	Matas Buzelis	CHI	75	High	33.7	R5–7	2524	R3–4	—
56	Keyonte George	UTA	68	Med	35.3	R5–7	2398	R5–7	—
57	Zion Williamson	NOP	60	Low	37.4	R3–4	2245	R5–7	M
58	Naz Reid	CHA	73	High	33.9	R5–7	2471	R3–4	—
59	Brandon Ingram	TOR	67	Med	35.3	R5–7	2364	R5–7	T
60	Coby White	CHA	68	Med	34.8	R5–7	2363	R5–7	—
61	Dejounte Murray	NOP	64	Med	35.7	R5–7	2285	R5–7	M
62	AJ Dybantsa	WAS	74	High	33.0	R5–7	2440	R5–7	N
63	Joel Embiid	PHI	44	VLow	42.7	R2	1878	R8–10	M
64	Ivica Zubac	IND	66	Med	34.7	R5–7	2293	R5–7	—
65	Onyeka Okongwu	ATL	72	High	33.0	R5–7	2373	R5–7	—
66	Stephen Curry	GSW	52	Low	38.5	R3–4	2004	R8–10	M
67	Brandin Podziemski	GSW	76	High	31.8	R5–7	2418	R5–7	—
68	Jaren Jackson Jr	UTA	63	Med	34.8	R5–7	2192	R5–7	M
69	Nickeil Alexander-Walker	ATL	74	High	32.1	R5–7	2375	R5–7	—
70	Franz Wagner	ORL	58	Low	36.1	R5–7	2097	R8–10	M
71	Immanuel Quickley	TOR	68	Med	33.3	R5–7	2264	R5–7	M
72	Kyrie Irving	DAL	60	Low	35.4	R5–7	2124	R5–7	M
73	Derik Queen	NOP	78	High	31.0	R8–10	2420	R5–7	—
74	Ryan Rollins	MIL	70	High	32.4	R5–7	2271	R5–7	—
75	Jalen Williams	OKC	58	Low	35.4	R5–7	2051	R8–10	M
76	Darius Garland	LAC	62	Med	33.9	R5–7	2102	R5–7	—
77	Jarrett Allen	CLE	67	Med	32.6	R5–7	2182	R5–7	—
78	Ausar Thompson	DET	71	High	31.5	R5–7	2236	R5–7	—
79	Mikal Bridges	NYK	80	High	29.6	R8–10	2370	R5–7	—
80	Tyler Herro	MIL	60	Low	33.9	R5–7	2031	R8–10	M
81	Darius Acuff Jr	SAC	72	High	30.7	R8–10	2210	R5–7	N
82	VJ Edgecombe	PHI	72	High	30.6	R8–10	2206	R5–7	—
83	Caleb Wilson	CHI	70	High	31.1	R5–7	2174	R5–7	N
84	Kel'el Ware	MIL	74	High	30.0	R8–10	2219	R5–7	R

Tier 6 — Rounds 8–10 (85–120)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
85	Keegan Murray	SAC	68	Med	30.8	R8–10	2097	R5–7	—
86	Nic Claxton	CHI	68	Med	30.8	R8–10	2092	R8–10	—
87	Damian Lillard	POR	58	Low	33.1	R5–7	1920	R8–10	M
88	Cedric Coward	MEM	70	High	30.1	R8–10	2108	R5–7	—
89	RJ Barrett	TOR	67	Med	30.7	R8–10	2060	R8–10	—
90	Ace Bailey	UTA	74	High	29.2	R8–10	2159	R5–7	—
91	Reed Sheppard	HOU	78	High	28.4	R8–10	2211	R5–7	—
92	Rudy Gobert	MIN	69	Med	30.0	R8–10	2069	R8–10	—
93	CJ McCollum	ATL	70	High	29.8	R8–10	2084	R8–10	—
94	Miles Bridges	PHX	70	High	29.8	R8–10	2083	R8–10	—
95	OG Anunoby	NYK	64	Med	31.0	R5–7	1987	R8–10	—
96	Kristaps Porziņģis	GSW	54	Low	33.8	R5–7	1825	R11–13	M
97	Zach Edey	MEM	57	Low	32.7	R5–7	1864	R8–10	M
98	Jeremiah Fears	NOP	78	High	27.8	R8–10	2169	R5–7	—
99	Darryn Peterson	UTA	72	High	28.7	R8–10	2069	R8–10	N
100	Kyshawn George	WAS	68	Med	29.1	R8–10	1975	R8–10	—
101	Dylan Harper	SAS	72	High	28.1	R8–10	2023	R8–10	—
102	Jalen Suggs	ORL	60	Low	30.8	R8–10	1847	R8–10	M
103	Jaden McDaniels	MIN	70	High	28.5	R8–10	1992	R8–10	—
104	Day'Ron Sharpe	BKN	68	Med	28.7	R8–10	1955	R8–10	M/R
105	John Collins	DET	67	Med	28.9	R8–10	1937	R8–10	—
106	Andrew Wiggins	MIA	68	Med	28.4	R8–10	1933	R8–10	—
107	Josh Hart	NYK	68	Med	28.2	R8–10	1918	R8–10	—
108	Jalen Green	PHX	61	Low	29.6	R8–10	1807	R11–13	M
109	Paul George	BOS	55	Low	31.1	R5–7	1711	R11–13	M
110	Norman Powell	CHI	66	Med	28.2	R8–10	1859	R8–10	—
111	Bennedict Mathurin	LAC	65	Med	28.2	R8–10	1831	R8–10	T
112	Mikel Brown Jr	BKN	68	Med	27.5	R8–10	1870	R8–10	N
113	PJ Washington	DAL	66	Med	27.9	R8–10	1841	R8–10	—
114	Keaton Wagler	LAC	70	High	26.9	R11–13	1883	R8–10	N
115	Ayo Dosunmu	MIN	68	Med	27.2	R11–13	1847	R8–10	—
116	Jabari Smith Jr	HOU	74	High	25.9	R11–13	1919	R8–10	—
117	Yaxel Lendeborg	GSW	73	High	26.1	R11–13	1905	R8–10	N
118	Collin Murray-Boyles	TOR	72	High	26.2	R11–13	1889	R8–10	—
119	Toumani Camara	POR	76	High	25.5	R11–13	1939	R8–10	—
120	Ty Jerome	MEM	58	Low	29.0	R8–10	1684	R11–13	M/R/T

Tier 7 — Rounds 11–13 (121–156)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
121	Andrew Nembhard	IND	66	Med	27.2	R11–13	1797	R11–13	—
122	Quentin Grimes	LAL	72	High	25.9	R11–13	1868	R8–10	—
123	Sandro Mamukelashvili	LAL	72	High	25.9	R11–13	1865	R8–10	—
124	Daniel Gafford	DAL	68	Med	26.6	R11–13	1812	R11–13	R
125	Jaime Jaquez Jr	MIL	72	High	25.8	R11–13	1860	R8–10	R
126	Dillon Brooks	PHX	64	Med	27.4	R11–13	1751	R11–13	—
127	Isaiah Hartenstein	OKC	58	Low	28.5	R8–10	1653	R11–13	R
128	Devin Vassell	SAS	68	Med	26.3	R11–13	1790	R11–13	—
129	Moussa Diabaté	CHA	72	High	25.5	R11–13	1836	R8–10	R
130	Jusuf Nurkic	UTA	58	Low	28.4	R8–10	1647	R11–13	R
131	Fred VanVleet	HOU	62	Med	27.4	R8–10	1701	R11–13	M
132	Gui Santos	GSW	72	High	25.3	R11–13	1823	R11–13	—
133	Egor Dëmin	BKN	67	Med	26.2	R11–13	1753	R11–13	—
134	Santi Aldama	DAL	62	Med	27.2	R11–13	1685	R11–13	M/R
135	Zach LaVine	SAC	62	Med	27.0	R11–13	1674	R11–13	—
136	Neemias Queta	BOS	72	High	25.0	R11–13	1800	R11–13	R
137	Mark Williams	PHX	55	Low	28.5	R8–10	1567	R11–13	M
138	Naji Marshall	DAL	70	High	25.3	R11–13	1768	R11–13	—
139	Anthony Black	ORL	70	High	25.2	R11–13	1765	R11–13	R
140	Shaedon Sharpe	POR	64	Med	26.3	R11–13	1686	R11–13	R
141	Davion Mitchell	MIA	72	High	24.5	R11–13	1765	R11–13	—
142	Aaron Gordon	DEN	55	Low	28.0	R8–10	1539	R14–16	M
143	De'Anthony Melton	GSW	62	Med	26.3	R11–13	1631	R11–13	—
144	Tre Jones	CHI	70	High	24.7	R11–13	1730	R11–13	R
145	Saddiq Bey	NOP	68	Med	25.0	R11–13	1701	R11–13	R
146	Cason Wallace	OKC	76	High	23.5	R14–16	1789	R11–13	—
147	Collin Gillespie	PHX	72	High	23.9	R11–13	1721	R11–13	R
148	Draymond Green	GSW	62	Med	25.5	R11–13	1584	R11–13	—
149	Myles Turner	MIL	65	Med	24.8	R11–13	1615	R11–13	R
150	Malik Monk	SAC	68	Med	24.1	R11–13	1642	R11–13	—
151	Jaylon Tyson	CLE	72	High	23.4	R14–16	1688	R11–13	—
152	Christian Braun	DEN	63	Med	24.8	R11–13	1560	R11–13	—
153	Jakob Poeltl	TOR	60	Low	25.2	R11–13	1512	R14–16	R
154	Peyton Watson	DEN	62	Med	24.7	R11–13	1532	R14–16	T
155	Julian Champagnie	SAS	78	High	21.8	R14–16	1700	R11–13	R
156	Collin Sexton	LAL	68	Med	23.3	R14–16	1586	R11–13	R

Tier 8 — Round 14 and deep-league pool (157–200)

#	Player	Tm	GP	Avail	FP/G	PG band	Season FP	Total band	Flags
157	Ajay Mitchell	OKC	61	Low	24.6	R11–13	1500	R14–16	R
158	Tari Eason	HOU	66	Med	23.6	R14–16	1558	R11–13	R
159	Max Christie	DAL	74	High	22.2	R14–16	1645	R11–13	—
160	Tobias Harris	SAS	65	Med	23.6	R14–16	1535	R14–16	R
161	Wendell Carter Jr	ORL	68	Med	22.9	R14–16	1559	R11–13	R
162	Herb Jones	NOP	66	Med	23.1	R14–16	1525	R14–16	—
163	Morez Johnson Jr	DAL	70	High	21.8	R14–16	1525	R14–16	R/N
164	Cameron Johnson	DEN	58	Low	23.8	R11–13	1380	R14–16	—
165	Jrue Holiday	POR	62	Med	22.6	R14–16	1399	R14–16	R
166	Jaylen Wells	MEM	72	High	20.9	R14–16	1506	R14–16	—
167	Deandre Ayton	WAS	68	Med	21.5	R14–16	1459	R14–16	R
168	Bobby Portis	MIA	68	Med	21.4	R14–16	1456	R14–16	R
169	De'Andre Hunter	SAC	64	Med	22.0	R14–16	1408	R14–16	M/R
170	Keon Ellis	BKN	72	High	20.6	R14–16	1483	R14–16	R
171	Nique Clifford	SAC	74	High	19.9	R14–16	1476	R14–16	R
172	Hannes Steinbach	CHA	70	High	20.5	R14–16	1434	R14–16	R/N
173	Pelle Larsson	MIA	72	High	20.1	R14–16	1448	R14–16	R
174	Kelly Oubre Jr	IND	62	Med	21.6	R14–16	1337	R14–16	R
175	Max Strus	CLE	65	Med	20.9	R14–16	1357	R14–16	—
176	Jimmy Butler III	GSW	30	VLow	30.6	R8–10	917	R17+	M
177	Grayson Allen	CHA	58	Low	21.7	R14–16	1261	R14–16	R
178	Hugo Gonzalez	BOS	76	High	19.0	R17+	1441	R14–16	R
179	Keldon Johnson	SAS	75	High	19.0	R17+	1424	R14–16	R
180	Isaiah Collier	UTA	70	High	19.6	R14–16	1372	R14–16	R
181	Jarace Walker	IND	72	High	19.3	R14–16	1388	R14–16	R
182	Kris Dunn	LAC	72	High	19.1	R14–16	1375	R14–16	R
183	Isaiah Joe	DET	72	High	19.0	R14–16	1371	R14–16	R
184	Tim Hardaway Jr	MIA	74	High	18.6	R17+	1376	R14–16	R
185	Kyle Filipowski	UTA	72	High	18.8	R17+	1356	R14–16	R
186	Kingston Flemings	ATL	70	High	19.0	R17+	1329	R14–16	R/N
187	Aaron Nesmith	IND	62	Med	20.0	R14–16	1241	R14–16	—
188	Derrick Jones Jr	LAC	62	Med	19.9	R14–16	1237	R14–16	—
189	Jerami Grant	MEM	60	Low	20.2	R14–16	1213	R17+	R/T
190	Brook Lopez	LAC	66	Med	19.1	R14–16	1260	R14–16	R
191	Cam Spencer	MEM	68	Med	18.8	R17+	1275	R14–16	R
192	Kyle Kuzma	MIL	62	Med	19.6	R14–16	1215	R17+	R
193	Andre Drummond	NYK	62	Med	19.6	R14–16	1213	R17+	R
194	Isaiah Jackson	LAC	64	Med	19.1	R14–16	1226	R17+	R
195	Brayden Burries	MIL	70	High	18.2	R17+	1271	R14–16	R/N
196	Mitchell Robinson	BOS	58	Low	19.8	R14–16	1150	R17+	M/R
197	Paul Reed	DET	65	Med	18.7	R17+	1216	R17+	R
198	Bilal Coulibaly	WAS	68	Med	18.3	R17+	1243	R14–16	R
199	Josh Minott	BKN	65	Med	18.6	R17+	1209	R17+	R
200	Miles McBride	NYK	64	Med	18.7	R17+	1199	R17+	R

ESPN default top 100

ESPN's default head-to-head points scoring is not a variant of the Yahoo formula; it is a different question. It scores five shot events the Yahoo default ignores entirely, and the −1 on every field-goal attempt means a missed shot costs a full point. Netted out, a made three is worth 5 (3 points, +1 3PM, +2 FGM, −1 FGA), a made two is worth 3, a made free throw is worth 1, and every miss is −1 — ESPN's own explainer states these three totals. Volume is no longer free, and efficiency is priced directly rather than through a percentage category.

\[ \mathrm{FP/G}=\mathrm{PTS}+\mathrm{3PM}+2(\mathrm{FGM})-\mathrm{FGA}+\mathrm{FTM}-\mathrm{FTA}+\mathrm{REB}+2(\mathrm{AST})+4(\mathrm{STL})+4(\mathrm{BLK})-2(\mathrm{TO}) \]

Weights are ESPN's stated defaults, unchanged since the 2020 redesign and still current at the cutoff. ESPN default points-league scoring explained · ESPN Fantasy Basketball 101: adjusting the settings

How the shot volumes were obtained, and how far to trust them. The team-desk dossiers state FGA and FTA for only 54 of the 262 pooled players. For the rest, Data/player-projections-corrected.csv derives them: projected FTA scales each player's 2025-26 free-throw rate by projected minutes, and projected FGA is then solved from the scoring identity PTS = 2(FGM) + 3PM + FTM. The volumes are therefore consistent with the projected points by construction rather than guessed — across the pool the implied points reproduce the projected points to a mean error of 0.07 and a maximum of 1.01. That is an internal-consistency guarantee, not an accuracy guarantee: 194 players use minute-scaled 2025-26 rates and 14 rookies use a pool-median rate, so a player whose efficiency or shot diet genuinely changes will be mispriced. This is why the ESPN board stops at 100 while the Yahoo board runs to 200, and why ESPN ranks deserve less deference than Yahoo ranks at equal distance from the top.

Ordering uses the same draft index as the Yahoo board — ESPN FP/G × sqrt(GP/82) — so the two are directly comparable. The Yahoo rank and Δ columns give each player's position on the Top 200 board and the slots gained or lost by switching platforms; a positive Δ means ESPN likes the player better. Unsigned free agents are excluded from both boards, so ranks in the pool of 253 signed players are aligned.

#	Player	Tm	GP	ESPN FP/G	Season ESPN FP	Yahoo rank	Δ vs Yahoo
1	Nikola Jokić	DEN	66	64.7	4269	1	—
2	Victor Wembanyama	SAS	68	58.8	3997	2	—
3	Luka Dončić	LAL	66	58.6	3870	3	—
4	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	OKC	70	55.3	3870	4	—
5	Cade Cunningham	DET	66	50.9	3360	8	+3
6	Jayson Tatum	BOS	72	48.6	3500	6	—
7	Giannis Antetokounmpo	MIA	60	52.7	3164	5	-2
8	Jalen Johnson	ATL	68	48.8	3321	7	-1
9	Scottie Barnes	TOR	74	46.3	3423	10	+1
10	Cooper Flagg	DAL	72	46.6	3352	9	-1
11	Tyrese Maxey	PHI	68	46.5	3165	11	—
12	Anthony Edwards	MIN	68	45.0	3058	13	+1
13	Donovan Mitchell	CLE	70	44.0	3079	15	+2
14	Tyrese Haliburton	IND	66	44.9	2960	26	+12
15	Jamal Murray	DEN	66	44.7	2952	18	+3
16	Josh Giddey	CHI	72	42.8	3081	14	-2
17	Alperen Şengün	HOU	70	42.8	2993	12	-5
18	Evan Mobley	CLE	68	43.3	2946	16	-2
19	Kawhi Leonard	LAC	60	45.7	2740	20	+1
20	Jalen Brunson	NYK	70	41.7	2917	22	+2
21	Amen Thompson	HOU	76	39.3	2985	21	—
22	Austin Reaves	LAL	67	41.8	2802	24	+2
23	Devin Booker	PHX	66	41.8	2761	19	-4
24	Karl-Anthony Towns	NYK	68	40.8	2778	17	-7
25	Kon Knueppel	CHA	78	37.7	2939	30	+5
26	Payton Pritchard	BOS	78	37.6	2930	36	+10
27	Trae Young	WAS	62	42.1	2611	27	—
28	Bam Adebayo	MIA	72	38.7	2784	23	-5
29	Walker Kessler	LAL	65	40.6	2641	34	+5
30	Trey Murphy III	NOP	68	39.3	2676	42	+12
31	LaMelo Ball	MIN	62	41.0	2543	39	+8
32	Chet Holmgren	OKC	67	39.1	2623	37	+5
33	De'Aaron Fox	SAS	70	38.2	2677	43	+10
34	Deni Avdija	POR	70	38.2	2674	25	-9
35	Jalen Duren	DET	68	38.6	2626	29	-6
36	Derrick White	BOS	76	36.4	2770	49	+13
37	Lauri Markkanen	UTA	65	39.2	2548	33	-4
38	Dyson Daniels	ATL	74	36.7	2714	50	+12
39	Kevin Durant	HOU	66	38.7	2557	46	+7
40	James Harden	CLE	64	38.8	2486	38	-2
41	Jaylen Brown	PHI	67	37.9	2540	28	-13
42	Domantas Sabonis	SAC	62	39.2	2428	32	-10
43	Stephon Castle	SAS	72	36.3	2616	35	-8
44	Brandon Miller	CHA	62	39.1	2427	45	+1
45	Donovan Clingan	POR	72	36.2	2607	44	-1
46	Pascal Siakam	IND	68	37.0	2515	41	-5
47	Cameron Boozer	MEM	72	35.9	2586	40	-7
48	Anthony Davis	WAS	50	42.5	2125	47	-1
49	Alex Sarr	WAS	64	37.4	2393	52	+3
50	Michael Porter Jr	BKN	65	37.1	2410	48	-2
51	Keyonte George	UTA	68	36.1	2457	54	+3
52	Stephen Curry	GSW	52	41.2	2145	64	+12
53	Naz Reid	CHA	73	34.8	2538	56	+3
54	Matas Buzelis	CHI	75	34.2	2566	53	-1
55	Mikal Bridges	NYK	80	33.0	2644	76	+21
56	Julius Randle	BKN	70	35.3	2470	31	-25
57	Immanuel Quickley	TOR	68	35.8	2433	68	+11
58	Dejounte Murray	NOP	64	36.9	2360	59	+1
59	Nickeil Alexander-Walker	ATL	74	34.1	2527	67	+8
60	Kyrie Irving	DAL	60	37.9	2274	69	+9
61	Zion Williamson	NOP	60	37.8	2268	55	-6
62	Onyeka Okongwu	ATL	72	34.5	2481	63	+1
63	Coby White	CHA	68	35.4	2407	58	-5
64	Ja Morant	POR	60	37.2	2234	51	-13
65	Brandon Ingram	TOR	67	35.2	2360	57	-8
66	Ryan Rollins	MIL	70	34.4	2410	71	+5
67	Brandin Podziemski	GSW	76	32.8	2489	65	-2
68	Ivica Zubac	IND	66	35.1	2314	62	-6
69	Darius Garland	LAC	62	36.1	2238	73	+4
70	Jalen Williams	OKC	58	37.1	2154	72	+2
71	Jaren Jackson Jr	UTA	63	35.2	2219	66	-5
72	Joel Embiid	PHI	44	42.1	1850	61	-11
73	Ausar Thompson	DET	71	32.9	2335	75	+2
74	Reed Sheppard	HOU	78	31.2	2434	88	+14
75	Jarrett Allen	CLE	67	33.2	2227	74	-1
76	Tyler Herro	MIL	60	35.1	2107	77	+1
77	AJ Dybantsa	WAS	74	31.5	2334	60	-17
78	VJ Edgecombe	PHI	72	32.0	2301	79	+1
79	Derik Queen	NOP	78	30.4	2373	70	-9
80	Kel'el Ware	MIL	74	31.0	2295	81	+1
81	OG Anunoby	NYK	64	32.9	2105	92	+11
82	Keegan Murray	SAC	68	31.8	2162	82	—
83	Nic Claxton	CHI	68	31.6	2151	83	—
84	CJ McCollum	ATL	70	31.2	2182	90	+6
85	Darius Acuff Jr	SAC	72	30.6	2201	78	-7
86	Damian Lillard	POR	58	33.9	1968	84	-2
87	Cedric Coward	MEM	70	30.5	2134	85	-2
88	Ace Bailey	UTA	74	29.5	2184	87	-1
89	Kristaps Porziņģis	GSW	54	34.5	1863	93	+4
90	Jaden McDaniels	MIN	70	30.2	2117	99	+9
91	Dylan Harper	SAS	72	29.7	2141	98	+7
92	Miles Bridges	PHX	70	30.2	2111	91	-1
93	Caleb Wilson	CHI	70	29.9	2093	80	-13
94	John Collins	DET	67	30.5	2042	101	+7
95	RJ Barrett	TOR	67	30.4	2040	86	-9
96	Andrew Wiggins	MIA	68	30.2	2054	102	+6
97	Rudy Gobert	MIN	69	30.0	2068	89	-8
98	Kyshawn George	WAS	68	30.0	2037	97	-1
99	Zach Edey	MEM	57	32.7	1864	94	-5
100	Ayo Dosunmu	MIN	68	29.8	2026	111	+11

Latest public points-rank anchor

The latest complete season-labelled public 2026-27 points board found by the source desks was André Snellings's ESPN Top 150 from April 14. It is valuable as a reproducible historical prior, but it predates the draft and major offseason changes, retains superseded teams, contains no 2026 rookies, and still showed the April modification date at the cutoff despite promising a post-draft update. ESPN way-too-early H2H points Top 150

Player	This model	ESPN Apr. 14	What the gap principally tests
Nikola Jokić	1	1	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Victor Wembanyama	2	2	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	4	3	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Luka Dončić	3	4	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Tyrese Maxey	11	5	Team-desk rate line versus ESPN's stronger April star prior
Cade Cunningham	8	6	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Giannis Antetokounmpo	5	7	Elite per-game line survives a 60-game availability discount
Jalen Johnson	7	8	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Donovan Mitchell	16	9	Team-desk rate line versus ESPN's stronger April star prior
Anthony Edwards	13	10	Team-desk rate line versus ESPN's stronger April star prior
Cooper Flagg	9	11	Year-2 leap and 72-game workload
Jayson Tatum	6	12	Model assumes 72 games and restored lead role; medical recheck remains material
Amen Thompson	22	13	Broad public upside versus a more conservative projected counting line
Scottie Barnes	10	14	All-around Yahoo-formula line and 74-game projection
Tyrese Haliburton	27	20	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Kon Knueppel	31	33	Small formula, projection, and availability differences inside the common elite pool
Kyrie Irving	72	34	Availability and reduced projected rate beside Dallas's newer hierarchy
Josh Giddey	14	35	Triple-double counting line and percentage-free formula versus ESPN's lower early price

The stable part is the four-name apex: Nikola Jokić, Victor Wembanyama, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and Luka Dončić occupied the top four in ESPN's points list, Yahoo/NBA.com's cross-format early first round, and Rotoworld's May category mock, although their order varied. Yahoo Sports/NBA.com early first round · Rotoworld early mock

RotoWire's April discussion also treated Cooper Flagg as a first-round points candidate with a defensible case as high as seventh; that supports the model's No. 9 without turning one podcast discussion into consensus. RotoWire/Apple Podcasts, 2026-04-06

The absence of a current public consensus is itself a finding. Through July 18, no complete post-draft Yahoo, CBS, Rotoworld, Fantrax, or Hashtag 2026-27 points board was found; FantasyPros's platform-specific ESPN/Yahoo/CBS ECR pages still exposed 2025-26 payloads. FantasyPros Yahoo points ECR · FantasyPros ESPN points ECR · FantasyPros CBS points ECR

How to use the board

Copy the league's exact scoring weights before looking at rank, then pick the matching board — Yahoo-default settings use Top 200, ESPN-default settings use ESPN default top 100. If the weights match neither, re-run the formula rather than reading across.
Start from FP/G; use Season FP, Avail, and the medical flag to decide how much missed-time risk the roster can absorb.
Treat tier crossings as meaningful only when the underlying dossier, role, and settings agree. Do not trade value for a one-slot model edge.
Re-run after any camp clearance, surgery update, starting-lineup change, trade, or projection revision. The player links are the audit trail.
Once a real 2026-27 ADP sample exists, compare price to this model rather than replacing projection value with popularity.

Open questions

Which high-impact medical cases receive unrestricted five-on-five clearance before fantasy drafts, and which GP projections should change?
Will ESPN, Yahoo, CBS, FantasyPros, Fantrax, Hashtag, or RotoWire publish a complete post-draft 2026-27 points board with explicit settings before opening night?
Can every dossier be extended with FGM/FGA and FTM/FTA so the ESPN default can be re-ranked exactly rather than directionally?
What 2026-27 schedule, fantasy-playoff, back-to-back, and position-eligibility information should modify the neutral draft index?
How should real ADP, replacement level, league size, roster slots, double-double/triple-double bonuses, and weekly games caps change the top 200?