Moreyball Percentage Leaderboard

The leaderboard of the players with the highest Moreyball percentage, updated weekly on Mondays. A more detailed table is available here, and the raw .csv is saved here.

Moreyball % — Top 5 and Bottom 5 (min. 100 FGA)

% 3PT

% 3FT

% MID

#001 CLE

8 6 8

0 9 0

0 4 2

Sam Merrill

#002 CLE

8 1 9

1 3 3

0 4 8

Dean Wade

#003 CLE

7 8 6

1 5 8

0 5 6

Max Strus

#004 LAC

8 5 3

0 8 8

0 5 9

Nicolas Batum

#005 CLE

5 6 6

3 7 1

0 6 3

Isaac Okoro

#410 PHX

0 1 1

4 3 9

5 5 0

Oso Ighodaro

#411 PHX

3 3 1

1 1 0

5 5 9

Kevin Durant

#412 MIA

1 9 9

2 4 0

5 6 1

Bam Adebayo

#413 IND

0 7 9

3 1 2

6 0 9

T.J. McConnell

#414 SAC

1 9 6

0 9 3

7 1 1

DeMar DeRozan

No.	Name	Team	MB%	MB FGA
1	Sam Merrill	CLE	0.958	406
2	Dean Wade	CLE	0.952	258
3	Max Strus	CLE	0.944	352
4	Nicolas Batum	LAC	0.941	224
5	Isaac Okoro	CLE	0.937	250
410	Oso Ighodaro	PHX	0.450	84
411	Kevin Durant	PHX	0.441	496
412	Bam Adebayo	MIA	0.439	488
413	T.J. McConnell	IND	0.391	244
414	DeMar DeRozan	SAC	0.289	377

Discussion — 2024-03-29

Players

Dean W. and Sam Merrill continue trading places for the top of the leaderboard in what's effectively a dead heat (0.9569 vs. 0.9571 — less than one shot either way). The race has absolutely tightened, and by the end of the season I think it'll be worth plotting the change in the league leaders' percentages over time. Sam Merrill and Dean W. are neck and neck, with Sam on a lot more volume.

Currently the below shot charts are just PNGs generated through a scheduled GitHub action; the plan is to update this to an interactive graph at some point.

For comparison, here's the shot chart for DeMar DeRozan, who is suddenly last in the league in MB%, hovering just below 0.300.

Teams

Cleveland holds four out of the top five spots on the leaderboard, but then there's a big jump to the next Cleveland player JaVonte Green, ranked 60^th (MB% 0.843).

Despite Cleveland covering the top of the leaderboard individually, Boston has the highest team average MB% at 0.782, while San Antonio has the lowest at 0.653. There isn't a huge gap between all of the teams, and the average is largely driven by the star players' shot diets, as you can imagine. San Antonio, for example, is dragged way down by DeMar DeRozan on the bottom right of the graph there.

Houston's highest MB% player (Tari Eason) ranks only 136^th in the league with a MB% of 0.777, the lowest ranking for a team leader in this weird stat. Memphis is in a similar boat, if you exclude Jay Huff (who is 8^th in the league). After that, their next-highest player is GG Jackson, ranked 135^th with a MB% of 0.779.