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 10 and Bottom 10 (min. 100 FGA)
| No. | Name | Team | MB% | MB FGA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dean Wade | CLE | 0.957 | 244 |
| 2 | Sam Merrill | CLE | 0.957 | 379 |
| 3 | Isaac Okoro | CLE | 0.941 | 210 |
| 4 | Nicolas Batum | LAC | 0.940 | 207 |
| 5 | Max Strus | CLE | 0.940 | 315 |
| 6 | Doug McDermott | SAC | 0.932 | 95 |
| 7 | Dorian Finney-Smith | LAL | 0.927 | 354 |
| 8 | Jay Huff | MEM | 0.920 | 262 |
| 9 | Micah Potter | UTA | 0.919 | 102 |
| 10 | Julian Champagnie | SAS | 0.919 | 536 |
| 382 | Khris Middleton | WAS | 0.490 | 165 |
| 383 | Jaren Jackson Jr. | MEM | 0.484 | 532 |
| 384 | Kevin Porter Jr. | MIL | 0.474 | 272 |
| 385 | Deandre Ayton | POR | 0.472 | 221 |
| 386 | Jonas Valančiūnas | SAC | 0.472 | 277 |
| 387 | Oso Ighodaro | PHX | 0.469 | 70 |
| 388 | Isaiah Hartenstein | OKC | 0.467 | 208 |
| 389 | Kevin Durant | PHX | 0.441 | 496 |
| 390 | Bam Adebayo | MIA | 0.441 | 441 |
| 391 | T.J. McConnell | IND | 0.401 | 225 |
Discussion — 2024-03-29
Players
Sam Merrill has taken over as league leader from Dean W. in what is effectively a dead heat (0.9563 vs. 0.9558 — 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 T.J. McConnell, who is still comfortably last in the league in MB%, hovering just above 0.400. Note the missed backcourt heave above his right ear.
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 60th (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 136th 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 8th in the league). After that, their next-highest player is GG Jackson, ranked 135th with a MB% of 0.779.