It rebuilds the 82‑0 player pool from public NBA box scores, so the numbers here won't always match the game exactly.
In practice the projected record lands within a game or two, and the ranking — who the best pick is — holds even when the total drifts.
A free solver and score calculator for 82‑0. Enter the team and decade your spin gave you, and every eligible player gets ranked by the points he actually adds to your five — not by scoring average — along with your projected record and your odds of an undefeated season.
The bar splits each player's value into scoring, rebounds & assists and steals & blocks. Adds is what he'd contribute to your five.
Your five players' per-game averages get weighted and summed: points count 0.344 each, rebounds 0.629, assists 0.616, steals 1.154 and blocks 1.258. That total becomes your record through wins = round(0.84 × total − 10.5). Roughly 109.5 points is a perfect season.
A rebound is worth about 1.8× a point in that formula and a block about 3.7×. Since 82‑0 lists players by scoring average, a rebounding centre frequently outranks a higher-scoring guard once you do the arithmetic. Bill Walton at 17 points a game beats Sidney Wicks at 22 on the same Portland spin.
About 2%, assuming you take the best available player every time. You need roughly 21.9 points per pick, while the median spin's best player is worth about 18.6. The solver recalculates your live odds after every pick, so you can see when a spin has effectively ended the run.
The NBA didn't record steals or blocks until 1973‑74, so those players show 0.0 in both columns. 82‑0 averages the defensive term across only the players who have the data, which multiplies your modern players' steals and blocks — sometimes to your advantage.
History follows the franchise, so an LA Clippers spin in the 1970s returns Buffalo Braves and San Diego Clippers rosters. Decades run by the season's end year, meaning 1989‑90 counts as a 1990s season.
Every average is rebuilt from public NBA box scores covering 1946 to the present — about 1.4 million player-games. Modern players usually match the game exactly; pre-1980 figures can differ by a tenth because early box scores are incomplete at the source.
Spotted a player the game doesn't offer, or a number that looks wrong? Tell me which team and decade and I'll take a look.