Facts Over Feelings

Methodology & Sources

The site separates statistical measurement from editorial judgment and shows the categories used in every comparison.

All-Time / Career model

Career production combines points, rebounds, and assists per game. Longevity uses completed NBA seasons. Max PRA is the largest regular-season sum of points, rebounds, and assists per game in the stored season data. It is deliberately separate from Peak Season.

Career accolades are weighted in this order: championships at 20 points each; league MVP and Finals MVP at 12 each; All-NBA selections at 4 each; scoring titles at 3; All-Defensive selections at 2; and All-Star selections at 1. Visitors can change the balance between longevity and peak output and between production and accolades.

Peak Season model

Peak Season is selected as the strongest complete season story, not automatically the highest PRA. The comparison uses regular-season PRA, playoff PRA, season awards, championships, and supporting-cast change. The top four teammates’ combined points per game are compared between the regular season and playoffs. Supporting-cast drop-off contributes 15% of the default verdict; the other 85% is divided between production and awards according to the visitor’s sliders.

Season award values

Within Peak Season, a championship receives 50 points, league MVP 40, Finals MVP 30, Defensive Player of the Year 25, All-NBA First/Second/Third Team 10/7/4, All-Defensive First/Second Team 6/3, scoring title 5, and All-Star selection 2. These values are transparent editorial choices, not official NBA rankings.

Fantasy 5

The game uses regular-season totals and the original Facts Over Feelings formula:

PTS + (1.2 × REB) + (1.5 × AST) + (2 × STL) + (2 × BLK) − TOV

Per-game FOF points are multiplied by games played, rewarding production and availability. Players are ranked within PG, SG, SF, PF, and C in the verified historical pool. A top-five answer earns 100, 80, 60, 40, or 20 game points.

GM Desk

GM Desk is a daily five-man cap puzzle. Each position is dealt four options from different teams, including one $30 million-plus salary choice. Players with multiple eligible positions may appear in any matching position pool, but never twice on the same board or on consecutive days. The player locks one name at PG, SG, SF, PF, and C. Salaries are hidden until lock.

Under the $164.961M cap → score = PG + SG + SF + PF + C PPG
Over the cap → score = 0

Original-roster cap hits came from the licensed BALLDONTLIE Contracts API for the 2026–27 season. Of the 24 added players, 20 use attributed 2026/27 ShamSports team salary sheets and four use SalarySwish contract records. PPG is calculated from licensed BALLDONTLIE game-player rows: total 2025–26 regular-season points divided by distinct games played, excluding playoff and non-participation rows. The $164.961 million cap is independently verified against the league's June 30, 2026 official release. The game does not model Bird rights, exceptions, tax aprons, or trades.

Stat Bingo

Stat Bingo draws from the same documented comparison-player catalog used by the site’s career and peak-season tools. A match is evaluated against explicit thresholds for career PPG, RPG, APG, steals, blocks, seasons played, championships, MVPs, and peak regular-season PRA. The board and player order are deterministic for each UTC date so visitors receive the same challenge.

Score = max(0, 1,000 − 50 per draw − 100 per mistake + eligible 250-point perfect bonus)

The perfect bonus requires a completed Bingo within three draws and zero mistakes. A false square and an incorrect No Match both count as mistakes.

Risk Chain

Risk Chain uses direct comparisons of career PPG, career APG, peak regular-season PRA, and championships. Each round contains one qualifying choice and distractors from the documented comparison catalog. The daily date determines the shared opening player and choice order.

Links 1–5: 50 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 600
Links 6–10: 800 / 1,000 / 1,250 / 1,500 / 1,800
Links 11–15: 2,100 / 2,500 / 2,900 / 3,400 / 4,000 points

A wrong answer scores zero. A player may bank after a correct link, and the run automatically banks 4,000 points at the fifteen-link limit.

Primary references and maintenance

Imports retain source name, license or terms URL where applicable, retrieval timestamp, contract season, statistics season, and calculation method. Data-source permissions do not grant any right to third-party trademarks, logos, photographs, or editorial text; the site does not reproduce those assets. Corrections can be submitted through the contact page.

Limitations

No single model settles every basketball debate. Era, pace, role, injuries, roster construction, playoff opponents, rules, and position definitions all affect comparisons. The verdict is best understood as the result of disclosed inputs—not an objective universal ranking.