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NBA 2026-27

Type each team’s wins and your order follows. Then pick the play-in, playoffs and awards.

The group’s seasonConsensus of 8 entries · champion, standings, playoffs, awards→

Entries

Nothing is scored until April.

EntryPlaces from VegasPublished
Vegas Chalk· house0—
luke46—
Kinaan46—
Evan36—
Nick28—
Kaled34—
Arjun36—
Lythe56—
Matt's42—

Starts on the market’s wins (BetMGM, 9 Oct, rounded). Change only the teams you disagree with.

The season has tipped. You can still enter: it won’t compete, and it locks 7 days after you start.

Your entry

  • Wins and order · 30 teamsOpen
  • Play-in and bracket · 21 picksOpen
  • Awards · 6 picksOpen

Anything you skip is scored as chalk. How it is scored

How it’s scored

72 points, higher is better

Standings

36
  • For each team, count how many places off you were in its conference. Add up all 30.
  • Each team you place exactly takes 1 off.
  • Points = (150 − that total) ÷ 5, never below 0. Perfect = 36. Random ≈ 2.
  • Final place = NBA regular-season standings after tiebreakers, before the play-in.
  • Your place = where your wins put the team. Teams on equal wins keep your arrow order.

Play-in

3
  • ½ point each, per conference: who gets the 7 seed, who wins 9 v 10, who gets the 8 seed.
  • Scored by team: right if your team got that result, whoever it played.

Playoffs

27
  • For each team you have winning a series, if it really wins that round: 1 first round, 2 conference semis, 3 conference finals, 5 champion.
  • Scored by team, not bracket slot.
  • Each round is worth more per pick than the one before.

Awards

6
  • 1 point each. “Anyone else” is right if the winner wasn’t on that award’s list.
  • Shared award: either winner counts. Not given: nobody scores.

Total

72
  • All four added, to one decimal. Equal totals share a place.

Anything you skip is chalk

  • Play-in and first three rounds: the team higher in your order wins.
  • Finals: more wins in your entry, then the higher number in your Market column (one decimal), then the East champion.
  • A pick only counts while its matchup is still in your bracket; otherwise that game is chalk.
  • Awards start on the favorite.

Wins aren’t scored this season

  • They set your order. After the season we’ll compare them to real results and decide about next year.

Scored as the season goes: standings in April, the play-in and each series as they finish, awards as announced.