An atlas of NBA player-seasons
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Every season from 1996–97 to 2025–26 with enough minutes, placed by how it was played rather than who played it. Choose one, and a neural embedding returns the three seasons that play most alike.
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Plotting 12,966 player-seasons
Select any point on the atlas, or search a name above.
Other players who play most alike
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Peers are the nearest seasons by cosine similarity in the 64-dimensional MTNN embedding. The atlas itself is a 2-D view of 14 era-normalised per-100 stats, so a peer can sit some distance away on it.
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12,966Player-seasons
30Seasons, 1996–2026
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Stats come from stats.nba.com, per 100 possessions and z-scored within their own season, so a 1997 number and a 2026 number mean the same thing. Every figure on this site can be recomputed from source — see Methods.