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Ajay Mitchell

Ajay Mitchell advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSG · Age 23
Availability57 games · 16 starts
Workload25.8 MPG · 1,473 minutes
Relative impactOKC #5 of 13 · SG #13 of 109
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #25–#295

Bottom line · 2025–26

Ajay Mitchell delivered a strong 2025–26 campaign, ranking 66th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 152nd, led by strong passing. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court impact was stronger than the box score indicated, lifting his overall rating. Over nearly 1,500 minutes, he finished in the 79th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Ajay Mitchell's impact

395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value

Impact Rate
84
76.6
Season Value
79
42.3

Scoring role

Usage
71
21.8%
True shooting
57
58.5%
3-point attempt rate
22
29.8%
Free-throw rate
61
27.5%

Creation and control

Assist rate
76
20.1%
Turnover avoidance
66
10.9%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
28
7.0%
Steal rate
86
2.3%
Block rate
43
1.2%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
82
+1.52
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
90
+1.91

Workload

Minutes per game
60
25.8
Games played
39
57
Total minutes
57
1,473

Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.

Every season

Ajay Mitchell advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

SeasonTeamAgeGPMPEra-centered box impactImpact RateRate rankSeason ValueValue percentileEvidence
2025–26live modelOKC23571,473+0.1676.6#6642.379thEstablished
2024–25OKC2236597-2.5314.2#334-6.617thEstablished

Career movement

Ajay Mitchell's career impact by season

Peak +0.16 in 2025–26 · 2 seasons · 2,070 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.

Era-centered box impactMinutes
Across-era box estimateWorkload

Early-career comparison

Compare the first 2 seasons

Only the first 2 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Ajay MitchellJim Paxson

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Ajay Mitchell

The score compares the first 2 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

Why this rank?

Why Ajay Mitchell ranks #66

The current model starts with box production, checks it against multi-season lineup evidence, caps that correction, then accounts for how many minutes the player was trusted to play each game.

01 · Box-score prior+0.70

Prior rank #152

02 · Multi-season RAPM+3.29

Current total +3.95 ±1.0
Split model · O +1.52 · D +1.91 = +3.43

03 · Bounded correction+0.72

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.42

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate76.6

79.1 unadjusted · 95% role factor · rank #66

RAPM estimates lineup impact while controlling for the other nine players on the floor. The multi-season blend, current total model, and current offensive/defensive split are separate estimates, so they need not equal one another. hussEyquation uses the multi-season signal as a bounded correction, not as a standalone verdict.

What the point estimate meansLow precision

The model's 80% impact interval is -0.86 to +3.64. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
10%
Top 50 chance
23%
Top 100 chance
42%
80% rank range
#25#295
How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played. The career ranking rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →