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Ausar Thompson

Ausar Thompson advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSF · Age 23
Availability73 games · 72 starts
Workload26.0 MPG · 1,896 minutes
Relative impactDET #4 of 12 · SF #11 of 68
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #26–#298

Bottom line · 2025–26

Ausar Thompson delivered a strong 2025–26 campaign, ranking 74th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 82nd, led by rebounding and shot blocking despite costly turnovers. Playing about 1,900 minutes, he finished in the 84th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Ausar Thompson's impact

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

Impact Rate
81
74.3
Season Value
84
51.3

Scoring role

Usage
38
16.9%
True shooting
26
54.5%
3-point attempt rate
7
4.2%
Free-throw rate
77
33.1%

Creation and control

Assist rate
62
16.3%
Turnover avoidance
24
14.3%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
74
12.4%
Steal rate
99
3.7%
Block rate
88
3.6%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
78
+1.25
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
96
+2.30

Workload

Minutes per game
60
26.0
Games played
80
73
Total minutes
75
1,896

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

Ausar Thompson 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 modelDET23731,896+1.8174.3#7451.384thEstablished
2024–25DET22591,328+1.1072.9#10685.672ndStrong
2023–24DET21631,583-1.5431.6#25415.235thStrong

Career movement

Ausar Thompson's career impact by season

Peak +1.81 in 2025–26 · 3 seasons · 4,807 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 3 seasons

Only the first 3 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Ausar ThompsonBrandin Podziemski

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Ausar Thompson

The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

Why this rank?

Why Ausar Thompson ranks #74

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+1.30

Prior rank #82

02 · Multi-season RAPM+1.34

Current total +2.01 ±0.9
Split model · O +1.25 · D +2.30 = +3.55

03 · Bounded correction+0.03

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.34

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate74.3

76.6 unadjusted · 96% role factor · rank #74

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 -0.91 to +3.62. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
10%
Top 50 chance
22%
Top 100 chance
41%
80% rank range
#26#298
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 →