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Ben Sheppard
Ben Sheppard stats, teams and career impact
#3000 all-timeCareer averages · 5.6 PPG · 2.5 RPG · 1.4 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Shooting guard
- 2025–26 team
- Indiana Pacers
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) · 190 lb (86 kg)
- Born
- July 16, 2001 (25 yrs old)
- College
- Belmont
- NBA seasons
- 3 seasons · 2023–24 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · IND · 65 games · 1,390 minutes
- PPG
- 7.1
- RPG
- 3.0
- APG
- 1.8
- #326 of 395 65 games · 1,390 minutes
- 14th percentile
Impact Rate Rank
Season Value percentile
Career overview
Why Ben Sheppard currently ranks #3000 all time
Ben Sheppard ranks #3000 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #333.0. His full-career value already ranks #3946 after 3 seasons, and his all-time position can still rise.
450+ minutes required per season
185 games · Career Value Rank #3946
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Indiana Pacers
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 41.9%FG%
- Three-point
- 34.2%3P%
- Free throw
- 82.7%FT%
185 career games · 3,433 minutes
Sources and updateConventional stats and measurements: Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 13, 2026. hussEyquation ranking data through 2025–26. Life dates: Wikidata; conflicting dates checked against Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 17, 2026.
Traditional box score
Ben Sheppard stats by season
Start with scoring and impact, then switch views for shooting or the full advanced picture. Career percentages use total makes and attempts.
Box impact is an estimate in points per 100 possessions, not the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Zero is league average; higher is better. Rate rank is a league place: No. 1 is best.
Swipe for PPG · RPG · APG · Box impact · Team · G · GS · MPG →
| pts/100 · higher is better | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 7.1 | 3.0 | 1.8 | -2.02 | IND | 65 | 20 | 21.4 | 43.4% | 36.2% | 76.5% | #326 | -12.3 |
| 2024–25 | 5.3 | 2.8 | 1.3 | -2.20 | IND | 63 | 9 | 19.5 | 41.8% | 34.2% | 88.9% | #320 | -5.1 |
| 2023–24 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 0.9 | -3.88 | IND | 57 | 1 | 14.3 | 39.3% | 31.4% | 88.5% | #353 | -32.4 |
| Career | 5.6 | 2.5 | 1.4 | — | IND | 185 | — | 18.6 | 41.9% | 34.2% | 82.7% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
RoleSG · Age 24
Availability65 games · 20 starts
Workload21.4 MPG · 1,390 minutes
Relative impactIND #10 of 13 · SG #81 of 109
UpdatedOct 6, 2026
What these measures mean
- Box impact
- Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average, from the historical box-score model. Zero is league average; higher is better. Historical defense estimates are included where labeled. This is not the live model's lineup-adjusted estimate.
- Impact Rate
- A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession.
- Impact estimate
- The season model's final estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, before conversion to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. It includes lineup evidence where available. Zero is league average; higher is better.
- Impact Rate rank
- The player's place among qualified players in that season's Impact Rate ranking. No. 1 is best. This is a rank, not an impact score.
- Value contribution / Season Value
- Completed seasons use a fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. The live season instead uses Season Value, combining that season's impact with workload.
- Career Impact Rank
- An all-time rank weighted toward the player's best three, five, and ten seasons.
65 games · 1,390 minutes · 11.2 / 100 · higher score is better · No. 1 is the best rank
-12.3 total value · 395 qualified players
Career Composite 347.8 · lower is better · 3 seasons
Ranking certainty: Wide, likely #105–#372
- Impact Rate
- 0–100 score within one season. Higher is better.
- Box impact
- Estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, from the historical model. Zero is average; higher is better.
- Impact estimate
- The live model's final estimate in points per 100 possessions, including lineup evidence. It can differ from box impact. Higher is better.
Bottom line · 2025–26
In 2025–26, Ben Sheppard ranked 326th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 303rd, led by strong ball security. Over about 1,400 minutes, he finished in the 14th percentile for total season value.
2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Ben Sheppard's impact
395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
Compare with
Overall value
Impact Rate
0–100 score · higher is better
11.2 / 100Season Value
14
-12.3Scoring role
Usage
15
13.8%True shooting
36
56.1%3-point attempt rate
82
59.9%Free-throw rate
16
13.2%Creation and control
Assist rate
41
11.3%Turnover avoidance
85
9.1%Possession stats
Rebound rate
36
7.6%Steal rate
29
1.3%Block rate
6
0.4%Lineup signal
Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
15
−1.28 pts/100Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
31
−0.68 pts/100Workload
Minutes per game
41
21.4Games played
56
65Total minutes
51
1,390A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession. The other bars show percentiles in the selected comparison group. Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup figures are points per 100 possessions; higher is better. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.
Ranking editions
How the ranking changed
Both editions use the source snapshot dated Jul 14, 2026. These are model-version changes, not results from new games. Each edition keeps its original published numbers.
11.2 Impact Rate · 1,390 MP
Ranking edition: Jul 21, 2026
First snapshot11.2 Impact Rate · 1,390 MP
Ranking edition: Oct 6, 2026
↑1 since priorEvery season
Ben Sheppard advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
Career movement
Ben Sheppard's box impact by season
Peak box impact -2.02 points per 100 possessions in 2025–26 · 3 seasons · 3,433 minutes
Box impact estimates points per 100 possessions above each season's league average. Zero is average; higher is better. Rank labels show Impact Rate league places, not ranks on this chart's box-impact scale.
Box impact · points per 100 possessionsMinutes
Player-specific impact scaleWorkload
Early-career comparison
Compare the first 3 seasons
Both players are limited to their first 3 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Ben SheppardFred Carter
| NBA season | Ben Sheppard | Fred Carter |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -3.9 | -3.8 |
| 2 | -2.2 | -2.2 |
| 3 | -2.0 | -2.1 |
NBA season number · first 3 seasons only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Ben Sheppard
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 3 seasons and 2,103 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
SG · All-Time Career #1134
Fred Carter
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: closeRole: very close
High evidence · first 3 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1971–72SG · All-Time Career #2668Nik Stauskas
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
High evidence · first 3 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 2015–16SF · All-Time Career #2437Casey Jacobsen
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
High evidence · first 3 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 2004–05Why this rank?
Why Ben Sheppard ranks #326
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.
Steps 1–4 use points per 100 possessions. Step 5 converts the final estimate to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Higher is better on both scales; they are not the same number.
Prior rank #303
Current total -1.79 ±1.0
Split model · O -1.28 · D -0.68 = -1.96
Maximum ±1.25
Points per 100 possessions · higher is better
Higher is better · 11.2 before the MPG adjustment · rank #326
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.
Ranking certaintyWide
The model's 80% impact interval is -2.64 to +1.84. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.
- Top 25 chance
- 0%
- Top 50 chance
- 3%
- Top 100 chance
- 9%
- 80% rank range
- #105–#372
Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played; completed player-profile rows instead show each season's fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. Career Impact Rank 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 →