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Cooper Flagg

Cooper Flagg advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSF · Age 19
Availability70 games · 70 starts
Workload33.5 MPG · 2,344 minutes
Relative impactDAL #2 of 13 · SF #18 of 68
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceStrong

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #24–#321

Bottom line · 2025–26

Cooper Flagg delivered a strong 2025–26 campaign, ranking 111th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 86th, led by rebounding and shot blocking despite below-average scoring efficiency. Playing about 2,300 minutes, he finished in the 83rd percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Cooper Flagg's impact

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

Impact Rate
72
61.9
Season Value
83
48.1

Scoring role

Usage
90
26.9%
True shooting
28
54.8%
3-point attempt rate
15
20.4%
Free-throw rate
65
28.6%

Creation and control

Assist rate
79
21.5%
Turnover avoidance
69
10.7%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
63
10.5%
Steal rate
57
1.7%
Block rate
73
2.3%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
41
−0.10
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
49
+0.03

Workload

Minutes per game
94
33.5
Games played
72
70
Total minutes
93
2,344

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

Cooper Flagg 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 modelDAL19702,344+1.6961.9#11148.183rdStrong

Career movement

Cooper Flagg's career impact by season

Peak +1.69 in 2025–26 · 1 seasons · 2,344 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 1 seasons

Only the first 1 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Cooper FlaggKel'el Ware

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Cooper Flagg

The score compares the first 1 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

Why this rank?

Why Cooper Flagg ranks #111

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+1.26

Prior rank #86

02 · Multi-season RAPM+0.19

Current total +0.19 ±0.9
Split model · O -0.10 · D +0.03 = -0.07

03 · Bounded correction-0.26

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.00

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate61.9

61.9 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #111

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 -1.28 to +3.31. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
11%
Top 50 chance
20%
Top 100 chance
36%
80% rank range
#24#321
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 →