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De'Aaron Fox

De'Aaron Fox advanced stats and career rankings

RolePG · Age 28
Availability72 games · 72 starts
Workload31.0 MPG · 2,231 minutes
Relative impactSAS #4 of 10 · PG #21 of 70
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceStrong

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #23–#309

Bottom line · 2025–26

De'Aaron Fox delivered a strong 2025–26 campaign, ranking 92nd in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 129th. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court offense was stronger than the box score indicated, lifting his overall rating. Playing about 2,200 minutes, he finished in the 84th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives De'Aaron Fox's impact

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

Impact Rate
77
69.1
Season Value
84
50.8

Scoring role

Usage
83
24.9%
True shooting
52
57.8%
3-point attempt rate
38
37.7%
Free-throw rate
47
23.5%

Creation and control

Assist rate
93
29.6%
Turnover avoidance
46
12.4%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
21
6.5%
Steal rate
70
1.9%
Block rate
24
0.8%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
92
+2.45
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
52
+0.09

Workload

Minutes per game
84
31.0
Games played
77
72
Total minutes
88
2,231

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

De'Aaron Fox 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 modelSAS28722,231+0.6969.1#9250.884thStrong
2024–25SAC/SAS27622,241+0.8769.3#120131.982ndStrong
2023–24SAC26742,659+3.0291.6#32275.095thStrong
2022–23SAC25732,435+2.2788.1#46217.392ndStrong
2021–22SAC24592,084-0.0955.5#17282.868thStrong
2020–21SAC23582,036+2.2684.5#58180.890thStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateSAC22511,634+2.4286.6#48148.786thStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimateSAC21812,546+1.8984.8#57212.692ndStrong
2017–18Historical Defense EstimateSAC20732,026-3.0214.1#311-40.87thStrong

Career movement

De'Aaron Fox's career impact by season

Peak +3.02 in 2023–24 · 9 seasons · 19,892 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

Career comparison

Compare the shape, not the calendar

Align by NBA experience to compare season one with season one, or by age to compare players at the same stage of life.

De'Aaron FoxDarrell Walker

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

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to De'Aaron Fox

The score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and trajectory aligned by NBA experience. It describes career shape, not playing style or equal ability.

Why this rank?

Why De'Aaron Fox ranks #92

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+0.90

Prior rank #129

02 · Multi-season RAPM+1.67

Current total +2.51 ±1.0
Split model · O +2.45 · D +0.09 = +2.54

03 · Bounded correction+0.23

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.12

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate69.1

69.1 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #92

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 -1.07 to +3.36. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
11%
Top 50 chance
21%
Top 100 chance
39%
80% rank range
#23#309
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 →