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Jaxson Hayes

Jaxson Hayes advanced stats and career rankings

RoleC · Age 25
Availability66 games · 9 starts
Workload18.3 MPG · 1,207 minutes
Relative impactLAL #4 of 11 · C #44 of 72
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #61–#334

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Jaxson Hayes ranked 161st in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 124th, led by elite scoring efficiency. A smaller role at 18.3 minutes per game lowered his overall impact rating. Over about 1,200 minutes, he finished in the 59th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Jaxson Hayes's impact

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

Impact Rate
59
48.0
Season Value
59
16.0

Scoring role

Usage
11
13.0%
True shooting
99
75.8%
3-point attempt rate
5
1.1%
Free-throw rate
98
57.3%

Creation and control

Assist rate
9
6.9%
Turnover avoidance
89
8.6%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
79
13.2%
Steal rate
22
1.2%
Block rate
90
4.0%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
51
+0.25
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
51
+0.09

Workload

Minutes per game
26
18.3
Games played
59
66
Total minutes
42
1,207

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

Jaxson Hayes 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 modelLAL25661,207+0.7348.0#16116.059thEstablished
2024–25LAL24561,093-0.4749.0#19934.045thStrong
2023–24LAL2370877-1.9026.8#2721.926thEstablished
2022–23NOP2247610-1.5032.5#2566.328thEstablished
2021–22NOP21701,398+0.7069.8#11776.466thStrong
2020–21NOP2060964+0.6369.0#11552.958thEstablished
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateNOP19641,080-0.2352.3#16941.348thStrong

Career movement

Jaxson Hayes's career impact by season

Peak +0.73 in 2025–26 · 7 seasons · 7,229 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.

Jaxson HayesNaz Reid

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

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Jaxson Hayes

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 Jaxson Hayes ranks #161

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+0.91

Prior rank #124

02 · Multi-season RAPM-0.04

Current total +0.33 ±0.9
Split model · O +0.25 · D +0.09 = +0.33

03 · Bounded correction-0.23

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+0.68

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate48.0

51.4 unadjusted · 87% role factor · rank #161

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 -1.56 to +2.94. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
0%
Top 50 chance
7%
Top 100 chance
22%
80% rank range
#61#334
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 →