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Jay Huff

Jay Huff advanced stats and career rankings

RoleC · Age 27
Availability82 games · 47 starts
Workload21.0 MPG · 1,719 minutes
Relative impactIND #4 of 13 · C #38 of 72
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #53–#331

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Jay Huff ranked 145th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 91st, led by elite shot blocking despite weak rebounding. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court offense was weaker than the box score indicated, lowering his overall rating. Over about 1,700 minutes, he finished in the 71st percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Jay Huff's impact

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

Impact Rate
63
52.3
Season Value
71
26.2

Scoring role

Usage
45
18.0%
True shooting
68
59.8%
3-point attempt rate
84
61.0%
Free-throw rate
24
16.2%

Creation and control

Assist rate
35
10.4%
Turnover avoidance
72
10.4%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
62
10.3%
Steal rate
15
1.1%
Block rate
99
7.6%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
9
−1.84
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
77
+1.07

Workload

Minutes per game
39
21.0
Games played
98
82
Total minutes
68
1,719

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

Jay Huff 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 modelIND27821,719+1.6052.3#14526.271stEstablished
2024–25MEM2664748+2.8888.4#4678.569thEstablished
2023–24DEN252049-9.39-7.3Limited
2022–23WAS24795-3.93-3.8Limited
2021–22LAL23420-12.56-4.4Limited

Career movement

Jay Huff's career impact by season

Peak +2.88 in 2024–25 · 5 seasons · 2,631 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.

Jay HuffDay'Ron Sharpe

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

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Jay Huff

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 Jay Huff ranks #145

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+1.23

Prior rank #91

02 · Multi-season RAPM-0.62

Current total -0.67 ±0.9
Split model · O -1.84 · D +1.07 = -0.77

03 · Bounded correction-0.47

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+0.75

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate52.3

55.4 unadjusted · 90% role factor · rank #145

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 -1.49 to +3.00. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
2%
Top 50 chance
9%
Top 100 chance
25%
80% rank range
#53#331
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 →