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Paolo Banchero

Paolo Banchero advanced stats and career rankings

RolePF · Age 23
Availability72 games · 72 starts
Workload34.8 MPG · 2,502 minutes
Relative impactORL #5 of 13 · PF #28 of 76
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceStrong

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #41–#342

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Paolo Banchero ranked 167th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 115th, led by elite passing despite costly turnovers. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court impact was weaker than the box score indicated, lowering his overall rating. Playing about 2,500 minutes, he finished in the 70th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Paolo Banchero's impact

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

Impact Rate
58
46.4
Season Value
70
26.0

Scoring role

Usage
92
27.6%
True shooting
40
56.6%
3-point attempt rate
17
23.9%
Free-throw rate
97
51.2%

Creation and control

Assist rate
84
23.4%
Turnover avoidance
32
13.6%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
81
13.5%
Steal rate
9
1.0%
Block rate
50
1.4%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
52
+0.27
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
28
−0.77

Workload

Minutes per game
97
34.8
Games played
77
72
Total minutes
95
2,502

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

Paolo Banchero 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 modelORL23722,502+0.9746.4#16726.070thStrong
2024–25ORL22461,582+3.6594.6#22178.987thStrong
2023–24ORL21802,799+0.5468.6#117143.584thStrong
2022–23ORL20722,430-1.5331.5#26023.742ndStrong

Career movement

Paolo Banchero's career impact by season

Peak +3.65 in 2024–25 · 4 seasons · 9,313 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 4 seasons

Only the first 4 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Paolo BancheroHarold Pressley

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Paolo Banchero

The score compares the first 4 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

Why this rank?

Why Paolo Banchero ranks #167

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+1.00

Prior rank #115

02 · Multi-season RAPM-0.84

Current total -0.81 ±0.9
Split model · O +0.27 · D -0.77 = -0.50

03 · Bounded correction-0.47

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+0.53

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate46.4

46.4 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #167

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 -1.74 to +2.75. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
6%
Top 50 chance
13%
Top 100 chance
26%
80% rank range
#41#342
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 →