No score penalty. He rises only because short-role players move below him.
MPG role adjustment · 2025–26
OfficialReward impact that can stay on the floor.
Impact Rate now gives full credit at 30+ MPG and gradually reduces the above-replacement portion for shorter roles. The ranking page still lets you turn this adjustment off.
Inspect every playerThe adjustment does not punish Tatum's 16-game sample because he played 32.6 MPG. It does reduce rate scores for players whose impact came in short nightly roles. Season Value is unchanged.
See official rankings →His strong per-minute rate remains visible in the no-adjustment view.
A 17.1 MPG role receives a smaller penalty than Reed's 13.9 MPG role.
Full comparison
MPG-adjusted versus unadjusted
The official ranking is shown first.
| Official rate | No-MPG rate | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Nikola Jokić | DEN | #1 | Same | 2,265 | 34.8 | 100.0% | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| #2 | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | OKC | #2 | Same | 2,259 | 33.2 | 100.0% | 99.6 | 99.6 |
| #3 | Kawhi Leonard | LAC | #5 | 2 higher | 2,085 | 32.1 | 100.0% | 98.6 | 98.6 |
| #4 | Giannis Antetokounmpo | MIL | #3 | 1 lower | 1,039 | 28.9 | 98.7% | 98.3 | 99.3 |
| #5 | Victor Wembanyama | SAS | #4 | 1 lower | 1,866 | 29.2 | 99.1% | 98.2 | 98.9 |
| #6 | Luka Dončić | LAL | #6 | Same | 2,289 | 35.8 | 100.0% | 98.2 | 98.2 |
| #7 | Stephen Curry | GSW | #7 | Same | 1,329 | 30.9 | 100.0% | 97.8 | 97.8 |
| #8 | Jimmy Butler | GSW | #8 | Same | 1,182 | 31.1 | 100.0% | 97.5 | 97.5 |
| #9 | Donovan Mitchell | CLE | #9 | Same | 2,342 | 33.5 | 100.0% | 97.1 | 97.1 |
| #10 | Tyrese Maxey | PHI | #10 | Same | 2,661 | 38.0 | 100.0% | 96.8 | 96.8 |
| #11 | Cade Cunningham | DET | #11 | Same | 2,172 | 33.9 | 100.0% | 96.4 | 96.4 |
| #12 | Joel Embiid | PHI | #12 | Same | 1,201 | 31.6 | 100.0% | 96.0 | 96.0 |
| #13 | Jayson Tatum | BOS | #15 | 2 higher | 522 | 32.6 | 100.0% | 95.1 | 95.1 |
| #14 | Jamal Murray | DEN | #16 | 2 higher | 2,652 | 35.4 | 100.0% | 95.0 | 95.0 |
| #15 | Lauri Markkanen | UTA | #17 | 2 higher | 1,443 | 34.4 | 100.0% | 94.6 | 94.6 |
| #16 | Chet Holmgren | OKC | #14 | 2 lower | 1,997 | 28.9 | 98.8% | 94.5 | 95.3 |
| #17 | Kevin Durant | HOU | #18 | 1 higher | 2,840 | 36.4 | 100.0% | 94.2 | 94.2 |
| #18 | LaMelo Ball | CHO | #13 | 5 lower | 2,017 | 28.0 | 97.8% | 94.1 | 95.7 |
| #19 | Derrick White | BOS | #19 | Same | 2,625 | 34.1 | 100.0% | 93.9 | 93.9 |
| #20 | Alperen Şengün | HOU | #21 | 1 higher | 2,398 | 33.3 | 100.0% | 93.2 | 93.2 |
| #21 | Michael Porter Jr. | BRK | #22 | 1 higher | 1,689 | 32.5 | 100.0% | 92.8 | 92.8 |
| #22 | Scottie Barnes | TOR | #24 | 2 higher | 2,681 | 33.5 | 100.0% | 92.1 | 92.1 |
| #23 | Karl-Anthony Towns | NYK | #25 | 2 higher | 2,322 | 31.0 | 100.0% | 91.7 | 91.7 |
| #24 | Collin Gillespie | PHO | #23 | 1 lower | 2,282 | 28.5 | 98.4% | 91.3 | 92.4 |
| #25 | Anthony Edwards | MIN | #28 | 3 higher | 2,137 | 35.0 | 100.0% | 91.0 | 91.0 |
| #26 | Devin Booker | PHO | #29 | 3 higher | 2,146 | 33.5 | 100.0% | 90.6 | 90.6 |
| #27 | Jalen Johnson | ATL | #31 | 4 higher | 2,532 | 35.2 | 100.0% | 89.9 | 89.9 |
| #28 | Franz Wagner | ORL | #32 | 4 higher | 1,019 | 30.0 | 100.0% | 89.5 | 89.6 |
| #29 | Zion Williamson | NOP | #35 | 6 higher | 1,841 | 29.7 | 99.7% | 88.6 | 88.8 |
| #30 | Deni Avdija | POR | #37 | 7 higher | 2,199 | 33.3 | 100.0% | 88.1 | 88.1 |
| #31 | Kon Knueppel | CHO | #38 | 7 higher | 2,551 | 31.5 | 100.0% | 87.8 | 87.8 |
| #32 | Bam Adebayo | MIA | #39 | 7 higher | 2,365 | 32.4 | 100.0% | 87.4 | 87.4 |
| #33 | Jalen Duren | DET | #36 | 3 higher | 1,976 | 28.2 | 98.0% | 87.2 | 88.5 |
| #34 | Jarrett Allen | CLE | #34 | Same | 1,519 | 27.1 | 96.8% | 87.2 | 89.2 |
| #35 | Isaiah Hartenstein | OKC | #26 | 9 lower | 1,137 | 24.2 | 93.5% | 87.1 | 91.4 |
| #36 | Neemias Queta | BOS | #30 | 6 lower | 1,926 | 25.3 | 94.8% | 86.9 | 90.3 |
| #37 | Amen Thompson | HOU | #41 | 4 higher | 2,953 | 37.4 | 100.0% | 86.7 | 86.7 |
| #38 | OG Anunoby | NYK | #44 | 6 higher | 2,224 | 33.2 | 100.0% | 86.0 | 86.0 |
| #39 | Evan Mobley | CLE | #45 | 6 higher | 2,074 | 31.9 | 100.0% | 85.6 | 85.6 |
| #40 | Jalen Brunson | NYK | #46 | 6 higher | 2,590 | 35.0 | 100.0% | 85.3 | 85.3 |
| #41 | Paul George | PHI | #47 | 6 higher | 1,135 | 30.7 | 100.0% | 84.9 | 84.9 |
| #42 | Josh Giddey | CHI | #48 | 6 higher | 1,731 | 32.1 | 100.0% | 84.5 | 84.5 |
| #43 | Robert Williams | POR | #20 | 23 lower | 1,008 | 17.1 | 85.6% | 83.7 | 93.5 |
| #44 | Al Horford | GSW | #33 | 11 lower | 969 | 21.5 | 90.6% | 83.2 | 89.3 |
| #45 | James Harden | LAC / CLE | #52 | 7 higher | 2,438 | 34.8 | 100.0% | 83.1 | 83.1 |
| #46 | Jrue Holiday | POR | #51 | 5 higher | 1,560 | 29.4 | 99.4% | 83.1 | 83.5 |
| #47 | Dyson Daniels | ATL | #53 | 6 higher | 2,520 | 33.2 | 100.0% | 82.7 | 82.7 |
| #48 | Pascal Siakam | IND | #54 | 6 higher | 2,057 | 33.2 | 100.0% | 82.4 | 82.4 |
| #49 | Austin Reaves | LAL | #56 | 7 higher | 1,762 | 34.5 | 100.0% | 81.7 | 81.7 |
| #50 | Sandro Mamukelashvili | TOR | #40 | 10 lower | 1,751 | 21.9 | 91.0% | 81.5 | 87.1 |
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Methodology
A bounded role adjustment.
MPG is used as evidence of scalable role, not as another cumulative-minutes calculation.
Start with impact
Keep the bounded box-prior plus multi-season lineup-context estimate.
Give starters full credit
Players at 30+ MPG keep 100% of their Impact Rate above the replacement score of 25.
Scale short roles
The factor declines smoothly to 80% at 12 MPG or less. It never adds a bonus.
Leave Season Value alone
Season Value already accounts for workload through possessions, so the MPG adjustment is not applied twice.
Validation: The 20% cap removed sub-20-MPG players from the active-season top 25 and improved the mean season RAPM rank correlation from 0.547 to 0.552 across the available 2021–26 comparison. RAPM is a secondary sanity check, not ground truth.