Friends beta methodology

How Full Court Order works

Full Court Order is designed to turn a broad published player pool into your own ordered list through direct player choices. The published lists provide context and a useful starting point; they do not decide your final result.

The starting Consensus Top 100

The beta uses two verified published boards: The Ringer’s final 2025–26 NBA Top 100 and the supplied r/NBA Top 100 snapshot posted after more than 100,000 votes. Each source receives equal weight.

For each player, the app averages that player’s ordinal position across the two source lists, then sorts the field by the resulting average. Identical source orders are de-duplicated so one opinion cannot accidentally count twice.

Your ranking

The consensus initializes the candidate order. From there, the ranking session presents head-to-head choices and updates your personal ordering based on those decisions. The Top 10 field includes every unique player who appears in the Top 15 of any consensus-eligible source, ordered by the combined consensus. The Top 25, Top 50, and Top 100 modes use broader candidate fields so players can move into or out of the final published cutoff.

Comparisons

The comparison workspace keeps the Consensus Top 100, The Ringer list, and the r/NBA list separate. You can compare your result against any of them, or compare the published sources directly against each other.

Name matching

Published sources sometimes use different forms of a player’s name. The beta preserves the source wording while mapping known aliases internally—for example, “Norman Powell” and “Norm Powell”—so the comparison does not treat one player as two people.

Sources

The Ringer NBA Top 100 · r/NBA 100k-vote snapshot

This is an independent ranking tool and is not affiliated with the NBA, The Ringer, Reddit, or the individual players shown in the app.