Rank my seasons · Regular season
Sam Merrill
Each selected season is compared head-to-head with every other; seasons earn points from those matchups. This is not a single universal “best season” score.
Season ranking
Order by points from head-to-head season comparisons (win = 1, = 0.5).
#12025-26
2 wins · 0 losses · 0 even · 1 unavailable · 2 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Production✓ Efficiency✓ Impact✓ Team context
: 1.09 · 67th %ile among selected
rank among selected: #1 (same order as R1 Points · not DRBL rank)
Most often stronger in: Diagnostic (non-additive), Efficiency, Offense, Production, Rate / ability, Realized value
#22023-24
0 wins · 1 loss · 1 even · 1 unavailable · 0.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Production✓ Efficiency✓ Impact✓ Team context
: 0.57 · 33th %ile among selected
rank among selected: #2 (same order as R1 Points · not DRBL rank)
Most often stronger in: Availability, Efficiency, Offense, Playmaking
#32024-25
0 wins · 1 loss · 1 even · 1 unavailable · 0.5 Copeland pts
Data available:✓ Production✓ Efficiency✓ Impact✓ Team context
: 0.44 · 0th %ile among selected
rank among selected: #3 (same order as R1 Points · not DRBL rank)
Most often stronger in: Availability, Team context, Diagnostic (non-additive)
Unranked2026-27
Not eligible: insufficient sample for overall verdicts.
Data available:- Production- Efficiency- Impact- Team context
Why 2025-26 ranks first
- 2025-26 wins its overall pairwise comparisons against 2023-24, 2024-25 (2-0).
- Across pairs, its most frequent category edges are: Diagnostic (non-additive), Efficiency, Offense, Production, Rate / ability, Realized value.
- This is a Copeland aggregation of existing season comparisons, not a universal 'best season' score.
Head-to-head results
Each cell is the row season’s overall result against the column season. Click a cell for the full two-season breakdown.
| Row season | vs2023-24 | vs2024-25 | vs2025-26 | vs2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | - | Even | Loses | Unavailable |
| 2024-25 | Even | - | Loses | Unavailable |
| 2025-26 | Beats | Beats | - | Unavailable |
| 2026-27 | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | - |
Open any two-season comparison
Same engine as the matrix. Overall edge goes to the season that won more category comparisons.
- 2023-24 vs 2024-25 · essentially even overall
- 2023-24 vs 2025-26 · 2025-26 stronger overall
- 2023-24 vs 2026-27 · insufficient data for overall edge
- 2024-25 vs 2025-26 · 2025-26 stronger overall
- 2024-25 vs 2026-27 · insufficient data for overall edge
- 2025-26 vs 2026-27 · insufficient data for overall edge