Ring the bell, Kevin.
Kevin Carangui (1 on 1 neva lost) took Nikola Jokić at 1.1 and built the most valuable roster in the league. The preseason favorite is already ringing for his ring.
The banners
Two completed seasons. Two champions. One improbable draft pattern. Shootica began in 2024–25, and 2026–27 marks year three.
Power rankings
Post-draft, by the League Office report card: roster value under Shootica's 19-category scoring, graded A through C. Full report card lives in Seasons.
Storylines in motion
Draft night settled some arguments and started a dozen more. Status pills track where each thread stands heading into opening night.
Numbers that define the league
Every regular-season and championship-bracket record from years one and two: 2024–25 through 2025–26.
Every year, every result
Explore the incoming 16-team field or look back at standings, postseason rounds, and weekly matchups from the first two fully recorded seasons.
History, sorted
The complete archive begins with Shootica’s inaugural 2024–25 season. The 2026–27 campaign is year three.
Available-records leaderboard
Regular season only, 2024–25 onward. Tap a column heading to sort.
Playoff leaderboard
Championship bracket only; consolation and ladder games are excluded.
Settle the argument
The week-to-week hub: opening-week spotlights and polls, a Pick'em card for Matchup 1, and every recorded matchup from 2024–25 onward — each with its story under the score. The head-to-head archive sits below: regular-season and championship-playoff meetings, consolation and ladder games excluded.
This week in Shootica
Opening week spotlights built on the real ESPN Week 1 slate and the draft report card. Your Matchup of the Week pick is sent to the league office; the Pick'em card below lives on this device.
Pick'em — Matchup 1
Call the real opening-week slate, Oct 20–25, 2026.
Week 1 slate per the ESPN scoreboard · Matchup 1: Oct 20–25.
Your picks on this device — a static page can't see other visitors' picks, so there are no league-wide totals here. Just your card, saved in this browser.
Matchup browser
Every recorded matchup from 2024–25 and 2025–26 — regular season and the playoff bracket. Expand any card for the story, written from the score itself.
2026–27 · Matchup 1
Oct 20–25, 2026 — opening week runs inside the schedule groups: every team opens against its own group.
Shai's Aura games from 2024–25 are credited to both co-owners. Franchise identities are merged by owner in the source archive.
Rivalry watch
The matchups, curses, and unfinished business shaping the next season.
Drafts & deals
Search every pick from 2024–25 and 2025–26, review the strongest and weakest returns, and replay the trades that changed the title race.
Draft night: winners & losers
Straight off the League Office report card — roster value graded A through C.
Draft board
Every pick from the 2026–27 board, plus the full 2024–25 and 2025–26 archives.
Draft report card
Grades compare draft slot with final fantasy rank under the league's scoring formula.
2025–26 methodology: PTS 1.0 + REB 1.2 + AST 1.5 + STL 3.0 + BLK 3.0 − TO 1.0, using Basketball-Reference per-game stats ranked by total fantasy points. INC means the player did not play or was not found.
Trade log
The 2024–25 archive has one confirmed Dec 9 deal whose players are lost to history.
Draft Recap 2026 — 208 picks, one resolved sweepstakes
Completed Mon Oct 19, 2026, ~9:35 PM ET. Nikola Jokić went #1, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander fell to #4, and all 16 classes are ranked below by the League Office draft report card — roster value under Shootica's 19-category scoring, with every team's full 13-pick class off the completed board.
The classes, 1 through 16
Jump straight to a team's card. Each write-up is dedicated to that team's draft: the grade, the pick that carries the value, and the pick everyone will be talking about.
Power Rankings
All 16 classes in draft-grade order — grade, roster value, each roster's top player, and the strength or crack the numbers say will decide the season.
MVP Race
The ten most valuable players in Shootica under the model — value, draft slot and the one-line case for each, straight off the board.
Values
Every player's value under Shootica's 19-category scoring — how the model works, the shape of the league's value, and the full board.
One model, built for these 19 categories
How the values work — a three-source composite: ESPN's official 2026-27 projection rankings (35%), Yahoo Fantasy's preseason rankings (35%), and our own model (30%): two seasons of per-game production scored under this league's exact 19-category settings, times projected games played. All pulled October 20, 2026. Hard availability gate: only players on a 2026-27 NBA opening roster are valued — retired, unsigned, and overseas players don't appear at all (that's why Russell Westbrook, who retired in August, is nowhere on this board). #1 is anchored at 10,500.
The shape of the league
Team value distribution off the baked draft report — the gap the bottom half has to close.
The full board
Every valued player in the model, with the fantasy team that drafted him.
Trade Desk
The team trade board for 2026–27: every roster read against the League Office values — who's buying, who's selling, who's holding.
Trade Calc
Compare rest-of-season values, test roster fit, or let Trade Finder build fair proposals off the real 2026–27 rosters.
How the values work
How the values work — a three-source composite: ESPN's official 2026-27 projection rankings (35%), Yahoo Fantasy's preseason rankings (35%), and our own model (30%): two seasons of per-game production scored under this league's exact 19-category settings, times projected games played. All pulled October 20, 2026. Hard availability gate: only players on a 2026-27 NBA opening roster are valued — retired, unsigned, and overseas players don't appear at all (that's why Russell Westbrook, who retired in August, is nowhere on this board). #1 is anchored at 10,500.
Fairness bands: within 5% is even, 5–12% is a slight edge, and more than 12% is a clear edge. Trade Finder never suggests a deal more than 12% apart and excludes OUT or unvalued players.
Loud takes. Real history.
Long-form season dispatches sit beside the league's beat-writer feed. The tone is dramatic; the records underneath it are not.
Group Chat Hall of Fame
Four moments from the league chat that already belong in the rafters — draft night 2026, preserved exactly as the room remembers it.