Krillion Recorded answers
519 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the league as a grid and fill it in from memory, one franchise at a time, rather than free-associating famous names. Begin with whatever team you can reconstruct most completely; writing out even eight or nine names per roster usually shakes loose a few deep-bench players you had forgotten were still under contract. When a team stalls, jump to a different one and come back later. The goal is volume of candidates, not brilliance: most people lose points by offering the first superstar that comes to mind, because half the field does the same. Once you have a long list, choose the name you are most confident is genuinely rostered but least expect a stranger to mention, which is usually a recent second-round pick, a two-way conversion or an injury replacement.
Get a hint
Start from the whole league rather than a single conference: each team carries a dozen or more contracted players, and any one of those names is a legitimate entry.
A little more
Push beyond the starting five into second units, injury replacements and players recalled from the development ranks, where the crowd of possible guesses thins out quickly.
One step further
Picture rosters after the most recent off-season churn: undrafted signings, two-way conversions and overseas imports whose names only one fan base can spell.
Reveal answers 519
- Collin Murray-BoylesDeep Cut85points
- Corey KispertDeep Cut85points
- Cormac RyanDeep Cut85points
- Craig Porter Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Daeqwon PlowdenDeep Cut85points
- Dailyn SwainDeep Cut85points
- Daniss JenkinsDeep Cut85points
- Danny WolfDeep Cut85points
- DaRon Holmes IIDeep Cut85points
- David Jones GarciaDeep Cut85points
- Day'Ron SharpeDeep Cut85points
- Dean WadeDeep Cut85points
- Devin CarterDeep Cut85points
- Dillon MitchellDeep Cut85points
- Dominick BarlowDeep Cut85points
- Drake PowellDeep Cut85points
- Dru SmithDeep Cut85points
- Duop ReathDeep Cut85points
- Dylan CardwellDeep Cut85points
- Ebuka OkorieDeep Cut85points
- Elijah HarklessDeep Cut85points
- Emanuel SharpDeep Cut85points
- Ernest Udeh, Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Felix OkparaDeep Cut85points
- Goga BitadzeDeep Cut85points
- Graham IkeDeep Cut85points
- Grant NelsonDeep Cut85points
- Gui SantosDeep Cut85points
- Hannes SteinbachDeep Cut85points
- Harrison IngramDeep Cut85points
- Henri VeesaarDeep Cut85points
- Hugo GonzálezDeep Cut85points
- Isaac JonesDeep Cut85points
- Isaac OkoroDeep Cut85points
- Isaiah CollierDeep Cut85points
- Isaiah CrawfordDeep Cut85points
- Isaiah EvansDeep Cut85points
- Isaiah JacksonDeep Cut85points
- Izaiyah NelsonDeep Cut85points
- Ja'Kobe WalterDeep Cut85points
- Ja'Kobi GillespieDeep Cut85points
- Jabari WalkerDeep Cut85points
- Jaden AkinsDeep Cut85points
- Jaden BradleyDeep Cut85points
- Jaden HardyDeep Cut85points
- Jae'Sean TateDeep Cut85points
- Jahmai MashackDeep Cut85points
- Jake LaRaviaDeep Cut85points
- Jalen PickettDeep Cut85points
- Jalen SlawsonDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
With 519 recorded answers and 487 of them clearing the sixty-point floor, this prompt rewards anyone who can produce a name at all; the real contest is happening in the middle and top bands. The reveal splits into 268 answers at eighty-five and 218 at sixty, which suggests the crowded tier is the lower one: the names nearly every respondent reaches for first cluster there, since repetition is what pulls a score down. The examples printed for the middle band are almost all rotation fringe or recent arrivals, Aaron Wiggins, Aday Mara, Adem Bona, Baylor Scheierman and Cam Christie among them, players a committed fan recognises instantly and a casual one does not. That is exactly the profile which lands at eighty-five: obscure enough to thin the crowd, common enough that a few dozen people independently found it. Pat Spencer sits alone at one hundred, meaning a single respondent named him and nobody duplicated the pick, which is what the top of the scale looks like.