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
- Keshad JohnsonDeep Cut85points
- Keshon GilbertDeep Cut85points
- Kevin McCullar Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Khalifa DiopDeep Cut85points
- Khaman MaluachDeep Cut85points
- Kingston FlemingsDeep Cut85points
- Koa PeatDeep Cut85points
- Kobe BrownDeep Cut85points
- Kobe SandersDeep Cut85points
- Kris DunnDeep Cut85points
- Kris MurrayDeep Cut85points
- Kylan BoswellDeep Cut85points
- Kyshawn GeorgeDeep Cut85points
- Labaron PhilonDeep Cut85points
- Landry ShametDeep Cut85points
- Leaky BlackDeep Cut85points
- Leonard MillerDeep Cut85points
- Liam McNeeleyDeep Cut85points
- LJ CryerDeep Cut85points
- Luka GarzaDeep Cut85points
- Malachi SmithDeep Cut85points
- Malevy LeonsDeep Cut85points
- Malik DiaDeep Cut85points
- Maliq BrownDeep Cut85points
- Marcus SasserDeep Cut85points
- Maxime RaynaudDeep Cut85points
- Meleek ThomasDeep Cut85points
- Micah PotterDeep Cut85points
- Michael AjayiDeep Cut85points
- Mikel Brown Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Mohamed DiawaraDeep Cut85points
- Morez Johnson Jr.Deep Cut85points
- Mouhamed GueyeDeep Cut85points
- Moussa CisseDeep Cut85points
- Moussa DiabatéDeep Cut85points
- Myron GardnerDeep Cut85points
- Nae'Qwan TomlinDeep Cut85points
- Naji MarshallDeep Cut85points
- Nate BittleDeep Cut85points
- Neemias QuetaDeep Cut85points
- Nick MartinelliDeep Cut85points
- Nick RichardsDeep Cut85points
- Nikola JovićDeep Cut85points
- Nikola TopićDeep Cut85points
- Nique CliffordDeep Cut85points
- Noa EssengueDeep Cut85points
- Noah ClowneyDeep Cut85points
- Noah PendaDeep Cut85points
- Nolan TraoreDeep Cut85points
- Olivier-Maxence ProsperDeep 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.