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
- Tristan da SilvaDeep Cut85points
- Tristan EnarunaDeep Cut85points
- Tristan VukcevicDeep Cut85points
- Tyler BilodeauDeep Cut85points
- Tyler KolekDeep Cut85points
- Tyler NickelDeep Cut85points
- Tyrese ProctorDeep Cut85points
- Ugonna OnyensoDeep Cut85points
- Vít KrejčíDeep Cut85points
- Vladislav GoldinDeep Cut85points
- Will RichardDeep Cut85points
- Will RileyDeep Cut85points
- Yanic Konan NiederhäuserDeep Cut85points
- Yaxel LendeborgDeep Cut85points
- Yves MissiDeep Cut85points
- Zeke NnajiDeep Cut85points
- Ziaire WilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Zuby EjioforDeep Cut85points
- Zyon PullinDeep Cut85points
- Aaron GordonRare60points
- Aaron NesmithRare60points
- Ace BaileyRare60points
- AJ DybantsaRare60points
- Al HorfordRare60points
- Alex CarusoRare60points
- Alex KarabanRare60points
- Alex SarrRare60points
- Alperen SengunRare60points
- Amen ThompsonRare60points
- Andre DrummondRare60points
- Andrew NembhardRare60points
- Andrew WigginsRare60points
- Anfernee SimonsRare60points
- Ausar ThompsonRare60points
- Austin ReavesRare60points
- Ayo DosunmuRare60points
- Bam AdebayoRare60points
- Ben SimmonsRare60points
- Bennedict MathurinRare60points
- Bilal CoulibalyRare60points
- Bobby PortisRare60points
- Bogdan BogdanovićRare60points
- Bones HylandRare60points
- Braden SmithRare60points
- Bradley BealRare60points
- Brandin PodziemskiRare60points
- Brandon IngramRare60points
- Brandon MillerRare60points
- Bronny JamesRare60points
- Brook LopezRare60points
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.