WOWY Lineups
Compare the best padded lineups from across the league and drill directly into team WOWY pages.
2-Man League Leaders • 2026 • Regular Season
Padded • All Leverage • Top 200
What is NBA WOWY analysis?
What is NBA WOWY analysis?
NBA WOWY, short for With or Without You, compares how a team performs with specific players or lineups on and off the court across selected seasons, leverage filters, and lineup sizes. databallr lets you study minutes, offensive rating, defensive rating, net rating, shooting, turnovers, and rebounding across those same filters.
What does on-off tell you?
On-off results describe how team performance changed across the selected minutes. They provide context but do not prove that one player caused the full difference because teammates, opponents, roles, and sample size also matter.
How do lineup modes differ?
WOWY mode compares with-and-without combinations for selected players. The 2-man to 5-man modes rank exact lineup sizes, so you can move from player-pair context to full five-player units.
Why are league leaders padded?
League Leaders adds league-average performance to 550 offensive and 850 defensive possessions to reduce extreme small-sample ratings while keeping larger-minute lineups closer to their observed results.
Small samples dominate a raw leaderboard. A 10-minute +40 NET sits above a 400-minute +12. A minutes cutoff just moves the problem: the lineup that barely clears it still has an easier path to an extreme rating.
So every lineup starts with a league-average prior: about 266 offensive minutes and 410 defensive minutes (550 offensive possessions and 850 defensive possessions). Extreme 10-minute ratings get tempered. Larger samples keep more of what they earned. Defense is padded more because it takes longer to stabilize.
At 266 real minutes, a +10 offensive edge is cut to +5.0. The same +10 defensive edge keeps about 39.3% and lands at +3.9.
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