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Sam Merrill
2025-26

Sam Merrill

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Prime
Age:29
Position:SG
Team:CLE
Games:52
Minutes (Per Game):26.5
Total Minutes:1377
Franchise
Rating
C
49.0*
FR rank #165 (2025-26)

NOTE: Franchise Rating (FR) is not complete for the current season and can change until the season concludes.

Archetypes

🎯 Sharpshooter ✨ Efficient Scorer
  • Franchise Rating (FR) — A measure of how valuable a player is to a franchise given the player's contract value, production, availability, and overall impact both in the regular season and postseason. Scored 0–100, graded D- to S+.
  • Potential Rating (POT) — A measure of how high a player's FR can be: the projected FR ceiling if they continue their current trajectory next season. Same 0–100 scale and grade thresholds as FR; shown only for players under 25. POT blends the legacy formula (45%) with the Performance Potential Score / PPS from per-100 stats (55%).

Season Badges

  • Peak — Career-high OVR season (only one per player, once decline from that peak is visible).
  • Prime — One of the three seasons in the player's best 3-year stretch by average OVR.
  • Lookout — A or better Potential Rating (POT) in the player’s second year (year_exp = 1).
  • #1 FR — Ranked #1 in the league in Franchise Rating that season.
  • #1 POT — Ranked #1 in the league in Potential Rating that season.

Score Thresholds for Each Grade (FR and POT Share the Same 0–100 Scale):

FR = Franchise Rating  |  POT = Potential Rating

S+
FR/POT: ≥95
S
FR/POT: 90–94
A+
FR/POT: 85–89
A
FR/POT: 80–84
A-
FR/POT: 75–79
B+
FR/POT: 70–74
B
FR/POT: 60–69
B-
FR/POT: 55–59
C+
FR/POT: 50–54
C
FR/POT: 45–49
C-
FR/POT: 40–44
D+
FR/POT: 35–39
D
FR/POT: 30–34
D-
FR/POT: <30
Points 12.8
Rebounds 2.6
Assists 2.4
Steals 0.6
Blocks 0.1
Field Goal Pct 46.1%
Field Goals Made 4.3
Field Goals Attempted 9.3
Three Point Pct 42.1%
Three Pointers Made 3.0
Three Pointers Attempted 7.2
Free Throw Pct 85.5%
Free Throws Made 1.1
Free Throws Attempted 1.3
Turnovers 0.8
Personal Fouls 2.4
Win Shares 3.7
True Shooting Pct 64.4%
Player Efficiency Rating 13.6
Usage Pct 17.0%
Box Plus Minus 0.1
Value Over Replacement Player 0.7

Misc

Year of Experience 6
Potential Win Shares 4.9
Reg. Win Burden % 7.2%

Impact

Reg. Season ISR 60.1
Postseason ISR 57.0
Reg. Season ICS (%) 5.3%
Postseason ICS (%) 5.7%

ROI

Salary $8,482,144
Overpay Index 0.62
Contract Value Rating 10/10

Performance

Performance Rating 57.1· Rank #169

Availability

Cap Hole $3,141,535
Availability % 63.4%
Cap Wasted % 2.00%