Los Angeles Lakers

Historical measurements from this snapshot.

Games covered: 246
Percentile rank 93 among 30 measured profiles
pct 93 of 30 measured
Pace proxy, latest season: 99.8
Percentile rank 25 among 30 measured profiles
pct 25 of 30 measured
Points per game, latest season: 116.3
Percentile rank 68 among 30 measured profiles
pct 68 of 30 measured
Seasons covered: 3
Percentile rank 50 among 30 measured profiles
pct 50 of 30 measured
Team: Los Angeles Lakers
Top contributor: LeBron James
Top contributor minutes: 6940.9
Percentile rank 72 among 30 measured profiles
pct 72 of 30 measured
Top contributor PRA per 36 minutes: 40.5
Percentile rank 85 among 30 measured profiles
pct 85 of 30 measured

Stored percentiles rank measured rows in this published pack; higher is only higher, not a quality judgement.

What stands out

LeBron James leads the team in total minutes (6,940.9) and posts a 40.5 combined PRA-per-36 rate.
The team scored 116.3 points per game in the latest season of the sample.
The pace proxy is a middle-of-the-pack 99.8.

Reading note

The 'top contributor' is the player with the most total minutes for the team across the sample, not necessarily the best or highest-scoring player. PRA-per-36 sums points, rebounds, and assists per 36 minutes and is a raw box rate, not an impact metric. ppg_latest_season is a single-season team average while the rest of the sample spans three seasons; pace_proxy is a proxy, not official possession-based pace. The manifest is descriptive_only with no schedule or opponent adjustment.

Also measured elsewhere

All 30 team cards carry these 3 joins.

Schedule Fatigue Tax (latest season)

ORtg estimate withheld

The historical value is under review. Read the analysis for the published schedule counts and frequencies.

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Load-Bearing Index (most-indispensable player)

Elo on/off: Dorian Finney-Smith (delta_winprob +0.4656); raw with/without: Rui Hachimura (delta_win_rate +0.2626); agreement=False

on/off net rating delta +14.944; n_active=68, n_missed=14

both estimators carry the ROSTER CONFOUND both source files label explicitly: why a player missed is entangled with injury clustering, rest, blowout pulls, and replacement lineup -- none controlled. NOT a causal player-impact estimate.; the feeds cover DIFFERENT seasons (Elo on/off = 2024-25; raw with/without = 2025-26), so agreement is DIRECTIONAL corroboration, not a paired estimate.; estimator (a) is win prob vs a league-average opponent on a neutral floor; estimator (b) is raw team win-rate active-vs-missed. The two axes are related but not the same scale.; Per team, the win-prob dependence on its single most-indispensable player, under two independent estimators, with a cross-method agreement flag.

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Highest/lowest scoring pairing (pooled 2023-24..2025-26)

highest: vs CHI mean_total 253.5 (n=6); lowest: vs MIN mean_total 219.09 (n=11)

NOT a prediction of any future matchup (describes games already played); NOT a home/away split (per-player table carries no venue flag); NOT opponent-adjusted / strength-of-schedule (raw pooled means only); pairing reported only where n_meetings >= 2

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