Daily Challenge
Eight picks. One ranked play a day, plus three unranked plays for fun.
Every era.
One roster.NBA draft game: build your all-era rotation
The next team is a surprise. The next pick is yours.
Draft across basketball history, one player at a time.
No account needed. Eligible guest results appear publicly under your saved guest name or Anonymous.
1,723Real team-seasons
23,368Player records
8Roster slots
How it works
Reveal a team
A random team-season is revealed.
Make your pick
Choose one player for an open roster slot.
Shuffle again
Move to the next team and draft again.
See your result
Fill your roster and see your 82-game record.
One player per reveal. No duplicate players. One extra shuffle to use wisely.
PGPoint guard
SGShooting guard
SFSmall forward
PFPower forward
CCenter
GGuard
FForward
UTILUtility
Choose your draft.
Play today
Time Machine
Shuffle between team-seasons from every era.
Year Draft
One available season. Different teams. Your choices.
Franchise Draft
Pick a club. Build across its history.
Finals Draft
Champions only. Build your rotation from verified NBA championship team-seasons in the collection.
Talk basketball. Prove your picks.
Your league.
Your rivalries.
Start a basketball league with friends. Draft your rotation, compare team grades and climb the standings.
Explore leaguesMake a tournament run.
Build your eight, enter the bracket and compete for the championship.
Explore tournamentsYou’re up.
Real stats. Game-generated outcomes.Statistics & scoring
Recent drafts
Your saved drafts will appear here.
Your best scores
Your highest grade in each format, out of 100.
Complete a Time Machine draft to set your first score.
Leaderboards
See how your roster stacks up.
How NBA drafts work
Eight picks. Eight different franchises.
In Time Machine, Year and Finals Drafts, reveal a random NBA team and season. Choose one player for an open position, then move to the next team. Each franchise appears once, including renamed or relocated clubs. A team you shuffle past counts as shown. Franchise Draft uses one club across different seasons, without repeating a season.
Fill point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center, plus a guard, forward and utility player. You cannot draft the same person twice. Eligibility uses the recorded season position. If it is missing, the recorded career position determines eligible slots.
Today’s Daily
The NBA Daily Challenge has one ranked play per Eastern day for signed-in accounts, on the same teams for everyone in a different order, plus three unranked plays for anyone on different teams. Older published challenges keep their saved allowance. Each entry has one extra shuffle and a 30-second Pick Clock. Your best eligible ranked result counts for the date; practice earns no leaderboard entry or awards. Started clocks continue through reloads and leaving the page.
Daily is the timed challenge
Only Daily uses a 30-second Pick Clock. At zero, the server picks an eligible player for you and reveals the next team. Daily clocks continue while you are away. Time Machine, Year, Franchise and Finals Drafts are untimed. One extra shuffle is available when another team can still finish your roster.
Real facts, game estimates
PPG means points per game, RPG rebounds per game and APG assists per game. These are the selected player’s recorded season statistics. The current collection includes verified team-seasons between 1946-47 and 2025-26. Coverage has gaps; it is not a complete NBA history. Your completed roster receives a season-relative team grade from 0 to 100, shown as an estimated 82-game win-loss record. It is a game estimate, not a prediction of an actual NBA result.
Each NBA format has its own leaderboard. Year and Franchise boards can show all seasons or clubs, or one selected pool. Finish under your verified account name, or as a guest with a screened name or Anonymous. See basketball rankings.
Data sources and coverage
Season data: Sumitro Datta NBA and BAA records. CC0 1.0 (archive publisher listing).
- Regular-season team stints from 1946-47 through 2025-26. Separate ABA records and combined multi-team player rows are excluded. The withdrawn 1954-55 Baltimore Bullets season has no recorded team W/L in this archive and is excluded.
- Counting totals become per-game statistics using recorded appearances. A player needs 10 appearances and 8 minutes per game when minutes were recorded. Before 1951-52, qualification uses appearances and minutes stay blank.
- Unrecorded statistics stay blank, including early minutes, rebounds, steals, blocks, turnovers and three-point data. A shooting percentage with no attempts stays blank.
- Positions use the recorded season position. Where it is missing, the recorded career position supplies broad eligibility. No exact season position is guessed.
- Stable Basketball-Reference IDs identify players across seasons and teams. Former team names are retained. Renamed clubs share a franchise; unrelated defunct clubs stay separate. Original Charlotte history belongs to Charlotte, while New Orleans has its own franchise.
- The archive publisher lists this dataset as CC0 on Kaggle and identifies Basketball-Reference as its source. DreamDraft filters regular-season club stints, derives per-game statistics and maps roster eligibility. The published archive license does not establish ownership of upstream rights or license team marks and photographs.
Saved drafts from the previous catalogue retain SportsDataverse hoopR data, derived from ESPN, published under CC BY 4.0. DreamDraft filtered game records, aggregated team stints, mapped positions and calculated per-game statistics. Those saved drafts keep their original data and scoring model.