What's new
23 new things to do with DARKO
Features from the DARKO redesign that are now live on the site. Each one stays on this page for 30 days after it launches. Comps, Roster Lab team ratings and fantasy values are calculations built on DARKO's ratings, not DARKO model outputs.
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The Daily
A front page DARKO's ratings write themselves: who's on top, the biggest risers and fallers over the past week, month or season, the largest single-game updates, and seasons among the best ever at a player's age. Star a player on their page to follow them there.
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Top 10 comps today
Player pages now rank ten current players by similarity in DARKO ratings, age and projected box-score style. Current players start with themselves at 100, followed by their closest matches, with photos, stats and links to compare side by side.
See Coby White's matches → -
Career charts to share and reopen
Shared chart and player links now show social previews. In your assistant, reopen a chart, compare a draft class or rating movers, and label raw or smoothed peaks. The connection guide includes ChatGPT, Claude, Codex and Cursor.
Use DARKO in your assistant → -
DARKO in your assistant
The assistant beta creates career-history charts for up to six players. Edit the players, metric and age or games range in the chart, add peak labels, and download a wide or square image.
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The About page, rebuilt
What DARKO is and what DPM means, shown with live data: today's league on one line, what a player is worth to a team, how long DARKO remembers each stat and where it starts each rookie.
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Podiums for positions and young players
Beside the leaderboard, the best guards, forwards and centers stand on a podium in their teams' colours, and so do the best rookies, sophomores and third-year players. Both count regulars: 18 or more minutes a game and at least half the season's games.
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Leaderboard views you can share
Filter the leaderboard by ranges of age, minutes, DPM, offense and defense, narrow it to a set of columns, and copy a link that opens the same view. Tick up to four players to open them together in Compare, Career Trajectories or the Scatterplot.
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Two players, head to head
Compare two players and a table sets their ratings, shooting and fair salary side by side, marking who leads where more is better, and by how much.
Compare Jokic and Wembanyama → -
Player pages that keep your place
A player page's section links stay in view as you scroll and mark where you are, and each past season's DPM opens the leaderboard as it stood on that season's last game day.
See Jokic's page → -
Players in the news
Career Trajectories opens on the players most in the day's NBA news, with a line over the chart on why each one is in it.
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Player and team pages, rearranged
Player pages open on the player: photo, facts and the rating split into offense and defense, with each chart's controls over the chart. Team pages lead with the rating and where it comes from, ahead of the roster.
See Wembanyama's page → -
The Distribution, in motion
Pick a new stat under the leaderboard's Distribution and every player's dot travels to its new place, while the mean, median and top-10% figures count to theirs.
Try it on the leaderboard → -
Leaderboard filters, stars and trends
Filter the leaderboard by position and age, star players to follow them, switch on a sparkline of each player's season, and with the Time Machine set, sort by who has risen or fallen since that date.
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Player pages, filled in
Every player page opens with a menu of its sections and shows the player's rank on today's board, a Contract & longevity panel, and how the latest season ranks among every season at that age since 1996-97.
See Jokic's page → -
Teams overview
All 30 teams on one chart, DARKO offense against defense, and the power order by DARKO rating with each team's record, SRS, and its playoff odds or how its season ended.
See the teams → -
Season by season
Player pages list every season since 1996-97 with team, games, minutes and DPM, and where it ranks among all players that age.
See Kobe Bryant's seasons → -
Projected box score
Current players' pages turn DARKO's per-100 projections into a per-game line at their projected minutes and pace, with shooting percentages, using the Fantasy Lab's math.
See Wembanyama's line → -
Comps & futures
The ten player-seasons since 1996-97 most like a player's latest, at the same age, and a fan chart of what the 25 closest did over the next five seasons, including how many still played 10 or more games.
See Wembanyama's comps → -
Team DNA
Every team page shows where its DARKO rating comes from, player by player and three ways, how long its core is projected to last, and its payroll against DARKO value.
See the Thunder → -
Ask DARKO
Press ⌘K, Ctrl K or / anywhere and ask for “best rim protectors under 25”, “trade Giannis to the Knicks”, “Jokic vs Wembanyama”, “comps for Wembanyama” or “rewind to 2016”. You get an answer, not a search page.
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Roster Lab
Start from any team's rotation in DARKO's projected minutes, trade or sign players between two teams, drag minutes, and watch the rating, projected wins, league rank and head-to-head odds update.
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Rewind and the Time Machine
The Time Machine under the menu takes the whole site to any date since November 1996. Rewind plays the top 15 of every regular season, one week per beat.
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Fantasy Lab
DARKO's per-100 projections become per-game fantasy values under ESPN, Yahoo, DraftKings, 9-cat or your own scoring.
Rank players →
Across every page
A calmer leaderboard
The leaders stand in their teams' colours, each with the margin over the next player; the controls fit one row, with the filters in a panel; and the column sets are tabs on the table.
Added Sep 29
Dated ratings
The leaderboard, player pages and team pages say the date their ratings run through.
Added Sep 29
Easier to read
Titles, names and headline numbers are set in Archivo, figures in DM Mono at its own weights, and the small print is brighter in the dark themes, on every surface.
Added Sep 28
Offense and defense, drawn
Offense is orange and marked with a circle, defense is blue and marked with a cross, the way coaches diagram plays, so a split reads at a glance and still works without color.
Added Sep 27