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You can see that I've highlighted the numbers for the Rockets in the table. The CNT column says how many players on our roster were ranked by #NBARank. Interestingly, we lead in this category by a wide margin -- 19 of our players were ranked, and no other team has more than 16. Of course, several of these players will be cut before the regular season.



Since I'm only interested in players that are likely to play, I tabulated the wins for the top 12 players on each roster, shown in Top12 Wins column. This is roughly a projected win total for the team, based on ESPN's #NBARank player results. I've also ordered each player on every team, and gave the total win shares for players ranked 6 through 12, ranked 3 through 5, and the top 2. This gives an idea of how much a team depends on stars versus depth. These numbers show that only Miami is projected to garner more win shares from their top 5 players than us. To further illustrate this, here's a chart:



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