Gamers complaining about their NBA 2K rankings has been a summer time custom within the league over latest years. Much less frequent is to have gamers griping about their friends’ rankings, which is what occurred earlier this week when Jaren Jackson Jr. was requested about Nikola Jokic‘s 97 OVR within the fashionable basketball online game.
Jaren Jackson Jr. and Trey Murphy react to Nikola Jokic’s NBA 2K25 ranking 🤣
JJJ: “I want I had 3 MVPs and also you give me a 97. I would low key be mad.”
Murphy: “I don’t assume he cares in any respect.”
(through @OldManAndThree)pic.twitter.com/bXqPa5FHxA
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) August 26, 2024
It was stunning to us as nicely to see Jokic’s ranking drop some extent after an MVP season, so we determined to research if there’s a sample there with NBA 2K undervaluing the Serbian famous person.
Seems, you may make a case there may be.
We went and in contrast gamers’ league rating by way of NBA 2K ranking to their rating in HoopsHype’s World Ranking metric for the previous 15 seasons, figuring out the biggest disparities.
Amongst gamers with a minimum of 5 years within the league, Nikola Jokic had the biggest disparity between his preseason NBA 2K ranking and his precise World Ranking for that yr. Much more telling: He was underrated relative to his World Ranking eight seasons in a row.
All-Star DeMar DeRozan got here second on the listing, however a distant one.
You may test the 25 most underrated gamers within the sport per our analysis beneath:
Common 2K rating: 55.78Common World Ranking rating: 15.44NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 3.61
Seasons overrated: 0Seasons underrated: 8
Common 2K rating: 61.50Common World Ranking rating: 29.21NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 2.11
Seasons overrated: 2Seasons underrated: 12
Common 2K rating: 63.27Common World Ranking rating: 30.91NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 2.05
Seasons overrated: 4Seasons underrated: 7
Common 2K rating: 123.00Common World Ranking rating: 67.50NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.82
Seasons overrated: 1Seasons underrated: 5
Common 2K rating: 20.33Common World Ranking rating: 11.17NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.82
Seasons overrated: 0Seasons underrated: 5
Common 2K rating: 39.86Common World Ranking rating: 22.29NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.79
Seasons overrated: 3Seasons underrated: 3
Common 2K rating: 114.00Common World Ranking rating: 63.86NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.79
Seasons overrated: 1Seasons underrated: 6
Common 2K rating: 37.67Common World Ranking rating: 22.00NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.71
Seasons overrated: 1Seasons underrated: 5
Common 2K rating: 123.25Common World Ranking rating: 72.38NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.70
Seasons overrated: 2Seasons underrated: 6
Common 2K rating: 145.50Common World Ranking rating: 86.50NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.68
Seasons overrated: 1Seasons underrated: 5
Common 2K rating: 158.00Common World Ranking rating: 95.60NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.65
Seasons overrated: 0Seasons underrated: 5
Common 2K rating: 103.25Common World Ranking rating: 62.63NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.65
Seasons overrated: 1Seasons underrated: 7
Common 2K rating: 81.00Common World Ranking rating: 49.17NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.65
Seasons overrated: 2Seasons underrated: 4
Common 2K rating: 32.43Common World Ranking rating: 19.71NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.64
Seasons overrated: 2Seasons underrated: 5
Common 2K rating: 103.71Common World Ranking rating: 68.43NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.52
Seasons overrated: 1Seasons underrated: 6
Common 2K rating: 21.93Common World Ranking rating: 14.50NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.51
Seasons overrated: 4Seasons underrated: 9
Common 2K rating: 259.14Common World Ranking rating: 173.00NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.50
Seasons overrated: 0Seasons underrated: 7
Common 2K rating: 324.22Common World Ranking rating: 218.56NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.48
Seasons overrated: 0Seasons underrated: 9
Common 2K rating: 207.70Common World Ranking rating: 142.20NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.46
Seasons overrated: 3Seasons underrated: 7
Common 2K rating: 127.43Common World Ranking rating: 87.86NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.45
Seasons overrated: 3Seasons underrated: 4
Common 2K rating: 191.33Common World Ranking rating: 132.17NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.45
Seasons overrated: 2Seasons underrated: 4
Common 2K rating: 99.17Common World Ranking rating: 68.58NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.45
Seasons overrated: 4Seasons underrated: 8
Common 2K rating: 173.09Common World Ranking rating: 120.45NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.44
Seasons overrated: 3Seasons underrated: 8
Common 2K rating: 203.80Common World Ranking rating: 143.40NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.42
Seasons overrated: 1Seasons underrated: 4
Common 2K rating: 203.50Common World Ranking rating: 143.40NBA 2K/World Ranking ratio: 1.42
Seasons overrated: 3Seasons underrated: 7