Reputation is a clue. The season is the answer.
Higher or Lower tests season-specific scoring memory. Each comparison asks which displayed player-season produced more regular-season points per game, so career rankings and peak reputation can easily point in the wrong direction.
Read the year first
An early-career season, a late-career role, or a year shared with another high-usage scorer may sit far below the version of a player that lives in memory.
Use era as context
League pace, offensive roles, and shot distribution change over time. Era is useful context, but it should refine—not replace—what you know about the player’s job that season.
Calibrate from anchors
Treat known scoring peaks as reference points. A 30-point anchor, a low-20s secondary scorer, and a high-teens creator give you a working scale for unfamiliar matchups.
Why famous-name logic fails
A player’s cultural stature summarizes an entire career; the game uses one row from that career. Consider how a lead scorer can later become a secondary creator, or how an established star’s rookie season can trail a less famous player at his peak. The year label is therefore evidence, not decoration.
The strongest approach combines three signals: the player’s likely role in the displayed year, the scoring environment of the era, and the known shape of the player’s career. None is perfect alone. Together they are more reliable than choosing the more accomplished name.
What happens after a correct choice
The right-hand season becomes the known left-hand benchmark for the next comparison. This creates a chain instead of isolated trivia questions. A close call today becomes information for the next round, so pay attention to the revealed decimal even after the point is awarded.
Ties are excluded when the comparison deck is assembled. A choice must be strictly higher to continue the streak. Your best score is stored only in the current browser; the site does not require an account or upload that streak to a public leaderboard.
Are these career scoring averages?
No. Every number belongs to the specific regular season printed on the card.
Can two players tie?
The deck avoids adjacent seasons with identical points-per-game values, so each comparison has one higher answer.
How is the next player chosen?
A seeded shuffled deck selects a player and one eligible season, then advances one card at a time after correct answers.
Where is my best streak stored?
It is saved locally in your browser. Clearing site data resets it.