There's one mystery NBA player each day, and you have eight guesses to find them. Every guess builds a row in your scouting report comparing seven attributes against the mystery player. Three of those columns are the same every single day, because they're the spine of a player's identity: draft year, draft pick, and franchises. The other four rotate daily. One is always about origin (birth country or college), one about volume (games played, games started, or minutes per game), one about production (points, rebounds, assists, or a career high), and one about accolades (rings, All-Star selections, or All-NBA teams). A ✅ means an exact match, 🟡 means close (within five draft picks, one ring, two All-Star nods, or one shared franchise), and the arrows tell you whether the mystery player's number is higher or lower than your guess. Teams use their own scale: 🟢 for two-plus shared franchises or an identical career map, 🟡 for one shared stop, ⚪ for no overlap. Solve it early for a cleaner grid; the emoji receipt is made for the group chat.
Scouting Report is the deduction game for fans who think in transactions and draft boards. Every attribute is compared from verified career data, the same player database behind the rest of airball.gg, and the answer pool is limited to recognizable NBA names, so you'll never lose to a ten-day-contract mystery man. Answers never repeat, and the weekday sets the difficulty: Mondays and Fridays are stars, midweek goes to quality starters, and Saturday digs deep. Eight guesses is enough to triangulate almost anyone if you read the arrows right. The rotating board is what keeps the deduction from going stale. With three fixed anchors and one column drawn from each of the four rotating groups, there are 72 possible boards, and the generator will not repeat a group's pick from the day before. That matters because a fixed seven-column board rewards one memorized opening probe forever; a board that changes shape asks you to re-plan every morning. Days generated before the rotating board shipped keep the original seven columns when you replay them, so an old game looks exactly as it did the day it was live.
What do the arrows mean?
The mystery player's number is higher (⬆️) or lower (⬇️) than your guess's for that column - debut year, draft pick number, rings, or All-Star selections. 🟡 means you're close.
How does the Teams column work?
It counts franchises both players appeared for: 🟢 two or more shared (or an identical set), 🟡 exactly one, ⚪ none. Relocated teams count as their modern franchise.
Can the mystery player be someone obscure?
No - answers come from the same recognizable-player pool as the other games, and the weekday difficulty rotation means the hardest answers only show up on weekends.
Do answers ever repeat?
Never. Every day's mystery player is new for the lifetime of the game.
Why are the columns different from yesterday?
Because the board rotates. Draft year, draft pick and franchises are fixed every day, and the remaining four slots each draw from their own group: origin, volume, production, and accolades. That gives 72 possible boards, and no group repeats the pick it made the previous day, so consecutive days always look different. Replaying a game from before the rotation shipped shows you the original seven columns.
What happens if I use all eight guesses?
The answer is revealed along with the completed grid, and the day is scored on how far you got. Running out is not a wasted round: every guess you made is still a row of real comparisons, and the grid you share shows how close you were closing in.
Player stats, rosters, and career data reflect the most recently completed NBA season until the new season is underway.
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