NBA CONTRACT HISTORY · ANALYTICAL COHORT LAB

Analyze What Was Signed — Not Reconstructed Payroll

Cohort Query Filters

Signing Season Window

Population Scope Transaction Type

Personnel Profile

Position Group Position Start-Season Age Career Stage at Signing

Calendar & Schedule Flags

Cohort Visualization

Capital Commitment Distribution

Display Season A Season B

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Team A Team B Depth ladders: A · B View Graphic Overlay Measure

Cap-share spread by cohort · p25–p75

Position-group annualized commitment

Age-band annualized commitment

Option frequency vs cumulative cap share

Annualized cap investment by prior franchise tenure

About this lab

Keep each deal attached to its actual signing cohort, then measure commitment against the cap in each corresponding modeled contract season. Use franchise tenure to compare investment in established players with bets on new arrivals. Nothing here reconstructs payroll: it describes what was signed.

Which signings carry a price

Share of each cohort's signings by schedule status. The line is signings priced = scheduled ÷ (scheduled + no stated terms); the table beside it adds the share of first-season salary that has no stated terms.

How the price was set

Share of each cohort's contracts by price basis: realized pay, contract terms (extensions), Spotrac schedule, or an estimate.

Coverage by signing cohort

Who is in this cohort

Inclusion rules & definitions

How each lens reads the data

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