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How the Honor Index works

The Honor Index counts only real, hard-won silverware — fully transparent and reproducible by hand, with no black box and no penalty for winning more. Here is every step.

Honor Index (counting the trophies)

HonorScore = Σ ( base × bucket × share )

base — each honor's base value, set by prestige and scarcity (table below).
Team titles — Championships, weighted by event tier
Individual awards — MVPs & All-Pro selections, scaled by vote share
Deep runs — Finals appearances that fell short of the title

Vote share applies only to individual awards: a unanimous MVP counts fully, a narrow vote counts proportionally. It is summable across a career, so five dominant MVP seasons read as more than five split ones.

No diminishing returns: every repeat win of an honor adds full value — dominance is only ever rewarded.

Every title and win is recorded individually at its real year and laid out year-by-year on the career timeline — career totals are never collapsed onto one season.

Stature & Era Strength (the reputation lens)

Stature = base × ( 1 ± 12% · eraStrength )

An optional lens, fully separate from the trophy-based Honor Index, capturing all-time standing and influence (toggle it on the leaderboard).

Base — a curated GOAT-consensus rating where authored, else derived from the player's Honor-Index percentile.
Era strength — the percentile density of decorated rivals whose prime overlapped yours (median player = 50).

Crucially this is one-pass (honor scores → era density → stature) and never feeds back into the Honor Index — no circular dependency; capped at ±12%.

Worked example

How the current No. 1, Michael Jordan, builds a score of 12,493:

NBA Most Valuable Player ×53,000

NBA Championship ×62,880

Finals MVP ×62,160

All-NBA First Team ×101,500

Scoring Title ×101,100

NBA All-Star ×14588

All-Defensive First Team ×9495

Olympic Gold ×2360

Weights by achievement

The base value of every honor in this sport, calibrated by event prestige and scarcity — the base term in the formula above.

Achievement	Bucket	Tier	Base points
NBA Most Valuable Player	Individual awards	S	600
NBA Championship	Team titles	S	480
Finals MVP	Individual awards	S	360
ABA Most Valuable Player	Individual awards	A	300
EuroLeague MVP	Individual awards	A	250
ABA Championship	Team titles	A	240
EuroLeague	Team titles	A	220
Olympic Gold	Team titles	A	180
Defensive Player of the Year	Individual awards	A	160
All-NBA First Team	Individual awards	A	150
FIBA World Cup	Team titles	A	130
EuroBasket Gold	Team titles	B	110
Scoring Title	Individual awards	A	110
NBA Finals (runner-up)	Deep runs	B	90
All-NBA Second Team	Individual awards	B	75
Rookie of the Year	Individual awards	B	70
All-Defensive First Team	Individual awards	B	55
NBA All-Star	Individual awards	B	42
All-NBA Third Team	Individual awards	B	40
Statistical Title (ast/reb/stl/blk)	Individual awards	B	35

Weighting presets

Multipliers applied per bucket. Switch presets on the leaderboard to re-rank instantly.

Balanced

Team titles×1

Individual awards×1

Deep runs×1

preset.rings

Team titles×1.5

Individual awards×0.6

Deep runs×0.8

Individual brilliance

Team titles×0.7

Individual awards×1.6

Deep runs×0.5

Comparison dimensions

The head-to-head radar maps six facets, each scaled 0–100 against the strongest player.

TitlesTeam championships — the trophies that define a dynasty.

InternationalInternational titles — world & continental crowns and their MVPs.

IndividualIndividual awards (MVP / Player of the Year), scaled by vote share.

SelectionsAll-Star and All-League selections across the whole career.

PeakThe single most decorated season or year of the career.

LongevityCareer span and the number of decorated seasons.

Data & sourcing

Illustrative dataset for this prototype — honors are approximate and seeded by hand, not yet synced from Leaguepedia.

Production data will sync from Leaguepedia's Cargo tables (CC BY-SA), reconciled against Wikidata IDs, with traditional sports added later through a sport-agnostic achievement model.