If your league charges for missed threes, Brandon Miller and Curry fall and the bigs rise

Some points leagues charge for a missed three on top of whatever they already charge for a missed shot, and the setting quietly reorders the middle of the draft. ESPN's default scoring already takes a point for every field-goal attempt and gives two back for every make, so a missed three is a point lost before any extra charge. A league that adds half a point for each missed three is charging the volume three-point shooters a second time, and the players who never shoot threes, mostly centers, gain ground without scoring a single extra point.

Our projections do not carry three-point attempts directly, so we project each player's attempts from his projected makes and his own three-point percentage from last season, pulled toward the league average of 36.1% when he took few of them. That method predicted the following season's attempts to within a quarter of an attempt a game for the typical player over the last three seasons. We then reran our points board under ESPN's default scoring plus a half-point charge for every missed three.

Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.