EuroLeague MVP race 2026-27

Our EuroLeague MVP ladder: every player ranked by Clutch Data Score after round 10. The table shows the top 25: efficient offensive production plus defensive points saved, on one scale. It is our ranking, not the official award; every official winner since 2016-17 is listed further down.

Season to date · up to round 10 · November 6, 2026

Walter Tavares leads the race with a CDS of 219 (21.9 per game), ahead of TJ Shorts and Wade Baldwin IV. Biggest climber: Aliou Diarra (+40 places).

EuroLeague MVP ladder after round 10

Top 5 after round 10: Walter Tavares, TJ Shorts, Wade Baldwin IV, Elijah Bryant and Mfiondu Kabengele.

EOPDPSDPS < 0

* OE above 1.00: the player has more offensive rebounds than shots, which shrinks the formula's denominator. His EOP and CDS are inflated by it; read them with caution.

MIN, PTS, ORB, AST and TOV are per game; EOP, DPS and CDS are season totals. Click a column to sort.

What is the Clutch Data Score?

The Clutch Data Score (CDS) adds a player's efficient offensive production to the points he saves on defense, measured from on/off, as one season total. It is the score we use with clubs to compare players across roles and leagues; see how it works.

Definitions

# and +/−

Place in the ranking, and the places gained (▲) or lost (▼) since the previous round. New: no score in the previous round.

GP

Games played this season.

MIN, PTS, ORB, AST, TOV

Minutes, points, offensive rebounds, assists and turnovers, per game.

OE

Offensive efficiency: (FGM + AST) / (FGA − ORB + AST + TOV), the share of the possessions a player finishes that end in a made shot or an assist. Marked * above 1.00 (see the note under the table).

EOP

Efficient offensive production: (AST factor × AST + PTS) × OE, scaled so it adds up to the league's points. Season total.

AST factor

2 × the share of assists on made shots within 1.5 m of the basket.

DPS

Defensive points saved: 2 × the defensive stops gained from opponent eFG%, ORB% and TOV% with the player on court against off, in the games they played. Season total. Negative when opponents do better with the player on court.

CDS

Clutch Data Score: EOP plus DPS, season to date. The ranking is ordered by it.

How to read it

CDS is cumulative: it rewards players who produce efficiently and stay on the floor, so a player who misses games falls behind even with strong per-game numbers. Defense comes from on/off: how much worse opponents shoot, rebound and protect the ball with the player on court. Early in the season a few games still move the order a lot. The page updates itself when a round ends.

Every term, with its formula, in the glossary →

EuroLeague MVP 2025-26: Sasha Vezenkov (Olympiacos)

The 2025-26 EuroLeague MVP was Sasha Vezenkov (Olympiacos), his second award after 2022-23; before him only Anthony Parker had won it twice (2004-05 and 2005-06). Sylvain Francisco (Žalgiris) and Elijah Bryant (Hapoel Tel Aviv) completed the podium. In the Clutch Data Score at the end of the regular season, Vezenkov finished 19th and Francisco was the leader.

EuroLeague MVP winners by season

The official MVP of each season since 2016-17, with his place in the Clutch Data Score at the last round of the regular season and the player who led it. Open a season to see its top 8 by CDS.

Season	MVP	Club	CDS rank	CDS leader
2025-26	Sasha Vezenkov	Olympiacos	19	Sylvain Francisco (Zalgiris)
Top 8 by CDS, 2025-26 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Sylvain Francisco Zalgiris 38 754 2 McKinley Wright IV Dubai 38 728 3 Dan Oturu Hapoel Tel Aviv 38 704 4 Facundo Campazzo Real Madrid 38 679 5 Nikola Milutinov Olympiacos 35 651 6 Walter Tavares Real Madrid 38 639 7 Elijah Bryant Hapoel Tel Aviv 34 600 8 Codi Miller-McIntyre Crvena Zvezda 38 587
2024-25	Kendrick Nunn	Panathinaikos	6	TJ Shorts (Paris)
Top 8 by CDS, 2024-25 # Player Club GP CDS 1 TJ Shorts Paris 33 1006 2 Sasha Vezenkov Olympiacos 32 721 3 Mikael Jantunen Paris 34 668 4 Walter Tavares Real Madrid 34 648 5 Carsen Edwards Bayern Munich 34 602 6 Kendrick Nunn MVP Panathinaikos 33 588 7 Vincent Poirier Anadolu Efes 34 572 8 Nikola Mirotić Olimpia Milano 30 568
2023-24	Mike James	Monaco	1	Mike James (Monaco)
Top 8 by CDS, 2023-24 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Mike James MVP Monaco 34 779 2 Keenan Evans Zalgiris 34 673 3 Jan Veselý Barcelona 33 661 4 Josh Nebo Maccabi Tel Aviv 33 648 5 Facundo Campazzo Real Madrid 32 557 6 Chima Moneke Baskonia 33 498 7 Codi Miller-McIntyre Baskonia 34 495 8 Bonzie Colson Maccabi Tel Aviv 34 469
2022-23	Sasha Vezenkov	Olympiacos	14	Darius Thompson (Baskonia)
Top 8 by CDS, 2022-23 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Darius Thompson Baskonia 34 738 2 Mathias Lessort Partizan 34 734 3 Johnathan Motley Fenerbahce 31 560 4 Alpha Diallo Monaco 34 548 5 Dante Exum Partizan 33 516 6 Will Clyburn Anadolu Efes 34 514 7 Walter Tavares Real Madrid 34 513 8 Donta Hall Monaco 34 499
2021-22	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	10	Nikola Kalinić (Crvena Zvezda)
Top 8 by CDS, 2021-22 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Nikola Kalinić Crvena Zvezda 22 548 2 Walter Tavares Real Madrid 22 512 3 Lorenzo Brown UNICS Kazan 23 457 4 Shane Larkin Anadolu Efes 23 446 5 Jan Veselý Fenerbahce 17 432 6 Chris Jones ASVEL 25 425 7 John Brown UNICS Kazan 24 383 8 Vladimir Lučić Bayern Munich 20 382
2020-21	Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes	12	Walter Tavares (Real Madrid)
Top 8 by CDS, 2020-21 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Walter Tavares Real Madrid 34 776 2 Jan Veselý Fenerbahce 30 582 3 Rokas Giedraitis Baskonia 34 567 4 Jalen Reynolds Bayern Munich 34 549 5 Nikola Kalinić Valencia 34 548 6 Thomas Walkup Zalgiris 34 548 7 Pierria Henry Baskonia 34 522 8 Jordan Loyd Crvena Zvezda 29 513
2019-20	Not awarded (COVID)		–	Nick Calathes (Panathinaikos)
Top 8 by CDS, 2019-20 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Nick Calathes Panathinaikos 28 672 2 Nikola Milutinov Olympiacos 24 606 3 Nikola Mirotić Barcelona 28 568 4 Tornike Shengelia Baskonia 28 539 5 Thomas Walkup Zalgiris 28 535 6 Shane Larkin Anadolu Efes 25 530 7 Nando De Colo Fenerbahce 24 479 8 Greg Monroe Bayern Munich 28 470
2018-19	Jan Veselý	Fenerbahce	18	Nikola Milutinov (Olympiacos)
Top 8 by CDS, 2018-19 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Nikola Milutinov Olympiacos 28 621 2 Mike James Olimpia Milano 30 558 3 Krunoslav Simon Anadolu Efes 30 513 4 Brandon Davies Zalgiris 30 511 5 Vasilije Micić Anadolu Efes 30 501 6 Nick Calathes Panathinaikos 30 486 7 Tarik Black Maccabi Tel Aviv 26 467 8 Vincent Poirier Baskonia 30 455
2017-18	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	22	Nick Calathes (Panathinaikos)
Top 8 by CDS, 2017-18 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Nick Calathes Panathinaikos 27 585 2 James Augustine Unicaja 29 512 3 Artūras Gudaitis Olimpia Milano 29 506 4 Norris Cole Maccabi Tel Aviv 28 503 5 Cory Higgins CSKA Moscow 30 460 6 Vladimir Štimac Anadolu Efes 30 456 7 Ante Tomić Barcelona 28 440 8 James Gist Panathinaikos 30 434
2016-17	Sergio Llull	Real Madrid	8	Keith Langford (UNICS Kazan)
Top 8 by CDS, 2016-17 # Player Club GP CDS 1 Keith Langford UNICS Kazan 28 666 2 Charles Jenkins Crvena Zvezda 30 575 3 Nick Calathes Panathinaikos 30 525 4 Will Clyburn Darussafaka 30 519 5 Bryant Dunston Anadolu Efes 30 516 6 Sinan Güler Galatasaray 30 515 7 Chris Singleton Panathinaikos 30 491 8 Sergio Llull MVP Real Madrid 27 485

How often was the MVP the CDS leader?

Of the 9 MVPs from 2016-17 to 2025-26, only Mike James (2023-24) finished first in the Clutch Data Score. All of them ranked in the top 6 in efficient offensive production, but seven of the nine were in the bottom 30% of the league in defensive points saved.

Mike James was the first American MVP since Anthony Parker, and in 2023-24 he also led the CDS: the only MVP in this table to do both.

More EuroLeague data

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