ELSTATSLAB
MVP of the Month
One index, four categories, one MVP for each month of the EuroLeague regular season. Points alone do not make a most valuable player: the index looks at how a player ranks among all eligible players in Impact Pulse, PIR, team wins and Value Added.
Theo Maledon of Real Madrid finishes first with an MVP index of 96.7 out of 100. Here is how the top five got there.
- 1. Theo Maledon, Real Madrid (96.7)First among eligible players in PIR (22.3) and in team wins (his team won 6 of the 7 games he played), fourth in Value Added (+1.09) and thirteenth in Impact Pulse (+0.41). It is the mix that makes the difference: he is never far from the top of the four lists, and he leads two of them.
- 2. W. Tavares, Real Madrid (88.2)Also first in team wins (6 of 7), sixth in Value Added (+0.92) and tenth in PIR (17.9). Two Real Madrid players fill the top two places.
- 3. T. Shorts, Valencia (87.8)Third in PIR (20.7) with +0.87 in Value Added, but his team won 4 of the 7 games he played.
- 4. M. Lessort, Panathinaikos (87.8)The best Value Added of the top five (+1.14, second among eligible players), with 5 wins in 7 games.
- 5. N. Hifi, Paris (85.4)Second in PIR (21.0) and sixth in Impact Pulse (+0.48), with 3 wins in 4 games.
How the index works
Each player is ranked in four categories among eligible players. The ranks are combined with these weights: Impact Pulse 25%, PIR 25%, team wins 20%, Value Added 30%. The result goes from 0 to 100, where 100 means first in all four.
- Impact Pulse
- our own measure of what a player changes on court.
- PIR
- the EuroLeague performance index.
- Team wins
- his team's record in the games he played.
- Value Added (VA)
- OVA + DVA, the wins a player adds against an average player with the same minutes.
To be eligible, a player needs at least 3 games and 15 minutes per game in the period. A month is a calendar month, based on the date of the game. More about our metrics in the Methodology.
Past winners
October 2026: Theo Maledon, Real Madrid (97)