NBA 2K27 Snubbed Devin Booker's Midrange — Here's the Fantasy Read
2K left Booker off its top-10 midrange list despite 325 attempts at 45.8%. The rating noise doesn't change his No. 31 fantasy value.
Elite midrange volume and 40 FPTS/G make him a stable mid-round core.
- 325 midrange attempts, 6th-most in NBA in 2025-26
- 45.8% midrange FG, 6th among 300+ attempters
- 2K midrange rating: 86, off the top-10 list
- Booker shot 33% from three yet got an 86 there too
- Our rank: #31 overall, #15 among guards
NBA 2K27's rating drop left Devin Booker outside the game's top 10 midrange shooters, slapping him with an 86 despite one of the loudest resumes in the league at that spot. Last season (2025-26), Booker took 325 midrange shots — sixth-most in the NBA — and canned 45.8% of them, which ranked sixth among everyone with at least 300 attempts. Volume and efficiency, both there in black and white, and the game still whiffed.
For context on how sideways this got: Washington rookie Tre Johnson landed a 98 midrange rating on 111 attempts. Johnson shot a slick 49.5%, but that's roughly a third of Booker's sample. When a 60-game rookie who posted 12.2 points and a 19.7 fantasy-points-per-game line (2025-26 actuals) outranks a decade-long midrange staple, the model has left the room.
The three-point line is where it gets funny. Booker hit 33% from deep last season — below average, plainly — and 2K handed him an 86 there too. Same number from a spot where he's elite and a spot where he wasn't. Either the algorithm shrugged or it's quietly predicting a shot-profile flip nobody else sees.
What This Actually Means for Your Roster
Ratings are locker-room ammo, not draft tools, so don't let an 86 shake your board. Booker finished 2025-26 averaging 26.1 points, 6 assists and 3.9 rebounds across 64 games — good for 40 fantasy points per game and our No. 31 overall rank (No. 15 among guards). That's a rock-solid mid-round anchor, and his last-five-game form sat +2.1 fantasy points above his season average, so he's trending up, not down.
The Tre Johnson noise is worth flagging for a different reason. A 98 in a video game doesn't move his fantasy needle — he's our No. 212 overall on a 19.7 FPTS/G profile, and his last-five form dipped 2.3 points below average. He's a dynasty-league name to monitor, not a redraft priority.
Bottom line: hold Booker with full confidence and ignore the pixels. He's a reliable top-35 guard whose real-world usage and efficiency dwarf whatever spreadsheet Visual Concepts ran. If a leaguemate tries to talk his value down over a video-game rating, let them — then quietly enjoy your 40-point-a-night guard.
