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Sam Houston · 2025–26 · 31 available game logs · Speculative compensation · Model-implied values by season · Linked seasons and observed career performance

Logged performance

873:09 minutes logged

Games logged: 31
Minutes per game: 28:10
Points per game: 8.2
Rebounds / assists per game: 5.5 / 1.8

Box line on three bases
Basis	Pts	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF
Per game	8.2	5.5	1.8	1.1	0.1	1.2	2.4
Per 40 minutes	11.7	7.8	2.6	1.5	0.2	1.6	3.4
Season totals	255	171	57	33	4	36	75

Shooting with attempts
Shot	Made–att.	Pct	Att/G	Att/40
FG	95–224	42.4%	7.2	10.3
2P	70–155	45.2%	5.0	7.1
3P	25–69	36.2%	2.2	3.2
FT	40–49	81.6%	1.6	2.2

Derived rates (computed here from the box line, not published statistics)
eFG%	Estimated TS%	3PA / FGA	FTA / FGA	AST / TO
48.0%	51.9%	30.8%	21.9%	1.58

Accepted logged appearances only; absent games are not zeroes. † marks a rate on fewer attempts than the floor (field goal 100, three-point 50, free throw 25). Floors are descriptive, not model output. Definitions

Speculative compensation · 2025–26β

Sam Houston St · Low and other · 2025–26 · a best guess at this player's part of the school's own revenue-sharing budget for men's basketball.

Speculative best guess: $45K; 80% range $14K to $140K
Median share of team pool: 16.7%; team pool $265K, 80% range $96K to $730K
Across scenarios Z1 to Z4: $39K to $49K; the elasticity disagreement is carried, not resolved
Floor part: $2K; shared by every player with possessions
Possession share: 70.7%; Sufficient evidence

Point and 80% range on the team table's axis. Open circle: limited evidence or floor only.

Range driven by assumption, not data

Speculative best guess, not observed pay. It is not a contract, not an offer and not a market price, and it is unvalidated: no pay is held to check it against. Point is the median and the range is the 10th to 90th percentile of 4,000 joint draws of budget and player value; a mixture of assumptions, not a calibrated interval.

Budget anchor. Tier prior from anonymous surveys and sources, scaled so that all non-Power budgets sum to the national total the College Sports Commission reported paid for 2025-26 ($1,770,453,776 over 307 schools) less the Power 4 total, times a men's basketball share; weak anchor.

Assumptions. modelled pool; split by possession share times value over replacement; convexity; shared floor; replacement level; four elasticity scenarios; closure to the national total; opt-out list; exclusions. Each is a declared judgement, not an estimate. Numbers, anchors and checks

Not included. Third-party and collective NIL deals, including deals cleared through NIL Go. Non-cash benefits such as scholarship, cost of attendance, Alston awards and housing. Bonuses and incentive terms. Anything outside the school's own revenue-sharing channel.

Sam Houston St: whole-roster table and pool · School finances (school-reported) · What-if calculator for this player

No revenue-sharing budget existed before the 2025–26 season, so no compensation figure is modelled for earlier seasons.

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Model-implied value and speculative compensation by seasonβ

Net points per 100 possessions by season, newest first. The speculative compensation best guess for 2025–26 only sits right after the team, so it is the first figure after the season. Ordered by season, not by value or dollars. Compensation is a best guess of a share of the school’s own revenue-sharing budget, not observed pay.
Season	Team	Speculative compensation (best guess)	Compensation 80% range	Split role	Net	Range	Evidence	Offense	Defense	Wins above replacement	On-court possessions	Sample and flags
2026	Sam Houston St	$45Kspeculative	$14K to $140K	descriptive: not used in fit or gates	+2.5	+1.2 to +3.9	Sufficient evidence	+1.0	+1.5	+6.4range +5.5 to +7.1	3,097	Season detail
2024	Sam Houston St	None: no budget that season	—	evaluation: examined, post hoc	+1.2	-0.1 to +2.7	Sufficient evidence	+0.1	+1.1	+3.3range +2.7 to +4.0	2,528	Season detail
2023	Sam Houston St	None: no budget that season	—	evaluation: examined, post hoc	+1.8	+0.7 to +2.7	Limited evidence	+0.6	+1.2	+1.0range +0.9 to +1.2	586	Limited evidence: 300 to 599 on-court possessions. Season detail
2022	Sam Houston St	None: no budget that season	—	development: in model selection	-0.0	-1.2 to +0.9	Limited evidence	-1.0	+1.0	Not computed for this season	433	Limited evidence: 300 to 599 on-court possessions.

Open circle: limited evidence. Filled circle: sufficient evidence. Vertical line: zero. This table makes no claim about change over time, so it has no change column or trend. Seasons 2011 to 2017 have a point value but no range, so none is shown. Compensation exists for 2025–26 only; earlier rows say that no budget existed. NIL methodology · Compensation methodology

Game log

Trend over the 31 listed games, oldest to newest. Horizontal position follows the date. Minutes and points start at zero; game eFG% scales to its own range. Each row has its own vertical scale, so compare the printed values, not the graphics. Faint line: five-game rolling mean.
Measure	Last five	Listed games	Range
Minutes	34:19	28:10	11:58–38:37
Points	10.2	8.2	0.0–21.0
Game eFG%	47.2%	50.3%	0.0%–100.0%

Game log, box line per game. eFG% is computed for the game from field goals and three-pointers; it is blank without a field-goal attempt.
Date	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FG	3P	FT	eFG
2026-03-18	New Mexico	L 83–107	33:10	12	6	5	1	0	1	5	4-9	0-1	4-4	44.4%
2026-03-13	Kennesaw St.	L 73–79	30:15	8	5	0	3	0	3	4	2-7	1-3	3-4	35.7%
2026-03-11	New Mexico St.	W 69–61	38:37	3	12	2	1	0	1	3	1-10	0-3	1-2	10.0%
2026-03-07	Liberty	L 72–79	33:10	10	2	3	0	0	2	4	4-8	2-3	0-0	62.5%
2026-03-05	Delaware	L 80–83	36:23	18	9	4	1	0	0	3	7-9	1-1	3-3	83.3%
2026-02-28	Missouri St.	W 86–81	29:38	9	9	5	1	0	0	3	3-9	0-1	3-4	33.3%
2026-02-26	FIU	W 100–67	28:53	10	2	4	1	0	1	1	3-7	0-2	4-4	42.9%
2026-02-21	Jacksonville St.	W 82–78	30:23	9	6	2	0	0	1	3	3-7	1-3	2-3	50.0%
2026-02-18	Middle Tenn.	W 78–70	31:21	5	3	2	0	0	2	2	2-4	1-2	0-0	62.5%
2026-02-14	Kennesaw St.	W 83–79	36:31	21	4	1	2	0	3	0	6-8	4-4	5-8	100.0%
2026-02-07	Louisiana Tech	L 78–87	31:38	0	3	2	3	1	0	4	0-3	0-1	0-0	0.0%
2026-02-04	UTEP	W 70–66	33:25	14	6	1	2	0	1	1	6-12	2-4	0-0	58.3%
2026-01-31	Louisiana Tech	W 83–67	30:27	9	4	0	1	0	1	3	4-6	0-1	1-2	66.7%
2026-01-28	Missouri St.	W 80–71	16:07	4	1	1	2	0	0	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	50.0%
2026-01-24	Western Ky.	W 73–58	26:24	8	4	5	2	1	0	1	4-7	0-3	0-0	57.1%
2026-01-21	Kennesaw St.	W 93–87	26:22	15	2	2	0	0	0	2	6-10	3-4	0-0	75.0%
2026-01-17	FIU	W 76–63	26:18	5	10	2	1	0	2	2	2-7	1-2	0-0	35.7%
2026-01-14	Jacksonville St.	W 77–62	29:54	11	7	3	1	0	1	3	4-6	3-4	0-0	91.7%
2026-01-10	Liberty	L 74–82	21:13	3	8	0	0	0	1	1	1-7	1-1	0-0	21.4%
2026-01-08	Delaware	W 72–60	22:44	2	7	0	0	0	1	1	0-6	0-1	2-2	0.0%
2026-01-04	Middle Tenn.	L 67–68	28:42	11	7	1	2	0	2	2	4-9	1-1	2-3	50.0%
2026-01-02	Western Ky.	L 91–102	16:54	2	4	1	0	0	1	3	1-1	0-0	0-0	100.0%
2025-12-21	New Mexico St.	L 78–87	28:57	8	8	0	1	0	2	1	3-11	0-3	2-2	27.3%
2025-12-17	Oregon St.	W 85–75	30:26	10	7	2	3	0	2	2	5-9	0-2	0-0	55.6%
2025-12-06	Texas Southern	W 82–70	26:29	6	6	1	0	0	3	0	2-8	0-2	2-2	25.0%
2025-12-02	Oklahoma St.	L 83–93	25:39	4	5	2	1	0	1	3	1-8	0-4	2-2	12.5%
2025-11-28	Idaho	W 94–68	29:08	9	4	2	0	0	0	2	4-8	1-4	0-0	56.3%
2025-11-26	Idaho St.	W 84–81	30:26	7	3	1	3	0	0	2	3-7	1-3	0-0	50.0%
2025-11-19	Wyoming	W 78–70	31:26	11	14	2	0	1	3	3	3-9	1-4	4-4	38.9%
2025-11-15	Utah	L 79–85	20:11	9	2	1	1	0	0	2	4-7	1-2	0-0	64.3%
2025-11-07	Texas Tech	L 77–98	11:58	2	1	0	0	1	1	5	1-1	0-0	0-0	100.0%