The Lab All-Star Tournament
Every All-Star Game team from 1984 to 2026, rated as if it had to play for real. The best 8 from each era make the bracket. Every round is best of seven, and the odds below are the exact chances, not one lucky run.
Set it up your way
Four eras, eight seeds each
Seeds come from the team rating: points per 100 possessions better than an average NBA team, plus the era gap. Region is the chance to win the era; Title is the chance to win it all. Open a roster to see who plays.
Play the bracket
The odds above are what you'd expect over thousands of tournaments. This is one tournament, game by game. Each run has a number, so anyone can replay the same one. Tap any series for its scouting report: who guards who, the key edges and a projected box score.
Any two All-Star teams
Pick any two of the 84 teams, in or out of the bracket, and get the scouting report and a projected box score.
The weakest All-Star team ever
How it works
Rosters: the players who took the floor in each All-Star Game (Basketball Reference). Where a year had more than two teams (2025, 2026), it's the two teams in the final game. There was no 1999 game. Magic Johnson in 1992 uses his 1990-91 season.
Player value: that season's regular-season Box Plus/Minus. Team rating: the best 8 at 30 minutes each, times star credit, plus the era gap from 1992.
Games: today's NBA rules (48 minutes, pace 99.4), neutral floor. Series Simulator v0.3: a team's level shifts a little from series to series, and every night has its own swing.
Photos: free-licence images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, credited below. Players without a free photo show their initials.
Rules were locked before any team was rated. This is a SIMULATION RESULT, never a Lab Result. All-Star teams were never built to play together, so fit and coaching aren't in it.