How to Play — NBA

One mystery roster. Three questions. Every day.

The basics

Restreak is a daily sports game. Each day, for every sport, you get the full roster and stat table for one mystery team-season — with the team name, season, and record hidden. Pick your sport from the tabs at the top (more sports on the way), and figure out all three:

• Team — pick the franchise from the dropdown. Eras matter, and the franchise's name of the day is the answer: the 1978 Buffalo Braves and today's Los Angeles Clippers are one franchise but two answers — same for the Hartford Whalers and the Carolina Hurricanes.
• Season — pick the season the roster is from.
• Record — pick whether the team's regular-season win total landed over or under the line.

Lock in all three answers, hit Submit, and see how you did. Everyone in the world gets the same rosters on the same day, and new ones arrive at midnight. You can play each sport once per day.

Scoring

• Each correct answer is worth 3 points.
• Get all three right and you earn a +1 bonus for a perfect 10.
• Close counts on the season. One season off on either side earns 2 points; two seasons off earns 1.
• Team and record are all or nothing. You name the franchise of the day and pick the right side of the over/under — or you don't.

Streaks and the leaderboard

Play on consecutive days to build a streak. Any sport counts — playing one game keeps your streak alive; you don't have to play them all. Miss a full day and it resets. With a free account (verified email), your scores, streaks, and question-by-question averages are saved forever, and you'll appear on the leaderboard. You can play without an account, but your results only live in your browser — and streaks reset.

NBA strategy

Every NBA roster is drawn from 1967-68 or later, through the most recent completed season.

The same instincts work in every sport: the names are the clue — recognize one player and their career arc narrows the era fast. Sorting the table by the headline stat surfaces the stars. And missing stats are a time machine — a dash (—) means the stat wasn't tracked in that era. A few NBA-specific tells:

• No 3-point columns? Before 1979-80. No steals or blocks? Before 1973-74. No turnovers? Before 1977-78. No games started? Before 1981-82.
• A games-played leader around 50 says the 1998-99 lockout; around 66, the 2011-12 lockout; around 72, the 2020-21 COVID season.
• Per-36 numbers expose bench scorers; pace-era totals hint at the decade.

Playing another sport? NFL rules · MLB rules · NHL rules.

House rules

• One play per sport, per day — no retries, no take-backs.
• The rosters roll over at midnight, your local time.
• No looking things up. (We can't stop you. But you'll know.)