Show the numbers
| Points from | 2020-21 | 2025-26 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| threes | 28.2 | 28.5 | +0.3 |
| twos | 44.1 | 47.1 | +3.0 |
| free throws | 13.1 | 15.6 | +2.5 |
| All points | 85.4 | 91.2 | +5.8 |
The short version
- NBL teams scored 91.2 points a game in 2025-26, up from 85.4 in 2020-21. Regular season, per team-game: 330 and 324 team-games.
- Threes made hardly changed: 9.4 a game in 2020-21, 9.5 in 2025-26. Attempts rose from 27.1 to 28.7; the percentage fell from 34.7% to 33.1%.
- Of the extra 5.8 points, 0.3 came from threes, 3.0 from twos and 2.5 from free throws. Twos are derived: field goals minus threes.
- South East Melbourne attempted 36.5 threes a game in 2025-26. No other club attempted more than 29.9.
What is being counted
Every figure here is a regular-season average per team-gameOne club in one game: its players' box-score rows added together. The 165 regular-season games of 2025-26 make 330 team-games. over six seasons, from 2020-21 to 2025-26. Finals are left out because the number of finals changes from year to year. The feed records field goals, threes and free throws, attempted and made, for every player in every game; everything about twos is worked out from those.
Points went up
Teams scored 85.4 points a game in 2020-21 and 84.5 in 2021-22. Then came three rises in a row, to 88.1, 90.6 and a high of 92.9 in 2024-25, before 91.2 in 2025-26. From the first season to the last, that is 5.8 more a game.
Show the numbers
| Season | Team-games | Points | Field-goal attempts | Free-throw attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | 324 | 85.4 | 70.6 | 17.2 |
| 2021-22 | 280 | 84.5 | 70.6 | 18.9 |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 88.1 | 70.2 | 20.5 |
| 2023-24 | 280 | 90.6 | 71.6 | 22.9 |
| 2024-25 | 290 | 92.9 | 72.4 | 21.6 |
| 2025-26 | 330 | 91.2 | 72.7 | 20.9 |
Threes did not, or not by much
Three-point attempts ran 27.1, 28.1, 27.9, 26.4, 29.1 and 28.7 a game. Threes made were 9.4 in 2020-21 and 9.5 in 2025-26, because the three-point percentage, pooled as all threes made over all threes attempted in the season, went from 34.7% to 33.1%. Threes were 38.5% of field-goal attempts in 2020-21 and 39.5% in 2025-26.
Show the numbers
| Season | Threes attempted | Threes made | Three-point % | Share of field-goal attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | 27.1 | 9.4 | 34.7% | 38.5% |
| 2021-22 | 28.1 | 9.1 | 32.4% | 39.8% |
| 2022-23 | 27.9 | 9.6 | 34.4% | 39.7% |
| 2023-24 | 26.4 | 8.9 | 33.7% | 36.9% |
| 2024-25 | 29.1 | 10.2 | 35% | 40.2% |
| 2025-26 | 28.7 | 9.5 | 33.1% | 39.5% |
- threes attempted a game
- 27.1 → 28.7
- 2020-21 to 2025-26
- threes made a game
- 9.4 → 9.5
- three-point percentage
- 34.7% → 33.1%
- pooled across the season
Where the 5.8 points came from
Split the rise by kind of basket. Points from threes went from 28.2 a game to 28.5, a rise of 0.3. Points from twos went from 44.1 to 47.1, a rise of 3.0: teams attempted about as many twos, 43.4 a game and then 44.0, and made more of them, with the two-point percentage going from 50.8% to 53.6%. Free throws gave the other 2.5. Free-throw attempts rose from 17.2 a game to 20.9, after a peak of 22.9 in 2023-24.
How the points were made, by season
share of all regular-season points · share from threes at the endShow the numbers
| Season | Threes | Twos | Free throws |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | 33.1% | 51.6% | 15.3% |
| 2021-22 | 32.3% | 51.1% | 16.6% |
| 2022-23 | 32.6% | 50.3% | 17.1% |
| 2023-24 | 29.5% | 51.8% | 18.7% |
| 2024-25 | 32.9% | 49.7% | 17.4% |
| 2025-26 | 31.2% | 51.7% | 17.1% |
As a share of all points, threes went from 33.1% in 2020-21 to 31.2% in 2025-26, with a low of 29.5% in 2023-24. Free throws went from 15.3% to 17.1%. Twos stayed near half: 51.6% and 51.7%.
Shot mix, not pace
This is a count of where points came from, not of how fast games were played. Pace, the number of possessions a team has in a game, is not derived here, so this page cannot say whether teams scored more because they had more possessions or because more of them ended in points. Field-goal attempts did rise, from 70.6 a game to 72.7.
South East Melbourne
One club sat well apart in 2025-26. South East Melbourne attempted 36.5 threes a game and made 12.8, at 35.2%. Threes were 45% of their field-goal attempts and 38.2% of their points. Cairns and Melbourne were next, at 29.9 attempts; Illawarra attempted the fewest, 26.2. Opponents attempted 23.8 threes a game against South East Melbourne, the fewest faced by any club. They finished 22–11.
Threes attempted per game, every club, 2025-26
regular season · 33 games each · made and percentage in greyShow the numbers
| Club | Won–lost | Threes attempted | Threes made | Three-point % | Share of points from threes | Opponents' threes attempted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South East Melbourne Phoenix | 22–11 | 36.5 | 12.8 | 35.2% | 38.2% | 23.8 |
| Cairns Taipans | 9–24 | 29.9 | 10 | 33.5% | 35.9% | 27.8 |
| Melbourne United | 20–13 | 29.9 | 9.6 | 32.2% | 31.4% | 26.1 |
| Sydney Kings | 24–9 | 29.5 | 10.5 | 35.4% | 31.6% | 32.5 |
| NZ Breakers | 13–20 | 27.6 | 8.5 | 30.8% | 27.8% | 31.1 |
| Perth Wildcats | 21–12 | 27.5 | 8.8 | 32.1% | 29.2% | 29.3 |
| Adelaide 36ers | 23–10 | 27.4 | 9.9 | 36.2% | 32.2% | 28.2 |
| Brisbane Bullets | 6–27 | 26.5 | 7.5 | 28.1% | 27.2% | 28.4 |
| Tasmania JackJumpers | 14–19 | 26.3 | 8.6 | 32.8% | 29.7% | 27.8 |
| Illawarra Hawks | 13–20 | 26.2 | 8.8 | 33.7% | 28.4% | 32.3 |
Adelaide made the highest share of their threes, 36.2%, and Brisbane the lowest, 28.1%. Bryce Cotton made the most threes of any player: 104 from 273 for Adelaide, 38.1%. Nathan Sobey of South East Melbourne made 103 from 293. The most by one club in one game across the six seasons, finals included, was Tasmania's 22 from 42 against Illawarra on 20 February 2022.
The working
- Team-game
- One club's player rows in one game, added up. Regular season: 324, 280, 278, 280, 290, 330 team-games, 2020-21 to 2025-26.
- Derived
- Twos attempted = field goals attempted − threes attempted; twos made likewise. Points from threes = 3 × threes made; from twos = 2 × twos made; from free throws = free throws made. Percentages are pooled: the season's makes divided by its attempts.
- Season length
- 36 regular-season games a club in 2020-21, 28 from 2021-22 to 2023-24, 29 in 2024-25 and 33 in 2025-26. The data stores a season under the year it ends.
- Left out
- Finals, except in the most-threes-in-a-game record. Game 7491 (2022-23, Round 14) has no player rows. No other team-game was missing a stat.
- Pace
- Not derived. Nothing here separates more possessions from more points per possession.
- Read
- 15 September 2026, from Punt's database. Completed games only.
- Not in this article
- Pace, or how next season's scoring will go.