If FVV is a good point guard then the league is cooked
2025-26
Fred VanVleet
HOU · G · #5
Unofficial: 1,700 comments, 3,300 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 116th most hated.
- Height
- 6′0″
- Weight
- 197 lb
- Age
- 32
- Born
- Feb 25, 1994
- Experience
- 9 yrs
- From
- Wichita State
Verdict
33.4%52.8%13.8%
33.4%Negative568 comments
52.8%Neutral897 comments
13.8%Positive235 comments
−20Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=1,700 comments about Fred VanVleetUnofficial
Receipts
What the room said about Fred VanVleet, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.CHA flair Exhibit 02Negative.no flair Lol.. FVV has to be the most overrated player ever.. He is like 4"10, and has shot like 8% from the field past 6 seasons.. 😂
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair FVV bum ass would never do that
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Fred VanVleet that cleared the classifier's confidence bar
and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.
Fans
Of what r/NBA says about Fred VanVleet, his own Rockets fans are 31% negative, rival fans 33%, unflaired commenters 35%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
31.1%Own fansHOU flair · 228 comments
32.8%Rival fansevery other flair · 858 comments
35.2%Unflairedno flair · 614 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Fred VanVleet are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Fred VanVleet was talked about most on the front page: 785 of his 1,700 comments, −16 net sentiment against −20 across his season. His harshest room was the game threads, −30 on 13% of his comments; his warmest the front page. The game threads ran 14 points harsher than the front page: his play was graded live.
Game threads13% of his commentsHarshest39.99.9213
Front page46% of his commentsWarmest31.515.8785
News20% of his comments34.89.8348
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Fred VanVleet; left out here: Post-game threads (171), Highlights (168), Lowlights (9), Daily chat thread (3), Discussion posts (2). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Timeline
Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Fred VanVleet ran between 19% and 49%. His worst week was the week of Apr 13, 58% negative of 62 comments; his best the week of May 11, 44% positive. 17 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.
Games
Fred VanVleet never dressed this season; the room still talked about him in 3 game threads with at least 20 comments each.