Who Deserves to be a Reserve?

It’s that time of year where we have just seven spots for a group of deserving players that is much larger. This year, that problem seems to be especially relevant with a number of guys producing great seasons so far. The simple truth is that there is no single correct answer to the question posed in the title. There are more than fourteen that deserve the nod, and yet fourteen it must be. Our goal today is to dive into the numbers – and, if needed, a little bit of narrative – to come up with the best seven-man All-Star benches we can.

I’ll start with some simple rules. Every coach’s ballot – these are the only votes that count for reserves – has to include 3 frontcourt players, 2 backcourt players, and 2 wild cards, which can fit into either group. I’ll be ranking the players on an overall basis in each conference, and then we’ll look at position. With room for 5 frontcourt players or 4 backcourt players, we’ll ideally end up with just the top seven, but that might not be the case. Additionally, if there’s a tie for the final spot, a positional tiebreaker (whichever position the team has less of gets the nod) will likely be the final method of selection. It’s not a perfect tiebreaker, but it is realistic and fair. With that, let’s get to it, starting with the Western Conference.

WEST RESERVES

For each conference, we’ll run through the list of candidates before taking the deep dive into the numbers to end up with the final seven.

The candidates first. I’ll list a general pool below and then run through some statistical minimums to make sure I didn’t miss anyone –

Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Jordan Clarkson, Mike Conley, Anthony Davis, Paul George, Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum, Devin Booker, Chris Paul, DeMar DeRozan, Ja Morant, De’Aaron Fox, Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram, Shai-Gilgeous Alexander

That’s sixteen names. A quick search easily adds Christian Wood, who slipped my mind. I’ll also add Malik Beasley and D’Angelo Russell, though KAT and his nine games can’t make the cut. The other three I’ll add – John Wall, Kristaps Porzingis, and Al Horford. Draymond Green would be the other name that pops up. He deserves recognition for his great positive impact on the Warriors, but I just can’t justify putting a man averaging 5, 8, and 5 in the All-Star Game. I also, on further review, need to cut CJ McCollum, who has played in just 13 of 28 games for Portland. That simply isn’t enough despite his stellar offensive play. Jamal Murray hasn’t done enough to warrant real consideration. With guys like Wall, Russell, and Beasley being considered, he probably should be in the group, but his numbers simply don’t put him in the upper tier of candidates. I left him out. So that gives us twenty-one total names.

Cutting two-thirds of them will be no easy task. I’ll break it down into two methods. The first, which will be the main method, is just stats, taken as they stood on Friday morning). The stats are the best way to measure performance in an unbiased manner, and it’s the fairest thing to prioritize. The second is some combination of role, narrative, and more. This will be more open to my personal thoughts and will be a tiebreaker of sorts for those are very close after the initial run-through. There’s no perfect way to measure a composite score from so many different statistics, so an extra look is warranted. For the stats, I’ll be ranking players 1-21 in a variety of categories. The goal, obviously, is to be within that top seven as much as possible. I go into the exact method a little more below. In any case, we’ll end up with an overall 1-21 ranking, and then I’ll take a quick look to determine if any tough choices must be made in order to walk away with a group of seven.

And with that, let’s get into the stats, which I will break down into nine main categories: scoring volume, scoring efficiency, passing, rebounding, steals + blocks, availability, offensive advanced metrics, defensive advanced metrics, and overall advanced metrics. Players will be ranked in each of the nine and then the rankings will be compiled for the total statistical ranking. Now there’s two challenges here. First, all of these categories obviously aren’t of equal importance. Secondly, how do we give enough emphasis to steals, blocks and defensive metrics as a point to defense without overemphasizing stats that aren’t perfect measures of overall defensive performance? To compensate for the first issue, I’ll use multipliers to imply significance. To compensate for the second, I will use defense in the final stages if a tight race exists.

Ranking first in a category will earn you 21 points while ranking last will get you 1 (both times the multiplier). If low numbers were the goal and we used multipliers below 1, there would be a disproportionate negative impact from finishing last in the categories that I have as least important. It would be far worse, for example, to add 21 points instead of 10.5 when you finish last. When we use numbers above one, the impact switches. It’s less of a problem to just get 1 point when the leader gets 21 than it is to get 2 points when the leaders gets 42. Here are the multipliers –

Scoring Volume: 2

Scoring efficiency: 1.5

Passing: 1.5

Rebounding: 1.25

Steals + blocks: 1

Availability: 1.25

Offensive advanced metrics: 2

Defensive advanced metrics: 2

Overall advanced metrics: 2.5

Again, defense is obviously slightly undervalued here, but I think that’s better than further pumping up the defensive advanced metrics, which do a decent but far from perfect job at grading overall defensive play.

And now we can get going with scoring volume.

There are a number of stats we could use here, but I’ll keep it simple with five – points per game, points per 36 minutes, field goals per game, three-pointers per game, and free throws per game. Note that the last three will be represented by makes rather than attempts.

The easiest way to do this is with simple tables, so let’s start with points, where Dame is the clear leader and Horford and Gobert sit at the bottom –

Player	Points per game
Damian Lillard	29.8
Zion Williamson	25
Paul George	24.4
Devin Booker	24.4
Donovan Mitchell	24.2
Brandon Ingram	23.6
De’Aaron Fox	22.8
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	22.5
Anthony Davis	22.5
Christian Wood	22
Malik Beasley	20.9
Kristaps Porzingis	20.5
John Wall	20.4
DeMar DeRozan	19.8
De’Angelo Russell	19.3
Ja Morant	18.8
Jordan Clarkson	18.2
Chris Paul	17.2
Mike Conley	16.5
Al Horford	14.7
Rudy Gobert	14.2

Now we can go to points per 36, which will be relatively similar but allows for some recognition of scoring pace. Is that technically efficiency? Sure, but I want to keep that section to purely shooting percentage numbers. Zion moves closer to Dame here –

Player	Points per 36
Damian Lillard	29.9
Zion Williamson	27.7
Donovan Mitchell	25.9
Paul George	25.8
Christian Wood	25.4
Jordan Clarkson	25
Devin Booker	24.9
De’Aaron Fox	24.8
Anthony Davis	24.7
Kristaps Porzingis	24.7
Brandon Ingram	24.4
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	24.1
De’Angelo Russell	23.8
John Wall	23.6
Malik Beasley	23
Ja Morant	22.3
DeMar DeRozan	21.3
Mike Conley	20.2
Chris Paul	19.1
Al Horford	18.4
Rudy Gobert	16.9

Now the shot volume categories, starting with field goals. Zion leads due to his aversion to the three ball making more total shots necessary to score as much as he does –

Player	FGs per game
Zion Williamson	9.6
Damian Lillard	9.2
Devin Booker	9
Anthony Davis	8.9
Christian Wood	8.8
Paul George	8.4
Donovan Mitchell	8.3
De’Aaron Fox	8.3
Brandon Ingram	8.2
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	7.9
Kristaps Porzingis	7.8
Malik Beasley	7.7
John Wall	7.4
De’Angelo Russell	7
Ja Morant	6.8
Jordan Clarkson	6.7
DeMar DeRozan	6.6
Chris Paul	6.5
Al Horford	5.9
Mike Conley	5.7
Rudy Gobert	5.4

Then three-pointers, where Dame and George lead. Zion takes a big hit here –

Player	3Ps per game
Damian Lillard	4.1
Paul George	3.8
Donovan Mitchell	3.4
Malik Beasley	3.4
Jordan Clarkson	3.2
De’Angelo Russell	3
Mike Conley	2.8
Brandon Ingram	2.5
Kristaps Porzingis	2.2
Al Horford	2.2
John Wall	2.1
Devin Booker	2
Christian Wood	1.9
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	1.9
De’Aaron Fox	1.8
Chris Paul	1.5
Ja Morant	0.8
Anthony Davis	0.7
DeMar DeRozan	0.6
Zion Williamson	0.2
Rudy Gobert	0

And lastly, free throws, where we see DeRozan come up big and Zion return to the top three. Horford is again very poor here –

Player	FTs per game
Damian Lillard	7.2
DeMar DeRozan	6
Zion Williamson	5.6
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	5
Brandon Ingram	4.7
Devin Booker	4.4
De’Aaron Fox	4.4
Ja Morant	4.3
Donovan Mitchell	4.2
Anthony Davis	4
Paul George	3.8
John Wall	3.5
Rudy Gobert	3.3
Kristaps Porzingis	2.8
Chris Paul	2.7
Christian Wood	2.6
De’Angelo Russell	2.4
Mike Conley	2.3
Malik Beasley	2
Jordan Clarkson	1.6
Al Horford	0.7

That all brings us to the final scoring volume ranking, led easily by Dame with George, Mitchell, Zion, and Booker rounding out the top five –

Player	PPG Rank	PP36 Rank	FGPG Rank	3PPG Rank	FTPG Rank	Average Rank
Damian Lillard	1	1	2	1	1	1.2
Paul George	3	4	6	2	11	5.2
Donovan Mitchell	5	3	7	3	9	5.4
Zion Williamson	2	2	1	20	3	5.6
Devin Booker	4	7	3	12	6	6.4
Brandon Ingram	6	11	9	8	5	7.8
De’Aaron Fox	7	8	8	15	7	9
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	8	12	10	14	4	9.6
Christian Wood	10	5	5	13	16	9.8
Anthony Davis	9	9	4	18	10	10
Kristaps Porzingis	12	10	11	9	14	11.2
Malik Beasley	11	15	12	4	19	12.2
John Wall	13	14	13	11	12	12.6
Jordan Clarkson	17	6	16	5	20	12.8
De’Angelo Russell	15	13	14	6	17	13
DeMar DeRozan	14	17	17	19	2	13.8
Ja Morant	16	16	15	17	8	14.4
Mike Conley	19	18	20	7	18	16.4
Chris Paul	18	19	18	16	15	17.2
Al Horford	20	20	19	10	21	18
Rudy Gobert	21	21	21	21	13	19.4

AD at tenth is notable. When we apply the multiplier of 2 to the leaderboard, this is our ranking so far –

1. Dame 42
2. George 40
3. Mitchell 38
4. Zion 36
5. Booker 34
6. Ingram 32
7. Fox 30
8. SGA 28
9. Wood 26
10. AD 24
11. KP 22
12. Beasley 20
13. Wall 18
14. Clarkson 16
15. Russell 14
16. DeRozan 12
17. Morant 10
18. Conley 8
19. Paul 6
20. Horford 4
21. Gobert 2

Onto scoring efficiency we go. I’ll roll with five categories again here – field goal percentage, three-point percentage, free throw percentage, effective field goal percentage, and true shooting percentage. Big men are obviously more prone to higher field goal percentages, but that should be balanced out by 3PT% and FT% while the other two are meant to take all of those factors into account and recognize that a layup, for example, is a higher percentage shot than a jumper. One last note – anyone shooting less than one three per game will just get a N/A for 3PT% to avoid any instances where someone is shooting 2-4 from three on the season or something similar. I don’t think that comes up in the West, but we’ll stick with that method anyway.

Let’s start with FG%, where the tilt towards interior-based players is clear. On the other hand, we really only have two players here that work almost entirely in the post, so that won’t have a big impact on the actual rankings here. Third is still third no matter how far behind first you are –

Player	FG%
Rudy Gobert	0.64
Zion Williamson	0.618
Christian Wood	0.558
Anthony Davis	0.533
Paul George	0.508
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.503
Devin Booker	0.492
Chris Paul	0.489
DeMar DeRozan	0.488
De’Aaron Fox	0.475
Kristaps Porzingis	0.473
Brandon Ingram	0.466
Ja Morant	0.458
Malik Beasley	0.455
Jordan Clarkson	0.453
Al Horford	0.453
Damian Lillard	0.451
Mike Conley	0.45
John Wall	0.441
Donovan Mitchell	0.427
De’Angelo Russell	0.426

Then there’s three-point percentage, where a different group will benefit. Even though they’re at the top because of Excel sorting, Gobert and Zion are 20 and 21 here. I’ll give Zion the slight edge because he has at least taken 16 threes. Gobert hasn’t taken one –

Player	3PT%
Rudy Gobert	N/A
Zion Williamson	N/A
Paul George	0.478
Christian Wood	0.421
Mike Conley	0.41
Brandon Ingram	0.4
De’Angelo Russell	0.399
Malik Beasley	0.398
Donovan Mitchell	0.391
Al Horford	0.39
Damian Lillard	0.384
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.383
Jordan Clarkson	0.382
Chris Paul	0.369
Devin Booker	0.353
Kristaps Porzingis	0.352
John Wall	0.351
De’Aaron Fox	0.336
DeMar DeRozan	0.333
Anthony Davis	0.293
Ja Morant	0.25

Now for free throw percentage, where Paul, Clarkson, and Dame, have been incredible –

Player	FT%
Chris Paul	0.972
Jordan Clarkson	0.958
Damian Lillard	0.933
Paul George	0.905
DeMar DeRozan	0.893
Brandon Ingram	0.874
Kristaps Porzingis	0.855
Malik Beasley	0.843
Donovan Mitchell	0.832
Devin Booker	0.829
Mike Conley	0.815
Ja Morant	0.802
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.784
Al Horford	0.778
De’Angelo Russell	0.75
John Wall	0.744
Zion Williamson	0.718
Anthony Davis	0.715
Christian Wood	0.688
De’Aaron Fox	0.688
Rudy Gobert	0.581

As we can clearly see, the field goal percentage lead of Zion and Gobert has been successfully countered by their rough showings from three and from the line. Now for eFG%, where we begin to combine the three –

Player	eFG%
Rudy Gobert	0.64
Zion Williamson	0.625
Paul George	0.621
Christian Wood	0.618
Jordan Clarkson	0.563
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.563
Mike Conley	0.56
Malik Beasley	0.557
Anthony Davis	0.555
Damian Lillard	0.553
Devin Booker	0.548
Kristaps Porzingis	0.541
Chris Paul	0.539
Brandon Ingram	0.538
Al Horford	0.536
De’Aaron Fox	0.525
De’Angelo Russell	0.517
Donovan Mitchell	0.514
DeMar DeRozan	0.512
John Wall	0.502
Ja Morant	0.485

And, lastly, TS% –

Player	TS%
Paul George	0.662
Zion Williamson	0.659
Rudy Gobert	0.64
Christian Wood	0.634
Damian Lillard	0.625
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.612
DeMar DeRozan	0.603
Mike Conley	0.593
Devin Booker	0.593
Brandon Ingram	0.592
Chris Paul	0.589
Jordan Clarkson	0.588
Anthony Davis	0.588
Malik Beasley	0.581
Kristaps Porzingis	0.576
De’Aaron Fox	0.561
Donovan Mitchell	0.559
Al Horford	0.547
De’Angelo Russell	0.544
Ja Morant	0.544
John Wall	0.539

That all leads to the final shooting efficiency leaderboard here. George is the clear leader with Wood easily grabbing second. SGA, Zion, Dame, Paul, Clarkson, and a number of others follow after. At the bottom, we mostly see guards that aren’t great shooters like Wall, Morant, and Fox –

Player	FG Rank	3P Rank	FT Rank	eFG Rank	TS Rank	Average
Paul George	5	1	4	3	1	2.8
Christian Wood	3	2	19	4	4	6.4
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	6	10	13	6	6	8.2
Zion Williamson	2	20	17	2	2	8.6
Damian Lillard	17	9	3	10	5	8.8
Chris Paul	8	12	1	13	11	9
Jordan Clarkson	15	11	2	5	12	9
Brandon Ingram	12	4	6	14	10	9.2
Rudy Gobert	1	21	21	1	3	9.4
Mike Conley	18	3	11	7	8	9.4
Devin Booker	7	13	10	11	9	10
Malik Beasley	14	6	8	8	14	10
DeMar DeRozan	9	17	5	19	7	11.4
Kristaps Porzingis	11	14	7	12	15	11.8
Anthony Davis	4	18	18	9	13	12.4
Donovan Mitchell	20	7	9	18	17	14.2
Al Horford	16	8	14	15	18	14.2
De’Angelo Russell	21	5	15	17	19	15.4
De’Aaron Fox	10	16	20	16	16	15.6
Ja Morant	13	19	12	21	20	17
John Wall	19	15	16	20	21	18.2

This is a much closer race than the scoring volume. There are a ton of ties in there. For scoring, both players will get the correct number and then we’ll skip the next number as ties are typically counted. For example, Zion and Dame will both be 4th here, Paul and Clarkson will both be 6th, Ingram will be 8th, and so on. The multiplier here was 1.5. If we add that to volume (I won’t show the math), here’s our new cumulative ranking –

1. George 71.5
2. Dame 67.5
3. Zion 63
4. SGA 56.5
5. Wood 56
6. Ingram 53
7. Booker 50.5
8. Mitchell 47
9. Clarkson 40
10. Beasley 36.5
11. AD 36
12. KP 35.5
13. Fox 34.5
14. Paul 30
15. Conley 27.5
16. DeRozan 27
17. Gobert 21.5
18. Russell 20
19. Wall 19.5
20. Horford 13
21. Morant 13

Keep an eye on AD as we move along here. He’s outside the zone right now.

Now up is the third category – passing. Assists and assist percentage (the rough percentage of teammate field goals one assists on when on the floor) aren’t the only ways to measure passing ability, of course, but they will do for passing production and for our purposes here.

First, assists –

Player	Assists per game
Ja Morant	8.3
Chris Paul	8.2
Damian Lillard	7.7
DeMar DeRozan	6.9
De’Aaron Fox	6.9
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	6.5
John Wall	6.3
Mike Conley	5.8
Paul George	5.5
Donovan Mitchell	5.1
De’Angelo Russell	5.1
Brandon Ingram	4.8
Devin Booker	4.4
Al Horford	3.6
Zion Williamson	3.1
Anthony Davis	3
Malik Beasley	2.5
Jordan Clarkson	2.1
Rudy Gobert	1.3
Christian Wood	1.3
Kristaps Porzingis	1.3

And now assist percentage, which will be similar but might offer a little more support to players who play slightly less or have teammates that make less shots overall –

Player	Assist %
Ja Morant	41.6
Chris Paul	38.9
Damian Lillard	36.2
John Wall	34.7
De’Aaron Fox	33.4
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	33
DeMar DeRozan	30.8
Mike Conley	30.2
De’Angelo Russell	28.9
Paul George	25.7
Donovan Mitchell	25.3
Brandon Ingram	21.6
Al Horford	21.2
Devin Booker	20.9
Zion Williamson	16.2
Anthony Davis	15.6
Jordan Clarkson	13.5
Malik Beasley	12.7
Christian Wood	7.7
Kristaps Porzingis	7.4
Rudy Gobert	6.3

Now we can do the overall passing leaderboard. Morant, Paul, and Dame form a pretty clear top three, and then Fox, Wall, DeRozan, SGA, and Conley round out the top eight. At the bottom we see the bigs and pure shooting guards, which makes sense.

Player	APG Rank	A% Rank	Average
Ja Morant	1	1	1
Chris Paul	2	2	2
Damian Lillard	3	3	3
De’Aaron Fox	5	5	5
John Wall	7	4	5.5
DeMar DeRozan	4	7	5.5
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	6	6	6
Mike Conley	8	8	8
Paul George	9	10	9.5
De’Angelo Russell	11	9	10
Donovan Mitchell	10	11	10.5
Brandon Ingram	12	12	12
Al Horford	14	13	13.5
Devin Booker	13	14	13.5
Zion Williamson	15	15	15
Anthony Davis	16	16	16
Jordan Clarkson	18	17	17.5
Malik Beasley	17	18	17.5
Christian Wood	20	19	19.5
Rudy Gobert	19	21	20
Kristaps Porzingis	21	20	20.5

With just two stats going into this one, there are aa number of ties. The multiplier here is 1.5 again. After adding the passing, we end up with this as our ranking one-third of the way through the numbers –

1. Dame 96
2. George 91
3. SGA – 79
4. Zion 73.5
5. Ingram 68
6. Mitchell 63.5
7. Booker 63.5
8. Fox 61.5
9. Wood 60.5
10. Paul 60
11. DeRozan 52.5
12. Conley 48.5
13. Wall 45
14. AD 45
15. Clarkson 47.5
16. Morant 44.5
17. Beasley 44
18. Russell 38
19. KP 37
20. Horford 26.5
21. Gobert 24.5

The big men took a big hit there, so it’s good for them that rebounding is next. We could look at six categories here – offensive, defensive, and total rebounding and the respective percentages of each. The percentages here measure the rough percentage of missed shots that a player rebounds. However, we can get the same story by just looking at offensive and defensive rebounds and their percentages. We don’t need to look at those two and then their sum as well.

We’ll start with offensive rebounds, where Gobert absolutely dominates the field –

Player	OREB
Rudy Gobert	3.5
Zion Williamson	2.4
Kristaps Porzingis	2.1
Anthony Davis	2
Christian Wood	1.8
Mike Conley	1
Donovan Mitchell	1
Jordan Clarkson	0.9
Malik Beasley	0.9
Ja Morant	0.8
DeMar DeRozan	0.8
Al Horford	0.8
De’Aaron Fox	0.7
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.7
Paul George	0.7
Chris Paul	0.6
Brandon Ingram	0.6
Damian Lillard	0.5
John Wall	0.5
De’Angelo Russell	0.5
Devin Booker	0.2

We see the same story with defensive rebounds –

Player	DREB
Rudy Gobert	9.9
Christian Wood	8.4
Anthony Davis	6.3
Kristaps Porzingis	6.2
Al Horford	6.1
Paul George	5.6
Brandon Ingram	4.8
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	4.7
Zion Williamson	4.4
DeMar DeRozan	4.2
Chris Paul	4.1
Malik Beasley	4
Damian Lillard	3.9
Devin Booker	3.5
Donovan Mitchell	3.4
Jordan Clarkson	3.2
John Wall	3.2
Mike Conley	2.7
De’Aaron Fox	2.7
Ja Morant	2.3
De’Angelo Russell	2.2

The rebounding percentages won’t be all that different, so I’ll include them consecutively here, starting with offensive rebounding percentage –

Player	OREB%
Rudy Gobert	12.9
Zion Williamson	8.2
Kristaps Porzingis	7.5
Anthony Davis	7.2
Christian Wood	6.1
Jordan Clarkson	3.9
Mike Conley	3.8
Donovan Mitchell	3.3
Al Horford	3.1
Malik Beasley	2.8
Ja Morant	2.7
DeMar DeRozan	2.3
Paul George	2.2
De’Aaron Fox	2.2
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	2.1
Chris Paul	2
Brandon Ingram	1.9
John Wall	1.8
De’Angelo Russell	1.6
Damian Lillard	1.4
Devin Booker	0.6

Player	DREB%
Rudy Gobert	33.2
Christian Wood	28.9
Kristaps Porzingis	22.8
Al Horford	22.1
Anthony Davis	21
Paul George	17.8
Brandon Ingram	15.2
Zion Williamson	14.9
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	14.4
Chris Paul	13.8
Malik Beasley	13.7
DeMar DeRozan	13.5
Jordan Clarkson	12.3
Damian Lillard	12.2
John Wall	10.9
Devin Booker	10.8
Donovan Mitchell	10.3
Mike Conley	9.2
De’Aaron Fox	9
Ja Morant	8.7
De’Angelo Russell	8.4

Bring those four together, and we have the total rebounding leaderboard. It’s no surprise that Gobert leads with his fellow big men behind him. The rest of the list goes just about as you might expect too given everyone’s size and role –

Player	OREB Rank	DREB Rank	OREB% Rank	DREB% Rank	Average
Rudy Gobert	1	1	1	1	1
Kristaps Porzingis	3	4	3	3	3.25
Christian Wood	5	2	5	2	3.5
Anthony Davis	4	3	4	5	4
Zion Williamson	2	9	2	8	5.25
Al Horford	12	5	9	4	7.5
Paul George	15	6	13	6	10
Malik Beasley	9	12	10	11	10.5
Jordan Clarkson	8	16	6	13	10.75
DeMar DeRozan	11	10	12	12	11.25
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	14	8	15	9	11.5
Donovan Mitchell	7	15	8	17	11.75
Brandon Ingram	17	7	17	7	12
Mike Conley	6	18	7	18	12.25
Chris Paul	16	11	16	10	13.25
Ja Morant	10	20	11	20	15.25
Damian Lillard	18	13	20	14	16.25
De’Aaron Fox	13	19	14	19	16.25
John Wall	19	17	18	15	17.25
Devin Booker	21	14	21	16	18
De’Angelo Russell	20	21	19	21	20.25

I have rebounding as slightly less important than certain other stats, so we’ll go with a 1.25 multiplier here. Once we incorporate that into the overall ranking, we end up with this –

1. George 109.75
2. Dame 102.25
3. Zion 94.75
4. SGA – 92.75
5. Wood 84.25
6. Ingram 79.25
7. Mitchell 76
8. Paul 68.75
9. AD 67.5
10. DeRozan 67.5
11. Fox 66.5
12. Booker 66
13. Clarkson 63.75
14. KP 62
15. Beasley 61.5
16. Conley 58.5
17. Morant 52
18. Wall 48.75
19. Gobert 46.75
20. Horford 46.5
21. Russell 39.25

Now we go steals and blocks, a rather simple category that will measure a very limited aspect of defensive production. As a result, we’ll only get the multiplier of 1 here. We’ll start with steals, and Anthony Davis’s defensive prowess is going to begin to make itself heard here. Even though only decimal point is shown here, the players are ranked based on their averages beyond that first digit –

Player	Steals
Anthony Davis	1.5
Mike Conley	1.4
De’Aaron Fox	1.2
Chris Paul	1.2
Paul George	1.2
Damian Lillard	1.1
De’Angelo Russell	1.1
Jordan Clarkson	1
Zion Williamson	1
John Wall	1
Malik Beasley	0.9
Devin Booker	0.9
Al Horford	0.9
Donovan Mitchell	0.9
Ja Morant	0.9
Christian Wood	0.9
DeMar DeRozan	0.8
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.8
Brandon Ingram	0.6
Rudy Gobert	0.4
Kristaps Porzingis	0.4

Then we have blocks, where Gobert takes the lead. AD will still easily claim this category as a whole, however, as he finished second here –

Player	Blocks
Rudy Gobert	2.7
Anthony Davis	2
Kristaps Porzingis	1.6
Christian Wood	1.5
Brandon Ingram	0.9
Al Horford	0.8
Zion Williamson	0.7
John Wall	0.7
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.6
De’Aaron Fox	0.5
Paul George	0.5
De’Angelo Russell	0.5
Donovan Mitchell	0.4
Chris Paul	0.3
Damian Lillard	0.3
Devin Booker	0.3
Ja Morant	0.3
DeMar DeRozan	0.3
Jordan Clarkson	0.2
Malik Beasley	0.2
Mike Conley	0.1

Here’s the overall leaderboard for steals and blocks. AD dominates, while Fox leads the rest of the pack.

Player	Steals Rank	Blocks Rank	Average
Anthony Davis	1	2	1.5
De’Aaron Fox	3	10	6.5
Zion Williamson	9	7	8
Paul George	5	11	8
John Wall	10	8	9
Chris Paul	4	14	9
Al Horford	13	6	9.5
De’Angelo Russell	7	12	9.5
Christian Wood	16	4	10
Rudy Gobert	20	1	10.5
Damian Lillard	6	15	10.5
Mike Conley	2	21	11.5
Kristaps Porzingis	21	3	12
Brandon Ingram	19	5	12
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	18	9	13.5
Donovan Mitchell	14	13	13.5
Jordan Clarkson	8	19	13.5
Devin Booker	12	16	14
Malik Beasley	11	20	15.5
Ja Morant	15	17	16
DeMar DeRozan	17	18	17.5

If we add this to the cumulative ranking, we end up with this –

1. George 128.75
2. Dame 114.25
3. Zion 113.75
4. SGA – 99.75
5. Wood 97.25
6. AD 88.5
7. Ingram 88.25
8. Fox 86.5
9. Paul 85.75
10. Mitchell 83
11. KP 71
12. Booker 70
13. Clarkson 70.75
14. DeRozan 68.5
15. Conley 68.5
16. Wall 65.75
17. Beasley 64.5
18. Horford 61.5
19. Gobert 58.75
20. Russell 54.25
21. Morant 54

About halfway through, we have George, Dame, and Zion separating themselves from the pack, SGA and Wood putting themselves in good position, and a close fight between AD, Ingram, Fox, Paul, and Mitchell for the last two spots. Let’s move on to availability and see if anyone else can make a run for the top seven.

For availability, we’ll simply look at minutes per game and games played. For the latter, we’ll be using percentage of team games played rather than total games played given all of the covid-related differences that might exist there. Let’s star with minutes, where Dame, as he is pretty much every season, is up at the top –

Player	Minutes per game
Damian Lillard	35.9
Devin Booker	35.2
Brandon Ingram	34.8
Paul George	34
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	33.7
Donovan Mitchell	33.6
DeMar DeRozan	33.4
De’Aaron Fox	33
Anthony Davis	32.8
Malik Beasley	32.8
Zion Williamson	32.6
Chris Paul	32.4
Christian Wood	31.2
John Wall	31.1
Rudy Gobert	30.3
Ja Morant	30.3
Kristaps Porzingis	29.9
Mike Conley	29.3
De’Angelo Russell	29.2
Al Horford	28.2
Jordan Clarkson	26.2

Now we have percentage of games played, which I have rounded to only two digits so that someone who has played 25 of 27 games isn’t given an edge over someone who has played 24 of 26. Here, we have a number of guys who simply haven’t been around as much as they ideally would be. With Wood likely out for another two weeks, he may end up approaching borderline cut zone here. The same could be said of AD, who will miss the next month. There’s only so many missed game you can accept. However, this is based on where we stand today, so they’re both still in the discussion –

Player	Games played
Brandon Ingram	1
Malik Beasley	1
Rudy Gobert	1
Jordan Clarkson	1
Damian Lillard	0.96
De’Aaron Fox	0.96
Zion Williamson	0.96
Chris Paul	0.96
Donovan Mitchell	0.93
DeMar DeRozan	0.93
Devin Booker	0.85
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.79
Anthony Davis	0.79
Mike Conley	0.79
De’Angelo Russell	0.69
John Wall	0.68
Al Horford	0.68
Paul George	0.67
Ja Morant	0.67
Christian Wood	0.61
Kristaps Porzingis	0.61

Combined, minutes and games provides a good picture of availability. Ingram leads the way with Dame right behind, and KP and Horford bring up the rear –

Player	MPG Rank	GP Rank	Average
Brandon Ingram	3	1	2
Damian Lillard	1	5	3
Malik Beasley	10	1	5.5
De’Aaron Fox	8	5	6.5
Devin Booker	2	11	6.5
Rudy Gobert	14	1	7.5
Zion Williamson	11	5	8
Donovan Mitchell	6	10	8
Chris Paul	12	5	8.5
DeMar DeRozan	7	10	8.5
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	5	12	8.5
Jordan Clarkson	20	1	10.5
Anthony Davis	9	12	10.5
Paul George	4	18	11
Mike Conley	17	12	14.5
John Wall	13	16	14.5
Christian Wood	12	20	16
De’Angelo Russell	18	15	16.5
Ja Morant	15	18	16.5
Al Horford	19	16	17.5
Kristaps Porzingis	16	20	18

The multiplier is 1.25 here, leaving us with this new updated ranking –

1. Dame 139.25
2. George 138.75
3. Zion 132.5
4. SGA – 116
5. Ingram 114.5
6. Fox 109
7. Wood 103.5
8. Paul 102
9. Mitchell 101.75
10. AD 101
11. Booker 92.5
12. Beasley 88.25
13. DeRozan 84.75
14. Clarkson 83.25
15. Gobert 78.75
16. Conley 77.25
17. Wall 74.5
18. KP 72.25
19. Horford 64
20. Russell 59.25
21. Morant 59

Now we just have three categories left – the advanced metrics. Let’s start offensively with offensive win shares, which I will adjust to per 48 minutes since we’ve already taken availability into account, and offensive box +/- (BPM).

In offensive win shares, Dame dominates, Zion claims a clear second, and DeRozan is the easy number three. Booker stands out near the bottom; his advanced stats have taken a tumble after they saw a lot of improvement last season –

Player	OWS per 48
Damian Lillard	0.208
Zion Williamson	0.185
DeMar DeRozan	0.155
Mike Conley	0.135
Paul George	0.127
Chris Paul	0.125
Rudy Gobert	0.12
Brandon Ingram	0.113
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.11
Anthony Davis	0.101
Christian Wood	0.091
Kristaps Porzingis	0.086
Donovan Mitchell	0.085
Jordan Clarkson	0.076
De’Aaron Fox	0.07
Malik Beasley	0.061
Ja Morant	0.059
Devin Booker	0.036
Al Horford	0.036
De’Angelo Russell	0.016
John Wall	0

Then there’s offensive BPM, where Dame continues to cruise above the rest. George takes the second spot, and Zion, Ingram, and AD close out the top five. Booker sits all the way down in 21st –

Player	OBPM
Damian Lillard	7.7
Paul George	5.7
Zion Williamson	4.6
Brandon Ingram	4.3
Anthony Davis	4.3
DeMar DeRozan	3.9
Mike Conley	3.7
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	3.6
Christian Wood	3.5
Jordan Clarkson	3.4
Chris Paul	2.7
Donovan Mitchell	2.7
De’Aaron Fox	2.6
Malik Beasley	2.5
De’Angelo Russell	2.3
Kristaps Porzingis	2
Ja Morant	1.9
John Wall	1.9
Al Horford	1.8
Rudy Gobert	1.7
Devin Booker	0.2

That leads to this overall leaderboard of offensive advanced stats –

Player	OWS Rank	OPBM Rank	Average
Damian Lillard	1	1	1
Zion Williamson	2	3	2.5
Paul George	5	2	3.5
DeMar DeRozan	3	6	4.5
Mike Conley	4	7	5.5
Brandon Ingram	8	4	6
Anthony Davis	10	5	7.5
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	9	8	8.5
Chris Paul	6	11	8.5
Christian Wood	11	9	10
Jordan Clarkson	14	10	12
Donovan Mitchell	13	12	12.5
Rudy Gobert	7	20	13.5
De’Aaron Fox	15	13	14
Kristaps Porzingis	12	16	14
Malik Beasley	16	14	15
Ja Morant	17	17	17
De’Angelo Russell	20	15	17.5
Al Horford	19	19	19
John Wall	21	18	19.5
Devin Booker	18	21	19.5

The multiplier here is 2. The advanced metrics are a crushing blow for Booker, but they do help DeRozan climb back into the race. Let’s take a look at the ranking through seven of nine statistical categories –

1. Dame 181.25
2. George 176.75
3. Zion 172.5
4. Ingram 146.5
5. SGA – 144
6. AD 131
7. Paul 130
8. Wood 127.5
9. Fox 125
10. Mitchell 121.75
11. DeRozan 120.75
12. Conley 111.25
13. Clarkson 105.25
14. Beasley 100.25
15. Gobert 96.75
16. Booker 94.5
17. KP 88.25
18. Wall 78.5
19. Horford 70
20. Morant 69
21. Russell 67.25

We have a pretty clear top five, AD at six with his defensive strength coming up, and then Paul, Wood, Fox, Mitchell, and DeRozan all within reach of that seventh spot. It would take quite a climb for anyone else to jump into the fray at this point.

For defensive metrics, we look at the same two things – win shares and BPM. For defensive win shares, I’ll do the per 48 calculation again. For defensive BPM, we’ll run with it as is.

Gobert, Davis, and Wood are the frontrunners in DWS –

Player	DWS per 48
Rudy Gobert	0.115
Anthony Davis	0.108
Christian Wood	0.091
Al Horford	0.072
Mike Conley	0.071
Jordan Clarkson	0.069
Chris Paul	0.063
Donovan Mitchell	0.058
John Wall	0.057
Paul George	0.056
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.053
Kristaps Porzingis	0.047
Devin Booker	0.047
DeMar DeRozan	0.046
Ja Morant	0.03
Zion Williamson	0.027
Brandon Ingram	0.025
De’Angelo Russell	0.025
Malik Beasley	0.02
Damian Lillard	0.015
De’Aaron Fox	0.005

In defensive BPM, we see Davis overtake Gobert at the top –

Player	DWS per 48
Rudy Gobert	0.115
Anthony Davis	0.108
Christian Wood	0.091
Al Horford	0.072
Mike Conley	0.071
Jordan Clarkson	0.069
Chris Paul	0.063
Donovan Mitchell	0.058
John Wall	0.057
Paul George	0.056
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.053
Kristaps Porzingis	0.047
Devin Booker	0.047
DeMar DeRozan	0.046
Ja Morant	0.03
Zion Williamson	0.027
Brandon Ingram	0.025
De’Angelo Russell	0.025
Malik Beasley	0.02
Damian Lillard	0.015
De’Aaron Fox	0.005

That means that they share the top spot across both measures of defense –

Player	DWS Rank	DBPM Rank	Average
Anthony Davis	2	1	1.5
Rudy Gobert	1	2	1.5
Al Horford	4	3	3.5
Christian Wood	3	5	4
Chris Paul	7	4	5.5
Mike Conley	5	6	5.5
Jordan Clarkson	6	10	8
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	11	7	9
Paul George	10	11	10.5
John Wall	9	12	10.5
Donovan Mitchell	8	13	10.5
DeMar DeRozan	14	8	11
Zion Williamson	16	9	12.5
Devin Booker	13	14	13.5
Kristaps Porzingis	12	16	14
Brandon Ingram	17	15	16
Ja Morant	15	21	18
Damian Lillard	20	17	18.5
De’Angelo Russell	18	19	18.5
De’Aaron Fox	21	18	19.5
Malik Beasley	19	20	19.5

What does this mean for the overall ranking with just one category to go? The multiplier is 2 again.

1. George 202.75
2. Zion 190.5
3. Dame 189.25
4. AD 173
5. SGA – 172
6. Paul 164
7. Wood 163.5
8. Ingram 158.5
9. Mitchell 147.75
10. Conley 145.25
11. DeRozan 140.75
12. Gobert 138.75
13. Clarkson 135.25
14. Fox 129
15. Booker 110.5
16. Horford 108
17. Beasley 104.25
18. Wall 104.5
19. KP 102.25
20. Morant 79
21. Russell 75.25

Ingram took a big hit to fall out of the top seven there. George, Dame, and Zion have spots all but locked up. AD and SGA are in a great spot. Paul, Wood, and Ingram are the last three to watch with Mitchell, Conley, DeRozan, and others hanging on by a thread.

Our last category will include win shares per 48 minutes, VORP per 48 minutes, PER, and BPM. Let’s get to it.

Gobert leads the pack in win shares with Dame, Zion, AD, and Conley rounding out the top five –

Player	WS per 48
Rudy Gobert	0.237
Damian Lillard	0.225
Zion Williamson	0.215
Anthony Davis	0.21
Mike Conley	0.207
DeMar DeRozan	0.199
Paul George	0.185
Chris Paul	0.183
Christian Wood	0.178
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.156
Kristaps Porzingis	0.148
Jordan Clarkson	0.145
Donovan Mitchell	0.145
Brandon Ingram	0.137
Al Horford	0.106
Ja Morant	0.09
Devin Booker	0.082
Malik Beasley	0.081
De’Aaron Fox	0.077
John Wall	0.061
De’Angelo Russell	0.04

In VORP, Dame and AD lead the group with George and Zion providing the closest competition –

Player	VORP per 48
Damian Lillard	0.104
Anthony Davis	0.102
Paul George	0.092
Zion Williamson	0.082
Chris Paul	0.074
Christian Wood	0.072
Rudy Gobert	0.071
Mike Conley	0.071
DeMar DeRozan	0.069
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	0.065
Jordan Clarkson	0.063
Al Horford	0.063
Brandon Ingram	0.059
Donovan Mitchell	0.042
De’Aaron Fox	0.038
De’Angelo Russell	0.033
John Wall	0.032
Malik Beasley	0.03
Kristaps Porzingis	0.028
Devin Booker	0.012
Ja Morant	0.01

In PER, Dame and Zion battle it out at the top with a four-man group of AD, Wood, George, and Gobert coming closest to them –

Player	PER
Damian Lillard	27.1
Zion Williamson	27
Anthony Davis	24.8
Christian Wood	24.1
Paul George	23.2
Rudy Gobert	23.2
DeMar DeRozan	21.7
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	21.6
Kristaps Porzingis	21.2
Chris Paul	20.4
Brandon Ingram	20.4
Mike Conley	19.8
De’Aaron Fox	19.5
Jordan Clarkson	19
Donovan Mitchell	18.9
Ja Morant	18.7
Al Horford	17.6
John Wall	17.3
Devin Booker	17.2
Malik Beasley	16.7
De’Angelo Russell	16.4

In VORP, AD edges out Dame with George coming in at third –

Player	BPM
Anthony Davis	6.4
Damian Lillard	6.3
Paul George	5.4
Zion Williamson	4.5
Mike Conley	4.1
Christian Wood	4
Chris Paul	3.9
DeMar DeRozan	3.8
Rudy Gobert	3.6
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	3.5
Al Horford	3.2
Brandon Ingram	3.1
Jordan Clarkson	3
Donovan Mitchell	1.7
De’Aaron Fox	0.9
John Wall	0.9
Kristaps Porzingis	0.7
Malik Beasley	0.5
De’Angelo Russell	0.4
Devin Booker	-0.9
Ja Morant	-1

We end up with this leaderboard for overall advanced metrics. Dame, AD, and Zion sit at the top –

Player	WS Rank	VORP Rank	PER Rank	BPM Rank	Average
Damian Lillard	2	1	1	2	1.5
Anthony Davis	4	2	3	1	2.5
Zion Williamson	3	4	2	4	3.25
Paul George	7	3	5	3	4.5
Rudy Gobert	1	7	6	9	5.75
Christian Wood	9	6	4	6	6.25
Mike Conley	5	8	12	5	7.5
Chris Paul	8	5	10	7	7.5
DeMar DeRozan	6	9	7	8	7.5
Shai-Gilgeous Alexander	10	10	8	10	9.5
Brandon Ingram	14	13	11	12	12.5
Jordan Clarkson	12	11	14	13	12.5
Al Horford	15	12	17	11	13.75
Donovan Mitchell	13	14	15	14	14
Kristaps Porzingis	11	19	9	17	14
De’Aaron Fox	19	15	13	15	15.5
John Wall	20	17	18	16	17.75
Malik Beasley	18	18	20	18	18.5
Ja Morant	16	21	16	21	18.5
Devin Booker	17	20	19	20	19
De’Angelo Russell	21	16	21	19	19.25

Now for the moment of truth. Applying this leaderboard, with its 2.5 multiplier, to the cumulative rankings will give us the final statistical ranking. Here’s that list in all its glory –

1. George 247.75
2. Dame 241.75
3. Zion 238
4. AD 223
5. Wood 203.5
6. SGA – 202
7. Paul 201.5
8. Ingram 186
9. Conley 182.75
10. Gobert 181.25
11. DeRozan 178.25
12. Mitchell 167.75
13. Clarkson 162.75
14. Fox 144
15. Horford 130.5
16. KP 122.25
17. Wall 116.5
18. Booker 115.5
19. Beasley 114.25
20. Morant 89
21. Russell 77.75

And there we have it. There’s not really much maneuvering necessary here. Your seven reserves are clear – Paul George, Damian Lillard, Anthony Davis, Christian Wood, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and Chris Paul. The only real question is who replaces AD as a substitute with his injury?

Here, I will jump in and give the edge to Mike Conley. There’s very little space between Ingram, Conley, Gobert, and DeRozan. So why Conley? For one thing, the Jazz should have someone in the game with the way they’ve started the season. They’ve been the best team in the league. For another, Conley has yet to make an All-Star Game despite his stellar career. With his resurgence and his ability to come close to anyone outside of that top seven statistically, I’ll give him the substitute nod. The man deserves it.

And that’s that for the West. Who’s ready to jump into the East?

—Mid article intermission—

Eastern Conference

First, the pool of candidates –

Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris, James Harden, Khris Middleton, Jrue Holiday, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Domantas Sabonis, Malcolm Brogdon, Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, Julius Randle, Collin Sexton, Zach LaVine, Bam Adebayo, Trae Young, Clint Capela, Nikola Vucevic, Jimmy Butler, Gordon Hayward, and Jerami Grant.

That’s twenty-one names. I thought I might be able to cut this down a little bit. I guess not.

Let’s get to it, starting with scoring volume. In points per game, LaVine leads the pack. Trae is close behind and just ahead of Brown and Tatum. Capela and Simmons bring up the rear –

Players	PPG
LaVine	28.5
Trae	26.5
Tatum	25.8
Brown	25.6
Harden	24.4
Vucevic	23.6
Grant	23.5
Randle	23.2
Sexton	22.8
Hayward	22.3
Brogdon	21.6
Sabonis	21.5
Harris	20.8
Siakam	20.4
Middleton	20.1
VanVleet	20
Bam	19.8
Jimmy	19.1
Jrue	16.4
Simmons	15.2
Capela	14.3

We see a similar order in points per 36, with Brown sliding by Tatum and into the top three. Vucevic rounds out the top five here, taking the spot from Harden –

Players	PP36
LaVine	28.8
Trae	27.6
Brown	27.5
Tatum	26.3
Vucevic	25.2
Grant	23.2
Sexton	23.1
Harden	22.8
Randle	22.7
Hayward	22.6
Harris	21.7
Middleton	21.7
Brogdon	21.6
Sabonis	21.3
Bam	21.2
Jimmy	20.8
Siakam	20.5
VanVleet	19.7
Jrue	18.2
Capela	17.6
Simmons	16.4

LaVine continues to hold the top spot in field goals made, and we see Vucevic make a big jump into the top three while Sexton joins the top five just ahead of Sabonis and others –

Players	FGPG
LaVine	10.1
Brown	9.7
Vucevic	9.5
Tatum	9.4
Sexton	8.4
Sabonis	8.2
Brogdon	8.1
Randle	8.1
Hayward	8.1
Harris	8
Grant	7.8
Trae	7.6
Harden	7.6
Siakam	7.6
Middleton	7.4
Bam	7.3
VanVleet	6.8
Jrue	6.5
Capela	6.3
Jimmy	6
Simmons	5.8

Guess who our leader in threes per game is? LaVine dominates in volume scoring, and VanVleet makes a big jump to the 2 spot here –

Players	3PPG
LaVine	3.5
VanVleet	3.2
Harden	3
Tatum	2.8
Brogdon	2.7
Vucevic	2.6
Grant	2.6
Brown	2.5
Middleton	2.3
Trae	2.3
Hayward	2.2
Jrue	1.9
Randle	1.8
Harris	1.7
Sexton	1.5
Siakam	1.2
Sabonis	1
Jimmy	0.2
Bam	0.1
Simmons	0
Capela	0

LaVine finally falls in free throws, where he comes in at seventh. Trae has the clear lead here, and Jimmy and Harden round out the top three –

Players	FTPG
Trae	9
Jimmy	6.8
Harden	6.2
Grant	5.3
Randle	5.1
Bam	5
LaVine	4.7
Sexton	4.4
Tatum	4.3
Siakam	4.1
Sabonis	4.1
Hayward	3.9
Brown	3.6
Simmons	3.5
VanVleet	3.2
Harris	3.1
Middleton	3
Brogdon	2.7
Vucevic	2.1
Capela	1.6
Jrue	1.5

LaVine obviously leads the scoring volume leaderboard, and Tatum edges out Trae for the second spot. Brown and Harden then round out the top five. Jrue, Simmons, and Capela form a pretty clear bottom three –

Players	PPG Rank	PP36 Rank	FGPG Rank	3PPG Rank	FTPG Rank	Average
LaVine	1	1	1	1	7	2.2
Tatum	3	4	4	4	9	4.8
Trae	2	2	12	10	1	5.4
Brown	4	3	2	8	13	6
Harden	5	8	13	3	3	6.4
Grant	7	6	11	7	4	7
Vucevic	6	5	3	6	19	7.8
Randle	8	9	8	13	5	8.6
Sexton	9	7	5	15	8	8.8
Hayward	10	10	9	11	12	10.4
Brogdon	11	13	7	5	18	10.8
Sabonis	12	14	6	17	11	12
Harris	13	11	10	14	16	12.8
VanVleet	16	18	17	2	15	13.6
Middleton	15	12	15	9	17	13.6
Siakam	14	17	14	16	10	14.2
Bam	17	15	16	19	6	14.6
Jimmy	18	16	20	18	2	14.8
Jrue	19	19	18	12	21	17.8
Simmons	20	21	21	20	14	19.2
Capela	21	20	19	21	20	20.2

We have a multiplier of 2 here, so this is the ranking after our first category –

1. LaVine – 42
2. Tatum – 40
3. Trae – 38
4. Brown – 36
5. Harden – 34
6. Grant – 32
7. Vucevic – 30
8. Randle – 28
9. Sexton – 26
10. Hayward – 24
11. Brogdon – 22
12. Sabonis – 20
13. Harris – 18
14. VanVleet – 16
15. Middleton – 14
16. Siakam – 12
17. Bam – 10
18. Jimmy – 8
19. Jrue – 6
20. Simmons – 4
21. Capela – 2

Now we go to scoring efficiency. In FG%, it’s no surprise to see guys like Capela, Bam, and Simmons leading the way, but Harris, LaVine, Brown, Jrue, and Middleton are all also shooting above 50% as more perimeter-oriented players –

Players	FG%
Capela	0.579
Bam	0.569
Simmons	0.562
Sabonis	0.528
Harris	0.518
LaVine	0.51
Brown	0.506
Jrue	0.502
Middleton	0.501
Hayward	0.486
Sexton	0.484
Harden	0.481
Randle	0.48
Vucevic	0.479
Siakam	0.455
Tatum	0.45
Brogdon	0.442
Jimmy	0.442
Grant	0.435
Trae	0.429
VanVleet	0.406

In three-point percentage, Harris narrowly edges out LaVine and Middleton at the top. Note at the bottom that Simmons and Bam have taken eleven combined threes and thus their actual percentage won’t be considered here. Because they’ve at least taken one three instead of Capela, they get a tie for 19th and Capela gets his own spot at the bottom –

Players	3PT%
Harris	0.427
LaVine	0.427
Middleton	0.426
Hayward	0.422
Brown	0.416
Sexton	0.409
Randle	0.407
Vucevic	0.407
Brogdon	0.395
Tatum	0.388
Jrue	0.387
Harden	0.386
Grant	0.378
VanVleet	0.372
Trae	0.369
Sabonis	0.358
Siakam	0.3
Jimmy	0.16
Bam	0.01
Simmons	0.01
Capela	0

We have a lot of elite free throw shooters here, lead by Brogdon and Harris –

Players	FT%
Brogdon	0.906
Harris	0.9
VanVleet	0.898
Harden	0.895
Middleton	0.892
Tatum	0.888
Trae	0.887
Grant	0.881
Hayward	0.864
LaVine	0.857
Jimmy	0.853
Bam	0.845
Vucevic	0.821
Siakam	0.804
Randle	0.802
Sexton	0.799
Jrue	0.791
Brown	0.758
Sabonis	0.71
Simmons	0.667
Capela	0.532

LaVine returns to the top spot in eFG%. Capela takes second ahead of a tight group around 57% –

Players	eFG%
LaVine	0.599
Capela	0.589
Middleton	0.579
Harden	0.577
Harris	0.576
Jrue	0.574
Bam	0.572
Brown	0.57
Simmons	0.563
Sabonis	0.56
Hayward	0.552
Vucevic	0.545
Randle	0.535
Sexton	0.528
Tatum	0.516
Brogdon	0.514
Grant	0.507
VanVleet	0.503
Trae	0.493
Siakam	0.492
Jimmy	0.45

We end with true shooting percentage, where Harden tops LaVine and Bam. Middleton and Harris round out the top five –

Players	TS%
Harden	0.648
LaVine	0.639
Bam	0.637
Middleton	0.619
Harris	0.615
Brown	0.599
Simmons	0.599
Hayward	0.598
Trae	0.598
Sabonis	0.595
Jrue	0.593
Randle	0.589
Capela	0.582
Sexton	0.575
Grant	0.571
Vucevic	0.566
Tatum	0.562
Jimmy	0.557
Brogdon	0.548
VanVleet	0.548
Siakam	0.543

That brings us to the efficiency leaderboard, where Harris’s consistency puts him at the top over LaVine and Middleton. Harden takes a clear fourth-place finish ahead of Hayward, Bam, and Brown –

Players	FG% Rank	3PT% Rank	FT% Rank	eFG% Rank	TS% Rank	Average
Harris	5	1	2	5	5	3.6
LaVine	6	2	10	1	2	4.2
Middleton	9	3	5	3	4	4.8
Harden	12	12	4	4	1	6.6
Hayward	10	4	9	11	8	8.4
Bam	2	19	12	7	3	8.6
Brown	7	5	18	8	6	8.8
Jrue	8	11	17	6	11	10.6
Simmons	3	19	20	9	7	11.6
Capela	1	21	21	2	13	11.6
Sabonis	4	16	19	10	10	11.8
Randle	13	7	15	13	12	12
Sexton	11	6	16	14	14	12.2
Brogdon	17	9	1	16	19	12.4
Vucevic	14	8	13	12	16	12.6
Tatum	16	10	6	15	17	12.8
Trae	20	15	7	19	9	14
Grant	19	13	8	17	15	14.4
VanVleet	21	14	3	18	20	15.2
Jimmy	18	18	11	21	18	17.2
Siakam	15	17	14	20	21	17.4

We have a multiplier of 1.5 here, so we end up this new cumulative ranking –

1. LaVine – 72
2. Harden – 61
3. Brown – 58.5
4. Harris – 49.5
5. Hayward – 49.5
6. Tatum – 49
7. Trae – 45.5
8. Randle – 43
9. Middleton – 42.5
10. Vucevic – 40.5
11. Sexton – 39.5
12. Grant – 38
13. Sabonis – 36.5
14. Brogdon – 34
15. Bam – 34
16. Jrue – 27
17. Simmons – 23.5
18. Capela – 21.5
19. VanVleet – 20.5
20. Siakam – 13.5
21. Jimmy – 11

Passing is a much quicker category. Harden crushes the rest in assists per game with Trae in second. Simmons and Jimmy come closest to those two, with Brogdon and VanVleet fighting for that fifth spot –

Players	APG
Harden	11.3
Trae	9.3
Simmons	8
Jimmy	7.7
Brogdon	6.6
VanVleet	6.5
Middleton	5.7
Sabonis	5.7
Bam	5.5
Randle	5.5
Jrue	5.4
LaVine	5.2
Tatum	4.8
Siakam	4.6
Sexton	4.2
Hayward	3.8
Brown	3.7
Vucevic	3.7
Harris	3.1
Grant	2.9
Capela	1

Trae closes the gap when we look at assist percentage, but Harden still holds the lead. Jimmy and Simmons hold onto the other top four spots again. Capela lives in his own area code at the bottom here too –

Players	A%
Harden	44.7
Trae	44.5
Jimmy	37.8
Simmons	35
Bam	28.3
Brogdon	28.1
VanVleet	27.7
Randle	25.8
LaVine	24.6
Middleton	24.6
Sabonis	24.3
Jrue	23
Tatum	23
Sexton	20.9
Siakam	20.7
Vucevic	20.4
Brown	19.6
Hayward	17.2
Harris	14.3
Grant	14.1
Capela	5.4

Then we have the overall passing leaderboard, where Jimmy and Simmons end up in a tie for the third spot behind Harden and Trae –

Players	APG Rank	A% Rank	Average
Harden	1	1	1
Trae	2	2	2
Jimmy	4	3	3.5
Simmons	3	4	3.5
Brogdon	5	6	5.5
VanVleet	6	7	6.5
Bam	9	5	7
Middleton	7	10	8.5
Randle	10	8	9
Sabonis	8	11	9.5
LaVine	12	9	10.5
Jrue	11	12	11.5
Tatum	13	13	13
Sexton	15	14	14.5
Siakam	14	15	14.5
Vucevic	18	16	17
Brown	17	17	17
Hayward	16	18	17
Harris	19	19	19
Grant	20	20	20
Capela	21	21	21

We have a 1.5 multiple here too, so this is the ranking one-third of the way through –

1. Harden – 92.5
2. LaVine – 88.5
3. Trae – 75.5
4. Brown – 67.5
5. Middleton – 63.5
6. Tatum – 62.5
7. Randle – 62.5
8. Brogdon – 59.5
9. Hayward – 58.5
10. Bam – 56.5
11. Sabonis – 54.5
12. Harris – 54
13. Simmons – 52
14. Sexton – 51.5
15. Vucevic – 49.5
16. VanVleet – 44.5
17. Jrue – 42
18. Grant – 41
19. Jimmy – 39.5
20. Siakam – 25.5
21. Capela – 23

Capela starts us off in rebounding by lapping the field on the offensive boards. It’s not even close at the top –

Players	OREBPG
Capela	4.6
Sabonis	2.8
Siakam	2.1
Vucevic	2
Bam	2
Jimmy	1.9
Simmons	1.6
Randle	1.4
Harris	1.3
Jrue	1.3
Brown	1.1
Hayward	0.9
Grant	0.8
LaVine	0.8
Middleton	0.8
Harden	0.8
Brogdon	0.8
Sexton	0.7
VanVleet	0.7
Trae	0.7
Tatum	0.6

Vucevic and Randle lead the way in defensive rebounding with Capela just behind them. At the bottom, Sexton has roughly half the rebounds of the next closest player –

Players	DREBPG
Vucevic	9.7
Randle	9.5
Capela	9.4
Sabonis	8.8
Bam	7.4
Simmons	6.7
Harris	6.6
Harden	6.5
Tatum	6.5
Jimmy	5.9
Siakam	5.6
Middleton	5.2
LaVine	4.7
Hayward	4.5
Brown	4.3
Grant	4.3
Brogdon	4.1
VanVleet	3.6
Jrue	3.5
Trae	3.2
Sexton	1.7

Capela’s efforts on the offensive glass strand out even more when you look at offensive rebounding percentage, where he doubles up the next closest player –

Players	OREB%
Capela	17
Sabonis	8.5
Bam	6.9
Jimmy	6.8
Siakam	6.3
Vucevic	5.9
Simmons	5.4
Harris	4.4
Jrue	4.2
Randle	4
Brown	3.8
Hayward	2.7
LaVine	2.6
Middleton	2.6
Brogdon	2.4
Grant	2.4
Harden	2.2
Sexton	2.2
Trae	2.2
VanVleet	2
Tatum	1.8

Capela leads again in defensive rebounding percentage, and Vucevic is the only player that comes close –

Players	DREB%
Capela	34.4
Vucevic	31
Randle	26.6
Sabonis	26.4
Bam	23.3
Simmons	21.2
Tatum	20.8
Harris	19.9
Jimmy	19.1
Harden	18.3
Siakam	17.9
Middleton	16
Brown	14.8
LaVine	14.3
Hayward	13.9
Grant	13.8
Brogdon	12.3
VanVleet	11.3
Jrue	11.2
Trae	9.7
Sexton	5.6

That all means that Capela dominates the overall rebounding leaderboard. Sabonis, Vucevic, and Bam round out the top four –

Players	DREB%	OREB Rank	DREB Rank	OREB% Rank	DREB% Rank	Average
Capela	34.4	1	3	1	1	1.5
Sabonis	26.4	2	4	2	4	3
Vucevic	31	4	1	6	2	3.25
Bam	23.3	5	5	3	5	4.5
Randle	26.6	8	2	10	3	5.75
Simmons	21.2	7	6	7	6	6.5
Jimmy	19.1	6	10	4	9	7.25
Siakam	17.9	3	11	5	11	7.5
Harris	19.9	9	7	8	8	8
Brown	14.8	11	15	11	13	12.5
Harden	18.3	16	8	17	10	12.75
Middleton	16	15	12	14	12	13.25
Hayward	13.9	12	14	12	15	13.25
LaVine	14.3	14	13	13	14	13.5
Jrue	11.2	10	19	9	19	14.25
Tatum	20.8	21	9	21	7	14.5
Grant	13.8	13	16	16	16	15.25
Brogdon	12.3	17	17	15	17	16.5
VanVleet	11.3	19	18	20	18	18.75
Sexton	5.6	18	21	18	21	19.5
Trae	9.7	20	20	19	20	19.75

We have a multiplier of 1.25 here, leading to this new cumulative ranking –

1. Harden – 106.25
2. LaVine – 98.5
3. Randle – 83.75
4. Brown – 82.5
5. Sabonis – 79.5
6. Bam – 79
7. Trae – 76.75
8. Middleton – 76
9. Vucevic -73.25
10. Simmons – 72
11. Hayward – 71
12. Harris – 70.25
13. Tatum – 70
14. Brogdon – 64.5
15. Jimmy – 58.25
16. Sexton – 54
17. Jrue – 50.75
18. Capela – 49.25
19. VanVleet – 48.25
20. Grant – 47.25
21. Siakam – 43

Now we can jump to steals and blocks. Jrue edges out Jimmy for the league-wide lead in steals – and the top spot in this table –

Players	SPG
Jrue	1.9
Jimmy	1.9
Simmons	1.7
VanVleet	1.7
Brogdon	1.3
Tatum	1.3
Brown	1.2
Harden	1.1
Hayward	1.1
LaVine	1.1
Siakam	1.1
Vucevic	1.1
Middleton	1
Sabonis	1
Sexton	1
Bam	0.9
Young	0.9
Capela	0.8
Grant	0.8
Harris	0.8
Randle	0.7

Capela is in clear control when in comes to blocks –

Players	BPG
Capela	2.2
Grant	1.2
Bam	1
Simmons	0.8
Harden	0.8
Harris	0.8
VanVleet	0.7
Siakam	0.7
Sabonis	0.7
Jrue	0.6
Brown	0.6
Vucevic	0.6
Tatum	0.5
LaVine	0.5
Jimmy	0.4
Hayward	0.4
Brogdon	0.3
Trae	0.3
Sexton	0.2
Randle	0.2
Middleton	0.1

Simmons’s consistency across both categories gives him the top spot on the steals and blocks leaderboard –

Players	SPG Rank	BPG Rank	Average
Simmons	3	4	3.5
VanVleet	4	7	5.5
Jrue	1	10	5.5
Harden	8	5	6.5
Jimmy	2	15	8.5
Brown	7	11	9
Capela	18	1	9.5
Bam	16	3	9.5
Siakam	11	8	9.5
Tatum	6	13	9.5
Grant	19	2	10.5
Brogdon	5	17	11
Sabonis	14	9	11.5
Vucevic	12	12	12
LaVine	10	14	12
Hayward	9	16	12.5
Harris	20	6	13
Sexton	15	19	17
Middleton	13	21	17
Trae	17	18	17.5
Randle	21	20	20.5

Here’s our new cumulative ranking, with no multiplier on this category –

1. Harden – 124.25
2. LaVine – 106.5
3. Brown – 98.5
4. Bam – 94
5. Simmons – 93
6. Sabonis – 88.5
7. Tatum – 85
8. Randle – 84.75
9. Vucevic – 81.25
10. Middleton – 80
11. Trae – 78.75
12. Hayward – 77
13. Jimmy – 75.25
14. Harris – 75.25
15. Brogdon – 74.5
16. Jrue – 69.75
17. VanVleet – 68.25
18. Capela – 64.25
19. Grant – 58.25
20. Sexton – 58
21. Siakam – 58

When we turn to availability, we see Harden leading the way as the only player above 37 minutes per game. Randle leads a big group of players that’s above 36 minutes per appearance. In fact, the top seven players here are the top seven players in the league by minutes, and every player in the top ten here sits in the top thirteen league wide –

Players	MPG
Harden	37.6
Randle	36.7
VanVleet	36.6
Grant	36.4
Sabonis	36.4
Brogdon	36
Siakam	35.9
LaVine	35.7
Hayward	35.5
Sexton	35.4
Tatum	35.3
Trae	34.7
Harris	34.5
Vucevic	33.8
Bam	33.6
Simmons	33.4
Brown	33.4
Middleton	33.2
Jimmy	33.1
Jrue	32.5
Capela	29.3

In games played, we have seven players who have yet to miss a game. If the options for the Eastern Conference reserves are anything, they’re durable –

Players	GP
Randle	1
VanVleet	1
Grant	1
Sabonis	1
Brogdon	1
LaVine	1
Vucevic	1
Middleton	1
Harden	0.93
Hayward	0.93
Bam	0.93
Brown	0.93
Siakam	0.9
Trae	0.9
Harris	0.87
Capela	0.86
Sexton	0.83
Tatum	0.83
Simmons	0.83
Jrue	0.77
Jimmy	0.59

The overall availability leaderboard looks like this –

Players	MPG Rank	GP Rank	Average
Randle	2	1	1.5
VanVleet	3	1	2
Grant	4	1	2.5
Sabonis	5	1	3
Brogdon	6	1	3.5
LaVine	8	1	4.5
Harden	1	9	5
Vucevic	13	1	7
Hayward	9	9	9
Middleton	18	1	9.5
Siakam	7	13	10
Bam	15	9	12
Trae	12	13	12.5
Brown	17	9	13
Harris	12	15	13.5
Sexton	10	17	13.5
Tatum	11	17	14
Simmons	16	17	16.5
Capela	21	16	18.5
Jrue	20	20	20
Jimmy	19	21	20

Our multiplier here is 1.25, so this is what we have for the cumulative ranking before we head to the advanced stats –

1. Harden – 143
2. LaVine – 126.5
3. Randle – 111
4. Sabonis – 111
5. Brown – 108.5
6. Bam – 106.5
7. Simmons – 98
8. Vucevic – 98.75
9. Brogdon – 95.75
10. Middleton – 95
11. Hayward – 93.25
12. VanVleet – 93.25
13. Tatum – 91.25
14. Trae – 90
15. Harris – 84
16. Grant – 82
17. Jimmy – 77.75
18. Jrue – 72.25
19. Siakam – 71.75
20. Capela – 68
21. Sexton – 66.75

Harden and LaVine are in great shape, but the other five spots are wide open as we head to the advanced stats. Harden is absolutely ridiculous at producing offensive win shares, which, again, are per 48 minutes here –

Players	OWSP48
Harden	0.258
Trae	0.144
Jimmy	0.137
Bam	0.122
Middleton	0.116
Jrue	0.116
LaVine	0.106
Harris	0.102
Brown	0.096
Vucevic	0.095
Capela	0.092
Hayward	0.088
Sabonis	0.086
Simmons	0.086
Randle	0.083
Tatum	0.079
Grant	0.077
VanVleet	0.074
Brogdon	0.069
Siakam	0.069
Sexton	0.065

He also leads in offensive BPM, though it’s a little closer –

Players	OBPM
Harden	6.2
Trae	5.8
Vucevic	5.7
Brown	4.9
LaVine	4.8
Tatum	4.5
Randle	3.3
Jimmy	3.1
Middleton	3.1
Brogdon	3
Harris	2.9
Grant	2.9
Bam	2.8
Jrue	2.7
Sabonis	2.7
Hayward	2.6
VanVleet	2.4
Capela	2
Simmons	1.6
Sexton	1.5
Siakam	0.8

Harden and Trae are an easy 1 and 2 in the overall offensive advanced metrics leaderboard –

Players	OWS Rank	OBPM Rank	Average
Harden	1	1	1
Trae	2	2	2
Jimmy	3	8	5.5
LaVine	7	5	6
Vucevic	10	3	6.5
Brown	9	4	6.5
Middleton	5	9	7
Bam	4	13	8.5
Harris	8	11	9.5
Jrue	6	14	10
Tatum	16	6	11
Randle	15	7	11
Sabonis	13	15	14
Hayward	12	16	14
Brogdon	19	10	14.5
Grant	17	12	14.5
Capela	11	18	14.5
Simmons	14	19	16.5
VanVleet	18	17	17.5
Sexton	21	20	20.5
Siakam	20	21	20.5

With the multiplier of 2, the new cumulative ranking looks like this –

1. Harden – 185
2. LaVine – 162.5
3. Brown – 142.5
4. Bam – 134.5
5. Randle – 133
6. Vucevic – 132.75
7. Trae – 130
8. Sabonis – 129
9. Middleton – 125
10. Jimmy – 115.75
11. Tatum – 113.25
12. Hayward – 111.25
13. Harris – 110
14. Brogdon – 109.75
15. Simmons – 106
16. VanVleet – 99.25
17. Jrue – 96.25
18. Grant – 96
19. Capela – 82
20. Siakam – 75.75
21. Sexton – 70.75

In defensive win shares, Capela leads the way with Jimmy, Simmons, and Randle leading the rest of the pack –

Players	DWSP48
Capela	0.085
Jimmy	0.077
Simmons	0.075
Randle	0.074
Vucevic	0.071
Bam	0.069
Jrue	0.064
Sabonis	0.064
Harris	0.059
Harden	0.058
Tatum	0.057
Siakam	0.055
VanVleet	0.053
Brown	0.048
Middleton	0.048
Brogdon	0.046
LaVine	0.043
Hayward	0.042
Grant	0.041
Trae	0.027
Sexton	0.016

In defesnive BPM, Simmons leads with Jimmy in second once again –

Players	DBPM
Simmons	2.6
Jimmy	2.4
Bam	2
Jrue	1.1
Randle	0.8
Sabonis	0.8
Capela	0.4
Vucevic	0.1
Tatum	0
VanVleet	0
Harris	-0.1
Harden	-0.1
Siakam	-0.4
Brown	-0.5
Middleton	-0.6
Grant	-0.7
LaVine	-0.8
Hayward	-0.8
Brogdon	-1.1
Trae	-1.5
Sexton	-1.7

The overall defensive advanced metrics leaderboard sees those two tie at the top –

Players	DWS Rank	DBPM Rank	Average
Simmons	3	1	2
Jimmy	2	2	2
Capela	1	7	4
Bam	6	3	4.5
Randle	4	5	4.5
Jrue	7	4	5.5
Vucevic	5	8	6.5
Sabonis	8	6	7
Tatum	11	9	10
Harris	9	11	10
Harden	10	12	11
VanVleet	13	10	11.5
Siakam	12	13	12.5
Brown	14	14	14
Middleton	15	15	15
LaVine	17	17	17
Grant	19	16	17.5
Brogdon	16	19	17.5
Hayward	18	18	18
Trae	20	20	20
Sexton	21	21	21

The multiplier is 2 here as well, and that will give us this ranking with just one category left –

1. Harden – 207
2. LaVine – 174.5
3. Bam – 170.5
4. Randle – 169
5. Vucevic – 162.75
6. Brown – 158.5
7. Jimmy – 157.75
8. Sabonis – 157
9. Simmons – 148
10. Tatum – 139.25
11. Middleton – 139
12. Harris – 136
13. Trae – 134
14. Jrue – 130.25
15. Capela – 120
16. Brogdon – 119.75
17. VanVleet – 119.25
18. Hayward – 117.25
19. Grant – 106
20. Siakam – 93.75
21. Sexton – 72.75

In win shares per 48, Harden and Jimmy lead the way –

Players	WS per 48
Harden	0.226
Jimmy	0.211
Bam	0.194
Jrue	0.182
Capela	0.179
Trae	0.168
Middleton	0.166
Simmons	0.163
Vucevic	0.163
Harris	0.16
Randle	0.159
Sabonis	0.151
LaVine	0.15
Brown	0.145
Tatum	0.138
Hayward	0.132
VanVleet	0.13
Siakam	0.123
Grant	0.118
Brogdon	0.115
Sexton	0.078

Harden maintains his lead in VORP per 48, but Vucevic edges out Jimmy for the second spot here –

Players	VORP per 48
Harden	0.14
Vucevic	0.095
Jimmy	0.094
Bam	0.085
Brown	0.08
Tatum	0.079
Trae	0.075
Simmons	0.075
Randle	0.074
LaVine	0.072
Jrue	0.071
Sabonis	0.064
Harris	0.059
Middleton	0.053
VanVleet	0.053
Capela	0.052
Grant	0.05
Hayward	0.047
Brogdon	0.046
Siakam	0.03
Sexton	0.022

Those three take the top spot in PER too –

Players	PER
Harden	24.4
Jimmy	23.9
Vucevic	23.8
Capela	23.1
Trae	22.9
Bam	22.4
LaVine	22.4
Brown	22.1
Tatum	21.3
Randle	20.7
Sabonis	20.7
Jrue	20
Simmons	19.9
Harris	19.7
Middleton	19.3
Hayward	18.7
Brogdon	18.3
Grant	18.1
Siakam	17.9
VanVleet	17.5
Sexton	17

And BPM –

Players	BPM
Harden	6.1
Vucevic	5.8
Jimmy	5.5
Bam	4.8
Tatum	4.5
Trae	4.3
Brown	4.3
Randle	4.2
Simmons	4.2
LaVine	4
Jrue	3.8
Sabonis	3.4
Harris	2.8
Middleton	2.5
Capela	2.4
VanVleet	2.4
Grant	2.2
Brogdon	2
Hayward	1.8
Siakam	0.4
Sexton	-0.2

That brings us to the advanced metrics leaderboard, topped, believe it or not, by Harden, Jimmy, and Vucevic, with Bam taking fourth –

Players	BPM	WS Rank	VORP Rank	PER Rank	BPM Rank	Average
Harden	6.1	1	1	1	1	1
Jimmy	5.5	2	3	2	3	2.5
Vucevic	5.8	9	2	3	2	4
Bam	4.8	3	4	6	4	4.25
Trae	4.3	6	7	5	6	6
Brown	4.3	14	5	8	7	8.5
Tatum	4.5	15	6	9	5	8.75
Randle	4.2	11	9	10	8	9.5
Simmons	4.2	8	8	13	9	9.5
Jrue	3.8	4	11	12	11	9.5
LaVine	4	13	10	7	10	10
Capela	2.4	5	16	4	15	10
Sabonis	3.4	12	12	11	12	11.75
Harris	2.8	10	13	14	13	12.5
Middleton	2.5	7	14	15	14	12.5
VanVleet	2.4	17	15	20	16	17
Hayward	1.8	16	18	16	19	17.25
Grant	2.2	19	17	18	17	17.75
Siakam	0.4	18	20	19	20	19.25
Brogdon	2	20	19	27	18	21
Sexton	-0.2	21	21	21	21	21

And that will bring us to the final ranking, with our 2.5 multiplier on this category. Without further ado, here it is –

1. Harden – 259.5
2. Bam – 216
3. Vucevic – 210.25
4. Jimmy – 207.75
5. Randle – 204
6. LaVine – 202
7. Brown – 198.5
8. Simmons – 183
9. Sabonis – 179.5
10. Tatum – 176.75
11. Trae – 176.5
12. Jrue – 165.25
13. Middleton – 159
14. Harris – 156
15. Capela – 147.5
16. VanVleet – 134.25
17. Hayward – 129.75
18. Brogdon – 124.75
19. Grant – 118.5
20. Siakam – 101.25
21. Sexton – 77.75

Just like the West, the top seven is rather clear. Your 2021 Eastern Conference reserves – James Harden, Bam Adebayo, Nikola Vucevic, Jimmy Butler, Julius Randle, Zach LaVine, and Jaylen Brown.

And that’s it. The numbers don’t lie, and they give us a pretty clear message here.