6th Man 2024

[Mike G]

There are currently 79 players who have played 1000 minutes and started fewer than half their games.
Here they are ranked by an xyz which is the cube root of 3 factors:
- Sum of their raw Pts+Reb+Ast+Stl+Blk-TO
- This total per game (T)
- Same per 36 minutes

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xyz-3    Player        tm   %sta   sum     T    T/36   mpg   Pts   Reb   Ast
104.8  Malik Monk     Sac   .00   1588   23.0   31.5   26   15.8   2.9   5.3
103.1  Bobby Portis   Mil   .01   1535   21.9   32.5   24   13.4   7.2   1.2
102.6 Keldon Johnson  SAS   .39   1569   23.8   29.0   30   15.8   5.5   2.8
99.8  Bg Bogdanović   Atl   .31   1543   23.0   28.0   30   16.5   3.3   3.0
97.2   Caris LeVert   Cle   .10   1350   23.3   29.2   29   14.0   4.0   5.3

95.5  Jordan Clarkson Uta   .35   1291   23.9   28.2   31   17.4   3.4   5.0
95.0  Andre Drummond  Chi   .14   1269   17.9   37.8   17    8.3   8.7    .5
92.2   Naz Reid       Min   .06   1347   19.5   29.8   24   13.0   5.0   1.2
90.3   Ru Westbrook   LAC   .17   1159   20.0   31.8   23   11.1   5.1   4.4
88.7   Tim Hardaway   Dal   .15   1339   20.0   26.1   28   15.3   3.3   1.7

xyz3     Player        tm   %sta   sum     T    T/36   mpg   Pts   Reb   Ast
88.2   Cole Anthony   Orl   .00   1289   18.4   28.9   23   11.7   4.0   3.0
87.4   Kelly Olynyk  Ut-To  .26   1241   18.0   29.9   22    9.2   5.0   4.3
87.1   Josh Hart      NYK   .43   1418   20.6   22.7   33    8.9   8.1   3.7
85.3   Be Mathurin    Ind   .32   1161   19.7   27.2   26   14.5   4.0   2.0
84.6  Walker Kessler  Uta   .34   1114   18.9   28.7   24    8.3   7.7    .9

84.3  T.J. McConnell  Ind   .07   1023   17.1   34.3   18    9.4   2.7   5.3
83.6   Moritz Wagner  Orl   .01   1115   16.2   32.4   18   11.0   4.4   1.2
83.6   Zach Collins   SAS   .45   1072   18.5   29.5   23   11.1   5.3   2.8
82.3   Trey Murphy    NOP   .27    953   21.2   27.6   28   14.1   4.4   2.0
81.8   Br Podziemski  GSW   .43   1152   18.9   25.2   27    9.4   5.8   3.9

https://www.basketball-reference.com/le ... inute.html
A bunch of guys could get this one. Nobody leads in more than one factor.
It often goes to the Pts/G leader, but Clarkson is having a pretty bad year by every measure.

In productions per minute, Andre Drummond ranks behind Embiid, Doncic, Jokic, Giannis, Shai, Wemby, Davis, Sabonis, LeBron, Tatum, Haliburton, Mitchell, Sengun, and Booker.

[Crow]

The more casual voters will go heavily for Clarkson and Monk, primarily based on pts / gm. Reid should get some votes, but the Darko projection vote would be for Portis by a mile (+2 to tiny fractions).

[Mike G]

Using other summary stats -- and a few more games' data -- the same 20 guys rearrange quite differently.
PER and BPM *minutes are converted to pWins and bWins, averaged with Win Shares.

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xyzW  6th man    Tm    min    PER   WS/48  BPM    pW    WS    bW
4.8   Reid      Min   1877   16.3   .124   1.9    4.4   4.8   5.2
4.5   Olynyk   Ut-Tor 1677   17.3   .129   1.9    4.3   4.5   4.7
4.4   M Wagner  Orl   1341   20.5   .184   2.0    4.4   5.1   3.8
4.4   Hart      NYK   2548   11.5   .092  -0.1    3.2   4.9   5.1
4.4  Bogdanović Atl   2279   14.8   .079   0.3    4.5   3.8   4.9

4.2   Drummond  Chi   1347   22.9   .169   0.0    5.1   4.7   2.8
4.1   Murphy    NOP   1534   15.7   .142   2.1    3.4   4.5   4.4
4.0   Portis    Mil   1903   17.2   .105  -1.2    4.8   4.2   3.0
3.9   Monk      Sac   1872   15.9   .084   0.5    4.2   3.3   4.2
3.8   Kessler   Uta   1493   17.8   .128   0.9    4.0   4.0   3.6

xyzW  6th man    Tm    min    PER   WS/48  BPM    pW    WS    bW
3.7  McConnell  Ind   1235   20.4   .131   2.8    4.0   3.4   3.9
3.6   LeVert    Cle   1904   14.6   .080   0.1    3.7   3.2   4.0
3.4  Podziemski GSW   1870   12.9   .092  -0.1    2.9   3.6   3.8
3.4   Anthony   Orl   1744   14.5   .092   0.0    3.4   3.3   3.6
3.1   Johnson   SAS   2038   14.2   .064  -1.7    3.8   2.7   2.8

2.9  Westbrook  LAC   1480   16.3   .062   0.5    3.4   1.9   3.3
2.3   Hardaway  Dal   2044   12.2   .049  -2.8    2.9   2.1   2.0
1.8   Collins   SAS   1444   13.9   .045  -2.5    2.6   1.4   1.5
1.6   Mathurin  Ind   1538   13.0   .041  -3.5    2.5   1.3   1.0
1.0   Clarkson  Uta   1682   12.6   .002  -4.5    2.5    .1    .5

Everyone has 3-4 games remaining, and it's doubtful I will update this.
Jordan Clarkson's WS/48 and BPM indicate almost zero wins.
Since previous post, Naz Reid has averaged 31 minutes, 19 pts, 8 reb, .439 from the arc.

[Crow]

Good selection of candidates. Probably between Reid and Hart. Hart would barely qualify as a 6th man and not for everybody.


M Wagner is very low profile. Will be interesting what happens next for him.

Olynyk, pretty good but on low end of his career. Turnovers are quite high.

Kessler 10th here, despite being a down season. Wonder what is next.