HEAD TO HEAD
Two players on the same eleven metrics. The rail under each one is a percentile against every player with at least 10 games this season, and it is flipped for the metrics where lower is better — so a longer rail always means the better player, and the raw numbers stay on either side so nothing is hidden to make the chart tidier.
01 / Metric by metric
Brandon James vs Zay Russell
9.9
60th · 99th
35.1
1.2
23th · 62th
3.1
2.3
51th · 90th
5.3
60.4%
29th · 88th
79.3%
28.7%
92th · 98th
36.7%
21.5%
79th · 90th
28.7%
5.5%
38th · 49th
6.7%
48.1%
79th · 25th
18.2%
17.8%
21th · 73th
42.7%
10.3%
49th · 91th · lower is better
5.9%
13.5
49th · 99th
46.7
The rail runs 0 to 100 in percentile terms: the left-hand number is where Brandon James's figure sits among every qualified player, the right-hand one where Zay Russell's does. Two different units share one axis because a percentile has no units.
02 / Context
THE SAME PLAYERS, IN WORDS
Roles and load
| Line | Brandon James | Zay Russell |
|---|---|---|
| Position | SF | SG |
| Team | VBN · VAN | CHI · VAN |
| Games | 62 | 29 |
| Minutes per game | 15.2 | 30.9 |
| Points | 611 | 1018 |
The money
| Line | Brandon James | Zay Russell |
|---|---|---|
| S4 salary | $15.0M | $40.0M |
| Term | 2+1 | 5 years |
| Value ratio | 1.68× | 1.05× |
| Surplus | +$10.3M | +$2.1M |
Salary comes from the contracts export, which lists next season's roster while the stats cover this season — so a player signed elsewhere still carries this season's production. Full cap sheet →