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
Levi James vs Zay Russell
9.9
61th · 99th
35.1
2.9
60th · 62th
3.1
3.5
69th · 90th
5.3
68.0%
56th · 88th
79.3%
13.4%
27th · 98th
36.7%
14.7%
55th · 90th
28.7%
7.0%
50th · 49th
6.7%
47.0%
77th · 25th
18.2%
26.8%
43th · 73th
42.7%
8.7%
64th · 91th · lower is better
5.9%
16.8
60th · 99th
46.7
The rail runs 0 to 100 in percentile terms: the left-hand number is where Levi 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 | Levi James | Zay Russell |
|---|---|---|
| Position | SF | SG |
| Team | VBN | CHI · VAN |
| Games | 29 | 29 |
| Minutes per game | 28.4 | 30.9 |
| Points | 286 | 1018 |
The money
| Line | Levi James | Zay Russell |
|---|---|---|
| S4 salary | $21.0M | $40.0M |
| Term | 2+1 | 5 years |
| Value ratio | 0.56× | 1.05× |
| Surplus | -$9.2M | +$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 →