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
Mali Thomas vs Zay Russell
21.5
92th · 99th
35.1
1.7
35th · 62th
3.1
7.9
97th · 90th
5.3
78.6%
87th · 88th
79.3%
26.4%
84th · 98th
36.7%
33.5%
94th · 90th
28.7%
4.0%
16th · 49th
6.7%
47.3%
79th · 25th
18.2%
21.9%
29th · 73th
42.7%
10.9%
41th · 91th · lower is better
5.9%
30.5
87th · 99th
46.7
The rail runs 0 to 100 in percentile terms: the left-hand number is where Mali Thomas'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 | Mali Thomas | Zay Russell |
|---|---|---|
| Position | PG | SG |
| Team | DAL | CHI · VAN |
| Games | 28 | 29 |
| Minutes per game | 28.3 | 30.9 |
| Points | 602 | 1018 |
The money
| Line | Mali Thomas | Zay Russell |
|---|---|---|
| S4 salary | $30.0M | $40.0M |
| Term | 4+1 | 5 years |
| Value ratio | 0.83× | 1.05× |
| Surplus | -$5.1M | +$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 →