Milwaukee Bucks

Name	Pos	Age	GP	MPG	Pts	Reb	AST	Stl	Blk	CraftedOPM	CraftedDPM	CraftedPM	WARP
Damian Lillard	PG	33	73	35.3	24.3	4.4	7	1	0.2	3.8	-0.7	3.1 94%	7.18
Giannis Antetokounmpo	PF	29	73	35.2	30.4	11.5	6.5	1.2	1.1	4.9	1.8	6.7 100%	11.86
Brook Lopez	C	35	79	30.5	12.5	5.2	1.6	0.5	2.4	-0.3	2.2	1.8 88%	5.14
Malik Beasley	SG	27	79	29.6	11.3	3.7	1.4	0.7	0.1	0.5	-0.2	0.3 69%	3.17
Bobby Portis	PF	28	82	24.5	13.8	7.4	1.3	0.8	0.4	0	-0.9	-0.9 44%	1.46
Pat Connaughton	SG	31	76	22.1	5.6	3.1	2.1	0.5	0.3	-0.9	-0.3	-1.1 37%	1.03
Khris Middleton	SF	32	55	27	15.1	4.7	5.3	0.9	0.3	1.4	-0.3	1.1 81%	2.62
Patrick Beverley	PG	35	73	20	6.2	3.3	2.9	0.6	0.4	-1.8	0.3	-1.5 28%	0.61
Jae Crowder	PF	33	50	23.1	6.2	3.2	1.3	0.8	0.2	-1.7	0.6	-1.1 38%	0.73
Danilo Gallinari	PF	35	49	12.8	5.7	2.2	1.1	0.3	0.1	-1	-0.8	-1.9 22%	0.16
MarJon Beauchamp	SG	23	48	12.7	4.4	2.1	0.6	0.3	0.1	-1.9	-1	-2.9 5%	-0.17
Andre Jackson Jr.	SF	22	57	10	2.2	2	0.9	0.3	0.1	-1.8	0	-1.8 24%	0.17
Thanasis Antetokounmpo	PF	31	34	4.6	0.9	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.1	-3.3	0.2	-3.1 3%	-0.06
Ryan Rollins	PG	21	13	6	3.4	1	1.1	0.8	0.2	-1.4	1.3	-0.1 62%	0.09
TyTy Washington Jr.	PG	22	11	5.1	1.3	0.5	0.5	0.3	0	-2.6	-0.6	-3.3 3%	-0.03

Projected Net Rating/100

11.8

Lineup Synergy Rating

6.3

Name	Pos	Age	Games	Minutes	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks	VersatilityRating	CraftedDPM
Giannis Antetokounmpo	PF	29	73	35.2	30.4	11.5	6.5	1.2	1.1	66	1.8 92%
Malik Beasley	SG	27	79	29.6	11.3	3.7	1.4	0.7	0.1	37	-0.2 44%
Khris Middleton	SF	32	55	27	15.1	4.7	5.3	0.9	0.3	35	-0.3 38%
Bobby Portis	PF	28	82	24.5	13.8	7.4	1.3	0.8	0.4	35	-0.9 19%
Damian Lillard	PG	33	73	35.3	24.3	4.4	7	1	0.2	34	-0.7 24%

Each team's projected most versatile 5 man lineup, their projected net rating per 100 possessions, and the lineups synergy rating.

Short Story:

Remove the least versatile defenders, unless they happen to be a superstar.
Remove the horrible defenders, unless they happen to be a superstar.
Spit out the four best defenders of the remaining PG's, SG's and SF's.
Spit out the two most versatile defenders among the remaining PF's and Centers.
Spit out the 5 best defenders among the remaining 6 players.

This weeds out the defenders who would likely be exposed in a playoff matchup as well as the least switchable players (think Trey Burke/Greg Monroe). The idea was to find the best/most versatile lineup for those tough playoff matchups.

*Some teams may not have 5 players meet these qualification. These teams are usually garbage, or they have a position of great weakness and therefore did not have 5 players qualify.

Versatility Rating comes from a project put together by both Krishna Narsu and Patrick Miller of Nylon Calculus. A quick, concise explanation of Versatility Rating (higher is better) can be found on the glossary page.

Projected Net Rating/100

15.0

Lineup Synergy Rating

6.2

Name	Pos	Age	Games	Minutes	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks	CraftedPM
Giannis Antetokounmpo	PF	29	73	35.2	30.4	11.5	6.5	1.2	1.1	6.7 100%
Damian Lillard	PG	33	73	35.3	24.3	4.4	7	1	0.2	3.1 94%
Brook Lopez	C	35	79	30.5	12.5	5.2	1.6	0.5	2.4	1.8 88%
Khris Middleton	SF	32	55	27	15.1	4.7	5.3	0.9	0.3	1.1 81%
Malik Beasley	SG	27	79	29.6	11.3	3.7	1.4	0.7	0.1	0.3 69%

Esimated Win Total*

27.5

Name	Age	Games	Minutes	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks	CraftedPM	CraftedPeakPM	PeakWAR
Andre Jackson Jr.	22	57	10	2.2	2	0.9	0.3	0.1	-1.8 24%	-0.84	1.3
MarJon Beauchamp	23	48	12.7	4.4	2.1	0.6	0.3	0.1	-2.9 5%	-1.9	0.3
TyTy Washington Jr.	22	11	5.1	1.3	0.5	0.5	0.3	0	-3.3 3%	-1.89	-0.1

Young Core - players must be 26 or younger with a PeakWAR > 1 to qualify. Win Shares come from FiveThirtyEight's CARMELO Projections. Projections go out to 2025 and take each players peak projected season.

* Estimated Win Total - This is a crude estimate based upon adding these players to a team with slightly below average talent (a 26 win team). We came to this number by taking an average team's minutes distribution, making their three highest minute players replacement level (using -2.5 plus minus as replacement level), and filling out the roster with a group of average (~ -.5 plus minus) players. We then ran this roster through a simulated NBA schedule 100 times, and came out with about 26 wins.

The idea being that the players from the Young Core replace the minutes played by the replacement level players from the 26 win team.

*The Wins Above Replacement player projections come from our player projections, and update periodically throughout the season. While a player like Jayson Tatum is listed at a 9.1 peak WAR, this is what we consider his most likely outcome. It is just as possible that he goes over that 9.1 as he goes under.

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Projected Net Rating/100

11.8

Lineup Synergy Rating

6.3

Projected Net Rating/100

15.0

Lineup Synergy Rating

6.2

Esimated Win Total*

27.5

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