After the first several weeks of the 2023-24 National Lacrosse League season are complete, The Lax Mag will publish a weekly NLL Player Ranking, examining the league’s Top 30 players from Week 1 right up until the end of the regular season.

TLM’s Top 30 NLL Player Rankings have nothing to do with reputations, career resumes, success in past seasons, whether we know a player personally, recognizing deserving players who’ve previously been passed over, player popularity, the size of their social media following, whether you slide into their DMs, or who others around the league tell us should get hype.

Our rankings, which only take into consideration a player’s performance for the current regular season, will be calculated using both our star-rating system after each game, but also a player’s season-long statistical position (based on per-game average, not full-season totals) across the league. Only players who have played two-thirds of their team’s games will qualify.

Click here for an even more in-depth description of our scoring system.

Jeff Teat, New York Riptide (Photo: Reuben Polansky-Shapiro)

A few seasons ago, we pulled every player in history that had achieved 30-60-90 status: 30 goals, 60 assists and 90 loose balls in a single NLL regular season.

There weren’t many.

Last year, however, more players than ever crashed the 30-60-90 Club with six new members allowed in, eight in total achieving that really rare top-of-the-leaderboard trifecta. The statistical slash highlights not only players that are dominant in the league’s two main offensive digits (goals and assists), but also those that outwork and outthink the opposition in order to regain possession with a season-long LB haul most defenders wish they bagged.

The two players that repeated 30-60-90 excellence last year were Jeff Teat and Dhane Smith. Teat has registered two full regulars seasons in the NLL, both of which he found 30-60-90 success. Smith sank his fourth 30-60-90 season last year, the most any one player has ever recorded.

Below, check out the 17 players that have had 30-60-90 seasons.

Wes Berg, San Diego Seals (Photo: John Harrison)

30-60-90 Club Members

Player
Season: Goals/Assists/Loose Balls (Games Played)

Wes Berg
2023: 39/70/100 (18)

Colin Doyle
2005: 42/69/94 (16)

Shawn Evans
2015 47/83/96 (18)
2016: 50/68/116 (17)
2017: 38/65/90 (17)

Connor Fields
2023: 52/60/142 (17)

Gary Gait
2002: 50/62/120 (16)

Paul Gait
2002: 54/60/107 (16)

Cody Jamieson
2016: 35/64/102 (18)

Mitch Jones
2023: 44/82/119 (19)

Andrew Kew
2023: 43/63/91 (16)

Will Malcom
2023: 35/61/114 (18)

Joe Resetarits
2018: 37/63/92 (18)

Josh Sanderson
2005: 37/71/112 (16)

Tom Schreiber
2023: 48/68/110 (18)

Dhane Smith
2016: 72/65/111(18)
2018: 37/68/95 (18)
2022: 41/94/93 (18)
2023: 36/96/99 (18)

John Tavares
2001: 51/64/159 (14)

Jeff Teat
2022: 37/71/111 (16)
2023: 56/80/105 (18)

Lyle Thompson
2017: 45/71/126 (18)
2019: 43/62/94 (18)
2023: 46/60/113 (18)

Connor Fields, Rochester Knighthawks (Photo: Micheline Veluvolu)

While there are not quite as many as eight on track currently climbing to 30-60-90 heights, based on their per-game stats spread over a full season, five NLLers are on pace to get there this year. Shocker: Teat is the most likely to do it again. While most of the names with numbers worthy of 30-60-90 Club entry right now would be repeats, Jesse King, who missed making it in 2022 by a single goal, is amongst those with numbers trending to that lofty level this season.

Likely 30-60-90 Seasons

Jeff Teat (New York) 59/63/103
Connor Fields (Rochester) 52/70/158
Jesse King (Calgary) 34/82/98
Wes Berg (San Diego) 38/70/104
Will Malcom (Panther City) 38/70/104

Jesse King, Calgary Roughnecks (Photo: Angela Berger)

There are a handful of other players that, at least right now, have per-game averages in one or two those three significant stats that would leave them just short of making the grade. With more than half a season to go for some, however, catching up shouldn’t be an issue.

Smith had just three goals over Buffalo’s first five this year, but has started connecting with more frequency, netting eight over the Bandits’ last four games. If Albany’s Alex Simmons can make it (right now his averages would leave him just six assists and four loosies shy), he would become just the second rookie to ever register a 30-60-90 season. Who is the only first-year player to do it? You had to ask. Teat, of course.

Maybe 30-60-90 Seasons

Josh Byrne (Buffalo) 46/78/78
Dhane Smith (Buffalo) 22/100/106
Mitch Jones (Philadelphia) 27/88/122
Austin Staats (San Diego) 56/52/104
Clarke Petterson (Halifax) 41/58/96
Joe Resetarits (Philadelphia) 38/59/86
Alex Simmons (Albany) 42/54/86
Lyle Thompson (Georgia) 45/47/104
Andrew Kew (Georgia) 36/54/99
Ethan Walker (Albany) 38/52/92

Josh Byrne and Dhane Smith, Buffalo Bandits (Photo: Michael Hetzel)

Not surprisingly, players that have cracked the 30-60-90 Club over the past few seasons also rank really high in The Lax Mag’s NLL Player Rankings, an ordering system that takes into account an abundance of statistical rankings across the league (scroll back up to the top of this article for a full breakdown of how we calculate our Top 30). With that said, Toronto Rock goaltender Nick Rose takes over the top spot in our weekly Top 30 again. As mentioned in last week’s NLL Player Rankings post (it was a goalies-masquerading-as-MVP theme), Rose has ranked no lower than number two in 2024.

Nick Rose, Toronto Rock (Photo: Ryan McCullough)

NLL Top 30: Week 13

TW. (LW) Player, Team (Position)

1. (2) Nick Rose, Toronto (G)
2. (3) Jeff Teat, New York (F)
3. (4) Josh Byrne, Buffalo (F)
4. (1) Connor Fields, Rochester (F)
5. (9) Jesse King, Calgary (F)
6. (7) Dhane Smith, Buffalo (F)
7. (5) Ryan Smith, Rochester (F)
8. (6) Wes Berg, San Diego (F)
9. (10) Mitch Jones, Philadelphia (F)
10. (8) Austin Staats, San Diego (F)
11. (11) Callum Crawford, Panther City (F)
12. (12) Jake Withers, Halifax (D)
13. (13) Mitch de Snoo, Toronto (D)
14. (14) Alex Simmons, Albany (F)
15. (15) Chris Origlieri, San Diego (G)
16. (18) Christian Del Bianco, Calgary (G)
17. (16) Zach Manns, Saskatchewan (F)
18. (17) Lyle Thompson, Georgia (F)
19. (19) Will Malcom, Panther City (F)
20. (20) Matt Gilray, Rochester (F)
21. (21) Ethan Walker, Albany (F)
22. (22) Steve Priolo, Buffalo (D)
23. (23) Brad Kri, Toronto (D)
24. (26) Clarke Petterson, Halifax (F)
25. (24) Doug Jamieson, Albany (G)
26. (25) Robert Church, Saskatchewan (F)
27. (28) Eli McLaughlin, Colorado (F)
28. (NR) Joe Resetarits, Philadelphia (F)
29. (27) Andrew Kew, Georgia (F)
30. (NR) Graeme Hossack, Halifax (D)