2025 NLL Player Rankings: 30/60/90/ Club
Connor Fields, Rochester Knighthawks (Photo: Jonathan Tenca)
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 averages) across the league (more on both breakdowns below). Only players who have played two-thirds of their team’s games or more will qualify.
Click here for an even more in-depth breakdown of our scoring system.
Connor Fields, Rochester Knighthawks (Photo: Jonathan Tenca)
A few weeks back, we said that Connor Fields was on track to match John Tavares for the fastest ever to achieve a 30/60/90 (G/A/LB) season, if Fields accomplished that rare feat in 14 games.
He did it, but we were wrong.
Upon a further digital deep dive into the most accurate (and somewhat available) pre-2005 individual NLL game data (AKA The Outsider’s Guide to the NLL), we were able to confirm that during the 2001 season, Tavares actually added his 60th assist a game earlier against the Rochester Knighthawks, scoring once and adding three helpers to his stat line. That just got him to 30/60/90 status in 13 GPs.
Still, accomplishing a 30/60/90 slash in 14 games is incredibly impressive, and also now makes Fields the second fastest player to get there.
For those unaware of what a 30/60/90 season is, it’s when a player scores at least 30 goals, has a minimum of 60 assists and has scooped 90 or more loose balls in a single season. The stat line regularly recognizes the top all-around offensive players in the NLL (high point producers who are also dogged on defense on either side of centre), and has only been achieved by a handful of players going back to 1987 (and yes, we’re well aware players played far fewer games in a regular season in the MILL-era of the NLL)…
Will Malcom, Colorado Mammoth (Photo: Jonathan Tenca)
Player
Season: G/A/LB (GP)
Wes Berg
2023: 39/70/100 (18)
2024: 41/67/96 (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)
2024: 56/64/159 (18)
2025: 33/61/125 (14…)
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)
2024: 36/75/110 (18)
Andrew Kew
2023: 43/63/91 (16)
Will Malcom
2023: 35/61/114 (18)
2024: 37/67/94 (18)
Clarke Petterson
2024: 40/64/91 (18)
Joe Resetarits
2018: 37/63/92 (18)
Josh Sanderson
2005: 31/71/112 (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)
2024: 33/101/119 (18)
John Tavares
2001: 51/64/159 (14)
Jeff Teat
2022: 37/71/111 (16)
2023: 56/80/105 (18)
2024: 58/72/111 (18)
Lyle Thompson
2017: 45/71/126 (18)
2019: 43/62/94 (18)
2023: 46/60/113 (18)
What’s also interesting about Tavares’ 2001 campaign, is that was the only season in NLL history when an MVP did not get his team to the playoffs. In addition to that super-fast 30/60/90 slash, Tavares also set a new point-scoring record that season (86).
Jesse King, Calgary Roughnecks (Photo: Caroline Sherman)
Although Fields has already for now the third straight year garnered a 30/60/90 season (he actually might get to 40/80/120 which would be absurd), five other players are presently on pace to do the same…
Connor Fields
Rochester Knighthawks
GP: 14
Current: 33/61/125
Projected: 42/78/161
Dhane Smith
Buffalo Bandits
GP: 11
Current: 22/65/71
Projected: 36/106/116
Mitch Jones
Philadelphia Wings
GP: 12
Current: 28/60/76
Projected: 42/90/114
Josh Byrne
Buffalo Bandits
GP: 11
Current: 29/53/58
Projected: 47/87/95
Ryan Lanchbury
Rochester Knighthawks
GP: 14
Current: 23/65/72
Projected: 30/84/93
Jesse King
Calgary Roughnecks
GP: 13
Current: 23/55/70
Projected: 32/76/97
There’s a decent chance Dhane Smith could match Fields by getting it done in 14 games as well, already sitting at 65 assists in just eleven games. Although not as by big a margin as it was looking to be earlier this season, Smith is still also on pace to break his own assists in one season record for the unheard of fourth consecutive year.
Alex Simmons, Albany FireWolves (Photo: Jonathan Tenca)
A handful of players look likely to easily hit two of the three 30/60/90 categories, their current pace in the third, at least for now, close but not enough to get there. An above-their-own average game or two could change things though…
Alex Simmons
Albany FireWolves
GP: 13
Current: 29/47/62
Projected: 40/65/86
Curtis Dickson
Calgary Roughnecks
GP: 13
Current: 39/45/59
Project: 54/62/82
Lyle Thompson
Georgia Swarm
GP: 12
Current: 29/38/71
Projected: 44/57/107
Clarke Petterson
Halifax Thunderbirds
GP: 12
Current: 20/38/72
Projected: 30/57/108
Jeff Teat
Ottawa Black Bears
GP: 11
Current: 26/34/60
Projected: 43/56/98
Tye Kurtz
Albany FireWolves
GP: 13
Current: 23/39/77
Projected: 32/54/107
Frank Scigliano & Zach Manns, Saskatchewan (Photo: Victoria Adkins)
And not surprisingly, many of the players on pace or almost on pace to join the prestigious 30/60/90 Club can be found below on our updated Week 16 NLL TOP 30 leaderboard, including Smith, who has remained #1 since our opening edition. Robert Church (Saskatchewan Rush), Ryan Dilks (Vancouver Warriors) and Keegan Bal (Vancouver Warriors) slipped out of this week’s 30, making room for Frank Scigliano (Saskatchewan Rush), Clarke Petterson (Halifax Thunderbirds) and Wes Berg (San Diego Seals).
NLL TOP 30: Week 16
TW. (LW) Player, Team (Pos.)
1. (1) Dhane Smith, Buffalo (F)
2. (5) Curtis Dickson, Calgary (F)
3. (2) Mitch Jones, Philadelphia (F)
4. (3) Josh Byrne, Buffalo (F)
5. (8) Connor Fields, Rochester (F)
6. (4) Zach Higgins, Ottawa (G)
7. (6) Joe Resetarits, Philadelphia (F)
8. (7) Zach Currier, San Diego (T)
9. (9) Robert Hope, Colorado (D)
10. (13) Ryan Lanchbury, Rochester (F)
11. (14) Jesse King, Calgary (F)
12. (11) Lyle Thompson, Georgia (F)
13. (16) Alex Simmons, Albany (F)
14. (12) Randy Staats, Halifax (F)
15. (10) Matt Vinc, Buffalo (G)
16. (18) Jake Boudreau, Saskatchewan (T)
17. (19) Matt Hossack, Saskatchewan (D)
18. (17) Owen Grant, Vancouver (T)
19. (15) Zach Manns, Saskatchewan (F)
20. (21) Mitch de Snoo, Philadelphia (D)
21. (20) Jeff Teat, Ottawa (F)
22. (23) Jake Withers, Halifax (T)
23. (26) Dillon Ward, Colorado (G)
24. (24) Ryan Terefenko, Halifax (T)
25. (NR) Frank Scigliano, Saskatchewan (G)
26. (22) Aden Walsh, Vancouver (G)
27. (25) Jack Hannah, Las Vegas (F)
28. (NR) Clarke Petterson, Halifax (F)
29. (27) Dane Dobbie, Calgary (F)
30. (NR) Wes Berg, San Diego (F)