NLL Player Rankings: Week 10
After the first full month (four weeks of completed games more specifically) of the 2021/22 National Lacrosse League season were completed, The Lax Mag started publishing weekly updated NLL Player Rankings, examining the league’s Top 30 players from Week 1 until the end of the regular season.
The rankings only take into consideration how a player has performed for this specific season. TLM ranks the top six players from each team for every completed regular season game, utilizing an average star rating system. For a full breakdown of how players are evaluated and more on our scoring system, click here.
NLL Player Ranking Highlights: Week 10
Lyle Thompson still leads, Zach Currier continues to close the game, rookie Reid Bowering slips into the Top 5 and so does Graeme Hossack, our #1 ranked player in our preseason TLM Top 100.
We’ve got three new names in the Top 30 this week: Joe Resetarits (Albany), Austin Shanks (Halifax) and Brad Kri (Toronto). Erased from last week’s leaderboard are Matt Vinc (Buffalo), Adam Bomberry (Albany) and Mitch Jones (Vancouver), whose star-rating score would have still had him Top 5, but we gave him the boot after the Warriors’ star was sidelined for the foreseeable future.
#26 Austin Shanks, Halifax Thunderbirds (Photo: Ryan McCullough)
A kind of condensed rundown this week because we’re going stats heavy coming out of Week 10. Why? Due to a distinct differential in games played (Philadelphia has played nine games already, while a club like Calgary just five) reading the leaderboard this year is extremely deceiving. It’ll be like that until regular season schedules even up, which will still seemingly be a bit.
So, before we list this week’s Top 30 (scroll to the bottom of the page for that), here’s a quick recap of a more telling tale of this year’s so-far statistical leaders based on stats/games played (only players who’ve played at least half of their team’s season were included). Take a look at the “real” regular season leaders here and you’ll see several don’t even register in the more realistic statistical regular season review below.
Goals
1. Tom Schreiber, Toronto 3.80
2. Dane Dobbie, San Diego 3.17
3. Mitch Jones, Vancouver 3.00
T4. Curtis Dickson, Calgary 2.75
T4. Austin Staats, San Diego 2.75
6. Connor Kearnan, New York 2.71
7. Connor Robinson, Colorado 2.67
8. Lyle Thompson, Georgia 2.63
9. Josh Byrne, Buffalo 2.50
T10. Wes Berg, San Diego 2.33
T10. Robert Church, Saskatchewan 2.33
T10. Ryan Lee, Colorado 2.33
T10. Phil Caputo, Panther City 2.33
T14. Callum Crawford, New York 2.29
T14. Joe Resetarits, Albany 2.29
Assists
1. Jeremy Noble, San Diego 5.00
T2. Ryan Lee, Colorado 4.83
T2. Dhane Smith, Buffalo 4.83
4. Jeff Teat, New York 4.80*
5. Jesse King, Calgary 4.40
6. Callum Crawford, New York 4.14
7. Rob Hellyer, Toronto 3.83
8. Kevin Crowley, Philadelphia 3.67
T9. Mitch Jones, Vancouver 3.50
T9. Ryan Keenan, Saskatchewan 3.50
11. Keegan Bal, Vancouver 3.40
12. Lyle Thompson, Georgia 3.38
13. Mark Matthews, Saskatchewan 3.33
14. Shawn Evans, Rochester 3.29
15. Clarke Petterson, Halifax 3.25
Points
1. Ryan Lee, Colorado 7.17
2. Dhane Smith, Buffalo 7.00
3. Jeff Teat, New York 6.80*
4. Mitch Jones, Vancouver 6.50
5. Callum Crawford, New York 6.43
6. Jeremy Noble, San Diego 6.20
7. Lyle Thompson, Georgia 6.00
8. Jesse King, Calgary 5.60
T9. Josh Byrne, Buffalo 5.50
T9. Austin Staats, San Diego 5.50
11. Keegan Bal, Vancouver 5.40
12. Joe Resetarits, Albany 5.29
13. Clarke Petterson, Halifax 5.25
T14. Wes Berg, San Diego 5.17
T14. Dane Dobbie, San Diego 5.17
Loose Balls
1. Zach Currier, Calgary 13.40
2. Jake Withers, Halifax 12.40
3. Reid Bowering, Vancouver 12.33*
4. Trevor Baptiste, Philadelphia 11.33
5. Robert Hope, Colorado 10.00
6. Brad Kri, Toronto 9.57
7. Jeremy Thompson, Panther City 9.33
8. Mitch de Snoo, Toronto 8.57
9. Kyle Rubisch, Saskatchewan 8.50
10. Ryan Terefenko, Halifax 8.33*
11. Steve Priolo, Buffalo 8.17
12. Graeme Hossack, Halifax 8.00
13. Joe Nardella, Albany 8.00
14. Cam Holding, San Diego 7.80
15. Mike Messenger, Saskatchewan 7.67
Caused Turnovers
1. Brad Kri, Toronto 3.29
T2. Latrell Harris, Toronto 2.50
T2. Adam Bomberry, Albany 2.50
4. Mitch de Snoo, Toronto 2.29
5. Jake Withers, Halifax 2.20
6. Ryan Dilks, Saskatchewan 2.17
T7. Steve Priolo, Buffalo 1.83
T7. Matt Hossack, Panther City 1.83
9. Zach Currier, Calgary 1.80
T10. Liam Byrnes, Panther City 1.71
T10. Dan MacRae, New York 1.71
T10. Matt Marinier, New York 1.71*
13. Robert Hope, Colorado 1.67
14. Owen Barker, Vancouver 1.60
15. Anthony Joaquim, Philadelphia 1.56
#1 Lyle Thompson, Georgia Swarm (Photo: Kyle Hess)
NLL Player Rankings: Week 10
Rank. (Previous Week) Player, Team (Average Star Rating)
1. (1) Lyle Thompson, Georgia Swarm (5.25)
2. (2) Zach Currier, Calgary Roughnecks (5.20)
3. (10) Reid Bowering, Vancouver Warriors (4.67)*
4. (14) Graeme Hossack, Halifax Thunderbirds (4.60)
5. (5) Dillon Ward, Colorado Mammoth (4.50)
6. (16) Dhane Smith, Buffalo Bandits (4.50)
7. (6) Dane Dobbie, San Diego Seals (4.50)
8. (7) Tom Schreiber, Toronto Rock (4.40)
9. (15) Jesse King, Calgary Roughnecks (4.40)
10. (12) Mike Messenger, Saskatchewan Rush (4.33)
11. (13) Austin Staats, San Diego Seals (4.25)
12. (20) Kyle Rubisch, Saskatchewan Rush (4.17)
13. (9) Challen Rogers, Toronto Rock (4.14)
14. (23) Ryan Lee, Colorado Mammoth (4.00)
15. (3) Jeff Teat, New York Riptide (4.00)*
16. (25) Callum Crawford, New York Riptide (4.00)
17. (8) Warren Hill, Halifax Thunderbirds (4.00)
18. (18) Josh Byrne, Buffalo Bandits (4.00)
19. (19) Shayne Jackson, Georgia Swarm (4.00)
20. (26) Kiel Matisz, Philadelphia Wings (3.89)
21. (NR) Joe Resetarits, Albany FireWolves (3.86)
22. (11) Holden Cattoni, Rochester Knighthawks (3.83)
23. (27) Steve Priolo, Buffalo Bandits (3.83)
24. (22) Wes Berg, San Diego Seals (3.83)
25. (24) Curtis Dickson, Calgary Roughnecks (3.75)
26. (NR) Austin Shanks, Halifax Thunderbirds (3.50)
27. (28) Robert Church, Saskatchewan Rush (3.50)
28. (17) Doug Jamieson, Albany FireWolves (3.43)
29. (NR) Brad Kri, Toronto Rock (3.43)
30. (30) Tony Malcom, Albany FireWolves (3.43)
NR = not rated in previous week’s Top 30
*Rookie