Who gains without Goodwin, Fleming, Gillespie and Highsmith
Goodwin, Fleming, Gillespie and Highsmith haven't sat together since last season, so this comes from who replaced each of them and how the team played without each one. Maluach usually plays 10 minutes; our estimate: 14 minutes (Lean).
Highsmith has missed 4 of the team's last 5, so most of his minutes are already in everyone's recent numbers.
- +10 minutes in 3 games without Fleming alone since last season
- +8 minutes in 3 games without Goodwin alone since last season
- came in for 36% of the times one of them left a game
- +4 minutes in 26 games without Fleming alone since last season
- +2 minutes in 7 games without Goodwin alone since last season
- came in for 19% of the times one of them left a game
- +6 minutes in 4 games without Goodwin alone since last season
- −7 minutes in 9 games without Fleming alone since last season
- Oso Ighodaro22 → 24 min · 5 → 6 shots19 → 22 fptsWorth watching
- Pat Spencer7 → 8 min · 2 → 2 shots13 → 14 fpts
- Koby Brea7 → 8 min · 3 → 4 shots6 → 7 fpts
- Ryan Dunn19 → 20 min · 5 → 6 shots16 → 17 fpts
- Mark Williams24 → 25 min · 9 → 9 shots27 → 28 fpts
- Luke Kennard16 → 17 min · 6 → 6 shots14 → 15 fpts
- CJ Huntley10 → 11 min · 3 → 3 shots6 → 7 fpts
- Dillon Brooks30 → 32 min · 18 → 18 shots29 → 29 fpts
- Jamaree Bouyea14 → 15 min · 5 → 5 shots13 → 13 fpts
- Duop Reath6 → 7 min · 2 → 2 shots5 → 6 fpts
- Koa Peat5 → 5 min · 2 → 2 shots3 → 3 fpts
- Miles Bridges33 → 33 min · 16 → 15 shots35 → 35 fpts
How this works, and how often it's rightShowHide
We start from each teammate's recent minutes, shots and fantasy points since last season, then hand out the minutes the missing players have been playing: mostly to whoever came in when each of them left a game, and to whoever played more when each one sat on his own, with a small nudge toward the same position. Minutes a player already lost while someone was out are not counted twice. Shots move with how often each teammate finished plays when none of the missing players were on the floor. When the exact group has sat together 4 or more times, those games count too.
We checked it on 1,183 games in 2025-26 where a team had two or more rotation players out, using only games played before each one. Our minutes were off by 5.2 a player on average in games from February on, against 6.06 using season averages and 9.41 adding up each missing player's own "who gains" numbers. Fantasy points: off by 8.12, against 8.59 and 12.48. Our biggest predicted minutes gainer was one of the night's two biggest gainers 52% of the time (adding up single-player numbers: 37%).
Likely means 6 or more minutes over his usual: 79% of those players really did play at least 2 more. Lean (3.5 to 6 more): 65%. Worth watching (2 to 3.5 more): 52%. Blowouts, foul trouble and coaches' whims make any one night noisy.
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Tap a name to sit him or bring him back- Devin Booker34 min · 69 games
- Miles Bridges33 min · 5 games
- Dillon Brooks30 min · 61 games
- Collin Gillespie28 min · 85 games
- Jalen Green26 min · 37 games
- Mark Williams24 min · 60 games
- Jordan Goodwin22 min · 75 games
- Oso Ighodaro22 min · 85 games
- Ryan Dunn19 min · 75 games
- Luke Kennard16 min · 4 games
- Jamaree Bouyea14 min · 48 games
- Haywood Highsmith13 min · 7 games
- Rasheer Fleming12 min · 57 games
- CJ Huntley10 min · 4 games
- Khaman Maluach10 min · 51 games
- Pat Spencer7 min · 1 game
- Koby Brea7 min · 12 games
- Duop Reath6 min · 3 games
- Koa Peat5 min · 2 games
New to the team, no games with them in our sample yet: Drew Timme, Phillip Wheeler, Kennedy Chandler. They will take some of these minutes, and we can't say how many until they play.