Introduction to Basketball Reference's Player Index

The fantastic Basketballreference.com has a neat tool which allows you to run ad hoc reports on various statistics.

For example, I wrote this query to determine who are the best 6th men in the league thus far this year.

This particular one was fairly simple - I wanted to see any players during the 2014-15 who had not started any games, who had played in at least six games (we're roughly 7 or 8 games into the season), sorted by Win Shares (an estimate of the number of wins contributed by a player).

Here is the link to their "Play Index" - http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/

                     Best 6th Men in NBA as of 11/12

Player	Team	Win Shares
Isaiah Thomas	Suns	0.9
Lavoy Allen	Pacers	0.8
Devin Harris	Mavericks	0.8
Brendan Wright	Mavericks	0.8
Aaron Brooks	Bulls	0.7