NBA Sim | Best Guards 1960's

Max APP+
#	Player	Team	APP+
1	Oscar Robertson	1964 CIN	28.04
2	Jerry West	1970 LAL	20.35
3	Walt Frazier	1970 NYK	16.38
4	Richie Guerin	1962 NYK	15.09
5	Lenny Wilkens	1969 SEA	14.41
6	Dave Bing	1970 DET	11.81
7	Gail Goodrich	1970 PHO	11.67
8	Guy Rodgers	1967 CHI	11.65
9	Clem Haskins	1970 CHI	11.51
10	Flynn Robinson	1970 MIL	10.15

Average APP+
#	Player	Years	APP+
1	Oscar Robertson	10	24.15
2	Jerry West	10	16.32
3	Walt Frazier	3	10.81
4	Dave Bing	4	10.09
5	Earl Monroe	3	9.01
6	Lenny Wilkens	10	8.04
7	Lou Dampier	3	6.18
8	Donnie Freeman	3	6.03
9	Clem Haskins	3	5.00
10	Guy Rodgers	10	4.83

Total APP+
#	Player	Years	APP+
1	Oscar Robertson	10	241.53
2	Jerry West	10	163.22
3	Lenny Wilkens	10	80.35
4	Guy Rodgers	10	48.33
5	Richie Guerin	9	40.53
6	Dave Bing	4	40.34
7	Walt Frazier	3	32.44
8	Earl Monroe	3	27.02
9	Gail Goodrich	5	21.85
10	Walt Hazzard	6	19.83

Best Guards
#	Player	Max APP+	Average APP+	Total APP+	Points
1	Oscar Robertson	1.0000	1.0000	1.0000	3.0000
2	Jerry West	0.7258	0.6758	0.6758	2.0773
3	Lenny Wilkens	0.5140	0.3327	0.3327	1.1793
4	Walt Frazier	0.5842	0.4477	0.1343	1.1662
5	Dave Bing	0.4212	0.4176	0.1670	1.0058
6	Richie Guerin	0.5382	0.1864	0.1678	0.8924
7	Earl Monroe	0.3538	0.3729	0.1119	0.8386
8	Guy Rodgers	0.4155	0.2001	0.2001	0.8157
9	Gail Goodrich	0.4163	0.1809	0.0904	0.6876
10	Clem Haskins	0.4105	0.2069	0.0621	0.6795

Average APP+ Per Position By Decade
Position	1950's	1960's	1970's	1980's	1990's	2000's
G	-3.47	-1.14	0.22	0.42	0.71	0.45
G-F	-3.71	1.36	0.93	0.55	0.17	0.77
F-G	-4.05	0.55	2.03	0.03	0.15	0.75
F	-4.94	-0.95	-0.61	0.29	0.64	0.94
F-C	-2.37	1.10	0.57	-0.16	0.19	0.34
C-F	-2.40	0.82	2.18	0.06	-2.30	1.15
C	-2.06	2.39	2.67	0.10	-0.27	-1.41
All	-3.35	0.07	0.72	0.29	0.26	0.41

Oscar Robertson
The NBA (and to a lesser extent, the ABA) of the 1960's were very much like the first decade after 2000. The league had it's handful of amazing guards, followed by a sea of mediocre ones. That is, until the last couple of years in the period as suddenly an outstanding crop of guards (Walt Frazier, Dave Bing, Earl Monroe, Lou Dampier, Donnie Freeman, Clem Haskins, etc.) took the NBA by storm. They were so dominating that they quickly outpaced 10-year veterans on these APP+ lists.

The league was getting stronger by leaps and bounds as the 50's deadball/poor shooting hangover was finally being lifted. The advancements made on the defensive side of the ball and the flash of the 70's were coming fast. The NBA had a competitor with the upstart ABA. To say that basketball was going through a tumultuous time would be an understatement. And yet, the consistant, solid, and cerebral Wilkens - a player who took the court in every season of this decade - managed to outlast all of those whippersnappers for Best Guard of the 1960's honors.

Wilken's finest year was the 1969 NBA season playing for the second-year Seattle SuperSonics. His scrubbed line for the year was 20.0 PPG / 5.6 RPG / 7.4 APG and shot 44% from the floor, 77% from the line and would have hit 30% from deep (had the three-point line been invented).