This analysis was done very similarly to my research on big men that I discussed last week. The same basic guidelines were used for selecting players: they needed to play at least 600 minutes in the NBA. This still isn’t all that much of a sample size, but at least indicates real playing time, enough to take something away from. Correlating college stats to NBA advanced numbers just won’t mean all that much if those advanced numbers (which are notoriously suspect to swings in small samples) are based on 100 garbage time minutes.
‘Wings’ are just as broad a category as ‘big men’, if not more so.