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Al Cervi

Al Cervi advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#539

42.5 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#551

41.6 average league finish

Career Value#1858

16 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Al Cervi ranks #539 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #52.7. His full-career value ranks #1858, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Al Cervi's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Al Cervi ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons0

Best in the league

Top-five seasons0

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons0

Upper-tier finishes

Cumulative Dominance Margin0.0

Standard deviations across scoring seasons

Career Composite42.5

Equal average of Best 3, Prime 5, and Best 10 league finishes. The overlapping windows make this explicitly peak-weighted. Lower is better.

Best 3 weight: 63.3%
Score: 42.5
Qualified seasons: 2
All-time rank: #539

Strongest seasons

Every season

Al Cervi advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

Season	Team	Age	GP	MP	Era-centered box impact	Impact Rate	Rate rank	Season Value	Value percentile	Evidence
1952–53Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	35	38	301	-7.37	—	—	-31.3	—	Modeled
1951–52Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	34	55	850	-2.56	12.6	#84	-9.5	15th	Modeled
1950–51legacy estimate	SYR	33	53	1,434	-0.05	53.8	#49	57.0	58th	Modeled

Career movement

Al Cervi's career impact by season

Peak -0.05 in 1950–51 · 3 seasons · 2,585 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.

Era-centered box impactMinutesModeled estimate

Across-era box estimateWorkload

Early-career comparison

Compare the first 3 seasons

Only the first 3 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Compare with

Al CerviDon Boven

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar starts

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The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

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80% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 2020–21

How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played. The career ranking rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →