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Bill Closs

Bill Closs stats, teams and career impact

#797 all-timeCareer averages · 7.5 PPG · 5.0 RPG · 1.5 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Small forward
Final NBA team: Fort Wayne Pistons
Height / weight: 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) · 195 lb (88 kg)
Born: January 8, 1922
Died: June 6, 2011 (89 yrs old)
College: Rice University
NBA career: 1949–50 to 1951–52

Career or season view

Career summaryBill Closs was a small forward whose NBA career ran from 1949–50 through 1951–52. hussEyquation season data begins in 1950–51.

Career PPG: 7.5
Career RPG: 5.0
Career APG: 1.5; #37 in 1950–51; #797 all-time

Peak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Career overview

How Bill Closs ranks in the available record

Bill Closs's covered seasons produce an all-time rank of #797. hussEyquation's season record begins in 1950–51, so this is not a complete-career verdict.

Peak#37 in 1950–51

Best league finish

Sustained excellence2 ranked seasons

450+ minutes required per season

Career breadth1949–50 to 1951–52

122 games · Coverage begins in 1950–51

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: Philadelphia Warriors and Fort Wayne Pistons
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Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 31.6%FG%
Three-point: —3P%
Free throw: 71.8%FT%

122 career games · 2,586 minutes

Sources and updateConventional stats and measurements: Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 13, 2026. hussEyquation ranking data through 2025–26. Life dates: Wikidata; conflicting dates checked against Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 17, 2026.

Traditional box score

Bill Closs stats by season

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Box impact is an estimate in points per 100 possessions, not the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Zero is league average; higher is better. Rate rank is a league place: No. 1 is best.

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				pts/100 · higher is better
1951–52	6.1	3.6	1.3	-1.94	FTW	57	0	19.6	30.8%	—	68.2%	#75	1.4
1950–51	8.8	6.2	1.7	+0.40	PHW	65	0	22.6	32.0%	—	74.4%	#37	72.9
Career	7.5	5.0	1.5	—	FTW/PHW	122	—	21.2	31.6%	—	71.8%	—	—

Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.

What these measures mean

Box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average, from the historical box-score model. Zero is league average; higher is better. Historical defense estimates are included where labeled. This is not the live model's lineup-adjusted estimate.
Impact Rate: A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession.
Impact estimate: The season model's final estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, before conversion to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. It includes lineup evidence where available. Zero is league average; higher is better.
Impact Rate rank: The player's place among qualified players in that season's Impact Rate ranking. No. 1 is best. This is a rank, not an impact score.
Value contribution / Season Value: Completed seasons use a fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. The live season instead uses Season Value, combining that season's impact with workload.
Career Impact Rank: An all-time rank weighted toward the player's best three, five, and ten seasons.

Career Impact Rank#797

79.1 composite · lower is better

Best 5#869

83.3 average league finish

Career Value Rank#1520

74 total value

Impact Rate: 0–100 score within one season. Higher is better.
Box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, from the historical model. Zero is average; higher is better.

Career standing

How Bill Closs 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

Top-10 Impact Margin0.0

Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons

Career Composite Score79.1

Best 3, Best 5, and Best 10 average league finishes receive 50%, 30%, and 20% window weights. Missing seasons receive a replacement finish just below the player's typical qualified field. Lower is better.

Best 3 effective weight: 74%
Missing-season finish: 101.5
Qualified seasons: 2
All-time rank: #797

Strongest seasons

Every season

Bill Closs advanced stats by season

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

More advanced statsAge, minutes, impact, rank, value and data coverage

					pts/100 · higher is better	0–100 · higher is better
1951–52Historical Defense Estimate	FTW	30	57	1,120	-1.94	22.1	#75	1.4	22nd	Modeled
1950–51legacy estimate	PHW	29	65	1,466	+0.40	65.4	#37	72.9	62nd	Modeled

Career movement

Bill Closs's box impact by season

Peak box impact +0.40 points per 100 possessions in 1950–51 · 2 seasons · 2,586 minutes

Box impact estimates points per 100 possessions above each season's league average. Zero is average; higher is better. Rank labels show Impact Rate league places, not ranks on this chart's box-impact scale.

Box impact · points per 100 possessionsMinutesModeled estimate

Player-specific impact scaleWorkload

Early-career comparison

Compare the first 2 seasons

Both players are limited to their first 2 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.

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Bill ClossŠarūnas Jasikevičius

Box impactEra-adjusted points per 100 possessions above league average · higher is better · dashed marker means the player did not play

Bill Closs and Šarūnas Jasikevičius era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Bill Closs	Šarūnas Jasikevičius
1	0.4	-0.2
2	-1.9	-1.7

NBA season number · first 2 seasons only

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Bill Closs

The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 2 seasons and 2,351 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.

PG · All-Time Career #2364

Šarūnas Jasikevičius

99.5

start similarity percentile

Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: close

Medium evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1950–51 ↔ 2005–06 SF · All-Time Career #2388

Kornél Dávid

99.4

start similarity percentile

Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: closeRole: very close

Medium evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1950–51 ↔ 1998–99 C · All-Time Career #2843

Nicolò Melli

start similarity percentile

Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: close

Medium evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1950–51 ↔ 2019–20

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; completed player-profile rows instead show each season's fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. Career Impact Rank 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 →