70.0 composite · lower is better
Explore rankings
Player profile · NYK
Chris McNealy
Chris McNealy advanced stats and career rankings
67.6 average league finish
11 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Chris McNealy ranks #1158 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #96.0. His full-career value ranks #1899, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Chris McNealy's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Chris McNealy ranks all time
These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.
Best in the league
Elite finishes
Upper-tier finishes
Standard deviations across scoring seasons
Career Composite70.0
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
- 70.0
- Qualified seasons
- 2
- All-time rank
- #1158
Strongest seasons
Every season
Chris McNealy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987–88Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 26 | 19 | 265 | -4.88 | — | — | -15.8 | — | Limited |
| 1986–87Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 25 | 59 | 972 | -3.00 | 15.6 | #217 | -19.9 | 16th | Established |
| 1985–86Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 24 | 30 | 627 | +1.66 | 82.3 | #46 | 47.2 | 48th | Established |
Career movement
Chris McNealy's career impact by season
Peak +1.66 in 1985–86 · 3 seasons · 1,864 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 impactMinutes
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.
Chris McNealyRyan Kelly
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Chris McNealy
The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
PF · All-Time Career #2777
Ryan Kelly
90%start match
88% season match · 1985–86 ↔ 2013–14C · All-Time Career #2360Greg Stiemsma
89%start match
92% season match · 1985–86 ↔ 2011–12PF · All-Time Career #2826Eric Paschall
88%start match
85% season match · 1985–86 ↔ 2021–22PF · All-Time Career #1337Ed Manning
87%start match
84% season match · 1985–86 ↔ 1967–68C · All-Time Career #661Jim Palmer
87%start match
82% season match · 1985–86 ↔ 1958–59PF · All-Time Career #310Archie Dees
87%start match
88% season match · 1985–86 ↔ 1959–60Impact 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 →