30.9 composite · lower is better
Explore rankings
Player profile · NYK
Cleveland Buckner
Cleveland Buckner advanced stats and career rankings
30.6 average league finish
4 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Cleveland Buckner ranks #264 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #34.3. His full-career value ranks #1971, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Cleveland Buckner's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Cleveland Buckner 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 Composite30.9
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
- 30.9
- Qualified seasons
- 1
- All-time rank
- #264
Strongest seasons
Every season
Cleveland Buckner advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
Career movement
Cleveland Buckner's career impact by season
Peak -1.48 in 1961–62 · 2 seasons · 723 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 2 seasons
Only the first 2 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.
Cleveland BucknerEric Paschall
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Cleveland Buckner
The score compares the first 2 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
PF · All-Time Career #2826
Eric Paschall
79%start match
94% season match · 1961–62 ↔ 2021–22C · All-Time Career #1316Manny Leaks
79%start match
83% season match · 1961–62 ↔ 1973–74PF · All-Time Career #2589Noah Clowney
78%start match
88% season match · 1961–62 ↔ 2023–24SF · All-Time Career #644Joe Holup
77%start match
93% season match · 1961–62 ↔ 1957–58SF · All-Time Career #2816Jordan Nwora
77%start match
91% season match · 1961–62 ↔ 2023–24PF · All-Time Career #1800Stan Love
77%start match
93% season match · 1961–62 ↔ 1973–74Impact 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 →