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Craig Shelton

Craig Shelton stats, teams and career impact

#2308 all-timeCareer averages · 4.1 PPG · 2.4 RPG · 0.5 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Small forward
Final NBA team: Atlanta Hawks
Height / weight: 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) · 210 lb (95 kg)
Born: May 1, 1957 (69 yrs old)
College: Georgetown
NBA seasons: 2 seasons · 1980–81 to 1981–82

Career or season view

Career summaryCraig Shelton was a small forward who played 2 NBA seasons, from 1980–81 through 1981–82.

Career PPG: 4.1
Career RPG: 2.4
Career APG: 0.5; #248 in 1980–81; #2308 all-time

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

Career overview

Why Craig Shelton ranks #2308 all time

Craig Shelton ranks #2308 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #249.3. His full-career value ranks #4313, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity.

Peak#248 in 1980–81

Best league finish

Sustained excellence1 ranked season

450+ minutes required per season

Career breadth2 seasons

59 games · Career Value Rank #4313

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: Atlanta Hawks
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Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 45.3%FG%
Three-point: 0.0%3P%
Free throw: 60.0%FT%

59 career games · 607 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

Craig Shelton 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
1981–82	1.3	0.8	0.0	-11.33	ATL	4	0	5.3	33.3%	—	50.0%	—	-3.9
1980–81	4.3	2.5	0.5	-7.04	ATL	55	0	10.7	45.7%	0.0%	60.3%	#248	-61.1
Career	4.1	2.4	0.5	—	ATL	59	—	10.3	45.3%	0.0%	60.0%	—	—

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#2308

249.5 composite · lower is better

Best 5#2251

249.6 average league finish

Career Value Rank#4313

-65 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 Craig Shelton 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 Score249.5

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: 250.0
Qualified seasons: 1
All-time rank: #2308

Strongest seasons

Every season

Craig Shelton 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
1981–82Historical Defense Estimate	ATL	24	4	21	-11.33	—	—	-3.9	—	Limited
1980–81Historical Defense Estimate	ATL	23	55	586	-7.04	0.4	#248	-61.1	2nd	Standard

Career movement

Craig Shelton's box impact by season

Peak box impact -7.04 points per 100 possessions in 1980–81 · 2 seasons · 607 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 possessionsMinutes

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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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Craig SheltonRodrick Rhodes

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

Craig Shelton and Rodrick Rhodes era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Craig Shelton	Rodrick Rhodes
1	-7.0	-6.1
2	-11.3	-11.4

NBA season number · first 2 seasons only

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Craig Shelton

The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 2 seasons and 2,352 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.

SF · All-Time Career #2795

Rodrick Rhodes

97.3

start similarity percentile

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

Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1980–81 ↔ 1997–98 SF · All-Time Career #2191

Alonzo Bradley

start similarity percentile

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

Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1980–81 ↔ 1978–79 SG · All-Time Career #2251

Johnny Neumann

93.3

start similarity percentile

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

Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1980–81 ↔ 1977–78

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 →