71.9 composite · lower is better
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David Rivers
David Rivers advanced stats and career rankings
69.4 average league finish
-45 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
David Rivers ranks #1219 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #99.0. His full-career value ranks #4066, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore David Rivers's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How David Rivers 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 Composite71.9
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
- 71.9
- Qualified seasons
- 1
- All-time rank
- #1219
Strongest seasons
Every season
David Rivers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–92Historical Defense Estimate | LAC | 27 | 15 | 122 | -6.98 | — | — | -12.2 | — | Limited |
| 1989–90Historical Defense Estimate | LAC | 25 | 52 | 724 | -3.47 | 14.3 | #247 | -21.9 | 20th | Established |
| 1988–89Historical Defense Estimate | LAL | 24 | 47 | 440 | -3.22 | — | — | -11.2 | — | Limited |
Career movement
David Rivers's career impact by season
Peak -3.22 in 1988–89 · 3 seasons · 1,286 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
—’91
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.
David RiversJunior Harrington
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to David Rivers
The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
PG · All-Time Career #2931
Junior Harrington
88%start match
94% season match · 1988–89 ↔ 2006–07SG · All-Time Career #3096Jordan Hawkins
86%start match
90% season match · 1988–89 ↔ 2025–26SG · All-Time Career #2641Keon Johnson
86%start match
86% season match · 1988–89 ↔ 2022–23PG · All-Time Career #2454Rod Foster
85%start match
90% season match · 1988–89 ↔ 1985–86SG · All-Time Career #2727Harold Miner
84%start match
86% season match · 1988–89 ↔ 1994–95SG · All-Time Career #3028Terrance Ferguson
84%start match
85% season match · 1988–89 ↔ 2017–18Impact 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 →