105.9 composite · lower is better
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Derrick Alston
Derrick Alston advanced stats and career rankings
101.6 average league finish
-1 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Derrick Alston ranks #1907 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #152.7. His full-career value ranks #2059, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Derrick Alston's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Derrick Alston 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 Composite105.9
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
- 105.9
- Qualified seasons
- 2
- All-time rank
- #1907
Strongest seasons
Every season
Derrick Alston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996–97Historical Defense Estimate | ATL | 24 | 2 | 11 | -12.28 | — | — | -2.0 | — | Limited |
| 1995–96Historical Defense Estimate | PHI | 23 | 73 | 1,614 | -1.76 | 34.8 | #213 | 7.4 | 37th | Strong |
| 1994–95Historical Defense Estimate | PHI | 22 | 64 | 1,032 | -2.31 | 29.1 | #220 | -6.0 | 28th | Strong |
Career movement
Derrick Alston's career impact by season
Peak -1.76 in 1995–96 · 3 seasons · 2,657 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.
Derrick AlstonYves Missi
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Derrick Alston
The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
C · All-Time Career #2218
Yves Missi
93%start match
93% season match · 1995–96 ↔ 2025–26PF · All-Time Career #484Dick Mehen
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85% season match · 1995–96 ↔ 1950–51C · All-Time Career #1316Manny Leaks
90%start match
83% season match · 1995–96 ↔ 1972–73PF · All-Time Career #1541Wil Jones
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80% season match · 1995–96 ↔ 1977–78C · All-Time Career #1629Charles Jones
86%start match
94% season match · 1995–96 ↔ 1984–85C · All-Time Career #661Jim Palmer
84%start match
94% season match · 1995–96 ↔ 1958–59Impact 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 →