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Derrick Chievous
Derrick Chievous advanced stats and career rankings
95.2 average league finish
-63 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Derrick Chievous ranks #1808 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #142.0. His full-career value ranks #4291, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Derrick Chievous's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Derrick Chievous ranks all time
These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.
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Elite finishes
Upper-tier finishes
Standard deviations across scoring seasons
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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
- 99.1
- Qualified seasons
- 2
- All-time rank
- #1808
Strongest seasons
Every season
Derrick Chievous 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990–91Historical Defense Estimate | CLE | 23 | 18 | 110 | -9.68 | — | — | -16.7 | — | Limited |
| 1989–90Historical Defense Estimate | CLE/HOU | 22 | 55 | 591 | -1.30 | 41.8 | #168 | 8.6 | 37th | Established |
| 1988–89Historical Defense Estimate | HOU | 21 | 81 | 1,539 | -3.67 | 11.8 | #233 | -54.6 | 5th | Strong |
Career movement
Derrick Chievous's career impact by season
Peak -1.30 in 1989–90 · 3 seasons · 2,240 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.
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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 ChievousWinford Boynes
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
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The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
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85% season match · 1989–90 ↔ 1960–61Impact 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 →