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Dolph Schayes

Dolph Schayes stats, teams and career impact

#19 all-timeCareer averages · 18.6 PPG · 12.1 RPG · 3.0 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Power forward
Final NBA team: Philadelphia 76ers
Height / weight: 6 ft 8 in (203 cm) · 220 lb (100 kg)
Born: May 19, 1928
Died: December 10, 2015 (87 yrs old)
College: NYU
NBA career: 1949–50 to 1963–64

Career or season view

Career summaryDolph Schayes was a power forward whose NBA career ran from 1949–50 through 1963–64. hussEyquation season data begins in 1950–51.

Career PPG: 18.6
Career RPG: 12.1
Career APG: 3.0; #2 in 4 seasons; #19 all-time

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

Career overview

How Dolph Schayes ranks in the available record

Dolph Schayes's covered seasons produce an all-time rank of #19. hussEyquation's season record begins in 1950–51, so this is not a complete-career verdict.

Peak#2 in 1953–54

Best league finish

Sustained excellence7 top-five finishes

8 top-ten finishes

Career breadth1949–50 to 1963–64

932 games · Coverage begins in 1950–51

NBA honors12× All-Star · 11× All-NBAContext only; honors are not model inputs.

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: Syracuse Nationals and Philadelphia 76ers
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Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 38.0%FG%
Three-point: —3P%
Free throw: 85.4%FT%

932 career games · 32,698 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

Dolph Schayes 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
1963–64	5.6	4.6	2.0	-3.83	PHI	24	0	14.6	30.8%	—	80.7%	—	-16.0
1962–63	9.5	5.7	2.7	-0.54	SYR	66	0	21.8	38.8%	—	87.9%	#35	53.8
1961–62	14.7	7.8	2.1	-0.48	SYR	56	0	26.4	35.7%	—	89.7%	#35	60.4
1960–61	23.6	12.2	3.7	+1.13	SYR	79	0	38.1	37.2%	—	86.8%	#15	253.0
1959–60	22.5	12.8	3.4	+2.26	SYR	75	0	36.5	40.1%	—	89.3%	#11	309.3
1958–59	21.3	13.4	2.5	+1.53	SYR	72	0	36.7	38.7%	—	86.4%	#15	235.1
1957–58	24.9	14.2	3.1	+3.47	SYR	72	0	40.5	39.8%	—	90.4%	#4	396.0
1956–57	22.5	14.0	3.2	+3.77	SYR	72	0	39.6	37.9%	—	90.4%	#2	385.0
1955–56	20.4	12.4	2.8	+3.55	SYR	72	0	35.0	38.7%	—	85.8%	#2	316.0
1954–55	18.5	12.3	3.0	+3.42	SYR	72	0	35.1	38.3%	—	83.3%	#2	295.6
1953–54	17.1	12.1	3.0	+4.00	SYR	72	0	36.9	38.0%	—	82.7%	#2	310.1
1952–53	17.8	13.0	3.2	+3.67	SYR	71	0	37.6	37.4%	—	82.7%	#3	292.3
1951–52	13.8	12.3	2.9	+2.57	SYR	63	0	31.8	35.5%	—	80.7%	#8	183.2
1950–51	17.0	16.4	3.8	+3.22	SYR	66	0	43.9	35.7%	—	75.2%	#5	309.4
Career	18.6	12.1	3.0	—	PHI/SYR	932	—	35.1	38.0%	—	85.4%	—	—

Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.

Film evidence

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Career retrospective

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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#19

2.7 composite · lower is better

Best 5#17

2.2 average league finish

Career Value Rank#68

3,383 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 Dolph Schayes 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 seasons7

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons8

Upper-tier finishes

Top-10 Impact Margin15.8

Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons

Career Composite Score2.7

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: 82.0
Qualified seasons: 13
All-time rank: #19

Strongest seasons

Every season

Dolph Schayes 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
1963–64Historical Defense Estimate	PHI	35	24	350	-3.83	—	—	-16.0	—	Modeled
1962–63Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	34	66	1,438	-0.54	62.6	#35	53.8	56th	Modeled
1961–62Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	33	56	1,480	-0.48	60.5	#35	60.4	53rd	Modeled
1960–61Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	32	79	3,007	+1.13	82.3	#15	253.0	82nd	Modeled
1959–60Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	31	75	2,741	+2.26	87.2	#11	309.3	91st	Modeled
1958–59Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	30	72	2,645	+1.53	82.5	#15	235.1	86th	Modeled
1957–58Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	29	72	2,918	+3.47	96.1	#4	396.0	99th	Modeled
1956–57Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	28	72	2,851	+3.77	98.7	#2	385.0	100th	Modeled
1955–56Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	27	72	2,517	+3.55	98.7	#2	316.0	99th	Modeled
1954–55Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	26	72	2,526	+3.42	98.7	#2	295.6	96th	Modeled
1953–54Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	25	72	2,655	+4.00	98.8	#2	310.1	98th	Modeled
1952–53Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	24	71	2,668	+3.67	97.9	#3	292.3	97th	Modeled
1951–52Historical Defense Estimate	SYR	23	63	2,004	+2.57	92.6	#8	183.2	88th	Modeled
1950–51legacy estimate	SYR	22	66	2,898	+3.22	96.2	#5	309.4	97th	Modeled

Career movement

Dolph Schayes's box impact by season

Peak box impact +4.00 points per 100 possessions in 1953–54 · 14 seasons · 32,698 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.

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

Dolph Schayes and Kevin McHale era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Dolph Schayes	Kevin McHale
1	3.2	-0.8
2	2.6	0.9
3	3.7	1.4
4	4.0	1.8
5	3.4	2.3
6	3.6	4.1
7	3.8	4.3
8	3.5	2.7
9	1.5	1.7
10	2.3	3.4
11	1.1	2.4
12	-0.5	0.4
13	-0.5	-1.8
14	-3.8	Did not play

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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 →