Player profile · BOS / STL

Ed Macauley

Ed Macauley advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#37

5.7 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#27

3.4 average league finish

Career Value#174

2,034 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Ed Macauley ranks #37 all time. He finished #1 in 3 seasons and in the top five 3 times, giving him an elite peak. His full-career value ranks #174, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Ed Macauley's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Ed Macauley ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons3

Best in the league

Top-five seasons3

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons5

Upper-tier finishes

Cumulative Dominance Margin10.1

Standard deviations across scoring seasons

Career Composite5.7

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: 5.7
Qualified seasons: 8
All-time rank: #37

Strongest seasons

Every season

Ed Macauley 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
1958–59Historical Defense Estimate	STL	30	14	196	-6.31	—	—	-20.4	—	Modeled
1957–58Historical Defense Estimate	STL	29	72	1,908	+1.23	80.3	#16	153.6	76th	Modeled
1956–57Historical Defense Estimate	STL	28	72	2,582	+0.61	69.6	#25	152.3	80th	Modeled
1955–56Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	27	71	2,354	+0.91	74.7	#20	163.2	80th	Modeled
1954–55Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	26	71	2,706	+1.85	90.8	#8	235.7	93rd	Modeled
1953–54Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	25	71	2,792	+4.23	100.0	#1	337.2	100th	Modeled
1952–53Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	24	69	2,902	+4.13	100.0	#1	351.2	100th	Modeled
1951–52Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	23	66	2,631	+2.76	94.7	#6	260.9	97th	Modeled
1950–51legacy estimate	BOS	22	68	2,735	+5.33	100.0	#1	400.3	100th	Modeled

Career movement

Ed Macauley's career impact by season

Peak +5.33 in 1950–51 · 9 seasons · 20,806 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 impactMinutesModeled estimate

Across-era box estimateWorkload

Career comparison

Compare the shape, not the calendar

Align by NBA experience to compare season one with season one, or by age to compare players at the same stage of life.

Compare with

Ed MacauleyNeil Johnston

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Ed Macauley

The score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and trajectory aligned by NBA experience. It describes career shape, not playing style or equal ability.

C · All-Time Career #48

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career match

89% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 1952–53 C · All-Time Career #226

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86% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 2005–06 C · All-Time Career #448

Bam Adebayo

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91% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 2020–21 C · All-Time Career #126

Arvydas Sabonis

88%

career match

75% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 1995–96 C · All-Time Career #187

Dan Issel

88%

career match

80% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 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. 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 →