68.5 composite · lower is better
Explore rankings
Player profile · SAS
Ed Rains
Ed Rains advanced stats and career rankings
66.2 average league finish
-48 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Ed Rains ranks #1116 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #93.7. His full-career value ranks #4105, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Ed Rains's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Ed Rains 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 Composite68.5
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
- 68.5
- Qualified seasons
- 1
- All-time rank
- #1116
Strongest seasons
Every season
Ed Rains advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
Career movement
Ed Rains's career impact by season
Peak -3.68 in 1981–82 · 2 seasons · 929 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 2 seasons
Only the first 2 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.
Ed RainsJordan Hawkins
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Ed Rains
The score compares the first 2 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
SG · All-Time Career #3096
Jordan Hawkins
84%start match
89% season match · 1981–82 ↔ 2025–26SG · All-Time Career #2641Keon Johnson
83%start match
83% season match · 1981–82 ↔ 2021–22PG · All-Time Career #2931Junior Harrington
82%start match
93% season match · 1981–82 ↔ 2004–05PF · All-Time Career #2516Adam Morrison
82%start match
90% season match · 1981–82 ↔ 2008–09PF · All-Time Career #2023Ben McDonald
82%start match
90% season match · 1981–82 ↔ 1985–86SG · All-Time Career #3128Jaden Hardy
81%start match
91% season match · 1981–82 ↔ 2025–26Impact 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 →