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Fred Schaus
Fred Schaus stats, teams and career impact
#234 all-timeCareer averages · 11.6 PPG · 6.0 RPG · 3.0 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Small forward
- Teams in final NBA season
- Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) · 205 lb (93 kg)
- Born
- June 30, 1925
- Died
- February 10, 2010 (84 yrs old)
- College
- West Virginia
- NBA career
- 1949–50 to 1953–54
Career summaryFred Schaus was a small forward whose NBA career ran from 1949–50 through 1953–54. hussEyquation season data begins in 1950–51.
- Career PPG
- 11.6
- Career RPG
- 6.0
- Career APG
- 3.0
- #18 in 1951–52
- #234 all-time
Best-Season Impact Rank
Career Impact Rank
Peak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
Career overview
How Fred Schaus ranks in the available record
Fred Schaus's covered seasons produce an all-time rank of #234. hussEyquation's season record begins in 1950–51, so this is not a complete-career verdict.
450+ minutes required per season
266 games · Coverage begins in 1950–51
NBA honorsAll-StarContext only; honors are not model inputs.
Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 35.1%FG%
- Three-point
- —3P%
- Free throw
- 82.4%FT%
266 career games · 9,244 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
Fred Schaus stats by season
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| 1953–54 | 7.1 | 4.0 | 1.6 | -0.40 | FTW/NYK | 67 | 0 | 22.6 | 38.8% | — | 78.5% | #43 | 44.0 |
| 1952–53 | 10.5 | 6.0 | 3.6 | +0.27 | FTW | 69 | 0 | 36.8 | 33.4% | — | 82.1% | #33 | 109.3 |
| 1951–52 | 14.1 | 7.0 | 4.0 | +1.36 | FTW | 62 | 0 | 41.6 | 36.1% | — | 83.3% | #18 | 162.7 |
| 1950–51 | 15.1 | 7.3 | 2.7 | +0.76 | FTW | 68 | 0 | 38.3 | 34.0% | — | 83.5% | #32 | 153.2 |
| Career | 11.6 | 6.0 | 3.0 | — | FTW/NYK | 266 | — | 34.8 | 35.1% | — | 82.4% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
What these measures mean
- Era-centered box impact
- Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average.
- Impact Rate Rank
- The player's place among qualified players in one season.
- 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.
28.5 composite · lower is better
30.2 average league finish
469 total value
Career standing
How Fred Schaus 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
Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons
Career Composite Score28.5
Equal average of Best 3, Best 5, and Best 10 league finishes. The overlapping windows make this explicitly peak-weighted. Lower is better.
- Best 3 weight
- 63.3%
- Score
- 28.5
- Qualified seasons
- 4
- All-time rank
- #234
Strongest seasons
Every season
Fred Schaus 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
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Career movement
Fred Schaus's career impact by season
Peak +1.36 in 1951–52 · 4 seasons · 9,244 minutes
The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. The vertical scale adapts to this player's range and always includes zero.
Era-centered box impactMinutesModeled estimate
Player-specific impact scaleWorkload
Early-career comparison
Compare the first 4 seasons
Both players are limited to their first 4 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Fred SchausRalph Sampson
| NBA season | Fred Schaus | Ralph Sampson |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 1.4 | 0.5 |
| 3 | 0.3 | 1.1 |
| 4 | -0.4 | 0.5 |
NBA season number · first 4 seasons only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Fred Schaus
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 4 seasons and 1,880 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
PF · All-Time Career #1290
Ralph Sampson
99.7start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: closeAge: closeRole: close
Medium evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1951–52 ↔ 1985–86SF · All-Time Career #1446Michael Brooks
99.5start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: closeAge: closeRole: very close
Medium evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1951–52 ↔ 1982–83PF · All-Time Career #1640Keith Van Horn
99.4start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: closeRole: very close
Medium evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1951–52 ↔ 1998–99Impact 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 →