44.0 composite · lower is better
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Hawkeye Whitney
Hawkeye Whitney advanced stats and career rankings
43.0 average league finish
10 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Hawkeye Whitney ranks #569 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #55.0. His full-career value ranks #1912, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Hawkeye Whitney's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Hawkeye Whitney 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
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
- 44.0
- Qualified seasons
- 1
- All-time rank
- #569
Every season
Hawkeye Whitney 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
Hawkeye Whitney's career impact by season
Peak -0.26 in 1980–81 · 2 seasons · 1,048 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.
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.
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
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The score compares the first 2 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
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