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Jimmy Walker
Jimmy Walker advanced stats and career rankings
103.0 average league finish
154 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Jimmy Walker ranks #1849 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #97.3. His full-career value ranks #1284, so longevity is a major reason he lands this high. Explore Jimmy Walker's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Jimmy Walker 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 Composite102.1
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
- 102.1
- Qualified seasons
- 9
- All-time rank
- #1849
Strongest seasons
Every season
Jimmy Walker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975–76Historical Defense Estimate | KCK | 31 | 73 | 2,490 | -1.04 | 44.7 | #105 | 52.8 | 53rd | Strong |
| 1974–75Historical Defense Estimate | KCO | 30 | 81 | 3,122 | -1.77 | 24.1 | #143 | 15.7 | 28th | Strong |
| 1973–74Historical Defense Estimate | HOU/KCO | 29 | 75 | 2,958 | -1.74 | 27.3 | #129 | 16.7 | 32nd | Strong |
| 1972–73Historical Defense Estimate | HOU | 28 | 81 | 3,079 | -1.18 | 40.1 | #104 | 60.6 | 51st | Modeled |
| 1971–72Historical Defense Estimate | DET | 27 | 78 | 3,083 | -1.79 | 28.7 | #118 | 15.5 | 32nd | Modeled |
| 1970–71Historical Defense Estimate | DET | 26 | 79 | 2,765 | -1.82 | 22.8 | #130 | 11.3 | 27th | Modeled |
| 1969–70Historical Defense Estimate | DET | 25 | 81 | 2,869 | -0.95 | 39.0 | #87 | 69.7 | 54th | Modeled |
| 1968–69Historical Defense Estimate | DET | 24 | 69 | 1,639 | -1.75 | 24.8 | #101 | 9.9 | 27th | Modeled |
| 1967–68Historical Defense Estimate | DET | 23 | 81 | 1,585 | -4.43 | 2.5 | #118 | -98.1 | 0th | Modeled |
Career movement
Jimmy Walker's career impact by season
Peak -0.95 in 1969–70 · 9 seasons · 23,590 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.
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NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
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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.
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93% season match · 1969–70 ↔ 1976–77Impact 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 →