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Kenny Walker
Kenny Walker advanced stats and career rankings
191.4 average league finish
-43 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Kenny Walker ranks #2631 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #169.3. His full-career value ranks #4025, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Kenny Walker's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Kenny 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 Composite164.0
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
- 164.0
- Qualified seasons
- 6
- All-time rank
- #2631
Strongest seasons
Every season
Kenny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994–95Historical Defense Estimate | WSB | 30 | 24 | 266 | -6.86 | — | — | -25.4 | — | Limited |
| 1993–94Historical Defense Estimate | WSB | 29 | 73 | 1,397 | -3.10 | 12.7 | #255 | -30.8 | 9th | Strong |
| 1990–91Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 26 | 54 | 771 | -3.37 | 14.1 | #251 | -21.0 | 19th | Established |
| 1989–90Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 25 | 68 | 1,595 | -1.43 | 39.0 | #176 | 18.5 | 41st | Strong |
| 1988–89Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 24 | 79 | 1,163 | -2.39 | 25.1 | #198 | -9.9 | 25th | Strong |
| 1987–88Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 23 | 82 | 2,139 | -1.67 | 33.6 | #167 | 14.5 | 37th | Strong |
| 1986–87Historical Defense Estimate | NYK | 22 | 68 | 1,719 | -1.67 | 35.9 | #165 | 11.5 | 38th | Strong |
Career movement
Kenny Walker's career impact by season
Peak -1.43 in 1989–90 · 7 seasons · 9,050 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
—’92
—’93
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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