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Larry Costello
Larry Costello advanced stats and career rankings
24.4 average league finish
973 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Larry Costello ranks #224 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #22.0. His full-career value ranks #466, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Larry Costello's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Larry Costello ranks all time
These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.
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Upper-tier finishes
Standard deviations across scoring seasons
Career Composite27.5
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
- 27.5
- Qualified seasons
- 12
- All-time rank
- #224
Strongest seasons
Every season
Larry Costello 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967–68Historical Defense Estimate | PHI | 36 | 28 | 492 | -1.35 | 33.3 | #81 | 8.2 | 29th | Modeled |
| 1966–67Historical Defense Estimate | PHI | 35 | 49 | 976 | -1.90 | 24.0 | #77 | 2.6 | 22nd | Modeled |
| 1964–65Historical Defense Estimate | PHI | 33 | 64 | 1,967 | -1.12 | 44.9 | #50 | 42.8 | 44th | Modeled |
| 1963–64Historical Defense Estimate | PHI | 32 | 45 | 1,137 | -0.86 | 54.3 | #43 | 32.2 | 52nd | Modeled |
| 1962–63Historical Defense Estimate | SYR | 31 | 78 | 2,066 | -1.24 | 45.1 | #51 | 40.4 | 49th | Modeled |
| 1961–62Historical Defense Estimate | SYR | 30 | 63 | 1,854 | -0.29 | 62.8 | #33 | 85.0 | 62nd | Modeled |
| 1960–61Historical Defense Estimate | SYR | 29 | 75 | 2,167 | +0.40 | 68.4 | #26 | 139.7 | 68th | Modeled |
| 1959–60Historical Defense Estimate | SYR | 28 | 71 | 2,469 | +0.92 | 75.6 | #20 | 191.2 | 76th | Modeled |
| 1958–59Historical Defense Estimate | SYR | 27 | 70 | 2,750 | +0.10 | 67.5 | #27 | 145.8 | 76th | Modeled |
| 1957–58Historical Defense Estimate | SYR | 26 | 72 | 2,746 | +0.64 | 75.0 | #20 | 179.9 | 80th | Modeled |
| 1956–57Historical Defense Estimate | PHW | 25 | 72 | 2,111 | +0.15 | 64.6 | #29 | 102.2 | 71st | Modeled |
| 1954–55Historical Defense Estimate | PHW | 23 | 19 | 463 | -1.69 | 19.7 | #62 | 3.1 | 17th | Modeled |
Career movement
Larry Costello's career impact by season
Peak +0.92 in 1959–60 · 12 seasons · 21,198 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
—’56
—’66
Across-era box estimateWorkload
Career comparison
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