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Mateen Cleaves
Mateen Cleaves advanced stats and career rankings
83.0 average league finish
-142 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Mateen Cleaves ranks #1531 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #121.7. His full-career value ranks #4643, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Mateen Cleaves's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Mateen Cleaves 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 Composite86.2
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
- 86.2
- Qualified seasons
- 1
- All-time rank
- #1531
Strongest seasons
Every season
Mateen Cleaves 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005–06Historical Defense Estimate | SEA | 28 | 27 | 230 | -7.26 | — | — | -23.1 | — | Limited |
| 2004–05Historical Defense Estimate | SEA | 27 | 14 | 65 | -9.52 | — | — | -9.0 | — | Limited |
| 2003–04Historical Defense Estimate | CLE | 26 | 4 | 92 | -7.53 | — | — | -9.6 | — | Limited |
| 2002–03Historical Defense Estimate | SAC | 25 | 12 | 55 | -12.41 | — | — | -11.4 | — | Limited |
| 2001–02Historical Defense Estimate | SAC | 24 | 32 | 153 | -8.46 | — | — | -19.7 | — | Limited |
| 2000–01Historical Defense Estimate | DET | 23 | 78 | 1,268 | -4.78 | 4.0 | #315 | -69.5 | 2nd | Strong |
Career movement
Mateen Cleaves's career impact by season
Peak -4.78 in 2000–01 · 6 seasons · 1,863 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.
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Career comparison
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