No season reached the 450-minute floor
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Pops Mensah-Bonsu
Pops Mensah-Bonsu advanced stats and career rankings
No season reached the 450-minute floor
-53 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Pops Mensah-Bonsu does not have an official all-time career rank because no season reached the 450-minute ranking floor. His cumulative Career Value still ranks #4179. Explore Pops Mensah-Bonsu's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Pops Mensah-Bonsu 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
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- Qualified seasons
- 0
- All-time rank
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Every season
Pops Mensah-Bonsu 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–11Historical Defense Estimate | NOH | 27 | 7 | 35 | -12.30 | — | — | -6.7 | — | Limited |
| 2009–10Historical Defense Estimate | HOU/TOR | 26 | 20 | 120 | -8.76 | — | — | -15.7 | — | Limited |
| 2008–09Historical Defense Estimate | SAS/TOR | 25 | 22 | 283 | -5.88 | — | — | -21.0 | — | Limited |
| 2006–07Historical Defense Estimate | DAL | 23 | 12 | 71 | -9.08 | — | — | -9.4 | — | Limited |
Career movement
Pops Mensah-Bonsu's career impact by season
Peak -5.88 in 2008–09 · 4 seasons · 509 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 4 seasons
Only the first 4 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
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