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Ray Williams

Ray Williams advanced stats and career rankings

Prime 5#190

21.0 average league finish

Career Value#291

1,478 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Ray Williams ranks #489 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #11.7. His full-career value ranks #291, so longevity is a major reason he lands this high. Explore Ray Williams's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Ray Williams ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons0

Best in the league

Top-five seasons0

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons1

Upper-tier finishes

Cumulative Dominance Margin2.0

Standard deviations across scoring seasons

Career Composite40.4

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
40.4
Qualified seasons
10
All-time rank
#489
Strongest seasons

Every season

Ray Williams advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

SeasonTeamAgeGPMPEra-centered box impactImpact RateRate rankSeason ValueValue percentileEvidence
1986–87Historical Defense EstimateNJN3232800-2.4623.8#196-7.727thEstablished
1985–86Historical Defense EstimateATL/NJN/SAS3147827-0.9843.3#14517.937thEstablished
1984–85Historical Defense EstimateBOS3023459-1.4538.7#1565.432ndEstablished
1983–84Historical Defense EstimateNYK29762,230+2.4691.5#22205.290thStrong
1982–83Historical Defense EstimateKCK28722,170-1.4337.5#15927.641stStrong
1981–82Historical Defense EstimateNJN27822,732+4.0494.9#14354.396thStrong
1980–81Historical Defense EstimateNYK26792,742+3.2694.4#15303.395thStrong
1979–80Historical Defense EstimateNYK25822,582+4.2097.8#6355.597thStrong
1978–79Historical Defense EstimateNYK24812,370+1.3779.3#48174.681stStrong
1977–78Historical Defense EstimateNYK23811,550-0.8248.3#12341.949thStrong

Career movement

Ray Williams's career impact by season

Peak +4.20 in 1979–80 · 10 seasons · 18,462 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
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.

Ray WilliamsJamal Murray

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Ray Williams

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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D'Angelo Russell

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Dick McGuire

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career match

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Paul Pressey

90%

career match

87% season match · 1979–80 ↔ 1987–88
How to read this page

Impact 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 →