Player profile · BOS

Rich Johnson

Rich Johnson advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#606

45.7 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#617

44.6 average league finish

Career Value#4060

-45 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Rich Johnson ranks #606 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #57.7. His full-career value ranks #4060, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Rich Johnson's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Rich Johnson 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 seasons0

Upper-tier finishes

Cumulative Dominance Margin0.0

Standard deviations across scoring seasons

Career Composite45.7

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: 45.7
Qualified seasons: 1
All-time rank: #606

Strongest seasons

Every season

Rich Johnson 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
1970–71Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	24	1	13	-10.10	—	—	-2.6	—	Modeled
1969–70Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	23	65	898	-2.91	13.5	#123	-20.1	14th	Modeled
1968–69Historical Defense Estimate	BOS	22	31	163	-7.56	—	—	-22.2	—	Modeled

Career movement

Rich Johnson's career impact by season

Peak -2.91 in 1969–70 · 3 seasons · 1,074 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

Across-era box estimateWorkload

Early-career comparison

Compare the first 3 seasons

Only the first 3 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Compare with

Rich JohnsonCalvin Garrett

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Rich Johnson

The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

SF · All-Time Career #2447

Calvin Garrett

80%

start match

87% season match · 1969–70 ↔ 1981–82 C · All-Time Career #2894

Žan Tabak

80%

start match

91% season match · 1969–70 ↔ 1995–96 SG · All-Time Career #2641

Keon Johnson

80%

start match

79% season match · 1969–70 ↔ 2021–22 PF · All-Time Career #2302

Charles Pittman

80%

start match

90% season match · 1969–70 ↔ 1983–84 PF · All-Time Career #3052

Jalen Wilson

80%

start match

92% season match · 1969–70 ↔ 2023–24 PF · All-Time Career #2023

Ben McDonald

79%

start match

88% season match · 1969–70 ↔ 1986–87

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 →