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Robert Williams

Robert Williams advanced stats and career rankings

RoleC · Age 28
Availability59 games · 1 starts
Workload17.1 MPG · 1,008 minutes
Relative impactPOR #2 of 12 · C #11 of 72
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #35–#246

Bottom line · 2025–26

Robert Williams delivered a strong 2025–26 campaign, ranking 43rd in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 16th, led by rebounding and shot blocking despite costly turnovers. A smaller role at 17.1 minutes per game lowered his overall impact rating. With only about 1,000 minutes, he finished in the 81st percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Robert Williams's impact

395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value

Impact Rate
89
83.7
Season Value
81
44.7

Scoring role

Usage
12
13.1%
True shooting
99
72.2%
3-point attempt rate
9
9.2%
Free-throw rate
43
22.8%

Creation and control

Assist rate
24
8.9%
Turnover avoidance
18
15.1%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
99
22.3%
Steal rate
57
1.7%
Block rate
100
7.7%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
42
−0.06
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
95
+2.24

Workload

Minutes per game
22
17.1
Games played
43
59
Total minutes
30
1,008

Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.

Every season

Robert 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
2025–26live modelPOR28591,008+4.2283.7#4344.781stEstablished
2024–25POR2720351+1.5325.5Limited
2023–24POR266119-5.32-8.0Limited
2022–23BOS2535824+2.5189.2#4276.266thEstablished
2021–22BOS24611,804+4.0395.3#19219.193rdStrong
2020–21BOS2352985+6.0396.5#14162.088thEstablished
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateBOS2229388+4.5352.6Limited
2018–19Historical Defense EstimateBOS2132283+0.4214.2Limited

Career movement

Robert Williams's career impact by season

Peak +6.03 in 2020–21 · 8 seasons · 5,762 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.

Robert WilliamsArvydas Sabonis

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

Similar career arcs

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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.

Why this rank?

Why Robert Williams ranks #43

The current model starts with box production, checks it against multi-season lineup evidence, caps that correction, then accounts for how many minutes the player was trusted to play each game.

01 · Box-score prior+2.19

Prior rank #16

02 · Multi-season RAPM+1.95

Current total +2.34 ±0.9
Split model · O -0.06 · D +2.24 = +2.19

03 · Bounded correction-0.04

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+2.15

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate83.7

93.5 unadjusted · 86% role factor · rank #43

RAPM estimates lineup impact while controlling for the other nine players on the floor. The multi-season blend, current total model, and current offensive/defensive split are separate estimates, so they need not equal one another. hussEyquation uses the multi-season signal as a bounded correction, not as a standalone verdict.

What the point estimate meansLow precision

The model's 80% impact interval is -0.13 to +4.43. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
1%
Top 50 chance
23%
Top 100 chance
53%
80% rank range
#35#246
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 →