148.3 composite · lower is better
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Rod Foster
Rod Foster advanced stats and career rankings
141.8 average league finish
-94 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Rod Foster ranks #2454 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #219.7. His full-career value ranks #4484, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Rod Foster's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Rod Foster 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 Composite148.3
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
- 148.3
- Qualified seasons
- 3
- All-time rank
- #2454
Strongest seasons
Every season
Rod Foster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985–86Historical Defense Estimate | PHO | 25 | 48 | 704 | -5.24 | 3.5 | #246 | -49.7 | 4th | Established |
| 1984–85Historical Defense Estimate | PHO | 24 | 79 | 1,318 | -2.41 | 22.9 | #196 | -11.7 | 21st | Strong |
| 1983–84Historical Defense Estimate | PHO | 23 | 80 | 1,424 | -3.09 | 12.9 | #217 | -32.9 | 8th | Strong |
Career movement
Rod Foster's career impact by season
Peak -2.41 in 1984–85 · 3 seasons · 3,446 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
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.
Rod FosterGradey Dick
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Rod Foster
The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
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97% season match · 1984–85 ↔ 2004–05Impact 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 →