Player profile · ATL / SDC

Ron Davis

Ron Davis advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#1005

64.5 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#1003

62.4 average league finish

Career Value#3926

-37 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Ron Davis ranks #1005 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #87.3. His full-career value ranks #3926, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Ron Davis's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Ron Davis 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 Composite64.5

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: 64.5
Qualified seasons: 1
All-time rank: #1005

Strongest seasons

Every season

Ron Davis 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
1981–82Historical Defense Estimate	SDC	27	7	67	-10.02	—	—	-11.4	—	Limited
1980–81Historical Defense Estimate	SDC	26	64	817	-2.77	14.9	#212	-13.1	15th	Established
1976–77Historical Defense Estimate	ATL	22	7	67	-10.64	—	—	-12.6	—	Limited

Career movement

Ron Davis's career impact by season

Peak -2.77 in 1980–81 · 3 seasons · 951 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

—’78

—’79

—’80

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

Ron DavisSonny Weems

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Ron Davis

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

SG · All-Time Career #3007

Sonny Weems

81%

start match

88% season match · 1980–81 ↔ 2010–11 PF · All-Time Career #2791

Stanislav Medvedenko

81%

start match

87% season match · 1980–81 ↔ 2003–04 SG · All-Time Career #2641

Keon Johnson

81%

start match

81% season match · 1980–81 ↔ 2024–25 SF · All-Time Career #2616

Randolph Keys

80%

start match

89% season match · 1980–81 ↔ 1995–96 SF · All-Time Career #3058

Sean Higgins

80%

start match

95% season match · 1980–81 ↔ 1995–96 SG · All-Time Career #3130

Dwayne Bacon

79%

start match

90% season match · 1980–81 ↔ 2018–19

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 →