Player profile · IND

Steve Green

Steve Green advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#963

62.4 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#956

60.4 average league finish

Career Value#3483

-23 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Steve Green ranks #963 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #84.0. His full-career value ranks #3483, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Steve Green's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Steve Green 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 Composite62.4

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: 62.4
Qualified seasons: 1
All-time rank: #963

Strongest seasons

Every season

Steve Green 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
1978–79Historical Defense Estimate	IND	25	39	265	-2.77	—	—	-4.4	—	Limited
1977–78Historical Defense Estimate	IND	24	44	449	-2.66	—	—	-6.7	—	Limited
1976–77Historical Defense Estimate	IND	23	70	918	-2.57	17.3	#202	-11.6	16th	Established

Career movement

Steve Green's career impact by season

Peak -2.57 in 1976–77 · 3 seasons · 1,632 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.

Compare with

Steve GreenZaccharie Risacher

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Steve Green

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 #2573

Zaccharie Risacher

90%

start match

82% season match · 1977–78 ↔ 2025–26 SF · All-Time Career #2903

Kris Murray

90%

start match

90% season match · 1977–78 ↔ 2024–25 SF · All-Time Career #702

Jim Holstein

90%

start match

94% season match · 1977–78 ↔ 1955–56 SG · All-Time Career #2568

LaBradford Smith

89%

start match

90% season match · 1977–78 ↔ 1993–94 SG · All-Time Career #2151

Ted McClain

89%

start match

80% season match · 1977–78 ↔ 1978–79 PF · All-Time Career #1800

Stan Love

89%

start match

93% season match · 1977–78 ↔ 1974–75

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 →