Player profile · NYK / STL

Tom Hoover

Tom Hoover advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#404

37.0 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#442

36.4 average league finish

Career Value#4374

-72 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Tom Hoover ranks #404 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #44.0. His full-career value ranks #4374, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Tom Hoover's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Tom Hoover 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 Composite37.0

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: 37.0
Qualified seasons: 1
All-time rank: #404

Strongest seasons

Every season

Tom Hoover 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
1966–67Historical Defense Estimate	STL	26	17	129	-7.83	—	—	-18.4	—	Modeled
1964–65Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	24	24	153	-6.22	—	—	-15.3	—	Modeled
1963–64Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	23	59	988	-3.59	12.0	#82	-38.2	11th	Modeled

Career movement

Tom Hoover's career impact by season

Peak -3.59 in 1963–64 · 3 seasons · 1,270 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

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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

Tom HooverLaRue Martin

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

Similar starts

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

C · All-Time Career #2252

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85%

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82%

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92% season match · 1963–64 ↔ 2019–20

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 →