Player profile · BLB / PHW

Walt Budko

Walt Budko advanced stats and career rankings

Season in focus

Career Impact Rank#398

36.8 composite · lower is better

Prime 5#437

36.2 average league finish

Career Value#1445

94 total value

Bottom line · Career overview

Walt Budko ranks #398 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #43.7. His full-career value ranks #1445, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity. Explore Walt Budko's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.

Career standing

How Walt Budko 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 Composite36.8

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: 36.8
Qualified seasons: 2
All-time rank: #398

Strongest seasons

Every season

Walt Budko 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
1951–52Historical Defense Estimate	PHW	26	63	1,126	-1.88	24.2	#73	2.7	23rd	Modeled
1950–51legacy estimate	BLB	25	64	1,709	+0.64	69.2	#33	90.9	70th	Modeled

Career movement

Walt Budko's career impact by season

Peak +0.64 in 1950–51 · 2 seasons · 2,835 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

Across-era box estimateWorkload

Early-career comparison

Compare the first 2 seasons

Only the first 2 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Compare with

Walt BudkoStan Miasek

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Walt Budko

The score compares the first 2 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

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Stan Miasek

95%

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90% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 1951–52 C · All-Time Career #416

Don Henriksen

93%

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90% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 1954–55 C · All-Time Career #582

Pete Cross

93%

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89% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 1971–72 C · All-Time Career #1489

Kyle Filipowski

92%

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90% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 2025–26 SF · All-Time Career #728

Paul Thompson

92%

start match

89% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 1983–84 C · All-Time Career #339

Eddie Miller

92%

start match

90% season match · 1950–51 ↔ 1953–54

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 →