HOOPSANALYST

The Top 100 of All-Time

 

by Mike Goodman (6/19/04)

 

As the playoffs have now concluded, I have the season’s player stats compiled and summarized and added into their career totals.  So it’s time to update the All-Time Top 100 List.

 

Actually, I have a bigger list: 558 players who have, since 1952, compiled a total of at least 10,000 points + rebounds + etc.  I’ve estimated steals, blocks, and turnovers for years before these things were tabulated.

 

The best current players have surged up thru the ranks of the alltime greats.  Garnett jumped from #40 to #24 alltime, just since last season.  He’s that good.  Duncan moved from 19 to 14, passing a handful of legends.

 

I rank players based on their careers.  Short great careers don’t rank as highly as longer, equally-great careers; but they tend to outrank long, mediocre careers.  Playoff performance rates much more heavily than regular-seasons.  It separates the men from the boys, and the great from the not-as-great.

 

I also like versatility; guys like Oscar and Magic and Pippen tend to rank higher than Moses and Artis, if they have the same career totals, etc.  It isn’t a huge adjustment, but it’s something.

 

The rates shown are “standardized” per-36-minute rates.  These are added to get the “T-Rate”; and that number is equivalent to “how good” the guy was.

 

My rankings and some of the factors considered:

 

rank

 

 

TRate

po/rs

G

Min

Eff%

Sco

Reb

Ast

pog

V

1

Michael

 Jordan

43.9

1.06

1251

39

.559

31.2

6.5

5.1

.15

.93

2

Kareem

 AbdulJabbar

40.5

.95

1797

37

.581

24.7

10.6

3.4

.13

.94

3

Wilt

 Chamberlain

43.8

.90

1205

47

.533

23.4

14.7

3.5

.13

1.04

4

Karl

 Malone

40.7

.92

1669

38

.559

27.1

10.9

3.5

.13

.97

5

Shaquille

 O'Neal

45.6

.98

966

38

.568

29.2

12.5

2.9

.17

.86

6

Hakeem

 Olajuwon

39.8

1.07

1383

36

.546

22.9

11.6

2.6

.12

.97

7

Magic

 Johnson

37.9

.98

1096

37

.593

19.4

7.5

10.4

.18

1.15

8

Larry

 Bird

38.8

.94

1061

39

.556

22.8

9.9

5.7

.17

1.10

9

Bill

 Russell

35.5

1.03

1128

43

.462

12.6

14.6

3.8

.16

.99

10

Charles

 Barkley

38.4

.99

1196

37

.595

22.8

12.4

3.8

.11

1.05

11

Julius

 Erving

35.3

.98

1432

37

.548

22.5

7.8

4.0

.14

1.01

12

David

 Robinson

41.3

.93

1110

35

.564

23.9

11.6

2.7

.11

.93

13

Tim

 Duncan

43.2

1.03

602

39

.548

25.9

12.6

3.5

.15

.94

14

Elgin

 Baylor

37.3

.98

977

40

.487

23.5

9.6

3.9

.14

1.01

15

Jerry

 West

36.3

1.02

1083

40

.538

24.8

4.2

6.0

.15

.91

16

Bob

 Pettit

39.4

.91

880

39

.498

24.9

11.7

2.8

.10

.94

17

Scottie

 Pippen

31.5

1.01

1386

35

.528

17.9

7.3

5.5

.16

1.06

18

Patrick

 Ewing

36.8

.95

1322

35

.539

23.0

11.0

2.0

.11

.84

19

Oscar

 Robertson

36.1

.92

1126

42

.550

21.9

5.3

8.0

.08

1.01

20

John

 Stockton

33.2

.95

1686

32

.593

16.1

3.3

11.8

.12

.86

 

Shaq passes Hakeem just this year. 

 

“po/rs” is Playoff/Regular Season ratio, of career T-Rates.  Anything above .95 is pretty good.  Most of the greats are great in the playoffs.

 

“pog” is Playoff Game %.  Magic played 18% of all his NBA minutes in the postseason.

 

“V” is that versatility index.  1.00 is very versatile.

 

rank

 

 

TRate

po/rs

G

Min

Eff%

Sco

Reb

Ast

pog

V

 

21

Moses

 Malone

34.3

1.01

1553

34

.554

21.0

13.2

1.3

.08

.76

22

Clyde

 Drexler

33.3

.97

1231

35

.537

20.4

6.7

5.5

.13

1.02

23

John

 Havlicek

29.8

1.02

1442

37

.487

19.5

5.2

4.7

.13

.91

24

Kevin

 Garnett

38.2

1.03

740

38

.528

20.7

11.4

4.6

.07

1.05

25

Dolph

 Schayes

34.4

1.02

945

34

.480

21.0

10.1

3.1

.08

.96

26

Elvin

 Hayes

31.8

1.05

1399

39

.485

18.5

10.9

1.7

.08

.81

27

Artis

 Gilmore

32.2

.98

1429

36

.608

18.9

11.9

2.3

.07

.87

28

Rick

 Barry

32.3

1.05

1125

38

.514

22.1

5.5

4.5

.10

.92

29

Robert

 Parish

30.7

.92

1793

29

.562

17.5

11.4

1.5

.12

.78

30

Bob

 Lanier

34.8

.99

1026

34

.553

20.9

10.5

3.3

.07

.97

31

Bob

 Cousy

32.2

.94

955

36

.440

19.1

4.1

7.8

.12

.92

32

Isiah

 Thomas

30.7

1.10

1090

36

.508

18.4

3.7

8.8

.11

.92

33

George

 Mikan

42.3

1.05

284

35

.461

26.6

13.1

2.9

.15

.98

34

Gary

 Payton

31.5

.87

1230

37

.522

18.6

4.5

7.3

.10

.91

35

George

 McGinnis

31.1

.96

946

34

.498

19.5

10.5

3.8

.12

1.13

36

Dave

 Cowens

31.5

1.05

855

39

.489

16.1

11.9

3.5

.11

.99

37

Kobe

 Bryant

34.9

.97

679

35

.536

24.9

5.5

4.7

.19

.89

38

Chris

 Webber

36.6

.91

678

38

.515

21.5

9.9

4.3

.09

1.04

39

Dan

 Issel

30.6

.95

1351

34

.548

20.7

8.5

2.2

.10

.82

40

Kevin

 McHale

31.6

.99

1140

31

.598

20.8

8.6

1.8

.16

.70

 

Webber just maintained his ranking with his output this year.  He was passed by a couple of guys.

 

 

rank

 

 

TRate

po/rs

G

Min

Eff%

Sco

Reb

Ast

pog

V

41

Shawn

 Kemp

32.1

1.04

1139

28

.547

19.5

11.5

2.1

.09

.93

42

Bob

 McAdoo

34.0

.91

946

33

.542

22.5

9.9

2.3

.09

.87

43

Walt

 Frazier

30.7

1.03

915

38

.536

19.0

5.3

6.0

.11

.93

44

Dominique

 Wilkins

33.5