Professional DNA
Butch Beard: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1978-79 · 7 games
68
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Butch Beard?
The evidence
Butch Beard · Defensive impact: 68th percentile (DBPM 0.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
Butch Beard: what moved most is Rebounding
The read
What they are, the role they held and what sets them apart. Every line comes from a figure further down this same page.
- What they arePROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
- RoleShort rotation: 12.1 minutes per game across 7 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 68th percentile
DBPM 0.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 258 players with a sample in 1978-79. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring9th percentile
3.1 points per game
- Playmaking64th percentile
2.7 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact68th percentile
DBPM 0.6: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding11th percentile
1.4 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Rebounding11th percentile
Very low · 1.4 rebounds per game
- Scoring9th percentile
Very low · 3.1 points per game
- Axes without enough sample
Outside shooting · Finishing at the rim
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
Recent change
Scoring: 59th percentile → 9th percentile (-50) · Playmaking: 80th percentile → 64th percentile (-16) · Rebounding: 65th percentile → 11th percentile (-54)
- 1973-7465th percentile
79 games · 27.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 59th percentile
- Playmaking
- 80th percentile
- Rebounding
- 65th percentile
- 1974-7553th percentile
82 games · 30.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 75th percentile
- Playmaking
- 86th percentile
- Rebounding
- 53th percentile
- 1975-7657th percentile
75 games · 22.7 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 47th percentile
- Playmaking
- 76th percentile
- Rebounding
- 57th percentile
- 1976-7726th percentile
70 games · 15.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 23th percentile
- Playmaking
- 57th percentile
- Rebounding
- 26th percentile
- 1977-7844th percentile
79 games · 25.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 53th percentile
- Playmaking
- 86th percentile
- Rebounding
- 44th percentile
- 1978-7911th percentile
7 games · 12.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 9th percentile
- Playmaking
- 64th percentile
- Rebounding
- 11th percentile
Context
1978-79 · 7 games · 12.1 minutes per game · Percentile against 258 measured players in 1978-79 · SportiveWorld own data
FactDerivedAssumption
What this does not prove
- Percentiles compare inside the NBA. Outside it they do not mean the same thing.
- It portrays the 1978-79 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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This answer
2026-11-07
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