Professional DNA

Phil Ford: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET

Defensive impact · 1984-85 · 25 games

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Confidence: lowData through: 1984-85

The question

What kind of player is Phil Ford?

The evidence

Phil Ford · Defensive impact: 69th percentile (DBPM 0.5: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)

69 percentilcompared against: 50 percentil (+19) · 285 players with a sample in 1984-85

Phil Ford: what moved most is Scoring

3 percentilcompared against: 59 percentil (-56) · Phil Ford, from 1979-80 to 1984-85

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: 11.6 minutes per game across 25 games
What sets them apartDefensive impact · 69th percentile
DBPM 0.5: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

The axes, one by one

Every axis with its percentile against 285 players with a sample in 1984-85. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.

Scoring3th percentile
1.8 points per game
Playmaking60th percentile
2.4 assists per game
Outside shootingno data
no data
Defensive impact69th percentile
DBPM 0.5: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
Finishing at the rimno data
no data
Rebounding8th percentile
1.1 rebounds per game

Limitations

Rebounding8th percentile
Very low · 1.1 rebounds per game
Scoring3th percentile
Very low · 1.8 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: 80th percentile → 3th percentile (-77) · Playmaking: 98th percentile → 60th percentile (-38) · Rebounding: 22th percentile → 8th percentile (-14)

1979-8080th percentile
82 games · 32.0 minutes per game
Scoring
80th percentile
Playmaking
98th percentile
Rebounding
22th percentile
1980-8186th percentile
66 games · 34.7 minutes per game
Scoring
86th percentile
Playmaking
99th percentile
Rebounding
20th percentile
1981-8253th percentile
72 games · 27.1 minutes per game
Scoring
53th percentile
Playmaking
96th percentile
Rebounding
15th percentile
1982-8339th percentile
77 games · 20.9 minutes per game
Scoring
39th percentile
Playmaking
83th percentile
Rebounding
8th percentile
1983-8439th percentile
81 games · 24.9 minutes per game
Scoring
39th percentile
Playmaking
91th percentile
Rebounding
18th percentile
1984-853th percentile
25 games · 11.6 minutes per game
Scoring
3th percentile
Playmaking
60th percentile
Rebounding
8th percentile

Context

1984-85 · 25 games · 11.6 minutes per game · Percentile against 285 measured players in 1984-85 · 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 1984-85 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.

From here

What if…?

What happened to his team when he did not play

Career atlas

When his game changed, season by season

Where it comes from

Source

not stated

Model input

not stated

Computation

not stated

This answer

2026-11-06

Where this comes from

Season averages · closed season · its clock is the seasonBox scores · closed season · its clock is the season

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