Professional DNA
Tom Patterson: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1973-74 · 2 games
48
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Tom Patterson?
The evidence
Tom Patterson · Defensive impact: 48th percentile (DBPM 0.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)
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: 4.0 minutes per game across 2 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 48th percentile
DBPM 0.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 201 players with a sample in 1973-74. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring0th percentile
0.5 points per game
- Playmaking22th percentile
1.0 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact48th percentile
DBPM 0.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding4th percentile
1.0 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Defensive impact48th percentile
Average · DBPM 0.0: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Playmaking22th percentile
Very low · 1.0 assists per game
- Rebounding4th percentile
Very low · 1.0 rebounds per game
- Scoring0th percentile
Very low · 0.5 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: 5th percentile → 0th percentile (-5) · Playmaking: 0th percentile → 22th percentile (+22) · Rebounding: 3th percentile → 4th percentile (+1)
- 1972-730th percentile
23 games · 4.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 5th percentile
- Playmaking
- 0th percentile
- Rebounding
- 3th percentile
- 1973-7422th percentile
2 games · 4.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 0th percentile
- Playmaking
- 22th percentile
- Rebounding
- 4th percentile
Context
1973-74 · 2 games · 4.0 minutes per game · Percentile against 201 measured players in 1973-74 · 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 1973-74 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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2026-11-06
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