Professional DNA
Steve Sheppard: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1978-79 · 42 games
23
percentil
The question
What kind of player is Steve Sheppard?
The evidence
Steve Sheppard · Defensive impact: 23th percentile (DBPM -0.8: 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: 6.6 minutes per game across 42 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 23th percentile
DBPM -0.8: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 257 players with a sample in 1978-79. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring3th percentile
2.2 points per game
- Playmaking5th percentile
0.5 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact23th percentile
DBPM -0.8: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding5th percentile
1.1 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Defensive impact23th percentile
Very low · DBPM -0.8: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Playmaking5th percentile
Very low · 0.5 assists per game
- Rebounding5th percentile
Very low · 1.1 rebounds per game
- Scoring3th percentile
Very low · 2.2 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: 12th percentile → 3th percentile (-9) · Playmaking: 6th percentile → 5th percentile (-1) · Rebounding: 16th percentile → 5th percentile (-11)
- 1977-7816th percentile
64 games · 10.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 12th percentile
- Playmaking
- 6th percentile
- Rebounding
- 16th percentile
- 1978-795th percentile
42 games · 6.6 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 3th percentile
- Playmaking
- 5th percentile
- Rebounding
- 5th percentile
Context
1978-79 · 42 games · 6.6 minutes per game · Percentile against 257 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
2026-11-06
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