Professional DNA
Sam Worthen: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Defensive impact · 1981-82 · 5 games
34
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Sam Worthen?
The evidence
Sam Worthen · Defensive impact: 34th percentile (DBPM -0.5: 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: 4.4 minutes per game across 5 games
- What sets them apartDefensive impact · 34th 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 283 players with a sample in 1981-82. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring0th percentile
0.8 points per game
- Playmaking9th percentile
0.6 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact34th percentile
DBPM -0.5: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding0th percentile
0.2 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Defensive impact34th percentile
Low · DBPM -0.5: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Playmaking9th percentile
Very low · 0.6 assists per game
- Scoring0th percentile
Very low · 0.8 points per game
- Rebounding0th percentile
Very low · 0.2 rebounds 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: 11th percentile → 0th percentile (-11) · Playmaking: 43th percentile → 9th percentile (-34) · Rebounding: 19th percentile → 0th percentile (-19)
- 1980-8143th percentile
64 games · 14.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 11th percentile
- Playmaking
- 43th percentile
- Rebounding
- 19th percentile
- 1981-829th percentile
5 games · 4.4 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 0th percentile
- Playmaking
- 9th percentile
- Rebounding
- 0th percentile
Context
1981-82 · 5 games · 4.4 minutes per game · Percentile against 283 measured players in 1981-82 · 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 1981-82 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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