C/PFSt. LouisNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1960 ⛰️ Mountain Arc · 1954

Ed Macauley

6'8" · 185 lbsBorn March 22, 19281950–1959College: Saint Louis

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

17.2

1951, 1953, 1954 avg

Career VAL

104.0

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

35.3

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

50% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

9 seasons · peak 19.2 in 1954 · league-best seasons: 1953, 1954

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 97.3th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps NBA Career Arc Types NBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories NBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Playoffs NBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1950	21–22	St. Louis Bombers	67	—	—	39.8%	—	71.8%	—	3.0	—	—	16.1	9.8
1951	22–23	BOS	68	—	—	46.6%	—	75.9%	9.1	3.7	—	—	20.4	17
1952	23–24	BOS	66	—	39.9	43.2%	—	79.9%	8.0	3.5	—	—	19.2	12.6
1953	24–25	BOS	69	—	42.1	45.2%	—	75.0%	9.1	4.1	—	—	20.3	15.4
1954	25–26	BOS	71	—	39.3	48.6%	—	75.8%	8.0	3.8	—	—	18.9	19.2
1955	26–27	BOS	71	—	38.1	42.4%	—	79.2%	8.5	3.9	—	—	17.6	9.7
1956	27–28	BOS	71	—	33.2	42.2%	—	79.4%	5.9	3.0	—	—	17.5	8.3
1957	28–29	STL	72	—	35.9	41.9%	—	74.9%	6.1	2.8	—	—	16.5	6.8
1958	29–30	STL	72	—	26.5	42.8%	—	72.4%	6.6	2.0	—	—	14.2	5.2
1959	30–31	STL	14	—	14.0	29.3%	—	60.0%	2.9	0.9	—	—	4.6	—