Theo Ratliff played 16 seasons (1996–2011) for DET, PHI, ATL and 6 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 2,363 points, 2,241 rebounds and 258 assists. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1998. Led the league in a statistical category 2 times.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 1992 | Wyoming | 27 | — | 11.0 | 43.8% | — | 58.3% | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| 1993 | Wyoming | 28 | 20 | 29.4 | 53.8% | 0.0% | 51.7% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 79.9th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
A standing above rests on a career total that predates the corpus, so the true figure is higher than shown.
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)
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.
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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13 seasons · peak 5.6 in 1998
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
14.8 career wins over 13 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1998 · +3.2 wins
Latest season · 2010 · +0.4 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Theo Ratliff led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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2
league-leading seasons · 3 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1998, 13 rated seasons.
Season boards
3
top-ten finishes across the NBA season boards
Includes verified pre-2002 NBA per-game rows in the main Per Game table; totals and advanced rows remain limited to their exact source coverage.
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| 1994 | Wyoming | 28 | 28 | 31.9 | 56.9% | 0.0% | 64.9% | 7.8 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | Wyoming | 28 | 28 | 32.6 | 54.4% | 20.0% | 63.3% | 7.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 5.1 | 14.4 |
Wore 9 distinct franchise crests across 16 seasons (1996–2011) — a true nomad. The crest trail: