Zelmo Beaty played 12 seasons (1963–1975) for STL, ATL, Utah (ABA) and LAL. Late Developer career, peaking in 1972. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
12 seasons · peak 14.3 in 1972
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 95.4th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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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.
Fan Rating
Rate Zelmo Beaty — All-Time
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.
47.5 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1972 · +8.3 wins
Latest season · 1975 · +0.2 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 Zelmo Beaty 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.
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1972, 12 rated seasons.
The season chip above measures Zelmo Beaty's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
Partially measured: only 83% of this career fell inside a ratable peer pool, so the figure covers the measurable seasons (1965–1975) only.
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This article's career table combines ABA and NBA seasons as published by Wikipedia; league-by-league splits are not fabricated. Career line as published (may span both leagues).