This is a headgum podcast.

Welcome to Buckets episode 5.

I wanted to throw out a new term for all you stat heads out there.

The perfect career high. That's when your career high is

exactly double your highest season average. So, Wilt is obviously the prototype

of this idea, averaging 50 points per game in his peak season, and scoring his

career and NBA high of exactly double that.

100.

Dwight Howard did it too, highest season average 23, career high 46.

Wait a minute is this formula universal?

It does not.

Kobe outperformed his perfect career high which kind of makes sense if you think about it

With his highest season of 35 points per game,

his career high just needed to be 70,

and he did that with a few minutes to spare in his memorable 81 point effort.

Michael Jordan fell short,

mostly because his season high points per game average came

in at a whopping 37. Jesus. His perfect career high would have been 74 and he could only muster

69.

What kind of goat is he?

Iverson, Harden, and Shaq are all very similarly mostly perfect in their own special ways.

Their best season highs are around 30

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