Are You The #1 Team: January 19th Edition

The "Kill Shot": Tracking double digit scoring runs in games (10-0 or better) over the course of the season. Here's the landscape of all top 75 teams in terms of runs scored and runs conceded, adjusted for strength of opponent.

Top Playmakers in the Country at EvanMiya.com - Braden Smith has the lead and it's not particularly close.

Which teams are playing their best lineups enough according to the analytics? Based on lineup metrics at EvanMiya.com, I picked some notable teams who ARE and ARE NOT using their top lineup enough:

Are You The #1 Team: January 9th Edition

Current CBB efficiency landscape, broken into tiers:

Most impactful freshmen in the country at EvanMiya.com (as of Jan 7):

Here are the tallest and shortest lineups among high majors (15+ possessions played). Illinois and Duke boast the tallest lineups, while Tennessee, Texas Tech, and Baylor have the most effective small-ball lineups.

Teams with lots of roster turnover are struggling to meet expectations so far this season. Outside of Kentucky, there are very few high majors thriving with mostly new rosters. I took a deep dive to see which roster building strategies are working

Are You The #1 Team: December 15th Edition

Best Passing Big Men: Here are the top 20 players in projected assist rate at EvanMiya.com who are 6'10" or taller

The SEC and Big Ten have been seizing at-large bids from the other big leagues in the non-con. Here's how the predicted tourney bids have gone up or down over time:

I'm thrilled to introduce a lineup projections, grades, and optimizer tool at EvanMiya.com for coaches and CBB diehards. You can sort lineups by predicted efficiency, grade every lineup's strengths and weaknesses, and view any hypothetical lineup of five players. Full details in the article:

Are You The #1 Team: Thanksgiving Edition

Here are the top rebounders in the country based on current projected rebounding percentages at EvanMiya.com:

Here are the most impressive individual stat-lines so far this season in CBB, based on Box BPR at EvanMiya.com:

Here are the 3PT shooters who are expected to improve their accuracy the most from last year to this year, based on projections at EvanMiya.com: Jordan Gainey, Roddy Gayle, and Pop Isaacs all are expected to see massive improvements.

Here are the teams with the most elite 3PT shooters on their roster based on preseason projections at EvanMiya.com (freshmen excluded due to lack of data): Alabama and Baylor are the only teams with 4.

Here are the top projected three-point shooters in college basketball this season at EvanMiya.com. Kentucky's Koby Brea has a sizable lead on everyone else in the country.

I'll drop some Player Skill Percentile graphs from EvanMiya.com for anyone who has player requests in the comments. Here's Braden Smith's:

I simulated the season 10,000 times to determine the best-case and worst-case outcomes for all 364 CBB teams, using the preseason uncertainty estimates specific to each team. Here are the results for every single conference:

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How To Build A Roster In The Modern Portal Era - EvanMiya Blog

Which teams are getting the highest quality transfers? Here are the teams with the best average transfer rating at EvanMiya.com:

Transfer recruiting is more important than ever. For the first time ever in 2024-25, more points are predicted to be scored by transfers than by HS recruits. Here's a graph showing the year-by-year increase in production from players recruited through the portal: