E 16 Ratings - Is Team Griffin the number one 16U boys team?

In my last blog post, I rated Philly Pride at 135.6 as the top UAA team, winning the finale over DC Premier, but who is the top 16U team in the country?  Team Griffin won the E16 tournament beating Team Takeover 75-73 in an exciting final and claiming the "national championship" on Twitter.  Yeah, yeah, there are at least five or ten national championships, but maybe Griffin does have a point.  I said in the last blog that the UAA finale had some gaudy team ratings at 122 average and a top ten team rating average of 129.  Well, Griffin had to run through a pretty classy field of elite teams in the E16 league and the final bracket of 16 to win this past week.

I calculated that the top 16 in the E16 league had a team rating average of 129 and the top ten teams rated a whopping 132!  So Griffin eked out a two point win over Team Takeover but only a one point win over Vegas Elite.  So I gave a slight nod to Vegas Elite on the calculation for second spot over Takeover.  In fact, these ratings are so damn close that I put in the decimal place, which I would normally not do.

So there you have it.  Team Griffin, Champs of the E16.  National Champs?  Maybe, maybe not?  Philly Pride would argue with them.  I think you could throw the top five UAA and top 8 E16 teams in a tournament and any one of them could win.  They are all just that good.

I am getting closer to a National ranking but still a couple of tournaments away...



EYBL 16U Teams - 2019 Final Rankings
RANK TEAM STATE RATING
1 Team Griffin OK 134.0
2 Vegas Elite NV 133.8
3 Team Takeover MD 133.2
4 MoKan Elite MO 133.1
5 Team Durant DC 132.7
6 Boo Williams MD 132.6
7 Team CP3 NC 132.1
8 NEO TRUGAME OH 130.0
9 LivOn/Fleur De Lis LA 129.2
10 Team Final PA 128.1
11 PSA Cardinals NY 127.5
12 Nike PROSKILLS TX 127.2
13 Uplay Canada ON 126.6
14 Georgia Stars GA 125.9
15 Mac Irvin Fire IL 125.6
16 MeanStreets IL 118.2
AVG 129
TOP 10 132

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