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...
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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