Gramps 2024 Boys Girls MO HS BB ratings

Listed below are the top 50 Eureka boys basketball players since 1973 (more or less).   In some cases, there are only 35 that qualify (shooting percentages, assists per game, steals per game).   In a few cases, I stretched the top 50 to include a recent player. As mentioned in the previous summary , every effort was made to include pre-1999 players in the rankings but statistics are sketchy or non-existant.   If you have information that should be included, email me at grampsbbratings@gmail.com  

 Over the last few years, I have tried to pull together all-time basketball statistics for both the Eureka High School boy's and girl's teams.  Little did I know what I was getting into but I had a good start with the outstanding database on the Post-Dispatch's prep sports  website.  I pulled basketball stats for every player since 1999 and combined them into one spreadsheet and sorted them to develop top 10 and top 50 lists for every basketball statistics possible. Unfortunately, I was ignoring athletes prior to 1999.  The boy's and girl's coaches were helpful, because they had top ten lists for both career totals and season bests going back to 1970.  I was able to combine those lists that have been handed down from coach to coach over the years, with the comprehensive statistics from the P-D and build a new rankings. And then the proverbial crap hit the fan.  I thought I might send the rankings to some pre-1999 players and got an earful back.  M...

 One of the metrics Gramps looks at for the end of the basketball season is how well the boys and girls programs combined. I know that the boys and girls are normally separate programs and separate coaches but it is still nice to check out which schools demonstrate excellence for both boys and girls.  For the best programs, my guess is that the boys and girls coaches collaborate on feeder and development programs that help both programs show excellence. I took the final rating for each school and combined them.  I also looked at their final ranking amongst all Missouri teams.  I added up the ranking and ratings and sorted by combined rating.  Of course, all girls or all boys schools do not rate as high because they don't have two teams.   Some schools also don't have a girls team but do have a boys team.  I have left a blank for the teams that field just one team. So congratulations to Cardinal Ritter, Kickapoo, John Burroughs, Staley, Rock Bridge...

 Did anyone imagine that Cardinal Ritter, with a 4-10 record in Mid-January, would win the Class Six State tournament? Charles Conway did.  Charles was woofing at John Hough over at GSV when he rated Ritter out of the Class Six top ten.  I replied that Conway was Prophetic!  His reply? Charles Conway @Charles12543003 · 1h Replying to @dedmonson68 @JohnHough__ and @GSV_STL Now that’s a fact gramps. I’m a Ritter alum & 2010 state champ myself. Our class 3 title team, beat the class 5 runner up by 20 (CBC) that year, so I kinda know what it looks like when a title team is incoming, especially for Ritter ! Clear the schedule was made for a title run Gramps had faith in the statistics.  I went out of my way to rate about 50 nationally ranked teams just to get a rating on Vashon and Cardinal Ritter because of all the out-of-state teams both played.  That tough schedule was like tempering a steel sword in water after heating it up red-hot.  Both teams ...

 Everyone is complaining about the stacked districts and how great teams in the top ten are not going to be in the state tournament.  I was looking around and saw the Kansas high school setup and came up with an example of how class six would look like with state-wide seeding. How do you seed?  You use something like Gramps metrics or something similar. Currently, many of the top teams are in the same district.  Here's the current class six ratings and teams rated by district: You can see the problem with the current MSHSAA district system below.  Districts 5, 6, 7, and 8 are stacked with top ten teams.  It is unfair to teams like Staley and North Kansas City in District 8 with #1 Oak Park, or Kickapoo and Nixa with Springfield Central in District 5.  Only one team emerges from the current district playoffs.  What's a better way to get the best teams in a state tournament? The State of Kansas uses a super region system.  They pull teams into ...