After feedback from 100+ Athletic Departments, Here Are the Updated Ratings

One fear in the offseason Value Add team rankings is that Big East teams would rate too high because the MUScoop community does an even better job of pointing out missing players from our teams than from others. 

To that end, my secret weapon Molly Pudner, a data and information whiz, contacted all 351 D1 basketball Athletic Departments this month and received updates from more than 100 regarding their rosters. These are now all reflected in the google sheet, and hopefully will soon be current on www.valueaddbasketball.com. Molly (who also did my big data projects in my campaign days and whose brother did all the research for my Marquette book before going on to program cell towers across the country) also picked up on some things I had missed - such as Jay Bilas excellent rating of the best on-ball defenders (see subhead The Bilastrator's 30 best in-your-grill defenders). On-ball defense is the biggest item that Value Add cannot end, Ever since I watched Dominic Wright (then Dominic James) play lock down in your grill defense to force what registered as steals for other MU players I wished their was a way to get a separate evaluation of on-ball defense - so maybe I will do something with it.

The good news is that even with a ton of updates that moved some other teams around, the Big East teams were only passed by a few other teams. In fact, one non-Big East Athletic Director pointed out a transfer to Butler that we did not have in the system which help Butler right on the bubble at 51st. (like many of you, I actually was able to focus more on baseball the last few weeks while Molly collected the data, and had two baseball preview posts reach 80,000+ https://www.facebook.com/valueaddsports/)

Here are the updated team rankings, and neither St. John's or Marquette changed since the June 8 update, with St. John's maintaining the smallest edge of 0.12 points for the 2nd place in the Big East. Here are all the Big East teams and the Top 50.

Rank	Team	Value Add	Big East Changes
11	Villanova	38.51	Same spot
23	St. John's	33.25	dropped 1 spot
24	Marquette	33.13	dropped 1 spot
29	Providence	32.44	Dropped 2 spots
51	Butler	27.6	Same spot
67	Xavier	24.57	Dropped 2 spots
73	Georgetown	23.11	Dropped 2 spots
81	Creighton	22.35	dropped 4 spots
94	DePaul	21.15	dropped 4 spots
103	Seton Hall	20.36	dropped 6 spots
1	Nevada	51.85
2	Duke	46.65
3	Kentucky	45.33
4	Kansas	42.29
5	Oregon	41.52
6	Tennessee	40.6
7	North Carolina	40.31
8	Mississippi St.	40.05
9	LSU	39.18
10	Auburn	38.66
12	Gonzaga	37.94
13	Syracuse	37.44
14	UCLA	36.17
15	Miami FL	35.60
16	South Dakota St.	35.12
17	North Carolina St.	35.07
18	Indiana	34.95
19	Virginia	34.62
20	Texas	34.28
21	Michigan St.	33.63
22	Virginia Tech	33.49
25	Montana	32.93
26	Maryland	32.77
27	Florida	32.73
28	Iowa	32.49
30	Kansas St.	32.39
31	Arizona St.	32.1
32	Alabama	32.09
33	San Diego St.	31.84
34	Clemson	31.56
35	USC	31.41
36	Wisconsin	30.75
37	TCU	30.21
38	Iowa St.	29.83
39	Washington	29.81
40	Northeastern	29.61
41	Nebraska	29.49
42	Notre Dame	29.38
43	Northwestern	29.3
44	Western Kentucky	29.22
45	Texas Tech	29.21
46	Ohio St.	28.95
47	Michigan	28.48
48	West Virginia	28.29
49	Florida St.	28.25
50	Penn St.	28.22