Marquette Player Cards for 2020 Season - Jayce 6th Best Rebounder

Denied the chance to celebrate or mourn Marquette's NCAA opener, I spent a lot of time calculating and working up player cards for all 100 teams projected to make the NCAA or NIT tournament. Here is a copy of each player's card followed by an explanation of what each line means. I refer to Markus' card in the explanations just to make it easier to follow, but also note things like Theo John having one of the best shot blocking cards, and Jayce Johnson having the 6th best rebounding card of all 100 teams. After finishing the cards, I played my first Value Add Basketball Game of the tournament today, and NC State rallied to beat Richmond in the closing minute, 71-67, in a play-in game to advance to play 6-seed Penn State in the first round of the East Region.

Here is a description of what each line on the card means:

• Markus Howard #0 - The top line is just the players name and jersey number.
• Marquette BE, Rank: #5 - The team and conference follow (and a note if they won the conference) followed by the players Value Add ranking at www.valueaddbasketball.com - in Markus case he is rated as the 5th best player in the game.
• Play time: PG 41-1 - The player card suggests Markus Howard plays the final 41 of 44 possessions of the game (the game starts with a 20-20 tie so we are playing the final 44 possessions of each game). The top right card is for Symir Torrence, suggesting he plays the first three possessions (44th, 43rd and 42nd). This is calculated based on assuming all players already played some of the first 22 possessions accounting for the 20-20 tie when the game actually starts. (it is easier to have the reserves play first, then finish the game with starters for as long as they can go.)
• Gets ball on: 1(PG) 6 7 - the 8-sided die determines which player gets the ball each possession, so when Marquette has the ball, it goes to Markus on a roll of 1, 6 or 7.
• 5'11" Start,Bench,Out: 29,0,1 - Markus is listed at 5-foot-11, and during the season he started 29 games, did not come off the bench in any of the games, and missed the one game due to injury.
• 11-66 roll and three lines under it - on the 11-66 roll of two dice when when Markus is on defense and the opposing point guard gets the ball, he steals the ball on a roll of 11-13 (of the 11-16 possible steals), never blocks an opponent's shot (21-20 indicates not even the 21 is a block), and he only fouls on rolls of 35-36 (the players who foul a lot foul on 33-36). If he has the ball we look at the right side and he turns it over only only two of the six possible turnover numbers (a 41 or 42) which is very few for a point guard who needs to handle the ball so much. All Marquette players dunk (or in Markus case hits a scoop shot haha) on a 51-56, which is actually a calibrated adjustment for level of competition played over the course of the season. In other words, a player in the American East who had the same stats as Markus would have a much lower dunk range (perhaps even 51-50 or none) to adjust for how each player would play against average competition. On the flip side all Marquette players have a 0 on their defensive figure which adjusts the opponent's dunk range - an average defense but mediocre for a power conference team. On blocked shots note that Theo is one of the few players in the country who blocks shots on all possible block numbers, an 11-16 and then no matter who on the court has the ball he blocks it on a roll of 32.
• 20-sided die result - if Markus has the ball and nothing happens on the 11-66 roll, then you refer to the 20-sided die and he scores a 3-pointer on a roll of 1-4, makes a 2-pointer on a roll of 5-7, draws a foul and gets two shots on 8-11, misses a 3-pointer on 12-16 and misses a 2-pointer on a 17-20.
• 1 to 17 = free throw good Stamina 41 - if he is fouled the 20-sided die is rolled twice, and he makes the free throw on a 1-17 and misses it on a 18-20, making him an 85% free throw shooter. The Stamina number tells you how many possessions a player can play before being tired. In his case his Stamina of 41 means he will get tired if he plays more than 41 possessions (thus the suggested play possession 42-1 above) every roll of every dice is adjusted one against him (an 11 on the 20-sided die would be change to a 12 and he would miss instead of being fouled, a 34 would be a foul because it would be increased to a 35, etc,). Note that Symir has great ratios, but since his Stamina is only 3 if you play him more than 3 possessions his card gets much worse.
• Offensive Rebound if 1 to 1, Defensive Rebound if 1-3 - Half of all rebounds go to the defense automatically, however on the other possessions the dice roll determines which player has a chance to get the rebound on a 1-6 roll. If Markus has a chance for an offensive rebound her rarely gets it (just 1 on the six-sided die) while if he has to beat an opposing offensive player to the offensive rebounder for the ball he gets it half the time (1-3). However, here is where we have a headliner. While most players just get rebounds in the 1-6 range there are some rolls in the game where the "highest on the court" gets the rebound, and if Marquette misses a shot in the game and Jayce Johnson is on the court for a potential miss then he grabs the offensive rebound as one of nine players with a higher offensive rebound number than any player's defensive rebound number with a 1-11. In fact, Jayce's 1-8 defensive rebound number means on the flip side he almost always wins the "highest on court" meaning overall he is tied as the sixth best rebounder on any of the 100 teams in the game. 
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Rebounder	Off Reb	Def Reb	Total	Row2.1
Kevin Morris #3	16	5	21	South Alabama
Oscar Tshiebwe #34	13	8	21	West Virginia
Austin Wiley #50	12	9	21	Auburn
Blake Preston #32	13	7	20	Liberty
Sam Freeman #32	15	5	20	Minnesota
Jayce Johnson #34	11	8	19	Marquette
Tyrique Jones #4	11	8	19	Xavier
Scottie James #31	11	8	19	Liberty
Trevion Williams #50	12	7	19	Purdue

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• The team card for Marquette indicates if you simulated thousands of games using these cards against the strongest non-tournament teams, Marquette would average winning by 9 points 73-64. It also reflects that www.kenpom.com calculates Marquette is the 31st best team in the country, the 14th best offense, the 73rd best defense and played against the 20th toughest schedule in the country.  Going by Bracket Matrix, we note that Marquette would be the 9-seed in the Midwest (we ignored the rules against having teams face another team from their own conference and the s-curve and just placed each group of 4 teams with the same seed roughly based on their actual geography. We also provided seeding for 32 NIT teams and on the bottom of each card seeded them in an overall combined NIT/NCAA tournament with 25- to 1- seeds.  

To Print Out Your Teams

If you want to print out any other teams, click here and you should a list of all 300 team files like this. Each image file is numbered, so to find your team just look down the alphabetical list of teams and corresponding page numbers. Once you know the page numbers, scroll to them to print out the three pages you need and print - you will need to cut each page into four sections to have the 12 player cards for each team you plan to play.

Team	Pages
Akron	Pages 1 to 3
Alabama	Pages 4 to 6
Arizona	Pages 7 to 9
Arizona St.	Pages 10 to 12
Arkansas	Pages 13 to 15
Auburn	Pages 16 to 18
Baylor	Pages 19 to 21
Belmont	Pages 22 to 24
Boston University	Pages 25 to 27
Bradley	Pages 28 to 30
Butler	Pages 31 to 33
BYU	Pages 34 to 36
Cincinnati	Pages 37 to 39
Colgate	Pages 40 to 42
Colorado	Pages 43 to 45
Connecticut	Pages 46 to 48
Creighton	Pages 49 to 51
Dayton	Pages 52 to 54
Duke	Pages 55 to 57
East Tennessee St.	Pages 58 to 60
Eastern Washington	Pages 61 to 63
Florida	Pages 64 to 66
Florida St.	Pages 67 to 69
Furman	Pages 70 to 72
Georgetown	Pages 73 to 75
Gonzaga	Pages 76 to 78
Hofstra	Pages 79 to 81
Houston	Pages 82 to 84
Illinois	Pages 85 to 87
Indiana	Pages 88 to 90
Iowa	Pages 91 to 93
Kansas	Pages 94 to 96
Kentucky	Pages 97 to 99
Liberty	Pages 100 to 102
Little Rock	Pages 103 to 105
Louisiana Tech	Pages 106 to 108
Louisville	Pages 109 to 111
LSU	Pages 112 to 114
Marquette	Pages 115 to 117
Maryland	Pages 118 to 120
Memphis	Pages 121 to 123
Merrimack	Pages 124 to 126
Michigan	Pages 127 to 129
Michigan St.	Pages 130 to 132
Minnesota	Pages 133 to 135
Mississippi St.	Pages 136 to 138
Murray St.	Pages 139 to 141
N.C. State	Pages 142 to 144
New Mexico St.	Pages 145 to 147
North Carolina Central	Pages 148 to 150
North Dakota St.	Pages 151 to 153
North Florida	Pages 154 to 156
North Texas	Pages 157 to 159
Northern Iowa	Pages 160 to 162
Northern Kentucky	Pages 163 to 165
Notre Dame	Pages 166 to 168
Ohio St.	Pages 169 to 171
Oklahoma	Pages 172 to 174
Oklahoma St.	Pages 175 to 177
Oregon	Pages 178 to 180
Penn St.	Pages 181 to 183
Prairie View A&M	Pages 184 to 186
Providence	Pages 187 to 189
Purdue	Pages 190 to 192
Radford	Pages 193 to 195
Rhode Island	Pages 196 to 198
Richmond	Pages 199 to 201
Robert Morris	Pages 202 to 204
Rutgers	Pages 205 to 207
Saint Louis	Pages 208 to 210
Saint Mary's	Pages 211 to 213
San Diego St.	Pages 214 to 216
Seton Hall	Pages 217 to 219
Siena	Pages 220 to 222
South Alabama	Pages 223 to 225
South Carolina	Pages 226 to 228
South Dakota St.	Pages 229 to 231
St. John's	Pages 232 to 234
Stanford	Pages 235 to 237
Stephen F. Austin	Pages 238 to 240
Syracuse	Pages 241 to 243
Tennessee	Pages 244 to 246
Texas	Pages 247 to 249
Texas Tech	Pages 250 to 252
Tulsa	Pages 253 to 255
UC Irvine	Pages 256 to 258
UCLA	Pages 259 to 261
USC	Pages 262 to 264
Utah St.	Pages 265 to 267
VCU	Pages 268 to 270
Vermont	Pages 271 to 273
Villanova	Pages 274 to 276
Virginia	Pages 277 to 279
West Virginia	Pages 280 to 282
Wichita St.	Pages 283 to 285
Winthrop	Pages 286 to 288
Wisconsin	Pages 289 to 291
Wright St.	Pages 292 to 294
Xavier	Pages 295 to 297
Yale	Pages 298 to 300