Final Gramps Braggin Rights Missouri Boy's basketball ratings - All Classes 3/23/2022

 

Final Gramps Braggin Rights Missouri Boy's basketball ratings - All Classes 3/23/2022

How do you split hairs?  Christian Brothers College and Vashon are about as close as two elite teams could be ranked in my final ratings.  CBC is about 0.2 rating points better but if you had these two teams play ten games, they would probably split them 5-5, or one of them might win 6 and lose 4.  

The talent in Missouri just keeps getting better and better.  All of the top ten or so teams could be state champions on any given night.  They are all just that good.  

Some of the best teams weren't even in the state tournament.  With the current MSHSAA district set-up, some outstanding teams were runner-ups in their district instead of a final four team.  Some of them deserved to be in the final four and there has to be a better way to seed teams so the best basketball is played in the last few days of the state tournament in EVERY class of boys or girls.

I hope you have enjoyed these ratings.  They take a ton of my time to calculate all of the ratings.  If your team was in the bottom third of your class or district, I may not have captured every game you played.  I apologize for not being quite as thorough with your team as the top 50 teams in your class.

And if you were a final four team and another team in your class, who didn't even make the state tournament, is rated ahead of you, that's the way these ratings work.  I try to rate the top teams for their entire season and some of you might have had an easier path to your final four than these other teams did.  Forget Gramps ratings.  You have a trophy and no one can take it away from you.

Hope you enjoyed Gramps Braggin Rights ratings again this year.

Here are the links to all of the final Missouri boys and girls basketball ratings:

Boys   All Boys Teams (by rank)  All Boys Teams (alphabetical)

Class One    Class Two    Class Three    Class Four    Class Five    Class Six

Girls   All Girls Teams (by rank)  All Girls Teams (alphabetical)

Class One    Class Two    Class Three    Class Four    Class Five    Class Six



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