Big Ten: Best Conference, Duo, Team & Best Offensive Player in 8 Years

Exclusive Breitbart Value Add Ratings indicate Michigan’s Trey Burke in the best offensive player in at least eight years.  He has played at that level in the best conference in the country, and on Sunday he went into Illinois and made sure Michigan will be ranked No. 1 in tomorrow’s basketball polls.

Burke is the best offensive player in the history of Value Add Basketball ratings, which go back to the 2005-06 season. Burke is on the court for 84 percent of the minutes, and has put up 163 two-point shots. Normally players carrying that load see their field goal percentages fall off, but among perimeter players putting up 150 or my shots, only Anthony Raffa is close to Burke’s 57%, and once adjusted for the fact that Burke is playing in the best conference in the country, no one is close. Here are the top 5 two-point shooting percentages for guards:

Best FG% of guards with 150 or more 2-pointers	FGM	FGA	%
Anthony Raffa – Coastal Carolina	95	164	58%
Trey Burke – Michigan	93	163	57%
Daniel Mullings — NM State	96	182	53%
Jeff Early – Southern Ill	94	180	52%
Lamont Jones – Iona	106	210	50%

Despite all of the minutes, Burke hits 38 percent of his 3-pointers as well (33% is average) and 80 percent of his free throws (69% is average). As important, he is one of the rare point guards who scores, and yet he is even more effective in the traditional role of distributing the ball, where 40 percent of the time that someone else on the court scores, it is off an assist from Burke.  He averages over seven assists a game and has a 4-to-1 assist to turnover ratio.

When you add in defense, Anthony Davis and a couple of other players have been slightly better overall in the past few years, and Kevin Durant is about the same, but on offense alone no one has dominated college basketball like Burke this year since the ratings started in 2006. Here is the top player every season (see this Breitbart article for why the system is so accurate, and www.valueaddbasketball.com for the ratings of most of the 4000 players in the next couple of days). The following are the best players in each year of Value Add:

Season	Top Value Add Each Season	Team	Ht	Yr	Off	Def	PG/Per	Value Add	NBA?
2006	Shelden Williams	Duke	6′ 9″	Fr	6.67	-5.27	0	11.93	PF/C
2007	Kevin Durant	Texas	6′ 9″	Fr	7.41	-4.01	0	11.42	SF
2008	Michael Beasley	Kansas St.	6′ 9″	Fr	8.43	-3.99	0	12.42	SF
2009	Ty Lawson	North Carolina	5’11”	Jr	7.55	-1.4	2	10.94	PG
2010	Jon Scheyer	Duke	6′ 5″	Sr	9.11	-2.03	2	13.14
2011	Jordan Taylor	Wisconsin	6′ 1″	Jr	9.56	0	2	11.56	PG
2012	Anthony Davis	Kentucky	6′ 10″	Fr	7.29	-5.06	0	12.35	PF
2013	Burke, Trey	Michigan	6′ 0	So	10.07	-0.27	1.50	11.83	PG

 

When you consider that Burke is doing all this playing against the only conference on pace to put seven teams in the NCAA tournament, the rating makes even more sense. The list of the Top 40 players (shown below) indicates that the Big Ten also boasts the best duo in the country, with Indiana’s Cody Zeller the sixth most valuable player in the country and his teammate Victor Oladipo coming in at No. 9 even before dominating Michigan State last night. As reported two weeks ago by Breitbart Sports, the Hoosiers are coached by the Superbowl Harbaugh’s brother-in-law Tom Crean. Here are the top 40. All 2707 player who have added at least 0.01 in Value Add so far this season will be rated at www.valueaddbasketball.com within 48 hours, but the ratings are always reported here on Breitbart first.

Rnk	Top 40 This Season	Team	Ht	Yr	Off	Def	PG/Per	Value Add	NBA?
1	Trey Burke	Michigan	6′ 0	So	10.07	-0.27	1.50	11.83	PG
2	Mike Muscala	Bucknell	6′ 11″	Sr	7.41	-2.96		10.37
3	Shabazz Napier	Connecticut	6′ 1″	Jr	5.84	-2.38	1.50	9.72	PG
4	Bryce Cotton	Providence	6′ 1″	Jr	8.21	0.29	1.50	9.42
5	Erick Green	Virginia Tech	6′ 3″	Sr	8.67	0.82	1.50	9.35	PG
6	Cody Zeller	Indiana	7′ 0	So	6.25	-2.76		9.02	PF/C
7	Mason Plumlee	Duke	6′ 10″	Sr	5.01	-3.98		8.99	PF
8	Kentavious Caldwell-Pope	Georgia	6′ 5″	So	4.67	-3.25	1.00	8.92	SG
9	Victor Oladipo	Indiana	6′ 5″	Jr	5.42	-2.85	0.50	8.77	SG/SF
10	Nate Wolters	South Dakota St.	6′ 4″	Sr	6.65	-0.06	2.00	8.72	PG
11	Nerlens Noel	Kentucky	6′ 10″	Fr	2.75	-5.72		8.47	PF/C
12	Leonard Washington	Wyoming	6′ 7″	Sr	3.45	-5.02		8.47
13	Kenny Boynton	Florida	6′ 2″	Sr	6.19	-1.23	1.00	8.43	PG/SG
14	Ray McCallum	Detroit	6′ 3″	Jr	6.56	-0.36	1.50	8.42	PG
15	Ben McLemore	Kansas	6′ 5″	Fr	5.83	-1.84	0.50	8.16
16	Zeke Marshall	Akron	7′ 0	Sr	5.08	-2.41	0.50	8.00	C
17	Ian Clark	Belmont	6′ 3″	Sr	6.12	-1.23	0.50	7.85
18	Trevor Releford	Alabama	6′ 0	Jr	5.63	-1.20	1.00	7.83	PG
19	Cashmere Wright	Cincinnati	6′ 0	Sr	4.85	-1.40	1.50	7.75
20	Ryan Broekhoff	Valparaiso	6′ 7″	Sr	6.45	-1.25		7.69	SF
21	Jake Odum	Indiana St.	6′ 4″	Jr	4.63	-1.55	1.50	7.69
22	Doug McDermott	Creighton	6′ 8″	Jr	7.72	0.09		7.64	PF
23	Cory Jefferson	Baylor	6′ 9″	Jr	5.60	-2.01		7.61
24	Anthony Bennett	Nevada Las Vegas	6′ 8″	Fr	6.15	-1.45		7.60
25	Jeff Withey	Kansas	7′ 0	Sr	3.44	-4.06		7.51
26	Pierre Jackson	Baylor	5′ 10″	Sr	5.53	-0.97	1.00	7.50
27	Deshaun Thomas	Ohio St.	6′ 7″	Jr	6.92	-0.58		7.50	SF/PF
28	Nick Johnson	Arizona	6′ 3″	So	4.23	-2.26	1.00	7.49
29	Erik Murphy	Florida	6′ 10″	Sr	6.12	-1.34		7.46
30	Sean Kilpatrick	Cincinnati	6′ 4″	Jr	5.10	-1.27	1.00	7.37
31	Austin Hollins	Minnesota	6′ 4″	Jr	4.78	-2.07	0.50	7.35
32	Taylor Smith	Stephen F. Austin	6′ 6″	Sr	2.94	-4.41		7.35
33	Kelly Olynyk	Gonzaga	7′ 0	Jr	6.17	-1.14		7.31
34	Davante Gardner	Marquette	6′ 8″	Jr	5.97	-1.33		7.30
35	Quinn Cook	Duke	6′ 1″	So	3.83	-2.43	1.00	7.26
36	Romero Osby	Oklahoma	6′ 8″	Sr	5.69	-1.56		7.25
37	Michael Carter-Williams	Syracuse	6′ 6″	So	2.86	-3.38	1.00	7.24	PG/SG
38	Otto Porter	Georgetown	6′ 8″	So	3.47	-3.76		7.23	SF
39	Lamar Patterson	Pittsburgh	6′ 5″	Jr	3.98	-1.75	1.50	7.23	PG
40	Richard Howell	North Carolina St.	6′ 8″	Sr	5.34	-1.77		7.11	PF