Basketball Intelligence
BBallRankings.com
for Youth/AAU Basketball
Instantly rank every team by grade and gender. Updates are typically done once a week. Last Updated: --/--/----
The Leading Destination for Youth & AAU Basketball Rankings
BBallRankings.com is the go-to source for parents, coaches, and club directors who want an honest, data-driven answer to "how good is my team, really?" Instead of relying on reputation, word of mouth, or a tournament seed committee's gut feel, every team in our database is ranked using the same opponent-adjusted statistical methods that power modern college basketball analytics — applied for the first time at scale to youth and AAU basketball.
We track well over 100,000 games across thousands of teams nationwide, spanning every grade level and both boys' and girls' divisions. Rankings update weekly as new results come in, so a team's rating always reflects its current season — not last month's reputation.
Why Coaches and Parents Trust Our Rankings
Most youth basketball "rankings" are subjective lists compiled by a handful of people watching a fraction of the games played nationwide. Ours are computed: a blend of five independent, peer-reviewed-style rating systems (opponent-adjusted efficiency, Massey, Elo, Colley, and PageRank) that cross-check each other, so no single fluke result or lopsided schedule can distort a team's true strength. That's why club directors use our Power Ratings to evaluate scheduling and self-scout, and why parents use them to see exactly where their team stacks up at the state and national level.
Built for the Whole AAU & Youth Basketball Community
Whether you're a parent tracking your child's team, a coach benchmarking against divisional rivals, or a tournament director seeding brackets, BBallRankings.com gives you the same transparent, opponent-adjusted view of team strength — broken down by grade, gender, and state, and backed by a public, documented methodology (see "How Rankings Are Calculated" below) rather than a black box.
How Rankings Are Calculated
Every team gets a Power Rating (0–100) — a robust, opponent-adjusted consensus of several independent rating systems. ~50 is an average team and each 15 points is roughly one standard deviation. The backbone is opponent-adjusted efficiency (the same method behind KenPom and college basketball's modern ratings); the other systems corroborate it for stability.
Each system is converted to a standardized (z-score) scale before blending — robust to a single dominant team — then the blend is mapped onto the 0–100 Power scale.
- Adjusted Efficiency — Net / Off / Def (55%) — A ridge-regularized regression solves every game at once to separate how good a team is at scoring from how good it is at preventing scores, after correcting for the quality of every opponent faced. Net Rating = adjusted Offense − adjusted Defense, in points per game versus an average opponent on a neutral floor. This is the single best measure of true strength.
- Massey (18%) — Solves a linear system over all scoring margins; opponent-adjusted, margin-aware.
- ELO (10%) — Starts at 1,000 per team and updates after every game (K=32). A sequential, recency-sensitive estimate.
- Colley (9%) — A linear system over wins and losses only (ignores margin), naturally adjusted for schedule.
- PageRank / Graph (8%) — Models wins as directed links in a network; beating teams who beat strong teams is rewarded, like authoritative web links.
Anti-blowout (soft margin cap). To keep ratings fair for youth basketball and discourage running up the score, winning margin is counted in full up to 20 points; beyond that each extra point counts half, capped at 35. Pace (total points) is preserved.
Few games? The ridge regression automatically shrinks teams with thin schedules toward the league average, so a small sample can't produce a wild rating.
Strength of Schedule (SOS) is shown as the average Net Rating of your opponents (positive = tougher than average). It is diagnostic only — the ratings above already account for schedule, so SOS is not double-counted.
Eligibility: a team needs 10+ games for an official rank. Teams with fewer games still display their full Power Rating and every stat — they're simply marked NA with how many more games they need.
Ranked teams are ordered by Power Rating descending, with Win% then Net Rating as tiebreakers.