Western Conference Elitists

Western Conference Elitists — NBA analysis and draft scouting for people who watch the film, plus the Savant tools, which rank NBA and NFL players and UFC fighters by percentile.

The tools

• Basketball Savant: Every NBA player, every season back to 1979-80: percentile sliders, shot charts, and comps.
• College Basketball Savant: Every men's Division I player: opponent-adjusted percentiles by position, RAPM, shot zones, lineups and team ratings, refreshed after every night of games.
• Football Savant: Every NFL player back to 1999, ranked against the men who play his position, with throw maps, run-gap maps and comps.
• College Football Savant: Every FBS player and team since 2009: opponent-adjusted percentiles by position, an All-Savant team lined up at the snap, and an objective 12-team playoff field with odds.
• UFC Savant: Every UFC fighter, ranked against the weight class: strike maps, round curves, head-to-heads and comps.
• College Basketball Coaching Savant: Every men's Division I head coach: wins against the roster he was given, whether players get better under him, the portal, the Rotation Map, March against the seed, and who won without money.
• Basketball Coaching Savant: Every NBA head coach: the Rotation Map, lineups judged from their parts, timeouts and challenges, wins against two expectations, and a coaching tree suggested from the record, 1946-47 to today.
• Coaching Savant: Every NFL head coach since 1999: records, playoff history, what they called, and a coaching tree drawn back to Paul Brown.
• Draft Savant: NBA Draft prospect models and the full board, every class back to 2010.
• Dynasty Exchange: A dynasty basketball board priced by the people who argue about it. Rank four players and move the market, or paste your roster and see what it is worth.
• Big Board: Every draft prospect ranked and tiered. A personal board, not a consensus mock.
• Comp Chain: Hop player to player through their statistical comps in as few moves as you can. A new puzzle every day.
• Flappy Hoops: Flap the ball through the rim in as few taps as you can. Twenty-eight NBA cities, nine holes in each, and online races with up to eight friends.
• Analysis: Scouting breakdowns, team-building theory, and NBA analytics that hold up under pressure.
• News: The biggest NBA and college basketball stories, plus basketball research and analytics.
• The Weekly Board: The newsletter: one board move, one prospect, and one stat. Free.
• About: Who we are and how we work.