Top 100 player list 23/24

[Shahar S.]

I'm sure nothing will go wrong this time around...

1. Matt Jackson
2. Matthew Lehmann
3. Caleb Kendrick
4. Raymond Wang
5. Andrew Wang
6. Natan Holtzman
7. Amogh Kulkarni
8. Vincent Du
9. Tim Morrison
10. Eve Fleisig
11. Michal Gerasimiuk
12. Geoffrey Chen
13. Jason Hong
14. Ethan Strombeck
15. Andrew Zeng
16. Adam Fine
17. Jack Lewis
18. Forrest Weintraub
19. Nathan Zhang
20. Eric Wolfsberg
21. Ned Tagtmeier
22. Chris Sims
23. Bryan Ugaz
24. Omer Keskin
25. Richard Niu
26. Charles Hang
27. Halle Friedman
28. Sean Farrell
29. Claire Jones
30. Shahar Schwartz
31. Nathaniel Hull
32. Moses Kitakule
33. Michael Kohn
34. Kevin Park
35. Joel Miles
36. Conor Thompson
37. Jim Fan
38. Arthur Delot-Vilain
39. Justin Hawkins
40. Eric Li
41. Sky Li
42. Tegan Kapadia
43. Aiden Dartley
44. Ashish Subramanian
45. Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford
46. Arjun Nageswaran
47. Aum Mundhe
48. Harrison Whitaker
49. Braden Booth
50. Joseph Chambers
51. Mattias Ehatamm
52. Todd Maslyk
53. Jacob Robertson
54. Adrian Wong
55. Chinmay Murthy
56. Swapnil Garg
57. Ben Russell Jones
58.Enoch Yuen
59. Anuttam Ramji
60. Tony Chen
61. Jisoo Yoo
62. Quynh Phung
63. Matthew Siff
64. Sinecio Morales
65. Gareth Thorlakson
66. Justin Wytmar
67. Justin Lee
68. Raymond Chen
69. Ethan Ashbrook
70. Henry Cafaro
71. Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt
72. Danila Kabotyanski
73. Andrew Salij
74. John Marvin
75. Ryan Sun
76. Cooper Roh
77. Shardul Rao
78. Jack Rado
79. Sam Foo
80. Lexi Terman
81. Karsten Rynearson
82. Karan Gurazada
83. Geoffrey Wu
84. Oliver Hargrave
85. Joy An
86. Robert Condron
87. Fred Garvey
88. Justin Duffy
89. Vinu Harihar
90. Alex Akridge
91. Ryan Humphrey
92. Thomas Hart
93. Andrew Hanna
94. Caleb Ott
95. Dean Ah Now
96. Michael Hunding
97. Jet Dong
98. Andrew Kelley
99. Sharath Narayan
100. John John Groger

P.S. I missed that Arya played ARCADIA this year, if I had known prior to making the list they'd be 4th.

[MMSANCHEZ]

I'll keep this brief. I've been out of the game for a while, so I don't have that much knowledge of the current "going-ons" in the collegiate quizbowl circuit. I considered making a full top 100 list, but to be quite frank I don't have the time or will power to spend hours pouring through stats just for that. Back in my day I considered myself a peripheral top 100 contender and so such a project carried more interest for me. Still, most tournaments I spectate I'd expect to win several games, but that's not here nor there. This is a list of the top 51 active college quizbowl players, for which I am neither eligible, nor deserving.

A few asides about this list.
1) I'm pretty sure everyone on this list is eligible, but if they aren't, don't be a dick about it. They aren't any less deserving of praise then people who might happen to be more enrolled at the time.

2) I emphasized expected PPG over actual PPG. This is more of a projection based than back looking approach. Essentially for every player I'd ask myself how much PPG do I figure this player ought to get.

3) Barring truly exceptional cases, I chose not to rank players who I haven't seen play. This is to protect against bounceback merchants and power vultures taking over this list like the invasive Kudzu vine.

With all that out of the way, enjoy.

1. Matt Bollinger
2. Matthew Jackson
3. Hari Parameswaran
4. Christopher Sims
5. Natan Holzmann
6. Benjamin Chapman
7. Geoffrey Chen
8. Richard Niu
9. Charles Hang
10. Matthew Lehmann
11. Bryan Ugaz
12. Tony Chen
13. Arya Karthik
14. Russell Nip
15. Thelonius Monk
16. Eve Fleisig
17. Dan Ni
18. Raymond Chen
19. Raymond Wang
20. Mattias Ehatamm
21. Amogh Kulkarni
22. Mike Cheyne
23. Arthur Velot-Delain
24. Michal Gerasimiuk
25. Sean Farrell
26. Jerry Vinukorov
27. Cerulean Ozarow
28. Tracy Mirkin
29. Wenying Wu
30. Amogh Kulkarni
31. Amogh Kulkarni
32. Connor Mayers
33. Caleb Ott
34. Caleb Kendrick
35. Howie Kendrick
36. Nathaniel Hull
37. Sky Li
38. Vishwa Shanmugam
39. William Groger
40. John John Groger
41. Groger Ranks
42. Daniel Hothem
43. Adrian Wong
44. Carlos Doebeli
45. Jack Lewis
46. Paul Kasinski
47. Jaskaran Singh
48. Nathan Sheffield
49. Justin Lee
50. Blaise Brosnan
51. Gareth Thorlakson

[Oscario]

Wow a top players list that acknowledges the existence of UK players, I'm impressed

[etotheipi]

Just a quick reminder that a certain Gabe Forrest put up >3 p/g on ARCADIA.

[Nurostep]

34. Kevin Park
43. Aiden Dartley
59. Anuttam Ramji

lmao WHAT???

[Skepticism and Animal Feed]

22. Mike Cheyne
35. Howie Kendrick

I've been fortunate enough to see both of these guys play. I think if you care about peak at all, or if you care about Nationals/LCS performance, you gotta go with Howie over Mike here. Howie Kendrick had his best season at age 35 when he posted an OPS+ of 146 on a team that barely made the playoffs: the 2019 Nationals don't even make the NL Wildcard Game without him. And of course he completely took over the postseason that year, hitting an NLDS-winning homer against the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine, winning the 2019 NLCS MVP against the Cardinals, and of course hitting the game-winning home run off the foul pole in Houston in Game 7 of the World Series. All this after having been signed to be a backup that year. Now, it's true, Mike Cheyne was also legit #1 scoring threat in his final few years of playing after years of being a supporting cast member to the star-studded Minnesota teams of the early 2010's. But let's not undersell the early parts of Howie Kendrick's career. True, he never lived up to the hype he had as a prospect but he was an All-Star in 2011 and received an MVP vote in 2014.

[MMSANCHEZ]

22. Mike Cheyne
35. Howie Kendrick

I've been fortunate enough to see both of these guys play. I think if you care about peak at all, or if you care about Nationals/LCS performance, you gotta go with Howie over Mike here. Howie Kendrick had his best season at age 35 when he posted an OPS+ of 146 on a team that barely made the playoffs: the 2019 Nationals don't even make the NL Wildcard Game without him. And of course he completely took over the postseason that year, hitting an NLDS-winning homer against the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine, winning the 2019 NLCS MVP against the Cardinals, and of course hitting the game-winning home run off the foul pole in Houston in Game 7 of the World Series. All this after having been signed to be a backup that year. Now, it's true, Mike Cheyne was also legit #1 scoring threat in his final few years of playing after years of being a supporting cast member to the star-studded Minnesota teams of the early 2010's. But let's not undersell the early parts of Howie Kendrick's career. True, he never lived up to the hype he had as a prospect but he was an All-Star in 2011 and received an MVP vote in 2014.

Well reasoned. I couldn't agree more and this was a glaring oversight in an what I consider to be an otherwise pretty solid list. Consider their places flipped for now.

[IMammel]

32. Connor Mayers
34. Caleb Kendrick
38. Vishwa Shanmugam

While I appreciate you not falling for the recent "Caleb is the best Maryland player!! OMG!!!" delusions that seem to have hit the nation, I can't help but notice you're missing from your list who I'd consider to be the Maryland player most responsible for their historic 5th place performance at ACF Nationals 2022- just something to think about