I'm curious what is the highest single season improvement a player has had to date? The highest reported that I've found has been 146 with 140 being a common answer in other threads such as here and here. However, I don't always trust the search engine on WIS as you need exact wording (where it will still be somewhat unreliable).

I'm mainly interested as I have a freshman center, Jesse Butler, on my UVA team who is cruising in improvements. We're 16 games into the regular season and he's improved 90 points. He started with green in ATH, SPD, DEF, BLK, LP, BH, and DUR and blue in ST. He still has green in LP and blue in SPD, DEF, BLK, and BH. I'm expecting a slow down in pace but I'm interested to see how he stacks up all-time against other D1 players (or players of any level - just specifying D1 as they start closer to the 'ceiling' than typical D2 and D3 recruits).

I have another D1 guy at 114 through 22

He was on pace for 160 but after his green turns to blue and then black he's slowed down a bit.

Would be awesome to see another player break 400

Posted by beachhouse on 10/1/2020 2:34:00 PM (view original):
Would be awesome to see another player break 400

It's tougher with every division up you go but the Mr. 400 feat is still incredible to me.

Posted by upsetcity on 10/2/2020 12:46:00 PM (view original):

Posted by beachhouse on 10/1/2020 2:34:00 PM (view original):
Would be awesome to see another player break 400

It's tougher with every division up you go but the Mr. 400 feat is still incredible to me.

He could challenge it. I threw a redshirt on my guy after season one.

I had James Largent gain 123 points in his first season as a D1 Juco. His PER is still green, blue LP, and a few other blacks, so with his WE, I don't think it's out of the question that he could gain 200 points in two seasons.

Posted by cubcub113 on 10/1/2020 2:22:00 PM (view original):
I have another D1 guy at 114 through 22

He was on pace for 160 but after his green turns to blue and then black he's slowed down a bit.

He's also going to get between 49-54 REB growth which is the highest I've ever had.

We've got a pretty similar pace as I'm at 125 through 23. I wonder how many points were left on the board benching Landers those 3 games mid-season (and presumably in the CT as well). I debated throwing Butler on my bench for some tough matchups but I kinda wanna see how high I can get him.

I just took 11 minutes out of SH (bleh..) for him so I hope that helps his current pace a bit.

If anyone is interested:

Butler is at 141 after the 1st round of the CT where we had a bye. He’s got at least three more ‘practices’ including 1 game. He may or may not start based on the matchup but he might crack 150.

Awesome!

Butler ended up hitting 151 overall improvement points through his freshman season. I sat him during the ACC CT Finals but ended up losing so I could have started him anyway to try and get the extra few points.

Out of 11 categories that can be practiced: he ended with ~8 mid to high black categories, 1 green (low post which has already seen 29 points of improvement), 1 yellow and 1 red. The 12th category is WE which I expect will continue to improve as he is now a projected starter for me moving forward.