Who is behind the rankings and what Salas 64 is built to do.
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My name is Steven Salas. I’m a 17-year-old from Pasadena, California, and I created Salas 64 because I wanted a better way to follow the teams that actually matter in college basketball.
Salas 64 is a weekly ranking of the top 64 teams in Division I college basketball. New official rankings publish every Monday during the season, similar to the rhythm of the AP Poll, but the order is driven by the Salas Score instead of voting.
The goal is to answer two questions at the same time: How good is this team right now? and how strong is its profile for March?
College basketball has hundreds of teams and a huge amount of data. Salas 64 is meant to make that easier to follow. Instead of showing fans a wall of advanced statistics, the site uses those numbers behind the scenes and gives each team one clear 1–100 Salas Score.
That makes it possible to quickly see who is rising, who may be overrated by record alone, and which teams have the type of profile that can hold up in March.
The data collection and scoring process is automated. Each Monday, the Salas model refreshes game results, records, opponent-adjusted ratings, recent form, and March-profile statistics for Division I teams. The site then saves that week's rankings so movement can be measured against the following Monday.
This keeps the project focused on the model and the rankings instead of manually entering statistics for 64 teams every week.
The Salas Score is built from Team Strength (50%), Résumé (25%), March Profile (20%), and Current Form (5%). The full methodology is explained on the How the Salas 64 Rankings Work page.