With the non-conference season concluding, it’s time to reassess who is most deserving of the National Player of the Year designation for the 2016-2017 season.
If you’re not familiar with the exercise, the idea is to choose a player solely based on per 40 and advanced numbers, so players are not identified by their real names. Instead, different interrelated cultural identifiers are used to refer to the candidates. Today, it's "Star Wars" characters.
In this iteration, and moving forward, I’m including a candidate's team’s KenPom ranking and strength of schedule by his identifier (h/t to MikeJ.