Unrivaled provides a clean laboratory for measuring the successes—and failures—of certain lineups. Unlike its five-on-five counterpart, three-on-three basketball offers no room to hide. Help defense will not be on the way, and mismatches will be placed under a microscope. The league’s smaller rosters also mean players will face off against each other more frequently than if additional bench players were involved.
So … which Unrivaled team has the best three-player lineup? Based on the information above, that should be an easy question to answer. However, the league doesn’t publish any lineup stats. We’ll just have to grab the data ourselves. Unrivaled's play-by-play data provides the detail needed to calculate possession-based stats. After running the numbers, we ranked the best lineup for each team by net rating—the difference between points scored and points allowed per 100 possessions.
