Richie Saunders
Only corroborated player-season records; not complete career coverage.
Observed career performance
2601:15 minutes logged
- Games logged
- 105
- Minutes per game
- 24:46
- Points per game
- 12.7
- Rebounds / assists per game
- 4.3 / 1.4
| Basis | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | PF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per game | 12.7 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 2.1 |
| Per 40 minutes | 20.6 | 6.9 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| Season totals | 1338 | 450 | 148 | 112 | 30 | 103 | 216 |
| Shot | Made–att. | Pct | Att/G | Att/40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FG | 473–944 | 50.1% | 9.0 | 14.5 |
| 2P | 295–484 | 61.0% | 4.6 | 7.4 |
| 3P | 178–460 | 38.7% | 4.4 | 7.1 |
| FT | 214–267 | 80.1% | 2.5 | 4.1 |
| eFG% | Estimated TS% | 3PA / FGA | FTA / FGA | AST / TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59.5% | 63.0% | 48.7% | 28.3% | 1.44 |
Combined corroborated seasons only; not complete career coverage. † marks a rate on fewer attempts than the floor (field goal 100, three-point 50, free throw 25). Floors are descriptive, not model output. Definitions
Linked seasons
| Season | Team | G | MPG | Pts | Reb | Ast | Pts/40 | 3P% | FT% | TS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Richie Saunders | BYU | 21 | 15:14 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 11.0 | 21.3%† | 71.4%† | 47.2%† |
| 2024 Richie Saunders | BYU | 29 | 20:35 | 9.6 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 18.6 | 37.5% | 70.5% | 60.6% |
| 2025 Richie Saunders | BYU | 30 | 30:07 | 17.4 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 23.1 | 45.8% | 84.0% | 67.5% |
| 2026 Richie Saunders | BYU | 25 | 31:15 | 18.0 | 5.8 | 2.1 | 23.1 | 37.6% | 81.7% | 63.9% |
Career identity corroborated by repeated game, team and individual-statistic matches. Unlinked seasons are excluded.
Speculative compensation · 2025–26β
BYU · Power 4 · 2025–26 · a best guess at this player's part of the school's own revenue-sharing budget for men's basketball.
- Speculative best guess
- $590K
- 80% range $380K to $1.00M
- Median share of team pool
- 16.1%
- team pool $3.60M, 80% range $2.60M to $4.95M
- Across scenarios Z1 to Z4
- $590K in all four
- the elasticity disagreement is carried, not resolved
- Floor part
- $25K
- shared by every player with possessions
- Possession share
- 55.2%
- Sufficient evidence
Speculative best guess, not observed pay. It is not a contract, not an offer and not a market price, and it is unvalidated: no pay is held to check it against. Point is the median and the range is the 10th to 90th percentile of 4,000 joint draws of budget and player value; a mixture of assumptions, not a calibrated interval.
Budget anchor. House-settlement $20.5M cap (College Sports Commission, 2026-10-01) times a modelled utilisation of about 97 percent times a men's basketball share of about 18 percent (school statements and an industry study); Power 4 schools are at or near the cap nationally.
Assumptions. modelled pool; split by possession share times value over replacement; convexity; shared floor; replacement level; four elasticity scenarios; closure to the national total; opt-out list; exclusions. Each is a declared judgement, not an estimate. Numbers, anchors and checks
Not included. Third-party and collective NIL deals, including deals cleared through NIL Go. Non-cash benefits such as scholarship, cost of attendance, Alston awards and housing. Bonuses and incentive terms. Anything outside the school's own revenue-sharing channel.
BYU: whole-roster table and pool · School finances (school-reported) · What-if calculator for this player
No revenue-sharing budget existed before the 2025–26 season, so no compensation figure is modelled for earlier seasons.
Model-implied value and speculative compensation by seasonβ
| Season | Team | Speculative compensation (best guess) | Compensation 80% range | Split role | Net | Range | Evidence | Range graphic. Position on one axis | Offense | Defense | Wins above replacement | On-court possessions | Sample and flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | BYU | $590Kspeculative | $380K to $1.00M | descriptive: not used in fit or gates | +5.5 | +4.0 to +6.6 | Sufficient evidence | +3.9 | +1.6 | +5.9range +5.2 to +6.5 | 2,573 | Season detail | |
| 2025 | BYU | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | +3.4 | +1.9 to +5.1 | Sufficient evidence | +3.8 | -0.3 | +5.3range +4.4 to +6.2 | 3,090 | Season detail | |
| 2024 | BYU | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | +4.2 | +2.9 to +5.2 | Sufficient evidence | +3.1 | +1.1 | +3.3range +2.8 to +3.8 | 2,108 | Season detail | |
| 2023 | BYU | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | +0.5 | -0.6 to +1.4 | Sufficient evidence | +0.1 | +0.4 | +1.8range +1.4 to +2.1 | 1,146 | Season detail |
Open circle: limited evidence. Filled circle: sufficient evidence. Vertical line: zero. This table makes no claim about change over time, so it has no change column or trend. Seasons 2011 to 2017 have a point value but no range, so none is shown. Compensation exists for 2025–26 only; earlier rows say that no budget existed. NIL methodology · Compensation methodology