[1][3][4][5] Carver has struggled with health complications, and has been hospitalized frequently with ulcerative colitis, which caused him to quit basketball prior to his senior year of high school.
[8] Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball's Greatest Player released in January 2015, when Carver was a freshman at the University of Arkansas.
[1][4] The book is based primarily on an algorithm that he created to determine the best player in NBA history.
[1][3] He began writing the book in high school after he lost his playing career to ulcerative colitis.
[1][4][3] The book was publicly praised by former Arkansas Razorback player Scotty Thurman,[1] and was covered by many local and national media outlets.