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<blockquote data-quote="MtnWasp" data-source="post: 697384" data-attributes="member: 4110"><p>Regarding the love of KenPom, I will cut and paste from the very first paragraphs of the KenPom page on their rating explanation (<a href="https://kenpom.com/blog/ratings-explanation/" target="_blank">https://kenpom.com/blog/ratings-explanation/</a>):</p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>"The first thing you should know about this system is that it is designed to be purely predictive. If you’re looking for a system that rates teams on how “good” their season has been, you’ve come to the wrong place. There are enough systems out there that rank teams based on what is “good” by just about any definition you can think of. So I’d encourage you to google <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-38%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=%22college+basketball+ratings" target="_blank">college basketball ratings</a> or even try the opinion polls for something that is more your style.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>The purpose of this system is to show how strong a team would be if it played tonight, independent of injuries or emotional factors. Since nobody can see every team play all (or even most) of their games, this system is designed to give you a snapshot of a team’s current level of play."</em></span></p><p></p><p>In other words, the KenPom system is not designed to rate a body or work over a season. It is meant as a tool for those who like to bet the games or just make predictions. It is explicitly not a tool designed to rate how good a season a team has had. </p><p></p><p>It seems to me a lot of people are mis-using / misinterpreting this tool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MtnWasp, post: 697384, member: 4110"] Regarding the love of KenPom, I will cut and paste from the very first paragraphs of the KenPom page on their rating explanation ([URL]https://kenpom.com/blog/ratings-explanation/[/URL]): [SIZE=5] [I]"The first thing you should know about this system is that it is designed to be purely predictive. If you’re looking for a system that rates teams on how “good” their season has been, you’ve come to the wrong place. There are enough systems out there that rank teams based on what is “good” by just about any definition you can think of. So I’d encourage you to google [URL='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-38%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=%22college+basketball+ratings']college basketball ratings[/URL] or even try the opinion polls for something that is more your style.[/I] [I][/I] [I]The purpose of this system is to show how strong a team would be if it played tonight, independent of injuries or emotional factors. Since nobody can see every team play all (or even most) of their games, this system is designed to give you a snapshot of a team’s current level of play."[/I][/SIZE] In other words, the KenPom system is not designed to rate a body or work over a season. It is meant as a tool for those who like to bet the games or just make predictions. It is explicitly not a tool designed to rate how good a season a team has had. It seems to me a lot of people are mis-using / misinterpreting this tool. [/QUOTE]
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