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The metrics indicated that the last two years also. They might be right this year but that doesn’t make them any less wrong the last two.

No it’s not. Ken’s metrics were wrong last year. That season is over. This one is just getting started. Even if he’s right this year (we’ll see) his ratio still sucks when it comes to the accuracies of his metrics involving us the last few years.

To me heads up is only dispositive when the teams have the same overall record. I would vote Kentucky ahead of us right now, but I think we’ll be the better team by the end of the year. Meanwhile KenPom has Notre Dame (3-4) ranked at 180 while Ok State (3-4) is ranked 92 despite their...

He can. His ranking system does not account for who wins or who loses. Winning by 1 is basically the same as losing by 1 in his system. He could weight for actual wins… very easy to do it but he believes wins and losses don’t matter because that’s the entire basis of his ranking system.

Of course it matters but it is not the only thing that matters. What’s strange is that he could easily get rid of the “luck” ranking (that is the most obnoxiously arrogant and awful metric) and incorporate an adjustment for winning against expectations and he could meaningfully improve his system.

Exactly. The disparity between our strength of record ranking and kenpom ranking the last two years is the big problem in my opinion. And that’s created by ranking exclusively on what amounts to opponent adjusted margin of victory/defeat and completely ignoring wins and losses (a team that...

Yeah. What a dweeb. His model has a major flaw and he got in his feelings so he tweeted we are an overrated media darling.