Just try not to laugh:
http://loganssportsratings.blogspot.com/2015/11/college-basketball-rankings-30-nov.html
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the WORST computer poll of ALL TIME
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So glad the kid won an award. It must have been from people who know nothing about sports. He claims to rely on SOS and then has UL #2 with a SOS of 232. What a joke. Yep, UK would have their hands full against mighty Stoneybrook.
I quit when I saw Louisville at 2, the only poll Little Brothel is on top of is at Minardi during big recruiting weekends with 3 stars...both strippers and recruits
Looks to me like scoring margin is his most important factor which is silly.
Agreed, although I actually was pretty impressed by WVU's victory over San Diego State. That was just a classic, school yard hazing. It felt like WVU came up with a steal on every other possession.
Hey guys hes on to something he mentions that his top team WVU destroyed SDSU. Idk if UK could hang with that caliber team
The fact that Massey supposedly uses this in his rating system makes me further understand why his ratings are also totally WHACK.
Massey doesn't use them for his own formula.
Massey lists them in a giant list of all the rankings he can find in one place, along with dozens of others. He puts them all side by side for comparison, that's all.
Anyways, this Logan guy has a degree in applied mathematics, but he might want to apply them somewhere other than basketball. You can make as complicated an algorithm as you want, but in this context, its value lies solely in its ability to model the real world, and he's doing an abysmal job of it.
His system might work with enough data points (although I doubt it), but this is small sample size garbage. At a glance, it looks like he doesn't cap or curve margin of victory, which is dumb. But right now it is a useless mess. Even stat guys like Ken Pomeroy (and Kevin Pelton, and any stat guys) use pre-season rankings weighted in the formula for most of the season because they tend to be better predictors than pure small sample size theater.
That's not that far from the truth. All but one of Lehigh's games have been on the road, two of which were against top 25 teams.
It's pretty common for schools like Lehigh to have high SOS numbers early in the season because they will play some good teams on the road while power conference teams tend to largely play home games against bad teams. Once conference play starts, Lehigh's SOS will diminish.
Oh? My apologies. I forgot that I'm supposed to forgo all consideration of truth so that I may join the hate parade.
That Logan guy is so such an idiot! Did he have paint chips with his Wheaties as a kid?
Is that better?
Take the autism test. Taking things too literal is a bad sign. You see my post was a joke.
