"KenPom is bull***t" Sit back an enjoy this four minute dialogue from Doug Gottlieb on the KenPom rankings. (mentions St. Thomas, Minnesota)

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For context...I have heard lots of coaches say the same thing...especially smaller schools.
And they just lost lost to the number one team in the league by 8 and as a coach he wants respect for his team. Green Bay is number 4 in the league after being ridiculed at the bottom last year.
 

I tend to agree, but…. the KenPom rankings do have some validity. If, however, you rely on them too much when making your March Madness brackets, you will make your friends and co-workers happy.
 

Some of what he’s saying, doesn’t account for injuries or recency, etc, is a known issue with any ranking model. And I think the NCAA refuses to consider those factors.

My biggest issue with Kenpom is that it doesn’t limit blowouts, and as a result, teams are rewarded for blasting terrible teams. By my math, us whomping Alcorn St early on currently moves us up about 8 spots. If our entire noncon was sub-300 SWAC/NEC type teams and we strafed them all, despite never playing a competent team, we’d enter B10 play in KenPom’s top 20. Obviously a flaw. But because Ken is trying to rank offensive and defensive efficiency and then reverse engineer an overall ranking, he has no choice.
 

Well, now I know why he went into media.

He expended a lot of words and didn’t say a damn thing.
 


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