Pomeroy Rankings

• Cleveland Buck

  

  How do you feel about Pomeroy as a tool for ranking teams? Many people feel they are more accurate than the RPI and should be used in evaluating NCAA tournament teams. I was just wondering what the people here think of them.
• sleeper

  

  Is Ohio State #1?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Yes
• sleeper

  

  Then it must be doing something right. I'm for it.
• Azubuike24

  

  I think they are great because they factor in so much information. However, I think they overrate some of the mid-majors. So, technically they are good at ranking a team's "profile or resume", but actually put some of these teams on the court and they aren't as high as KP has them. For example:
  
  16 Utah St.
  19 Belmont
  25 George Mason
  
  or
  
  51 Colorado
  55 Tennessee
  92 Memphis
  
  Now, you could put these 6 teams together and there would be almost no difference at all. In fact, Belmont lost to Tennessee twice this year already. Memphis just won C-USA. Colorado just beat one of the hottest teams in the country and hung with #1 Kansas for a good amount of Friday's game.
• swamisez

  

  Love kenpom. Has had the national champion listed pre tournment every year since 04 I think. Great mathematical analysis. Had duke on top last year and was derided. The formula seems pretty accurate.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Azubuike24;709597 wrote:I think they are great because they factor in so much information. However, I think they overrate some of the mid-majors. So, technically they are good at ranking a team's "profile or resume", but actually put some of these teams on the court and they aren't as high as KP has them. For example:
  
  16 Utah St.
  19 Belmont
  25 George Mason
  
  or
  
  51 Colorado
  55 Tennessee
  92 Memphis
  
  Now, you could put these 6 teams together and there would be almost no difference at all. In fact, Belmont lost to Tennessee twice this year already. Memphis just won C-USA. Colorado just beat one of the hottest teams in the country and hung with #1 Kansas for a good amount of Friday's game.

  
  Maybe because it includes efficiency ratings it favors mid majors because it is easier to be efficient against bad teams. I don't know. That's really the only issue I have with it. It's definitely more comprehensive than RPI. Of course, I am biased as Pomeroy's rankings have Ohio State #1 team in the country, the Big Ten the #1 conference in the country, and says the Big Ten has 11 of the top 83 teams in the country.
• dokken

  Is this some guy ranking teams smoking the Meigs Gold down in Pomeroy, Ohio?