re: tOfficial Alabama Basketball Season Thread | 19-15 (10-8) | #BuckleUp

FYI - now up to #68 in KenPom

#1 Kentucky
#14 Florida
#32 South Carolina
#42 Georgia
#49 Arkansas
#60 Texas A&M
#63 Vanderbilt
#64 Tennessee
#68 Alabama
#93 Mississippi State
#98 Ole Miss
#102 Auburn
#143 LSU
#190 Missouri

Also, all the way up to #16 nationally in Defensive Efficiency.

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I've never really kept up with anything but RPI. Is KenPom important? How does it work? If someone could just give me a basics summary I'd appreciate it

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KenPom basically measures each teams individual performance, not their resumes.

RPI looks at who you beat, where they are ranked, whether it was home or away, etc.

KenPom takes every statistic individually (including tons and tons of advanced metrics), adjusts it for the opponent, and then tries to give an accurate ranking for how good a team is, not what they've done so far.

The easiest summary is : RPI measures past accomplishments and resume, KenPom is trying to tell you what would happen if Team A played Team B in the future. If you want to see a ranking based on how well a team has done to that point in a season, you look at RPI. If you wonder how purely good a team is compared to other teams in their conference or nationally (based on things like Offensive Rebound %, Offensive Efficiency, Defensive Efficiency, Assist Ratio, etc, you use KenPom.

I hope that makes at least a bit of sense.

Oh ok that makes sense. Thanks for explaining it. Well I'm glad to see we're that high in the rankings.

If we can beat Mizzou, we'll be 11-6 (4-1) going into Auburn next Saturday. Would love to knock off Auburn at home, and leave 12-6 (5-1). That record wouldn't look too bad

That Saint Louis game almost made this season go down the drain. So glad our guys fought back and were able to escape with a win. That would've been a killer loss

I turned that game off with 5 minutes left because I thought we were done

State is in the top half of SEC teams. They might be better than UGA

We're 10-6 (3-1) with this schedule remaining. Here's my thoughts:

Missouri- should be a win

@ Auburn- could go either way. Hard to win away, especially at Auburn. They've played terrible lately and lost Purifoy so I'll say we edge them out.

@ Georgia- don't have a good feeling about this one. We seem to struggle against them a lot. Leaning towards a loss.

Mississippi State- Already beat them away. They've gotten better but we should beat them again.

@ Arkansas- most likely a loss even though it's possible to win this one. Miss St just won at Arky.

Auburn - should beat them at home.

@ South Carolina- loss

Kentucky -loss

@ Missouri- win

LSU- win

Georgia- could go either way but I say we get revenge at home, but barely

@ Texas A&M- could go either way, A&M has struggled lately, feel like we will barely win.

Ole Miss- senior night against an average team=win

@ Tennessee- they're possibly better than us. Wouldn't surprise me if we lost. Not gonna make a pick on this one bc it's the last game and it's just too hard to predict.

I'd be fine with that. Just don't wanna not make a postseason tourney

You can have 13 scholarship players, Collins definitely isn't a practice squad guy, and yes Giddens is still on scholarship even though he has to sit out as a redshirt.