re: College Basketball Program Rankings

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Sure. I get that winning a conference title is nice and worth celebrating. The difficulty is how to reward that in a metric when all the conferences are so different. Gonzaga has 21 regular season conference titles since 2001. Kentucky has 9. Surely if Kentucky had been in the WCC instead of the SEC, they’d have more than 9… and simultaneously, had Gonzaga played in the SEC they’d have no where close to 21. So how do you value a conference title in a metric that compares programs from all the different conferences?

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I feel you regarding difficulty of valuing reg season, conf titles, and conf tourney titles. Seems like they should be valued but the SOS among conferences makes that very difficult.

In a way you could reward points for regular season by perhaps “over valuing” round of 68 (baking in credit for a successful reg season) or perhaps even better would be rewarding some bonus points for your seed number (because seed number should also bake in credit for how good your regular season was, eg extra 2 points for a top 4 seed, extra point for 5-8 seed, extra 1/2 point for 9-12 seed). Maybe those values are too much/too little but you get the point.

I look forward to you taking my recommendations and providing us with the results. Lol