JonShoes
| Favorite team: | Kentucky  |
| Location: | Lexington |
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| Number of Posts: | 65 |
| Registered on: | 6/3/2011 |
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re: Anthony Davis or Thomas Robinson - who wins player of the year?
Posted by JonShoes on 2/26/12 at 12:13 am
Davis Offensive Rating 140.8
Davis Defensive Rating 76.6
Robinson Offensive Rating 112.0
Robinson Defensive Rating 81.4
These are points scored and allowed per 100 possessions.
Points per game isn't a good stat to measure a player. It really only tells you how many times a player shot the ball and how fast a team plays. You have to look deeper. How efficiently is he scoring the ball? When you look at stats like that you'll clearly see that Davis is head and shoulders above Robinson.
Davis Defensive Rating 76.6
Robinson Offensive Rating 112.0
Robinson Defensive Rating 81.4
These are points scored and allowed per 100 possessions.
Points per game isn't a good stat to measure a player. It really only tells you how many times a player shot the ball and how fast a team plays. You have to look deeper. How efficiently is he scoring the ball? When you look at stats like that you'll clearly see that Davis is head and shoulders above Robinson.
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re: ESPN Bracket Projections
Posted by JonShoes on 2/12/12 at 1:20 am
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For the record realtimerpi.com has us in with finishing at 8-8. Our RPI is decent and will get better after we play MSU, UK and Vandy. We have 2 good wins against 2 top 40 RPI teams in MSU and Miami. We dont have a bad loss in no conference. USM MTSU and Marquette are all but in and Daytin has a good shot. Our worst loss is @Aub in 2ot. We have a pretty solid resume. 1 more big win and if we avoid a loss to Aub and LSU at home and we should be in.
Now, let me tell you why the system is broken and why you're a psychopath for even believing your shite team even has a chance of making the tourney.
Your team's best win (Kenpom) comes over Miami, Florida. Let's quit pretending like the RPI is a good metric for measuring a team's skill. For Christ sake Southern Miss. is #11 in the RPI (#56 in KenPom). Ole miss comes in at a whopping 111 in the KenPom ratings, 109 in the LRMC. and 99th in the Saragin ratings. Repeat after me Ole Miss is a terrible basketball team.
re: Duke-UNC thread....OMG Duke wins 85-84 on last second shot from Rivers
Posted by JonShoes on 2/8/12 at 10:46 pm
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Duke can't be that insanely good from the 3 point line every game.
Funny thing is they shot below their season average tonight.
Season 3%- 39.3%
Tonight 3%- 38.9%
I'm just gonna leave this here
Posted by JonShoes on 2/4/12 at 1:23 pm
re: Epic Mississippi Saints fail
Posted by JonShoes on 1/14/12 at 8:09 pm
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On a side note. The word "epic" needs to die a horrible fricking death.
Rack.
I suggest that when the word epic is about to be posted it goes to a committee for review. That crew of internet specialists will determine if said thing is, in fact, epic. If it is "epic" you are allowed to post, if not you are banned from the internet.
re: What is really a sport?
Posted by JonShoes on 1/6/12 at 8:06 pm
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There are judges to decide the winner of a boxing match, just as in mma
Like I said, I've never watched a full match, so I wouldn't know. Boxing or MMA just don't do it for me. It does seem rather odd to let a third party judge who won rather than them just keep fighting until a winner is determined, though.
re: What is really a sport?
Posted by JonShoes on 1/6/12 at 7:53 pm
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So no boxing?
I've never watched a full boxing match, but I was always under the impression that it was punch count that determined the winner if there was no knockout?
re: What is really a sport?
Posted by JonShoes on 1/6/12 at 6:58 pm
Two rules for athletic activity to be called a sport.
1. If said activity is scored via third party (ice skating, cheerleading,..etc.) it is not a sport.
2. If at the highest level of competition a women can defeat a man (car driving) it is not a sport.
If any athletic activity meets one of these two criteria it is not a sport.
1. If said activity is scored via third party (ice skating, cheerleading,..etc.) it is not a sport.
2. If at the highest level of competition a women can defeat a man (car driving) it is not a sport.
If any athletic activity meets one of these two criteria it is not a sport.
re: "The Last Great Game"
Posted by JonShoes on 1/5/12 at 12:25 pm
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Surprised you're going to read it
Yeah, I think it may be hard to read a few of the chapters. Just looking at some of the pictures in the prologue make me cringe. But, I am not only a huge Kentucky fan, I'm also a huge college basketball fan. So, stories like these give me a greater appreciation of the game.
"The Last Great Game"
Posted by JonShoes on 1/5/12 at 12:18 pm
Today was the release date for Gene Wojciechowski's "The Last Great Game." I've already got my copy and am excited to start reading. It's about the 1992 Duke-Kentucky game and the events leading up to the game. I was curious if anyone else was going to pick this up or had any thoughts?
:cheers:
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re: Post All Avatar Pic Requests Here
Posted by JonShoes on 12/26/11 at 11:19 pm
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re: Current SEC RPI
Posted by JonShoes on 12/26/11 at 8:35 pm
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We have beaten Arizona, Texas A&M, and West Virginia and play Baylor Wednesday.
The RPI is older than the CD player and it is clearly showing its age. It must die. 75% of its formula depends on what other teams do, and not how a team performs. It's painfully awful.
re: Most over rated teams in College Basketball right now?
Posted by JonShoes on 12/23/11 at 11:34 pm
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I am not saying they go out in the 1st or 2nd rounds but they don't have good enough guard play for a NC this year. Book it
Based off of what? Do you have anything to back that up or are you just throwing shite at the wall and hoping it sticks?
re: Most over rated teams in College Basketball right now?
Posted by JonShoes on 12/23/11 at 10:43 pm
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UK will go down early in the tourney - they don't have solid guard play even with the talent they have. The NCAA tourney is all about solid guard play. Book it
100% False.
A Calipari coached team that does not turn the ball over will always advance far in the tournament. Unlike you I'll provide some evidence.
Memphis 2008 Turnover rate 16.5 D1 avg. 20.9
Kentucky 2011 Turnover rate 16.1 D1 avg. 20.1
Kentucky 2012 Turnover rate 17.4 D1 avg. 21.2
For perspective 2010 Kentucky turned the ball over at a 20.3% clip while the D1 avg. was 20.4%.
So to say we currently don't have good guard play is absurd.
re: Future SEC Basketball Tourney host Hypothetcally
Posted by JonShoes on 12/23/11 at 7:27 pm
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Do you get a free Caramel Empanada when UK forces 15 or more turnovers?
No, but we do get a free Taco Bell taco with more than 6 three's.
re: Doug McDermott from Creighton, is he this year's Jimmer/Morrison?
Posted by JonShoes on 12/21/11 at 10:36 pm
If you want to use offensive ratings it's not even close.
Barnes: 105.7 ORate, 26% of poss, 28.4% of shots taken
McDermott: 126.7 ORate, 29.4% of poss, 37.3% of shots taken
Granted, Barnes is surrounded with greater talent so he doesn't have to carry the workload like McDermott does, but it is surprising to see just how wide the gap is on offense between the two.
Barnes: 105.7 ORate, 26% of poss, 28.4% of shots taken
McDermott: 126.7 ORate, 29.4% of poss, 37.3% of shots taken
Granted, Barnes is surrounded with greater talent so he doesn't have to carry the workload like McDermott does, but it is surprising to see just how wide the gap is on offense between the two.
re: Current SEC RPI
Posted by JonShoes on 12/20/11 at 12:00 pm
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That's retarded.
I agree 100%
That is why I enjoy the KenPom ratings so much, it tells you exactly how well you are performing at any given time.
re: Current SEC RPI
Posted by JonShoes on 12/20/11 at 10:07 am
re: Current SEC RPI
Posted by JonShoes on 12/20/11 at 9:45 am
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I wonder how different ours would look if we were 12-0
If you're talking about the KenPom ratings about the same, it looks at how you played, not if you won or lost.
re: Current SEC RPI
Posted by JonShoes on 12/20/11 at 9:42 am
I think that the RPI needs to be taken out of the formula for determining NCAA tournament teams. It was a system developed in the 80's and it is clearly showing its age now with all of the modern systems of analytics available.
My biggest problem with the system is that it does not tell you how good a team actually is, because it doesn't take margin of victory into account. Why should a 1 point victory at home over an awful team be worth the same as a 10 point win on the road over a good team? Sure, each win is only worth one win, but it does not tell you how well a team played.
Here's how the PRI is calculated. Only 25 percent of the formula comes from how you perform. 50 percent comes from your opponents records. And the final 25 percent comes from your opponents opponents' records. So a very bad team could have a great RPI because of the actions of their opponents, and not because of their skill level. This is another major problem with the RPI the good can be rewarded for playing the bad and vice-versa. So the best team in the country isn't the best because its opponents arn't the best? That seems pretty unfair to me.
In short death to the RPI!
My biggest problem with the system is that it does not tell you how good a team actually is, because it doesn't take margin of victory into account. Why should a 1 point victory at home over an awful team be worth the same as a 10 point win on the road over a good team? Sure, each win is only worth one win, but it does not tell you how well a team played.
Here's how the PRI is calculated. Only 25 percent of the formula comes from how you perform. 50 percent comes from your opponents records. And the final 25 percent comes from your opponents opponents' records. So a very bad team could have a great RPI because of the actions of their opponents, and not because of their skill level. This is another major problem with the RPI the good can be rewarded for playing the bad and vice-versa. So the best team in the country isn't the best because its opponents arn't the best? That seems pretty unfair to me.
In short death to the RPI!
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