Silver Maple
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Loc: Westfield, New Jersey
Reg: 11-23-04
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01-08-18 12:01 PM - Post#242680
In response to TheLine
The question being debated here is this: are you what your record says you are (thank you Mr. Parcells) or are you what advanced statistical analysis says you are?
Penn's record has it tops in the league right now, and you can't say that's meaningless. When Donahue's boys lace up their sneakers, they're intention is not to get their KenPom rating up, it's to win the game. When we, as fans, watch the game, we have the same goal-- to win. I doubt many of us felt good about our KenPom ranking improving after losing to Lasalle (it did, right?). At the end of the season, the Ivy title and NCAA bid will go to the team(s) that had the best 14-game record and won the tournament respectively, not the ones with the highest KP rating.
OTOH, we also do place high importance on statistical analysis. So what's the purpose of that analysis? Not to tell you what happened, but to give some insight into why things seem to be happening the way they are, and to suggest what the future might look like.
This is a long-winded way of saying that, if your burger tastes great, then it IS great, at least for now. Tomorrow we might be eating scrapple.
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