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Multi-Regional Topics / D3 Basketball Ranking System
November 14, 2011, 11:41:22 PM
So, the season is finally upon us.  Over the summer, I developed a basketball ranking system similar to Ken Massey's rankings.  I've made some adjustments to his ideas.  The biggest difference is that while Massey takes into account all games across all divisions, my system only includes games between Division III teams.  By replaying last year's season day-by-day, my system predicted the winner of roughly 74% of the games.

I hope to have at least weekly ratings, which I will link to from the boards.  I have a basic website setup.  Right now, all that is there is an explanation of the system, last year's final top 50, and to hopefully get some excitement for the season upcoming season, I've posted estimated margins-of-victory for tomorrow's games (Note: these are estimated basically by using last year's final rankings, thus they will be much less accurate until a sufficient number of games are played).

This was just a little fun experiment to better understand ranking systems but I figured the results from last year were pretty good so why not share it with others that might be interested.  Let me know if you have questions...below is the link:

https://sites.google.com/site/d3basketballindex/