Originally Posted by
SilkyJ
Love it!
I'm sure this question has been answered in the past, but how does KenPom do this in the preseason given how little (or zero) data there is? I think of the dork polls as using data/stats to backup their rankings, but no one's played any games yet! Clearly he's using stats on players/teams from the prior year, but I'm curious what sort of assumptions and leaps he's making in order to create his model.
Because his subscribers don't want to wait until mid-January to get rankings and analysis.
Sage Grouse
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