Score another one for pre-season ratings
by Ken Pomeroy on Sunday, March 25, 2012
If you’re into the twitter scene like I am, you’ve noticed Gary Parrish tweeting after each round where the remaining teams were ranked in his pre-season top 25 (and one). That got me to thinking about the old issue of the pre-season poll versus the final poll. It’s been another good year for pre-season polls. The AP version had the Final Four teams ranked 2, 3, 9, and 13. (Is this really that good? I don’t know.) As you might suspect, after a full season’s worth of data, the voters were arguably worse, ranking the eventual Final Four teams at 1, 6, 7, and 17 in the pre-tournament poll.
I’m not here to bash the AP voters for their late-season work. I’ve done that before and I hate repeating myself. I’m really here to support pre-season…