{"id":546,"date":"2010-04-05T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/one-shining-email\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T23:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:32:38","slug":"one-shining-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/one-shining-email\/","title":{"rendered":"One shining e&#45;mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will have to stand as representative of the many e-mails that my computer received in February and March from people claiming their eyes were soooo much better. A computer has to vent, sometimes, and in light of recent events, my computer finds the subject matter especially amusing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>from\tSomebody<br \/>\nto\tratings@kenpom.com<br \/>\ndate\tTue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:42 AM<br \/>\nsubject\tSkewed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ken,<br \/>\n    I spent many years as a sportswriter for [a newspaper] and always found your ratings useful. This season, however, is proof that your instrument needs some tweaking. Any ratings that have a middling Duke team ranked 12 slots higher than Villanova and 15 slots higher than a Georgetown team which disemboweled Duke head to head needs some adjusting. I know your matrix is supposed to make conference affiliation superfluous, but the ACC REALLY stinks this season, and your system doesn\u2019t reflect what any set of eyes immediately tells us.<br \/>\n                 &#8212; Somebody<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will have to stand as representative of the many e-mails that my computer received in February and March from people claiming their eyes were soooo much better. A computer has to vent, sometimes, and in light of recent events, my computer finds the subject matter especially amusing. from Somebody to ratings@kenpom.com date Tue, Feb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}