{"id":622,"date":"2007-02-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-pactenors-respond\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T11:00:00","slug":"the-pactenors-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-pactenors-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pac&#45;Tenors Respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Ken,<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed reading your recent post comparing the Pac-10 and the ACC in terms of the number of wins again Top 30 opponents (as measured by your index). You found that the ACC and Pac-10 had 13 and 5 wins, respectively. While you mention the ACC had more opportunities for wins, you didn&#8217;t mention <i>exactly<\/i> how many more opportunities. So I did some calculations:<\/p>\n<p>ACC: 12 teams with 22 total games against Top 30 teams (as of Feb. 1) with 13 wins (59% winning percentage) <br \/>\nPac-10: 10 teams with 8 total games against Top 30 teams (as of Feb. 1) with 5 wins (62.5% winning percentage).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, while I think it is fair to point out that the Pac-10 has not played as many Top 30 teams (and perhaps subjecting the conference to a &#8220;soft non-conference schedule&#8221; criticism), I don&#8217;t think it is fair to use the 13 versus 5 wins as evidence that the Pac-10 is overrated. <\/p>\n<p>I must fully acknowledge I am a big UCLA fan, so perhaps I am biased, but the above numbers are not.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I agree that the Pac-10 is probably overrated by most people, especially since the above numbers indicate that the Pac-10 is no better (but no worse) than the ACC in terms of their Top 30 winning percentage. Your larger point that the Pac-10 is just a good solid conference but not head and shoulders above the rest remains valid. I just wanted to point out that it is important to know the denominators when you are comparing numerators. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicely done, John. I like it when the readers do a little bit of legwork for me, and I think everything stated is fair.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll have the first edition of Rulebook Rewind &#8211; a scan of an old basketball rulebook to show just how the game has changed, and how it hasn&#8217;t, over the past century.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken, I enjoyed reading your recent post comparing the Pac-10 and the ACC in terms of the number of wins again Top 30 opponents (as measured by your index). You found that the ACC and Pac-10 had 13 and 5 wins, respectively. While you mention the ACC had more opportunities for wins, you didn&#8217;t mention [&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\/622"}],"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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}