AAC and new Big East - power conference or mid-major

[KnightBridgeAZ]

And in terms of looking at teams individually, record against the top 25 and top 50 are of interest. The quantity of games is indicative at a quick glance of how many tough games a team played, and - if you played a lot and lost them all, meh.

Sure it is tougher to have beaten UConn than Louisville or whoever, but that doesn't mean that beating Louisville, Baylor and Tennessee while losing to UConn - with a 3-1 record against the top 25 is a bad thing.

 

[Big UConn]

There are definitely problems with using the mode for this analysis. In fact, I have no idea why this measure of central tendency was chosen by the author. If he was worried about outliers affecting his analysis, he could have used the median instead. But in the example you provided, the mode (defined as the most common value in the data set) of both conference A and conference B is 1. (Conference A has 8 ones and 2 twos --> mode of 1, while Conference B has 2 ones and one of everything else --> mode of 1.)

The median would have better revealed the differences between the conferences. The middle value of Conference A was 1, while the middle value of Conference B was 4.5, as (4 +5)/2=4.5

Good example. A weighted mean would be even better, since it would take into consideration how many teams are in each conference.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

There are definitely problems with using the mode for this analysis. In fact, I have no idea why this measure of central tendency was chosen by the author. If he was worried about outliers affecting his analysis, he could have used the median instead. But in the example you provided, the mode (defined as the most common value in the data set) of both conference A and conference B is 1. (Conference A has 8 ones and 2 twos --> mode of 1, while Conference B has 2 ones and one of everything else --> mode of 1.)

The median would have better revealed the differences between the conferences. The middle value of Conference A was 1, while the middle value of Conference B was 4.5, as (4 +5)/2=4.5

You are absolutely correct, Choke. Each distribution has a mode of 1. In my mind, as I constructed my post, the twos were where the ones were and vice versa.