Massey Ratings

[Boreifs]

The link to the Massey WBB rankings.

Massey Ratings - College Basketball Women's : NCAA D1 Ratings

Computer ratings and rankings for CBW (College Basketball Women's), with links to team predictions, scores, and schedules.

masseyratings.com

It is my understanding that Massey does not accurately reflect the current season until after 10 games have been played.

 

[FanFromMaine]

It is my understanding that Massey does not accurately reflect the current season until after 10 games have been played.

Put another way, Massey works best after at least 10 games are played.

 

[Glenn]

It is my understanding that Massey does not accurately reflect the current season until after 10 games have been played.

Yes. These rankings are based entirely on last year's results. You need 5 to 10 games to have enough data to do a decent ranking because you need to compate your results to other teams who have played the same caliber of teams. And it takes more games if your schedule has a lot of cupcakes

 

[stamfordhusky]

Pretty sure Massey ratings require fresh games to change, and the ratings in the first month of the season are still reflecting some of the previous year's data.

Early Massey ratings not only used data from the previous year, but also from at least one year before that.

 

[stamfordhusky]

I can’t find a KenPom for women. Does it exist?

No.

 

[uconnfan68]

I can’t find a KenPom for women. Does it exist?

It’s BarbiePom.

 

[Skeets]

DD, you just exposed one of the major flaws with metric based rating systems. Such systems do not know just from analyzing the numbers that a team is preparing to go into the toilet, or ready to explode as UConn did in the latter half of the season. I think at best these ratings can give some insight into teams that you know very little about, not the teams that you are intimately familiar with. For those teams eyeballs work the best.

I'd just like to add that UConn was like a muscle car sitting at a red light revving its engine in a menacing way. You just knew what was going to happen when the light turns green. No way can you capture that with a metrics-based rating system, but you have a shot to capture it with your eyeballs.