![]() ![]() The kPOY is not meant to predict who will win the Naismith or Wooden awards. So in the kPOY, the top ten players will be revealed. I suppose you could say the all-American teams accomplish that, but to me it’s not the same. I don’t know of a college player of the year award that does that. The thing I like most about the Heisman has nothing to do with the award itself, but that after the trophy has been awarded, a list of the top ten vote-getters is released which provides a who’s who for the sport. I will also admit I got a bit of inspiration from the Heisman Trophy. We don’t want Vlad Moldoveanu winning this thing! There’s enough team influence such that it’s hard to win the award if your team is not in the top ten and nearly impossible if it’s not in the top 20. This where the more subjective part comes into play, and I have thrown in a dash of team strength based on my ratings. It’s also important that the player is contributing to some sort of team success. Valuing minutes in this way accounts for a player’s value relative to his teammates, but this isn’t exactly what we’d like to know. But the work on the preseason ratings indicates that the “stops method” is better than ignoring defense altogether, and that’s a start. The drawback is that it’s difficult to measure defensive value. The beauty of this method is that both the offensive and defensive value of a player are captured in a way that correlates with team improvement. ![]() On defense, I used the proportion of his team’s Dean Oliver-formulated stops that he was responsible for. On offense, I used a combination a player’s offensive rating and his possessions used, which was valued relative to his team’s offensive rating. To refresh: In order to determine the impact of departing players, a player’s minutes were weighted by the amount of value they provided to the team. I’ve taken the work that I did to produce pre-season ratings and applied it here. Of course, it’s not completely objective – nothing is – but my intentions are pure. In the effort to produce something more objective than currently exists, I’m introducing the first annual kenpom Player of the Year. That premise is the basis for this site, and it’s also the basis for America’s newest player of the year award. And I don’t like trusting The Man to tell me what I’ve missed, because The Man is missing stuff, too. The only frustration of following college hoops is that it’s impossible to follow everything. Introducing the kPOY Ken Pomeroy | 12.15.10 ![]()
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