Ken Pomeroy

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Ken Pomeroy
Education B.S., Virginia Tech
M.S., University of Wyoming
Occupation College basketball statistician, blogger, columnist
Years active 2003–present
Employer US government (as a meteorologist); self-employed (as a basketball writer)
Known for KenPom ratings
Website http://kenpom.com/

Ken Pomeroy is the creator of a popular college basketball website and statistical archive, kenpom.com. His website includes his College Basketball Ratings, tempo-free statistics for every NCAA men's Division I basketball team, with archives dating back to the 2003 season, as well as a blog about current college basketball. His work on tempo-based basketball statistics is compared by many[who?] to the work of Bill James in baseball. As of the spring of 2012, Pomeroy is also an instructor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Utah.[1]

Pomeroy has written articles in The New York Times, ESPN.com, and Sports Illustrated. He was a co-author of The 2008-09 College Basketball Prospectus and has been an author for the past four years.

Pomeroy earned his undergraduate degree at Virginia Tech, and received a graduate degree in atmospheric science from Wyoming.[2] He currently resides in Salt Lake City, and after working as a meteorologist for the U.S. government, he quit that job to focus full-time on his website.[3] He previously worked with the Houston Rockets, teaming up with noted advanced statistics user, general manager Daryl Morey.[4]

Pomeroy's website has helped explain basketball on a possession by possession level. His peers have taken to calling him "Doctor Po-Po."[5] As well as maintaining and calculating a variety of statistics on his website, including tempo-free statistics, Pomeroy also maintains data on non-numeric factors such as offensive and defensive style of play.[6][7] One such measure that Pomeroy uses is called log5, a proprietary blend of data for projecting the likelihood of teams advancing in conference and national tournaments.[8] The equations for Pomeroy's log5 projections[9] were originally created by Bill James.[10]

Throughout the season, Pomeroy continually updates his KenPom ratings for all 351 Division I men's basketball programs with metrics such as offensive and defensive efficiency, tempo, and pace.[11][12] Although his site was more of a personal venture when it was founded, Pomeroy's research is used by numerous college basketball teams in an attempt to gain a competitive advantage.[7]

The accuracy of Pomeroy's rankings in predicting game outcomes has been noted by popular newspapers and blogs such as FiveThirtyEight,[13] Mediaite,[14] and The Wall Street Journal.[15]

References

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  2. The influence of topography on the California coastal jet: A case study Pomeroy, Kenneth R., Jr.. University of Wyoming, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1999. EP20595.
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