Who do you guys use for ncaa basketball power rankings?

[ThePhenom00]

also what preseason magazine do you recommend?


Thanks alot

[rise]

i use statfox and sportstrends power rankings best book or mag for ncaa basketball blue ribbon get it from gamblers book club the best buy far

[IrishTim]

As Justin and others will surely tell you, there is no one set of rankings that is going to make you money. You will need to use a combination of them combined with your own input.

[20Four7]

Why are you using a magazine that goes to every loser in the world..... there are plenty of internet resources. If your tailing a magazine your almost guaranteed to lose.

A lot of times I research this and come up with a "rating" then as the season progresses "I" adjust the rating to reflect the play. If you do not do any work you will not win.

[LT Profits]

Pomeroy after January 1.

http://kenpom.com

[iceminers26]

Internet and USA Today

[skrtelfan]

Blue Ribbon is an excellent magazine.

[TPowell]

Pomeroy is GREAT because it tells a team's pace (tempo) and efficiency. I honestly have my own power rankings that I update nightly

[Wrecktangle]

Generate my own...when I do it.

[filter15]

no mag

[gLonghorn]

Blue Ribbon gives you the background on every team that everyone should already know. You can assume that what you read in there is baked into every line. Consider it the base level of knowledge that you should have before capping any college hoops.

Kenpom is great. Like somebody else pointed out above (and he will readily tell you) his ratings get better after conference play begins and the schedules start to normalize.

Most all of the ratings have a hard time normalizing for the small sample sets and strength of schedule variances early in the season.

For what it's worth, i find bbstate to be a useful resource for college hoops data in general (not for ratings specifically) - although the site is sometimes janky with broken links or data load issues.