Year End Rankings

I'm not really into ranking teams that much (because match-ups depend on many more factors), but I came up with a new (and I think better) rating system today and here's how it ranks the Top Twenty:

Rank	Team	Rating
1	North Carolina	131.6
2	Kansas	129.6
3	Michigan State	126.9
4	West Virginia	125.3
5	Virginia	117.9
6	Villanova	114.9
7	Oregon	112.1
8	Xavier	110.4
9	Purdue	109.3
10	Louisville	108.9
11	Arizona	106.1
12	Duke	105.4
13	Kentucky	105.2
14	SMU	104.0
15	Indiana	103.9
16	Oklahoma	103.7
17	Miami Florida	99.9
18	Maryland	97.9
19	Baylor	97.7
20	Wichita State	97.4

I'm not entirely sure what I think of this.  The top of the rankings isn't too surprising, although I think most folks wouldn't have UNC ahead of Kansas and MSU.  Oklahoma is much lower than the #2 seed they received.  Wichita State is also a surprise at 20 -- although they seem to be handling Vanderbilt tonight so maybe there's something to that.

And I guess you could conclude that it's a bad year for Louisville and SMU to be on probation -- they were both very solid this year.