WCC Announces Adjusted Conference Winning Percentage

SAN MATEO, Calif. – The West Coast Conference and renowned college basketball statistical analyst Ken Pomeroy have collaborated in an innovative partnership to develop a comprehensive model that will be utilized to seed the 2021 University Credit Union West Coast Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament.

The WCC regularly conducts a 16-game unbalanced men's basketball regular-season schedule and an 18-game double round-robin women's basketball regular-season schedule, seeding the conference tournament based on conference winning percentage. With interruptions in the 2020-21 college basketball season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCC will not fully complete these conference schedules, leaving some disparity in the number of conference games completed among member programs. While the goal remains to reschedule postponed contests, those opportunities are limited with the regular-season schedule concluding on Feb. 27.

The WCC partnered with Ken Pomeroy to develop a model that uses a proprietary algorithm that best reflects conference games completed and yields an adjusted conference winning percentage for each men's and women's basketball team. The adjusted conference winning percentage accounts for the strength of the opponent and the location (home/away) of the game played. The offensive and defensive efficiency metric is not utilized in the algorithm to determine a team's adjusted conference winning percentage.

With a focus on developing an evaluation tool that is the most accurate representation of conference regular season play, the WCC Presidents' Council voted to adopt the Ken Pomeroy adjusted conference winning percentage model designed for the WCC. The Conference will utilize this model to seed the men's and women's basketball tournament.

The Saint Mary's men's basketball team, who is currently 2-4 in league play, is currently seeded as the No. 4 team in the conference according to this new metric. The women's team remains in ninth place.

WCC standings MBB

Tuesday's report is the first of five that will be delivered by the Conference. The WCC will provide an updated report each Friday and Sunday over the final two weeks of the regular season. The final report, which will be the seeds for the 2021 men's and women's conference tournaments, will be unveiled on Sunday, Feb. 28.

The University Credit Union West Coast Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament will be held March 4-9 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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