The Science behind March Madness

Bracketodds, one of many sites which are using basketball “big data” to generate, well predictive analytics.

“Welcome to bracketodds.cs.illinois.edu, a website to evaluate seed distributions in the later rounds of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, commonly referred to as March Madness. This tool uses principles from probability theory and operations research to model the likelihood that a set of seeds will reach a particular round of the tournament. The analytics behind this tool can be found in an article that appeared in the journal, OMEGA”

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