Category: Basketball
-
First Round Winners South Alabama Maryland San Diego St Virginia Creighton Baylor Utah St Arizona East Purdue Memphis Duke Tennessee Providence Kansas St Michigan St Marquette Midwest Houston Iowa Miami (FL) Indiana Iowa St Xavier Penn St Texas West Kansas Illinois St. Mary’s UConn TCU Gonzaga Northwestern UCLA Sweet Sixteen South Alabama San Diego St…
-
I saw a talk at JSM where I was introduced to a fun new (well, new to me) game to play during the NCAA tournament. First, teams are assigned a price based on their seed. This can be done in many ways, but it was set in the talk that the one seeds cost 25…
-
The Best Shooters In The NBA, And Why Field Goal Percentage Can’t Identify Them Cheers.
-
After the craziest start to the NCAA tournament in 20+ years, the madness has died down a bit. The Elite will feature three number 1 seeds, two number 2 seeds, a 3, 4, and a 7. Cheers.
-
Rankings as of 2:18pm on 3/21/2012. Sagarin Ratings for games though 3/21/2012. AP rankings from 3/12/2012. In case anyone is interested, here are my rankings after the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. * indicates the team is in the Sweet Sixteen. Three teams are in the Sweet Sixteen that are not in my…
-
My first round entry in the Stat Geek Idol contest was about using decision trees to predict teams that would make it to the Sweet Sixteen. Now that we are down to sixteen teams remaining in the tournament, let’s review how the model performed. Let’s start out with what I consider to be the most impressive…
-
The first round of this NCAA tournament was the craziest dating back to 1990, and through two round (I don’t acknowledge the First Four as a round) this is the second craziest tournament over the same time period behind only 1996. 1996 featured a 12 seed in the sweet sixteen as well as a 1…
Stats in the Wild 