Category: NCAA
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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…
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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…
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An email from a friend of mine: …they have a new “sliding scale” thing for their polls. One question was: “How many of the double digits seeds that won (on Thurs/Friday) will make the Sweet 16?” On one end of the scale was “none” on the other “5 or more”. Seems straightforward enough. Their sliding scale had…
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Measuring The Madness: 2012 Tournament Off To Craziest Start Ever Cheers.
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Stat Geek Idol Sweet Sixteen Cheers.
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Alright. It’s noon on Thursday. You’ve still got 40 minutes until the games start. Here are some of my final thoughts before the tournament starts. Generally, I think the tournament committee did a great job seeding these teams this year. Unfortunately, that also means that we’re probably not going to see anything too crazy like…
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An interesting post from BioPhysEngr Blog: EigenBracket 2012: Using Graph Theory to Predict NCAA March Madness Basketball Cheers.
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Predicting the Sweet 16 using a classification tree Cheers.
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Full blog post over at TeamRankings.com. Cheers.
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