Here are where the Sweet 16 teams were ranked on Selection Sunday in my composite rankings, creating by combining several ranking methods: 1 Villanova 4 Purdue 5 Kansas 7 Duke 8 Gonzaga 11 Michigan 12 …
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NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, February 26, 2018
Here are my composite Markov chain rankings for February 26, 2018. The full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. Michigan St Villanova Virginia Purdue Cincinnati Duke Kansas Auburn Xavier Gonzaga North Carolina Wichita St …
College Football Playoff forecast: October 29, 2017
Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: 1 Georgia 2 Notre Dame 3 Penn St 4 Wisconsin 5 Alabama 6 Clemson …
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, January 16, 2017
Here are this week’s rankings. The full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. 1 UCLA 2 Villanova 3 Gonzaga 4 Kentucky 5 North Carolina 6 Florida St 7 Kansas 8 Creighton 9 West Virginia …
Badger Bracketology tips on WISC-TV Live at Four
Watch me on WISC-TV (CBS) Live at Four on 3/15/2016 I had a wonderful time on Live at Four talking about bracketology. Kudos to Susan Siman and Mark Koehn as well as producer Steve Koehn for making everything …
Two minute bracketology: Laura Albert McLay talks about bracketology and March Madness
The University Communications group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked me to film a short video about bracketology, math (what is a Markov chain?), and what we can learn from bring math into bracketology. It was …
what Badger Bracketology is reading
We love the New York Times Fourth Down bot! Here is an article about its updated methodology for analyzing NFL fourth down decisions. Regression to the mean or reversion to the mean? It’s more likely …