Sports analytics from Laura Albert at the College of Engineering
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 7 Ohio St 8 Virginia Tech 9 Miami FL 10 Michigan St If you are interested in the rankings (the …
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 10 Notre Dame 11 Baylor 12 Duke 13 Butler 14 Arizona 15 Louisville 16 Purdue 17 SMU 18 Oregon 19 …
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 so easy. The news moves fast! See Punk Rock Operations Research for more thoughts.
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 a wonderful experience, and I’m thrilled with the final product. I can’t take credit — the video was produced by Justin …
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 the latter. Michael Lopez explains. Wayne Winston has a coursera course on sports analytics. What is the percentage chance a …