Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: 1 Georgia 2 Alabama 3 Notre Dame 4 Wisconsin (woo hoo!) 5 Clemson 6 …
NCAA Football Rankings: November 5, 2017
Here are this week’s composite rankings. I again have Georgia at #1 and Wisconsin at #6. The Ohio State University tumbled to #14. Various rankings that I aggregate have UCF in vastly different places. I …
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 Football Rankings: October 29, 2017
Here are this week’s composite rankings. This week we have a new #1! This ranking combines several of the Markov chain based rankings I’ve worked on over the years. I post my full rankings on …
College Football Playoff forecast: October 22, 2017
Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: Alabama Georgia Penn St Notre Dame Wisconsin (my fingers are crossed!) TCU Michigan St …
NCAA Football Rankings: October 22, 2017
Here are this week’s composite rankings. This ranking combines several of the Markov chain based rankings I’ve worked on over the years. I post my full rankings on the NCAAF rankings tab every week. 1 Alabama 2 …
NCAA Football rankings: October 15, 2017
Here are this week’s composite rankings. This ranking combines several of the Markov chain based rankings I’ve worked on over the years. I post my full rankings on the NCAAF rankings tab every week. 1 Alabama 2 …
NCAA Football rankings: October 9, 2017
This year I am posting composite rankings that combine several of the Markov chain based rankings I’ve worked on over the years. I do so by wrapping a Markov chain around the rankings to identify …
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings: Final 2017 rankings
Here are my final men’s college basketball rankings. These are final after all games have been finished. I posted the full ranking under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. I’m happy to say that Wisconsin has …
The math behind March Madness
On March 14, 2017 I gave a talk about bracketology, March Madness, and the College Football Playoff in the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The talk was recorded and can be viewed …