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 …
Tips for picking a winning bracket from Badger Bracketology
These tips for winning your March Madness bracket pool is reblogged from Punk Rock Operations Research. 1 Ignore RPI, use math based rankings instead to take strength of schedule into account. Ken Massey has a rankings …
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings on Selection Sunday, March 12, 2017
Here are my Selection Sunday 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 re-entered the …
Badger bracketology will be talking about March Madness on March 14!
I will be talking about bracketology, March Madness, and the College Football Playoff on Tuesday, March 14 at 7:30 pm in the H.F. Deluca Forum in the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, March 6, 2017
Here are this week’s rankings. The full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. 1 Gonzaga 2 Villanova 3 UCLA 4 Wichita St 5 Kansas 6 Kentucky 7 SMU 8 Cincinnati 9 Purdue 10 North …