Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Louisville 4 Clemson 5 Ohio State 6 Western Michigan 7 Washington 8 Nebraska 9 Tennessee 10 Boise State 11 Texas A+M 12 Colorado …
NCAA college football rankings: October 17, 2016
Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Clemson 4 Ohio State 5 Western Michigan 6 Texas A+M 7 Louisville 8 Washington 9 Nebraska 10 Boise State 11 Tennessee 12 Florida …
NCAA college football rankings: October 10, 2016
Here are our new college football rankings. These are current rankings. Another week’s worth of data has helped our rankings look better, and in a week or two we will start to forecast the rest …
NCAA college football rankings: October 3, 2016
We are kicking off our college football rankings a bit earlier this year, although we don’t really have enough completed games to use as input to our math model, and therefore some of the teams …
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, April 4, 2016 (final!)
Here are our final rankings. UNC just edged out Villanova for final first place finish. The full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. Wisconsin finished 30th, which was their highest rank at any point …
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 …
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, March 13, 2016 (Selection Sunday!)
Here are the new men’s NCAA basketball rankings as of March 13, 2016. I have the Top 25 below; the full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. North Carolina Kansas Villanova Michigan St …
NCAA men’s Division I basketball rankings, March 7, 2016
Here are the new men’s NCAA basketball rankings as of March 7, 2016. I have the Top 25 below; the full ranking is under the “NCAA BB rankings” tab. Kansas Villanova North Carolina Michigan St …
hear a talk about Badger Bracketology on 3/1 @ 12:05 at UW-Madison
I will be giving a talk tomorrow on bracketology. Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar: Tuesday, March 1 12:05-1:00 p.m. 4274 Chamberlin Hall, How to rank sports teams and forecast game outcomes using math models. Laura …