Another week of exciting games leads to the results that indicate that the SEC West is producing the best teams in the country. This is also the week that we are seeing that most teams …
NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 10
With the end of the season coming up in about a month, we see that almost anything could happen in the NCAA football playoff. There were few upsets this week (Georgia, Arizona) and as a …
NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 9
We have another week of NCAA playoff forecasts. This weekend’s games included some exciting outcomes and upsets like the Illinois/Minnesota game. We noticed that these results shook things up in our model. With Minnesota’s loss …
NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 8
This project is a tool created by a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering for forecasting the first four team NCAA football playoff using Monte Carlo simulation and data analytics. I am …
coming soon: NCAA football playoff analytics
Welcome to the bracketology sports analytics team from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our first research project is a tool for forecasting the first four team NCAA football playoff …