Mapping out the road to the Frozen Four
The puck drops Thursday on the 2023 NCAA hockey tournament at four regional sites. All roads lead to Tampa, Fla., site of the Frozen Four on April 6-8. Log5 is…
Basketball on a budget: In search of cheap wins
Don’t get us wrong. Traditional bracket contests like the ones that are ubiquitous throughout American office life are fine. But derivative tournament contests can be really clever in their designs…
Forecasting each round of the NCAA tournament with Log5
Let's take a shot at forecasting the probabilities for teams to reach various rounds of the 2023 NCAA tournament. Log5 is a method of estimating the probability that team A…
Connor McDavid is having a season for the ages
Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid has made headlines this season for piling up points at a pace not seen in the NHL since the mid-1990s. At the time of this…