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…
7 steps to win your office March Madness bracket contest
According to the American Gaming Association, more than 40 million Americans fill out an NCAA tournament bracket each year, blowing through more than $2 billion in the process. While the…
March Madness: Research shows analytics get the better of the selection committee
Ah, it's Selection Sunday! Tonight at 6 p.m. ET, the NCAA tournament field will be revealed, and while the selection committee generally does a solid job, there are occasionally a…