Can a computer model correctly predict the results of the first round in this year’s tournament? These mathematicians think so.
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Every March, millions of Americans watch the NCAA’s annual college basketball tournament, while millions more fill in brackets to win their office pool.
A basketball computer program simulates millions of trajectories in search of the ideal shot.
For 30 years, sports fans have been told to forget about streaks because the ‘hot hand’ is a fallacy. But a reanalysis says not so fast: Statistics show players really are in the zone sometimes.
March Mammal Madness, a tournament of imaginary contests between pairs of mammals, makes science irreverent and fun. The event has thousands of fans and is used in hundreds of classrooms.
You want to pick the ‘favorites,’ to get accuracy points. But you also want to pick some ‘underdogs,’ to set yourself apart from the pack. Somewhere in the middle is an optimal solution.
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is a huge money-maker, but you wouldn’t know it from the coverage on TV.
Simply filling out a bracket – even with random or uninformed choices – is enough to boost your confidence in success, and to get you to put more money on the line.
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Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Ph.D Candidate in Mathematics, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Louis University
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Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University
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Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Business Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Economics, Washington State University
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dominican University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad de Alicante