The widespread proliferation of and interest in bracket pools that accompany the National
Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Men's Basketball Tournament have created a need …

Seeding in tournaments is a process of creating a schedule based on performance in the
recent past. It is used in many athletic disciplines to ensure that particularly attractive match …

Social media has become an essential set of platforms for sport teams and organizations to
engage, interact, and connect with their fan bases. From an analytic approach to fan …

A new set of axioms and new method (equal gap seeding) are designed. The equal gap
seeding is the unique seeding that, under the deterministic domain assumption, satisfies the …

Abstract The National Collegiate Athletic Association׳ s (NCAA) men׳ s Division I college
basketball tournament is an annual competition that draws widespread attention in the …

Every March a sample of the top Division I men's basketball programs in the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) gather to compete in March Madness, a grueling …

Each year, the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament attracts popular attention,
including bracket challenges where fans seek to pick the winners of the tournament's …

We extend prior research on the at-large bid decisions of the NCAA Men's Basketball
Committee, and estimate an eight-factor probit model that would have correctly identified …

This paper provides nested sets and vector representations of knockout tournaments. The
paper introduces classification of probability domain assumptions and a new set of axioms …

Abstract The annual NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is one of the most
prominent sporting events in the United States and the subject of much interest among fans …