Predicting the outcome of a single sporting event is difficult; predicting all of the outcomes for
an entire tournament is a monumental challenge. Despite the difficulties, millions of people …

We consider a random knockout tournament among players 1,…, n, in which each match
involves two players. The match format is specified by the number of matches played in each …

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 …

Bracketology, the art of successfully picking all the winners in the National Collegiate
Athletic Association's (NCAA) annual men's Division I college basketball championship …

This paper uses the difference in seeding ranks to predict the outcome of March Madness
games. It updates the Boulier-Stekler method by predicting the outcomes by rounds. We also …

Each year, millions of people fill out a bracket to predict the outcome of the popular NCAA
men's college basketball tournament, known as March Madness. In this paper we present a …

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 …

The uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis suggests that, subject to a rooting-interest constraint,
fans prefer competitive sporting events with uncertain outcomes. In a logical extension of …

Twenty-four million people wager nearly $3 billion on college basketball pools each year,
but few are aware that winning strategies have been developed by researchers at Harvard …