Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics (ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society)

by TomAdams (Author), WilliamThomasAdams (Author)

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  2019

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  The NCAA(R) Men's Division I Basketball Championship takes place each spring in the United States. Bracket pools based on this tournament have become a popular pasttime. A bracket involves the participant predicting the outcome of each game in the tournament, and those predictions are compared against others in the pool to determine a winner. In recent years, statistical methods have been used to develop strategies for optimizing predictions in a bracket pool. This book looks at the history of the pool, and runs through various techniques, based on quite sophisticated statistical methodology, for choosing a strategy to win your bracket pool.