Odds are, seedings don't matter after Sweet 16, professor says
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 11:49
in Mathematics & Economics
For budding "bracketologists" busily weighing picks for their annual March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois professor has some advice on how to pick winners: In the later rounds of the tournament, ignore a team's seeding, which is a statistically insignificant predictor of a team's chances of winning.