Expert: Bracket seedings irrelevant after Sweet Sixteen round
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 16:28
in Mathematics & Economics
For the average college basketball fan looking for an edge in a March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois expert in statistics and data analysis has some advice on how to pick winners: After the Sweet Sixteen round of play, ignore a team's seeding, which is a statistically insignificant predictor of a team's chances of winning.