March Madness: Bracket seedings irrelevant after Sweet Sixteen round

Monday, March 15, 2010 - 17:14 in Mathematics & Economics

For the average college basketball fan looking for an edge in a March Madness office pool, an 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.

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