Every March, many people with zero affinity for college basketball fill out a bracket, lured to play by the office pool. A lot of strategies are possible. You could just pick the favorite to win each game. You could just pick schools you know of or like for non-athletic reasons — maybe make every university […]
Every March, many people with zero affinity for college basketball fill out a bracket, lured to play by the office pool. A lot of strategies are possible. You could just pick the favorite to win each game. You could just pick schools you know of or like for non-athletic reasons — maybe make every university […]
The 2015 NCAA men’s basketball tournament tips off in earnest Thursday as the round of 64 gets underway with a slate of 16 games. One of the joys of the tournament’s opening day is the sudden onslaught of wall-to-wall basketball starting around noon. But with multiple games being staged at once, it can be tough […]
The 2015 NCAA men’s basketball tournament tips off in earnest Thursday as the round of 64 gets underway with a slate of 16 games. One of the joys of the tournament’s opening day is the sudden onslaught of wall-to-wall basketball starting around noon. But with multiple games being staged at once, it can be tough […]
Despite an abundance of March Madness coverage here at FiveThirtyEight this week, fear not: we didn’t forget about NBA Power Ratings. The short version of how these numbers work: Each team is ranked according to a projection of its strength over the upcoming week — and the upcoming week only — using Real Plus-Minus (RPM) […]
