Deadlines are powerful motivating forces for journalists, tax filers, eurozone negotiators — and bracket pickers. The number of men’s NCAA Tournament brackets submitted per minute by ESPN.com users peaked at 11:51 a.m. EDT on Thursday, mere minutes before the 12:15 p.m tipoff of the first-round opener and the deadline to enter picks, according to data […]
Deadlines are powerful motivating forces for journalists, tax filers, eurozone negotiators — and bracket pickers. The number of men’s NCAA Tournament brackets submitted per minute by ESPN.com users peaked at 11:51 a.m. EDT on Thursday, mere minutes before the 12:15 p.m tipoff of the first-round opener and the deadline to enter picks, according to data […]
Nearly a month ago, we launched our first interactive feature, a visualization of FiveThirtyEight’s NCAA tournament predictions. We were happy to hear that people thought it was “fun, cool.” But we were especially pleased to learn that some readers wanted the data behind the bracket to be made public: @mathisonian Hey Matthew, is the raw 538 bracket data available […]
Nearly a month ago, we launched our first interactive feature, a visualization of FiveThirtyEight’s NCAA tournament predictions. We were happy to hear that people thought it was “fun, cool.” But we were especially pleased to learn that some readers wanted the data behind the bracket to be made public: @mathisonian Hey Matthew, is the raw 538 bracket data available […]
Every year since his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama has shared his NCAA men’s college basketball tournament bracket with the public, and, for the last five years, predictions for the women’s tournament, too. As he’s chosen teams, many of them from swing states, he’s resisted the urge to play politics with his picks. Obama’s main […]
