It’s championship week in men’s college basketball, the last chance for schools to make an impression on the selection committee before the NCAA tournament field is announced Sunday evening. If you’re a bubble team, you’re hoping a strong showing in your conference tournament can persuade the committee to put extra weight on those games, perhaps […]
My colleague Carl Bialik and I wrote last week about the chances that the University of Kentucky’s basketball team would finish the 2014-15 season undefeated. At the time, the Wildcats were 27-0; they still needed to navigate past their four remaining regular-season foes, three opponents in the SEC tournament and six in the NCAA tournament […]
My colleague Carl Bialik and I wrote last week about the chances that the University of Kentucky’s basketball team would finish the 2014-15 season undefeated. At the time, the Wildcats were 27-0; they still needed to navigate past their four remaining regular-season foes, three opponents in the SEC tournament and six in the NCAA tournament […]
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 […]
