Improving Your Ncaa(r) Bracket with Statistics

ISBN-13: 9781138597747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 183 str.

William Thomas Adams

Opis

Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics is both an easy-to-use tip sheet to improve your winning odds and an intellectual history of how statistical reasoning has been applied to the bracket pool using methods standard and innovative.

Spis treści

1. The Birth of the Pool. 2. Predicting the Tournament Outcome. 3. Ratings versus Seedings. 4. The Conquest of Pools with Upset Incentives. 5. Predicting Your Opponent's Brackets. 6. Parametric Whole-Bracket Optimization. 7. A Practical Contrarian Strategy. 8. Statistical Hypothesis Testing. 9. Psychobracketology. 10. Bracket Advice Sources. 11. Basketball Knowledge Considered Harmful