Tag Archives: NCAA

The 2010 College Football Attendance Rankings

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

By Alex Koenig Earlier in the week I looked at trends in college football attendance, assessing the effect of a variety of factors on fan attendance from 2008 to 2010. Trends may be more telling than individual cases, but in … Continue reading →

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Butler and Its Home-Court Advantage

Posted on March 30, 2010 by

By Jake Fisher This Saturday, two No. 5 seeds, Butler and Michigan State, will kick off Final Four weekend. Butler, the Cinderella out of the Horizon League, is on a 24-game winning streak. Michigan State has beaten the odds as … Continue reading →

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In Which an Infinite Number of Monkeys Brag About Picking Northern Iowa

Posted on March 24, 2010 by

By David Roher There are over nine quintillion ways to fill out your bracket, and over four hundred trillion ways to predict the first two rounds alone. Based on the craziness of the first four days of the tournament, I … Continue reading →

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Predicting NCAA Tournament Upsets: Favorite Vulnerability

Posted on March 17, 2010 by

By John Ezekowitz On Tuesday, I looked at predicting upsets in the NCAA Tournament. Today I’m looking at which favorites are vulnerable to upsets. Again, I created a database of NCAA Tournament favorites’ tempo-free stat profiles using KenPom.com’s invaluable data.  … Continue reading →

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March Madness for (Statistically Inclined) Dummies

Posted on March 16, 2010 by

Author note: This article originally appeared on the old HSAC blog around this time last year, back when I was a wee freshman (I am now a no-less-wee sophomore). But because that blog has been lost to the ages, and … Continue reading →

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Predicting NCAA Tournament Upsets: The Underdogs

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

By John Ezekowitz A few weeks ago, when I started analyzing the effects of tempo on NCAA Tournament upsets, I got a crazy idea: what if I could find a model that would predict factors of successful underdogs? I’ve always … Continue reading →

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