I, for one, wake up every morning with joy in my heart that I am not a K-State fan.
Bracketology- Joe Lunardi
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I, for one, wake up every morning with joy in my heart that I am not a K-State fan.
Interesting. I often find myself rooting for Iowa State, particularly when they play faux birds of any species.
Clicking randomly on a few on bracketmatrix: "T-Rank", "Bama", "TMRD" all say they are predictive. "Brad" says specifically that he isn't predictive and a snapshot. I'd estimate maybe a 1/3 of the ones I clicked on were predictive.
A lot of the automated bracketology sites (which usually just give seeds, not a bracket, to be fair) project team's records going forward and seed on that.
They usually do not do the "if it started today" stuff that humans making brackets do.
You could theoretically program in the rules the bracket makers have to use (such as avoiding repeating conference foes or rematches until the Sweet Sixteen and the like) and have a machine do it, as well as try to approximate their "intuition" about certain things like trying to solve for the least possible travel distance within those parameters, but I have not seen it.
Sounds like a fun project, though...
I'm amazed that they pay that dude money for the brackets he puts up. Lunardi is slightly better but is still not that good at it.
Me, CoKane, and 500 will do a better one for 1/10 of the price they pay Palm. Win-win for us and CBS.
Cool. I've never dove into the non-mainstream ones. I actually don't care for bracketology. At least beyond seeds.
Lunardi is at least okay when being interviewed. Watching Palm on camera is rough
There could be some in Matrix that are prediction-based, but my assumption is that isn't common.
IIRC, at one time Palm's brackets were presented as predictive. He dropped that approach not long after I was aware he was doing bracket projections.
To give benefit-of-doubt to Lunardi, considered a bracketology pioneer, he has a LOT more competition than he did 15 or 20 years ago. He's probably as accurate as he ever was, but (a) countless, knowledgeable CBB followers can read the tea leaves as well or better (b) JL and other high-profile bracketeers post more frequent updates compared to early-digital years and the brackets are more widely viewed and scrutinized.
Having said that, Iowa State currently is closer to a 4 seed than a 5..
Having said that, Iowa State currently is closer to a 4 seed than a 5..
Are we still really calling the K-State and Baylor losses "head-scratching"?
Current standings has the Big 12's top teams as 1. K-State; 2. ISU (game back in the loss column); 3. Baylor (full game back).
Yeah, it sucks we lost to K-State and Baylor, nor should we have really lost to either, but at this point in the season I think we can quit with the narrative of "head-scratching" - K-State and Baylor are good teams.
