Bracketology Algorithms
For BDPA Member college hoop enthusiasts who are filling out their brackets for this month’s madness, The Power Rank’s data may provide some helpful statistics and predictions.
- Here are the season's data → https://kenpom.com/
- Here are the predictions → https://thepowerrank.com/ncaa-tournament-predictions/
San Antonio, TX—Back in the day shortly after the turn of the century, Ed Feng was a Ph.D. student at Stanford studying chemical engineering. At the time, he never thought that his research on the dynamics of liquids using statistical physics would one day lead to an algorithm that ranks sports teams, today.
More than a decade later, Dr. Feng manages a website, The Power Rank, devoted to sports analytics based on statistical physics which works much in the same manner as Google’s PageRank algorithms work for ranking websites.