Due to a cease and desist letter sent to us by the attorneys for this organization and this network we have changed the name of this feature to Experimental March Insanity. Here's a brief recap of the project for those of you who are too lazy to scroll down half a page and read the previous post: we are using methods other than the traditional "gut feeling" to pick our basketball tournament brackets.
The results so far: picking by higher seeds has been highly effective in this year of no Cinderellas, picking 14 of 16 Sweet Sixteen teams correctly. Sorry Arizona, you don't count. Cinderella can't be a team that has won a championship in the last 15 years.
Choosing based on RPI has been unsuprisingly effective as well, correctly selecting 12 of 16 Sweet Sixteen teams. Coming in at third place thus far is selections based on the corresponding women's teams RPI ranking, with 9 of 16 correct selections.
Bringing up the rear is the method selecting the universities with the most recent founding dates, with only 1 of 16 teams correct and 0 possible points remaining.
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