Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge

Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by tlrobinson on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @08:04PM (#520863)

Any suggestions on where we can get relevant data to feed to our algorithm? (preferably in a machine readable format. I'd rather not scrape ESPN.com or something)

Also, the password to the jottit page you link to isn't "hackernews" like it says.

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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by te_platt on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @12:19AM (#521182)

I've been following my own algorithm for ranking teams since the start of the NBA season. USA Today has the best computer readable format that I could find.

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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by jraines on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @08:10PM (#520868)

password should be fixed.

I haven't found a great site for scrapable stats. I'm using http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/stats which is at least a step up from ESPN's stats.

If anyone has a better source, I'd be very interested as well. And if anyone wants to create one -- I guarantee it will make money from sports touts, especially if you niche down to one sport and charge less than statfox.com

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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by jackowayed on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @08:17PM (#520877)

pass still isn't working for me.

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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by jraines on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @08:21PM (#520879)

OK - it's open for anyone now. If not, I've tried again to make the password hackernews

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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by jackowayed on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @08:29PM (#520889)

nope. maybe jottit is working off of a stale pass or something?

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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by jraines on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @08:44PM (#520906)

OK - screw jottit then. It's set to 'anyone can view and edit' and i've changed the password to hackernews like 5 times.

Can someone recommend a similar site?

In the meantime -- don't even worry about posting the algorithm. If your bracket starts to kick ass, just email me with your description or a link to your personal blog post about it, and we'll have a writeup of the top performers. Or -- easiest solution yet -- just post it as a message in the Yahoo! group.

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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by samueladam on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @07:11AM (#521487)

http://couch.it/

Built on CouchDB by the way.

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