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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by aneesh on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @03:40AM (#521349)
That's probably the best strategy without putting much effort, but I bet some enterprising HN user will come up with a more complex strategy that has a higher expected value.
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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by yters on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @06:57PM (#522498)
Just do principal component analysis on past data. That'll give the best predictors (based on linear regression) based on the past.
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Re:Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge by aneesh on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @08:52PM (#522637)
The hardest part of that is actually finding all the relevant historical data & getting it into a good form. Anyway, I'm not about to spend hours on picking a bracket, so I'll leave that to someone else.
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