As usual, I love March Madness for the Math of it.
After Day 1 (16 games), my random number generator method produced my best bracket with 15 out of 16 games correctly picked.
Method: In each game I assume that there n balls in a bag where n is the sum of the "ranks" of the two teams. So for each of the first 32 games, the value is 17. So out of these 17 balls, each team gets the other team's rank-number of balls. So in this year's contest when St. Joe's played Liberty, there were 17 "balls" in the bag and 16 of them said St. Joe's and 1 said Liberty. The random generator picked St. Joe's, who won.
This is the then repeated throughout all the games.
For the record, the random number generator picked "Stanford".
Next year, I'm going to try to make this into an downloadable Excel file so you can make your own bracket.
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