Improving Your NCAA(R) Bracket with Statistics Contributor(s): Adams, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138597740 ISBN-13: 9781138597747 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Reference |
Dewey: 796.323 |
LCCN: 2018045347 |
Series: Asa-CRC Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society |
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.51 lbs) 183 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Twenty-four million people wager nearly $3 billion on college basketball pools each year, but few are aware that winning strategies have been developed by researchers at Harvard, Yale, and other universities over the past two decades. Bad advice from media sources and even our own psychological inclinations are often a bigger obstacle to winning than our pool opponents. Profit opportunities are missed and most brackets submitted to pools don't have a breakeven chance to win money before the tournament begins. Improving Your NCAA(R) Bracket with Statistics is both an easy-to-use tip sheet to improve your winning odds and an intellectual history of how statistical reasoning has been applied to the bracket pool using standard and innovative methods. It covers bracket improvement methods ranging from those that require only the information in the seeded bracket to sophisticated estimation techniques available via online simulations. Included are:
Tom Adams' work presenting bracket improvement methods has been featured in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and SmartMoney magazine. |