scacchoops.com - February 10, 2010
Every year, people ranging from the hoops diehard to the casual sports fan race to fill out their brackets following selection Sunday. Methodologies for filling out the brackets include picking based on RPI, picking based on site proximity to competing universities, and even picking based on what mascots would win in a cage fight. Professor Joel Sokol is an associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and has been an influential figure in devising a new methodology for determining the NCAA tournament brackets called simply, the "LRMC System". Read more>>>