{"57638":{"#nid":"57638","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bracket Tips at the 11th Hour","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUSA Today Blog\u003C\/em\u003E - March 15, 2007\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo more fretting. No more over-analyzing that 8-9 game. Quit trying to figure out which 12 will be a 5. Just fill out that bracket. Here\u0027s a couple of things to remember. While it\u0027s nice to brag about pick that upset in the 12-5, 11-6, 13-4 games, those lower seeds rarely make it beyond the Sweet 16. The teams in the Sweet 16 and beyond are generally the higher seeded teams. So pick upsets carefully. You\u0027ll lose valuable points in your pool if you pick Albany to beat Virginia, and Virginia reaches the final eight.  But if you\u0027re really procrastinating with your picks, three ISyE professors came up with a system called \u0022Logistic Regression\/Markov Chain Model for NCAA Basketball.\u0022 The program is \u0022designed to use only basic scoreboard data (which two teams played, whose court they played on, and (in the \u0022pure\u0022 version) what the margin of victory was).\u0022 The model is based on the research of Russian mathematician Andrey Markov. Don\u0027t scoff. The professors bring results. In the past seven NCAA tournaments, 22 of the 28 Final Four teams were ranked first or second in their region by the LRMC system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/bracketracket\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/bracketracket\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2007-03-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:32","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}