The best rankings system?

By Scott Wolf on March 3, 2008 1:19 AM | | Comments (1) |

Everyone seems to have computer formula these days. But some systems engineer professors at Georgia Tech claim their system ``consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than . . . even the tournament seeds themselves.''
The LRMC methord says it was right 55-65 percent of the time in games where picked different winners than other computer formulas. LRMC says it correctly identified an underseeded potential Final Four team in five of the last seven seasons by ranking them in the LRMC Top 10.
Here's the link, with USC currently ranked 20th.
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jsokol/lrmc/lrmc.sort0.html

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SECTION 12 ROW 52 said:

If these computer geeks had their way, instead of actually having the schools play, they would hold a Video Game Tournament. Call it Megabit Madness.

March 3, 2008 10:30 AM

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Scott Wolf has covered USC for the Daily News since 1996. A USC graduate, he covered his first Trojan game in 1984 for the Daily Trojan. Scott is known as the "scourge of the Internet message boards," according to radio host Petros Papadakis. Despite this moniker, there's no truth to the rumor he takes pleasure in antagonizing the "Internet geeks."

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