Famed political, baseball analyst winds up picking all the 1-seeds
(NEWSER) - Nate Silver is a famed political number-cruncher, and was once a revered baseball statistician. So when he goes to fill out his March Madness bracket, he doesn’t just pick whichever names sound good. Instead, the New York Times writer has analyzed data from all the tournament games dating back to 2003 and used it to create a computer prediction model, which takes into account four sets of computer rankings, the tournament seeds, and the AP preseason rankings. More»
