Can I Make a Better Bracket This Year?

Every year, my fiancée and I have a bracket challenge.  She usually beats me, even though I watch way more games, talk to friends about games, watch more ESPN, read more articles…. So it was time to change things up.

It is time to use machine learning to make a better bracket.  Will it work? To answer that question, I need to answer three more direct questions:

  1. Can I predict who wins an NCAAB game?
    • See how I predict games HERE
  2. Do those predictions help “predict” previous year’s brackets?
    • I “predicted” 2015 and 2016 HERE
  3. Will it work in 2017?
    • I will make a 2017 bracket, and post it HERE

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