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My algorithm: pick the team with the highest seed. In the case of a tie, alphabetical order by city name.
by rms 18y ago
My algorithm: pick the team with the highest seed. In the case of a tie, alphabetical order by city name.
- aneesh 18y agoThat's probably the best strategy without putting much effort, but I bet some enterprising HN user will come up with a more complex strategy that has a higher expected value.
- yters 18y agoJust do principal component analysis on past data. That'll give the best predictors (based on linear regression) based on the past.
- aneesh 18y agoThe hardest part of that is actually finding all the relevant historical data & getting it into a good form. Anyway, I'm not about to spend hours on picking a bracket, so I'll leave that to someone else.