{"id":253,"date":"2008-04-05T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-04-05T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T16:15:41","slug":"final-four-based-on-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/05\/final-four-based-on-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Four based on Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.utsa.edu\/today\/images\/graphics\/ncaalogo.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"135\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"153\" \/>Payscale.com has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payscale.com\/2008-march-madness-predictions.htm?basketball\">college basketball bracket<\/a> based on median salaries of its graduates (5-10 years after graduation).  Stanford ($113,000) beats Notre Dame ($99,100) in the final, with Duke ($96,800) and Georgetown ($92,500) the other two in the final four.<\/p>\n<p>I always do my picks based on the quality and quantity of operations research done at the school.  My final four this year were George Mason, Wisconsin, Cornell (in a tough division, beating Stanford, Kentucky, Texas, and Pittsburgh along the way) and UCLA, with Cornell winning it all.   Needless to say, I won&#8217;t be getting paid this year:  it appears that OR quality has, at best, a weak correlation with basketball prowess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payscale.com has the college basketball bracket based on median salaries of its graduates (5-10 years after graduation). Stanford ($113,000) beats Notre Dame ($99,100) in the final, with Duke ($96,800) and Georgetown ($92,500) the other two in the final four. I always do my picks based on the quality and quantity of operations research done at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/05\/final-four-based-on-salaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Final Four based on Salaries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}