{"id":606,"date":"2009-03-14T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2009-03-14T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T16:41:51","slug":"are-you-ready-for-some-college-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/14\/are-you-ready-for-some-college-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for some College Basketball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Sokol, Paul Kvam, and George Nemhauser have a ranking called <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jsokol\/lrmc\/about_lrmc.html\">LRMC (Logistic Regression\/Markov Chain)<\/a> for college basketball.\u00a0 This weekend is when the NCAA selects teams for its championship.\u00a0 You can check out the<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~jsokol\/lrmc\/lrmc.sort0.html\"> current rankings<\/a> to see whether your favorite team deserves to be in the tournament.\u00a0 And, once the bracket is published, LMRC provides a guideline for predicting who will win each game.\u00a0 In the past, LRMC has done very well, but I am still going to go with Pittsburgh over UNC, despite the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Sokol, Paul Kvam, and George Nemhauser have a ranking called LRMC (Logistic Regression\/Markov Chain) for college basketball.\u00a0 This weekend is when the NCAA selects teams for its championship.\u00a0 You can check out the current rankings to see whether your favorite team deserves to be in the tournament.\u00a0 And, once the bracket is published, LMRC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/14\/are-you-ready-for-some-college-basketball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are you ready for some College Basketball?&#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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}