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March Madness Meets Computer Nerds
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How Stuff Works - March 20, 2009
Once again, the United States plunges into that frenzied time we call March Madness. As I understand it, March Madness is a tournament in which various teams from higher education institutions throw orange balls at each other. Somehow this encourages people to make up complex sets of "brackets" where "teams" face off and the "winner" moves up to the next round. I should probably point out here that I'm a true tech nerd and know next to nothing about sports. But some tech nerds love sports, and a few have put their analytical minds to the task of predicting the ultimate winner of the tournament. According to CNN, Joel Sokol of Georgia Tech created a statistical analysis program that predicts the winner of the 2009 NCAA tournament to be
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