{"57598":{"#nid":"57598","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computer Ranking System Picks NCAA Tournament\u0027s Final Four","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPC World\u003C\/em\u003E  - April 4, 2008 \u003Cbr \/\u003EFrustrated that you didn\u0027t do as well in your March Madness office pool as you\u0027d hoped? Next year you might want to try making your picks using a computerized ranking system built by professors at the Stewart School of ISyE.  Out of the 36 Final Four teams in the past nine years, the system has accurately picked 30 -- results that are more accurate than the AP poll of sportswriters and the ESPN\/USA Today poll of coaches, the Ratings Percentage Index formula and the tournament seeding system, said Joel Sokol, a professor of industrial systems and engineering and one of LRMC\u0027s creators. Over the same time frame, the seedings and polls have picked 23 of the final-four participants, and the RPI identified 21, Sokol said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,144164-c,technology\/article.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,144164-c,technology\/article.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-04-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:32","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}