{"57600":{"#nid":"57600","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In Making NCAA Picks, a Statistical Model Proves Most Accurate","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarch 4, 2008 - \u003Cem\u003EPopular Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEngineering professors at the Stewart School of ISyE at Georgia Tech have demonstrated that statistics accurately inform success in the tournament. Most people\u0027s picks are based largely on emotional inference, they say, which leads to inaccurate choices. Their work has come about through a computer ranking system they devised called the Logistic Regression Markov Chain or LRMC. By analyzing factors such as scoreboard data, home court advantage, and margin of victory, the system\u0027s algorithm has achieved an 83 percent rate of accuracy over the past nine NCAA tournaments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/entertainment-gaming\/article\/2008-04\/making-ncaa-picks-statistical-model-proves-most-accurate\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.popsci.com\/entertainment-gaming\/article\/2008-04\/making-ncaa-picks-statistical-model-proves-most-accurate\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-03-04 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:32","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"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":""}}}