The seeding committee of the NC2A bracket is looking at very limited amounts of data they're typically looking at who be whom and perhaps by how much. Machine learning turns out to be really good on the 49 51 problems and really bad on the 99 100 problems basketball is interesting right because it's sort of in between the stock market and 50-50.
Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games? On this episode of StarTalk: Sports Edition, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Chuck Nice talk machine learning with computer scientist and author of The Factor Man, Matt Ginsberg.
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