Article ID: | iaor20114420 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 719 |
End Page Number: | 724 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
Journal: | Omega |
Authors: | Jacobson Sheldon H, Nikolaev Alexander G, Lee Adrian J, King Douglas M |
Keywords: | basketball, tournament games |
We explore seed distributions for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. We identify patterns in how seeds advance through the tournament. We show that the seed distributions can be modeled using a geometric distribution. We evaluate the likelihood of seed combinations, based on past tournament history.