Generating a smart NCAA bracket
17 March 2014
The NCAA tournament is notoriously difficult to predict. So difficult, in fact, that you can win a billion dollars for doing so.
While perfection may be out of reach, it is possible to be smarter about your predictions. Today, Nate Silver launched his new website FiveThirtyEight and in the launch offered up his bracket predictions.
Today I also stumbled upon Coder’s Bracket, a site that will automatically generate a bracket based on any function provided.
It only seemed natural to combine these two sites, using Nate Silver’s data to power the bracket generator. I extracted the data from FiveThirtyEight and modified it to match the Coder’s Bracket functions. The result is a function that will generate a random bracket using the percentages calculated by Nate Silver.
Copy the code below into the Coder’s Bracket template (left hand side of the link) to start creating your own Nate Silver-approved randomly generated brackets:
function (game, team1, team2) {
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var random = Math.random()
var data_point_1 = _.where(data, {team_name: team1.name})
var round = 7 - game.round
data_point_1 = data_point_1[0]
var data_point_2 = _.where(data, {team_name: team2.name})
data_point_2 = data_point_2[0]
// Weight the percentage using the first team's percentage over the sum of both team's percentage to win that round
sum = parseFloat(data_point_1["rd" + round + "_win"])+parseFloat(data_point_2["rd" + round + "_win"])
weighted_percentage = data_point_1["rd" + round + "_win"]/sum
if (weighted_percentage > random) {
team1.winsGame();
} else {
team2.winsGame();
}
}
