{"id":303,"date":"2012-03-17T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=303"},"modified":"2012-03-17T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T21:11:46","slug":"the-bracket-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"The Bracket Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well &#8211; I obviously need to do more Internet analysis.\u00a0 But as you know, I put in my 4 hours of effort to try to predict the bracket &#8211; in an attempt to show that it is not as hard as the mainstream sites make it seem.\u00a0 Then, typically, I say how badly I did &#8211; because I have a crazy hard scoring system.\u00a0 Well, apparently there is this site called the Bracket Project that tracks all these people.<\/p>\n<p>This has made me aware of a few things.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are a crazy number of people who project the bracket.\u00a0 There were 115 entries (assuming I counted right) this year.<\/li>\n<li>The mainstream isn&#8217;t as good as some of the fans \/ lesser known sites (although Brad Evans from Yahoo appears to be the best of the main sites).<\/li>\n<li>I might owe Jerry Palm an apology for my comment on his perfect bracket last year.\u00a0 The bracket project says he missed two teams last year &#8211; so it must have been something I saw on CBS&#8217; site that changed after the fact.<\/li>\n<li>I am not good at this &#8211; but I am not as bad as I thought (especially since I typically spend only Sunday afternoon coming up with it).\u00a0 But I am still pretty bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2010, I finished in 66th of 84 brackets &#8211; in 2011, I was 71st of 90 brackets.\u00a0 This year, I was 71st of 116 brackets.\u00a0 So, I guess I am getting better.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, I think the comparison to the main site bracketologists is interesting.<\/p>\n<table width=\"759\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"252\" \/>\n<col width=\"258\" \/>\n<col width=\"249\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"252\" height=\"17\">2010<\/td>\n<td width=\"258\">2011<\/td>\n<td width=\"249\">2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"17\">Jerry Palm (CBS) &#8211; 312 (65 of 65)<\/td>\n<td>Andy Glockner (SI) &#8211; 323 (66 of 68)<\/td>\n<td>Brad Evans (Yahoo) &#8211; 333 (67 of 68)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"17\">Brad Evans (Yahoo) &#8211; 308 (64)<\/td>\n<td>Brad Evans (Yahoo) &#8211; 316 (66)<\/td>\n<td>Joe Lunardi (ESPN) &#8211; 332 (67)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"17\">Ryan Fagan (Sporting News) &#8211; 303 (63)<\/td>\n<td>Joe Lunardi (ESPN) &#8211; 310 (65)<\/td>\n<td>Jerry Palm (CBS) &#8211; 329 (66)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"17\">Andy Glockner (SI) &#8211; 302 (64)<\/td>\n<td>THE LUNATIC &#8211; 304 (65)<\/td>\n<td>THE LUNATIC &#8211; 325 (67)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"17\">Joe Lunardi (ESPN) &#8211; 300 (64)<\/td>\n<td>Jerry Palm (CBS) &#8211; 301 (66)<\/td>\n<td>Ryan Fagan (SN) &#8211; 321 (66)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"17\">THE LUNATIC &#8211; 296 (63)<\/td>\n<td>Ryan Fagan (SN) &#8211; 294 (65)<\/td>\n<td>Andy Glockner (SI) &#8211; 321 (65)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So, I can&#8217;t claim that I am any good at this &#8211; but I think it proves my initial point of doing the bracketology.\u00a0\u00a0 I have actually beaten some of the main site providers &#8211; and if I could figure out seeding better, I could be competitive.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 It also shows, if it is just about picking the correct number of teams, I am almost the same as the main sites.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one of these years I will put more effort into it and really try to beat the bracketologists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in this stuff, here is a link to the <a title=\"Bracket Project site\" href=\"http:\/\/bracketproject.50webs.com\/rankings.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bracket Project site. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well &#8211; I obviously need to do more Internet analysis.\u00a0 But as you know, I put in my 4 hours of effort to try to predict the bracket &#8211; in an attempt to show that it is not as hard as the mainstream sites make it seem.\u00a0 Then, typically, I say how badly I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}