Sports networks devote seemingly endless air-time to the science of “bracketology”
EVERY MARCH Americans embark on the futile exercise of trying to predict the winners of each game in the National College Athletic Association’s basketball tournament. Choosing a perfect “bracket” is as good as impossible. There are 67 matches in all, involving 68 teams competing in seven knockout rounds over three weeks. The chances of getting them all right by random selection—including the men’s final on April 4th—are one in 9.2 quintillion.
It helps that as sports go, basketball is easy to follow. Teams want to get the ball through the hoop. Granted, as in all sports, referees’ decisions can be perplexing . But there are few convoluted rules to confuse newcomers, as in, say, cricket or. And college sports are far more popular in America than in Europe. As many people are watching March Madness games this year as the National Basketball Association finals last July.
That doesn’t deter many who know a thing or two about the game—or think they do—from elaborate efforts to beat the daunting odds. Fans’ discussions of players and teams are laden with statistics, weighing up the strength of teams’ schedules during the regular season, win percentage on the road, turnovers, free-throw percentage and more. Sports networks devote seemingly endless air-time to this science of “bracketology”.
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