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[...] BracketBrains Giving Sports Bettors An Edge – It might be too late for this year, but this site could improve your chances of winning that office pool for this year’s NCAA basketball tournament. [...]

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[...] BracketBrains Giving Sports Bettors An Edge (TechCrunch) – Probably too late to help you now (perhaps still good for Sweet 16 tournaments), but something to keep in mind for the future. [...]

By: Et

Et — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:34:08 +0000

Once the results gets 90% or more accurate, we’ll wonder why people even bother to play the game since we’ll already know the outcome.
Wasn’t it suppose to be about… the love of the game?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:45:51 +0000

Why not use a statistical-based tool when you’re having trouble deciding on a close matchup? If you can’t decide, seems like you might as well.

By: bethype.com

bethype.com — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:19:46 +0000

BracketBrains Giving Sports Bettors An Edge…

It may not be sexy but BracketBrains could improve your chances of winning that office pool for this year’s NCAA basketball tournament.

The site, developed by three Stanford grads (one math, one computer science, and one industrial engineering), an…

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:18:40 +0000

Love this site… the “algorithm” is the only way to pick your teams

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:18:34 +0000

Could you compare your site to the better half of the 7 million Yahoo brackets? I would imagine that there are literally millions of brackets that were blindly chosen by people with no effort at all.

By: Schlaf

Schlaf — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:57:45 +0000

Imagine the possibilities beyond basketball and football. These guys get it. Congrats on another great launch and upgrade!

By: Michael Galpin

Michael Galpin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:07:22 +0000

I knew it was just a matter of time before everyone found out about BracketBrains and TeamRankings… Oh well. It’s a great tool, though it did not pick Florida last year.

By: J McEntee

J McEntee — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:29:30 +0000

Just what I need to be competitive in my office pool without loads of prep. Last year was an outlier — we can thank UNC for an epic choke. Can’t wait for this year.

By: Jamie Conroy

Jamie Conroy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:27:33 +0000

Great job on the product, guys– and congrats on the coverage.

By: John Hassell

John Hassell — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:38:06 +0000

For more bracket wisdom, and for a place to put all that wisdom to use, pay us a visit at:

http://bracketboy.net

Or add the Facebook app here:

http://apps.fac...com/bracketboy/

By: MC

MC — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:22:02 +0000

I’ve used BracketBrains before and found it useful — especially for the earlier rounds, saves a lot of time researching the 7-10 games and still being unsure of who to pick from a lot of subjective sportswriter analysis.

By: Kevin Fliess

Kevin Fliess — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:44:55 +0000

Thanks, TechCrunch. One of the best kept secrets on the web is no longer a best kept secret. I’m hoping the folks in my pool don’t hear about BracketBrains because it’s definitely provided a competitive advantage in making my picks the last 3 years.

By: Sandler

Sandler — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:38:40 +0000

Interesting article posted today on march madness pool strategy interviewing a professor of Game Theory on making good picks.

http://www.this..._pool_strategy/

By: Online Gamer

Online Gamer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:37:16 +0000

Just be careful with playing too many pools, FBI has been cracking down on Facebook March Madness pools. It's really a shame that our lovely politicians have outlawed some friendly wagering.

By: Brian C

Brian C — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:32:26 +0000

This is a great site with some serious analysis behind it. I love it!

By: Sneezy Melon

Sneezy Melon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:50:46 +0000

They’ve surely put some hardwork, although I still doubt the results

By: Brian Balfour

Brian Balfour — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:24:11 +0000

TeamRankings definitely goes deeper then anything else out there for the hardcore sports fans. Glad to see these guys getting some recognition.

By: Tom Federico

Tom Federico — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:01:17 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, guys. I’m glad we’ve got some BracketBrains fans out there on TC…

Just want to clear the air with a few quick facts. Zach W., we back test all of our predictive models across more than a decade of historical NCAA games before “productizing” them. Last March, BracketBrains users, on average, correctly predicted nearly two more games in the tourney than the benchmark: the collective wisdom of the several million users of Yahoo!’s March Madness pick’em contest.

Two games better than the “wisdom of the crowd” may not sound like much, but the difference between the winning your bracket pool and being out of the running is often less than that, especially if those games are in the later rounds.

Ephraim, as much as I would love to say our analysis was 70% against the spread for NFL this past season, it wasn’t. That level of performance, assuming you issued recommendations for at least 70 or 80 games, would be approaching superhuman. However, our NFL analysis tool was just a hair under 70% picking game winners straight up, and over 61.7% against the spreads in 81 recommended games. Again, those results beat all the benchmarks we track. (See http://teamrank...ons-results.php for all the data)

And Scott W, yes, a great start to the tournament tonight for BracketBrains.com. You can never judge a predictive system using a sample size of one game, but we all took a minute for a high five/fist pump, then moved on to the analysis of Thursday’s games. Strategy guide for dominating your bracket pool will be posted tonight.

- Tom Federico, Co-founder, TeamRankings.com

By: Hose

Hose — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:59:54 +0000

George Mason 2006, anyone? Team Rankings was on it. Made me some serious coin.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:53:48 +0000

Like it matters this year.
First time ever four number ones will be on the final four. Bummer huh

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:38:33 +0000

I still like to use my own judgement but I will be turning to this service for games were I can’t determine a clear winner.

By: Scott W

Scott W — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:28:39 +0000

Well who knows how they’ll do with the rest of the tournament, but they nailed the first game! Mount St. Mary’s won by 9 and BracketBrains predicted 9.6…