Every year, the NCAA Tournament draws millions of viewers from all around the world. As these viewers tune into what is widely considered one of the most exciting sporting events in the US, they also participate in online bracket pools. Brackets are filled out by individuals making their picks based on a number of reasons: national polls, strength of schedule, loyalty, team colors and who is seeded higher. One week ago, Success Profiles set out to help individuals make their picks by creating the first ever “NCAA March Madness Eye Chart”. By looking purely at the games most important statistical information of offense, defense and overall strength, the Eye Chart is designed to help increase your odds of success in picking the winner of each game.
With the first two rounds of the 2012 NCAA Tournament completed, all eyes are on the brackets and the results. After carefully dissecting our way through 22 different categories of statistical information, the Eye Chart picked 23 of the 32 first round game’s correctly for a 72% success rate. In the second round, the eye chart correctly picked 11 out of 16 games correctly for a 69% success rate. By removing the emotional bias, the Eye Chart was able to pick some of the upsets of the first round. For those who would have picked Michigan to beat Ohio because it was a 4 seed versus a 13 seed might not have picked it if they had seen the overall statistical information. If you were to look at the Eye Chart, you would see that Ohio is statistically stronger in over 68% of the major categories raising the upset alert flag.
Of course, individual basketball games can be determined by unforeseen circumstances such as injuries, so no system will be perfect. However, using the “March Madness Eye Chart” you can increase your odds of success by over 70% and that is a competitive advantage!
We have included our picks for the next round based on the statistical information of the Eye Chart below. We will continue to update as the tournament moves along. Once the tournament is completed, we will do a final analysis including the points spreads of each game. To download a copy of the “NCAA March Madness Eye Chart” click on the following link: http://blog.rightpeoplerightroles.com/2012-ncaa-march-madness-eye-chart/
