Predicting the Perfect Bracket

Written on March 1st, 2019 by Eric Englin

Problem Overview

Every year, the NCAA has a Mens basketball tournament in March and April, an era called "March Madness". Many people in the United States put together a bracket .

Dataset

Data was available from the kaggle website. Multiple datasets were available going from 2003-2018 seasons. These included play-by-play events from each game by player, season statistics, and locations of games, among many others.

Results

Final code and results can be seen on our Github repository.