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		yters on March 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Invite HN: The Algorithmic NCAA Bracket Challenge Just do principal component analysis on past data. That'll give the best predictors (based on linear regression) based on the past.

aneesh on March 19, 2009 [–]

The hardest part of that is actually finding all the relevant historical data & getting it into a good form. Anyway, I'm not about to spend hours on picking a bracket, so I'll leave that to someone else.

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