The NCAA Is Modernizing The Way It Picks March Madness Teams
Posted Feb 18, 2017
Late last month, NCAA officials met with some of basketball’s most prominent analytics experts to remake the way they select teams for the men’s NCAA tournament. Until now, they’ve used the ratings percentage index (RPI) to help guide their decisions, but that stat has become antiquated. Efforts to replace the RPI, though, raise a lot of tricky questions.
(FiveThirtyEight)
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