The NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket was announced yesterday, which has kicked off the usual round of people “predicting” the outcomes based on totally silly criteria like the Academic Progress Rate of the schools in question.
This is, of course, completely frivolous. What you really need is solid, relevant information. Like predictions based on the ranking of physics graduate programs:
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The algorithm used to fill this in was simple:
- The school with the higher-ranked physics program wins
- Schools with no physics program ranking lose to schools with any ranking whatsoever
- In case of a tie (two schools with the same ranking, or two schools with no ranking), the higher seed wins.