{"id":1230,"date":"2007-03-13T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T10:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/13\/worst-bracket-ever\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T10:29:15","slug":"worst-bracket-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/13\/worst-bracket-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst. Bracket. EVER."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As threatened in passing earlier, I went through the NCAA Tournament field, picking the games based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phds.org\/rankings\/physics\/\">ranking of Ph.D. programs in Physics<\/a> (I set the &#8220;Scholarly quality of program faculty is high&#8221; weight to 5, and left everything else off).  I entered it on Yahoo, which provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-25003732235270ed5ce8fab60b814a4f-doc.pdf\">spiffy PDF version<\/a> for those who want to see the full bracket.<\/p>\n<p>The Final Four ends up being Maryland, Texas, Illinois, and Stanford, which would&#8217;ve made some sense about five years ago, but isn&#8217;t really all that likely this year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As threatened in passing earlier, I went through the NCAA Tournament field, picking the games based on the ranking of Ph.D. programs in Physics (I set the &#8220;Scholarly quality of program faculty is high&#8221; weight to 5, and left everything else off). I entered it on Yahoo, which provides a spiffy PDF version for those&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/13\/worst-bracket-ever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worst. Bracket. EVER.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}