As far as being a sports fan, the perfect bracket is the ultimate Holy Grail, even greater than a perfect season in fantasy football, the Peyton Manning jerseys are so cool. But I'm not just one to want and dream. I'm convinced that if I crunch enough numbers and look at the stat sheets long enough, I'll figure out just the right mixture of numbers to get me there. Of course there is always going to be luck involved, but for luck to make you perfect, you have to get most of the way on your own.
The New Year is coming and many people wear wholesale basketball jerseys to make this year unforgettable. Many people have many different reasons for picking their favorite day of the year. Some people like their birthdays because it's all about them. Some people like Christmas and the spirit of giving. Others like Thanksgiving because of the perfect combination of food, family, football and being able to pass out drunk in front of everybody without anybody caring. While Thanksgiving is and always will remain my number one day of the year, a very close second is the first day of the NCAA tournament. I have taken the first Thursday and Friday of the tournament off from work every year since I entered the workforce
One of the stats that people were interested in exploring was offensive and defensive efficiency and which created a more effective advantage in a given game. Using the data provided so generously by Ken Pomeroy on KenPom.com, I found that neither really created enough of an advantage to use for predictive purposes.
If you combine both offensive and defensive efficiency ratings, you get a higher success rate. Teams with both an offensive efficiency advantage and defensive efficiency average have an 80 percent win rate (36-9) over the past three tournaments. Of course that wouldn't have helped you pick Northern Iowa over Kansas last March, but not many stats would have.
Many basketball fans are looking toward the 2011 tournament, and its new Bob Sander jerseys. It’s still way too early to actually start using the numbers. Because of the wide disparity in non-conference schedules, several teams have astronomical splits that are likely to shrink considerably over the next few months. And when they interview me like they did that Autistic kid last March, and they ask me how I did it, I'm going to have a damn good answer.
The basketball jerseys will be on the top of the sports field and we will have much more basketball jerseys to choose.