Final NCAA Tournament Results

Well, as usual this year's NCAA Tournament came and went in the blink of an eye.  There were plenty of close games, viewership was at an all time high, but for some reason the excitement just didn't seem to be there.  I think we can probably blame this on a lack of first round upsets and buzzer beaters.  South Carolina in the Final Four was probably the biggest surprise of the tournament, but, if you've paid attention to the style that they play, it shouldn't really be that big of a surprise at all that they made a run.  And to top it all off the championship game was a dud.

As far as my machine learning experiment goes, I don't believe it was a complete failure.  There were a couple of major upsets in the second round that I knew would be an issue and turned out to be pretty detrimental to the final result.  I've already found ways that I can improve for next year and look forward to working on them this off season so that I can test throughout the 2017-2018 season.  Below are the results showing how many teams were predicted correctly at the end of each round.

Final Results...65% accuracy

Round of 32: 30/32 

Round of 16: 9/16

Round of 8: 2/8

Final Four: 0/4

Finals: 0/2

As B Rabbit said, it's back to the lab again.