Season Sim: February 11, 2020

It's time for another Season Sim! In this feature, I set BracketBot's predictive mechanisms on full speed and have it play out the entire remainder of the 2020 season from today forward. I offer no guarantees, but this is one way that the rest of the season could play out. Let's get right into it! …

Season Sim: February 4, 2020

Welcome to another Season Sim! In this series I turn my BracketBot ranking and prediction model on itself, have it play out the rest of the 2019-20 season and we'll take a look at what happens! This is, of course, not a guarantee of any kind, but it's a fun look into what we might …

Season Sim: January 15, 2020

Hey all, welcome to the first Season Sim of 2020! In these posts, I'll be taking my crystal ball to the rest of the 2019-2020 season and guiding you through what will definitely happen!* (*according to one single solitary simulation of the rest of the season, based on the BracketBot ratings) Here's how this version …

Conference Tournament Preview, Part IV

Hey all, this is the final installment of BracketBot's conference tournament preview series! We're taking a look at all 32 conference tournaments, talking who's most likely to win, which low-seeded teams have a good chance of advancing, and more! You can find the entire series here: - Part I: Atlantic Sun, Big South, Horizon, Missouri …

Conference Tournament Preview, Part III

Just like that, the college basketball regular season is all but over! Only the Big Ten and AAC have games left on the schedule, and those will be played today. It's time for conference tournament season to hit its stride, and along with it, I've got ten more conference tournament previews, with analysis from BracketBot …

Conference Tournament Preview, Part II

It's time to preview another group of conference tournaments! I had originally thought to split the 32 conferences into four groups and preview them eight at a time, but to this point, only 13 conferences have finished regular season play. So, you'll get five more tournament previews in this update, and the rest... well, at …

Conference Tournament Preview, Part I

Can you believe it's already time for conference tournaments to get underway? The first set of games is Monday, March 4! Though plenty of conferences still need to finish their regular seasons, (mostly smaller) leagues start play this week, and the first automatic bid will be handed out on Saturday! In this first preview edition, …

Season Sim: February 27, 2019

Welcome to another edition of Season Sim! In this series, I turn the rest of this season over to BracketBot and we all see what happens together! I'm shaking things up, since I'm a bit short on time today, so this will appear as more of an info dump, but that's the real interesting stuff …

Season Sim: February 24, 2019

Hello all, and welcome to another edition of Season Sim! With the regular season winding down, there are more and more similarities between successive simulations, but that doesn't make a look into the future any less enlightening! Let's get another look into how BracketBot might see the season ending after Saturday's slate of games. Let's …

Season Sim: February 20, 2019

Hey guys, welcome to another Season Sim! Apologies if you were looking for this post on Sunday - I was caught up doing other things over the weekend. I'll be changing up the format of Season Sims as we go forward, but this one will be pretty much the same - I turned over the …