Dave Sez

Tourney Tips

I'm not going to put together any long lists of links to NCAA Tournament info this week. Seriously, you need help finding that stuff?

But there are a few sources of info that might just be a bit better than most to help you fill out those brackets.

Luke Winn at SI.com has had some good stuff in his NCAA blog. The first one that I liked was his post on picking teams with the best defenses. Read that one.

Next, Winn followed up with another cool piece on finding the hottest teams in each bracket. You definitely want to find teams that are peaking at the right time.

Of course, you never want to skip the master, Ken Pomeroy. Winn's numbers come from Ken, so why not see what Ken thinks himself? Here he runs the numbers (using everyone's favorite Log5 analysis) for the Midwest and West. And here he does the same for the South and East.

Lastly if you think free info is for chumps and really want your own numbers, check out BracketBrains. I linked to that one last year too. It's a pretty cool tool put together by Mike Greenfield, another web stats guru. You can tweak the settings on what factors you think are most important and see how that projects the field. It's really pretty cool.

Now go fill out those brackets!

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