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March Madness Bracket Maker

Background

The NCAA March Madness tournament is notorious for having game outcomes which are almost impossible to predict because underdog teams beat the favorites. However, there are statistics about each team in the tournament which can be used to predict the winner of a game and thus create a bracket.

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2018 and 2019 Tournaments

All data is contained in the MasterData.xlsx spreadsheet.

The GameData sheet contains the matchups from the 2016, 2017, and 2018 tournaments.

The sheets named with a specific season (i.e 2018-2019) contain the statistics for each team in the NCAA for that season

All data was taken from https://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/team-stats/

Tournaments 2021 onwards

All data was taken from Kaggle using the dataset from that year.

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