'Listen to the model': UNL class applies machine learning to

'Listen to the model': UNL class applies machine learning to March Madness


'Listen to the model': UNL class applies machine learning to March Madness
A professor let students pick which computer algorithm would predict game winners, leading to brackets ranked among 99th percentile across the U.S.
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Updated: 10:50 PM CDT Apr 4, 2021
'Listen to the model': UNL class applies machine learning to March Madness
A professor let students pick which computer algorithm would predict game winners, leading to brackets ranked among 99th percentile across the U.S.
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Updated: 10:50 PM CDT Apr 4, 2021
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PERCENT. ALL RIGHT. NO ONE HAS EVER PICKED A PERFECT MARCH MADNESS BRACKET AND THAT HASN’T CHANGED THIS TOURNAMENT BUT A GROUP OF UNL STUDENTS FOLLOWED THEIR PROFESSORS GAME PLAN TO LET A COMPUTER ALGORITHM PICK THE WINNERS. IT’S KETV NEWSWATCH EVANS, JOSE. ZOZAYA SHOWS US THEIR BRACKETS ARE HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE. ONE IN NINE POINT TWO QUINTILLIONS. THOSE ARE THE ODDS YOU PICK A PERFECT NCAA MEN’S TOURNAMENT BRACKET GUESSING EACH OF THE 63 GAMES A LITTLE BIT OF FUN. NEVER HEARD ANYBODY. SO INSTEAD OF MAKING PICKS BLINDLY JOURNALISM PROFESSOR. MATT WAITE ASKED HIS SPORTS DATA STUDENTS TO APPLY THEIR LESSONS AND TAKE THEIR BEST SHOT. WE WERE WORKING THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS TO PREDICT THINGS AND IT JUST HAPPENED. INSIDE WITH THE START OF THE TOURNAMENT YOU’RE PRESENTED WITH A PROBABILITY THAT A TEAM IS GOING TO WIN OR LOSE AND YOU CAN MAKE DECISIONS BASED OFF THAT TAKING THAT RAW DATA WEIGHT SAYS STUDENTS CAN PICK WHICH ALGORITHM THEY WANT TO USE AND TRAIN IT TO PREDICT FUTURE OUTCOMES, BUT SOME THINGS IN CLASS AND ON THE COURT, YOU JUST CAN’T SEE COMING. I DID NOT PREDICT THAT WE WOULD HAVE FIVE STUDENTS BETTER THAN 90% OF BRACKET ON ESPN’S TOURNAMENT. IT LIVES UP TO THE NAME, MARCH MADNESS WHO WOULD HAVE PICKED SOME OF THE LOWER SEEDS AND ALL THE UPSETS. YOU’VE SEEN THIS YEAR JUNIOR THOMAS BAKER FOLLOWS PLAYERS AND TEAMS CLOSELY. HE SAYS HIS MODEL ACTUALLY HELPED HIM SINCE A FEW OF THE UPSETS AND PUT HIM AND FIRST PLACE AMONG THE CLASS. IT ACTUALLY ALSO HAD OREGON OVER IOWA, WHICH I WAS VERY EXCITED. I LISTENED TO THE MODEL 100% WHEN THEY SAID I WAS GONNA LOSE OTHERS LIKE SENIOR CAITLIN JOHNSON WENT INTO THIS EXPERIMENT WITHOUT MUCH. KNOW HOW BUT ARMED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF PICKING RELIABLE METRICS. SHE’S NOW IN FOURTH PLACE. WELL, I GUESS I TO LOOK AT LIKE ROLLING MEANS FOR POSSESSIONS AND FOR POINTS PER POSSESSION, AND I HAD TO LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS SIX GAMES. WAIT SAYS HE HOPES THESE SKILLS WILL HELP STUDENTS FIND INFORMATION THAT IMPACTS COMMUNITIES AND IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE WORLD WORKS IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW YOU KNOW, THEN IS WORKING OR HOW SOCIETY IS FUNCTIONING. YOU NEED TO KNOW H

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