March Madness is in full swing. And the success of the Dance Card formula powered by SAS -- along with stories about teams like the New York Mets, the Boston Bruins, the Orlando Magic and more, all using analytics -- demonstrates how sports and analytics are becoming more and more
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The odds may not be in your favor, but SAS Analytics could help you win a huge prize. As you may have heard, billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert have teamed up to offer $1 billion to anyone who can create a perfect NCAA March Madness
On selection Sunday, the SAS-powered Dance Card and its creators had more to celebrate than St. Patrick's Day. The Dance Card model was perfect, accurately predicting all 37 at-large bids to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The Dance Card was built with SAS analytics by Jay Coleman of the University
Three business professors are using SAS analytic software to accurately predict the at-large teams in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The professors’ Dance Card model is averaging 93.5% accuracy over the last 11 years. The professors -- Jay Coleman of the Univ. of North Florida in Jacksonville; Allen Lynch of Mercer
Yesterday was one of those (many) days where I felt the pride of working at SAS. It all started when I read a News & Observer article detailing the plight of student journalists at NC State University's newspaper, The Technician, trying to get to St. Louis to cover their beloved Wolfpack
Once again NCAA men’s basketball is peaking – and so is talk of brackets and bubble-busters, bad calls and buzzer beaters, what-ifs and what the … happened? Dance Card Roundup Official Dance Card site SAS Dance Card blog series NCAA Tournament Meet the Professors Jay Coleman Bio Allan Lynch Bio
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is big business and March Madness is exciting, but is the selection process fair? Using the SAS Analytics-powered "Dance Card" formula developed by Jay Coleman of the University of North Florida, Mike DuMond of Charles River Associates, and Allen Lynch of Mercer University,