Forty-Eight games into the Madness; plenty of time and data to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of my bracket prediction humors/modes and various blends. Let's take a look:
Love Bracket - 1st Round - 21/32 correct, 2nd round - 9/16 correct, 39 total points
5/8 Elite 8, 2/4 Final Four remaining
Hate Bracket - 1st Round - 22/32 correct, 2nd round - 8/16 correct, 38 total points
4/8 Elite 8, 3/4 Final Four remaining, champion gone
Brain Bracket - 1st round - 24/32 correct, 2nd round - 10/16 correct, 44 total points
5/8 Elite 8, 4/4 Final Four remaining
Monkey Poo - 1st round - 24/32 correct, 2nd round - 10/16 correct, 44 total points
4/8 Elite 8, 3/4 Final Four remaining
I don't know what it means that the Brain and Monkey Poo brackets are my 2 best; it could be that my heart and spleen are both vestigial organs at this point and have little influence on my my prognostication. It could also just mean I have my head up my ass.
How about the custom blends?
Love/Hate - 1st round - 22/32 correct, 2nd round - 9/16 correct, 40 total points
6/8 Elite 8, 4/4 Final Four remaining
Analysis/Hate - 1st round 19/32 correct, 2nd round - 8/16 correct, 35 total points
6/8 Elite 8, 4/4 Final Four remaining
Love/Analysis - 1st round - 24/32 correct, 2nd round - 8/16 correct, 40 total points
4/8 Elite 8, 2/4 Final Four remaining
Hate/Monkey Poo - 1st round - 23/32 correct, 2nd round 5/16 correct, 33 total points
3/8 Elite 8, 1/4 Final Four remaining, champion gone
"Perfection" - 1st round - 20/32 correct, 2nd round - 9/16 correct, 38 total points
4/8 Elite 8, 3/4 Final Four remaining, champion gone
Obviously, there are still a lot of games to be played and majority of points still to be scored. But I have to say my blending process appears to be a failure, since none of the blends is clearly superior to either pure intelligence or pure luck. Just as an exercise, I decided to see what my best possible blend could have been. With the right blend, I could have gone 32/32 in the first round and 15/16 in the second round. Interestingly, the one Sweet 16 team I didn't pick on any of my brackets was my Kentucky Wildcats. And in most of the cases where only 1 of my 4 humor brackets was correct, it was hate (6/10). So if there is a lesson to be learned here, it's that picking a few teams I hate could really help my predictions. The problem is I hate so many teams it's hard to know which ones to pick.
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