Sheldon
Howard Jacobson, Ph.D.
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sports Analytics: NCAA Bracketology
1.
Jacobson, S.H., King, D.M., 2009, “Seeding in the NCAA Men’s Basketball
Tournament: When is a Higher Seed Better?” Journal
of Gambling, Business, and Economics, 3(2), 63-87.
2.
Jacobson, S.H., Nikolaev, A.G., King, D.M., Lee, A.J., 2011, “Seed
Distributions for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament,“ Omega, 39(6), 719-724.
3.
Khatibi, A., King, D.M., Jacobson, S.H., 2015, “Modeling the Winning Seed
Distributions of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament,”
Omega, 50(1), 141-148.
4.
Dutta, S., Jacobson, S.H., Sauppe, J.J., 2017, “Identifying NCAA Tournament Upsets using Balance Optimization Subset
Selection,” Journal of
Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 13(2), 79-93.
5.
Dutta, S. Jacobson, S.H., 2018, “Modeling the NCAA Basketball Tournament
Selection Process Using a Decision Tree,” Journal
of Sports Analytics, 4(1).
6. Ludden, I.G., Khatibi, A.,
King, D.M., Jacobson, S.H., 2020, “Models for Generating NCAA Men's Basketball
Tournament Bracket Pools,” Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports,
16(1), 1-15.