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.