We’ve already exhausted the ‘March Hare Mad-Hatter-ness’ pun on
this blog a few years ago, but Lewis Carroll is making
basketball news during the college playoffs! His contributions
to bracketology were discussed at length at the Wall Street
Journal in two articles: In addition to writing “Alice in
Wonderland,” Lewis Carroll was a mathematician who was offended
by blind draws in tennis tournaments. So Carroll devised a
method to ensure that the most skilled players would survive to
the latest rounds. So in the spirit of adventure, The Wall
Street Journal put Carroll’s radical format to the ultimate
test: this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. If we
assigned the 64-team field randomly, then played out the
tournament based on the NCAA selection committee’s overall
ranking for each team, what would happen? Would the teams that
got unlucky draws or suffered early upsets still make it through
to the late rounds? And would there be enough surprises to keep
people entertained? [continue reading] Then Bachman