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A new type of march madness last updated february 21, 2020 statistics have always played a big role in sports, serving as a barometer for success rates for players and teams as a whole. Designed for learners with little to no data analytics experience. I wanted to create a model that was realistic enough to be worthy of simulating an actual basketball game.
This was a good learning experience for me, as i eventually ran into the limitation of not being able to run as many simulations as i wanted to.
68 teams will make the tournament, and depending on how each matchup goes, any of them could play any other team at a given stage of the tournament, meaning there are (67 + 66 + 65 + … + 2 + 1) = 2,278 different possible matchups we need to simulate before we can even start making brackets 3. We want to run 1,000 simulations per possible matchup in the ncaa tournament 2. 1,000 x 2,278 is 2,278,000 simulations… x 10 seconds = about 263 days of simulation! Initially when building the concept, i used a single pandas dataframe (representing the eventual final box score of the game) for each simulation.
