Tourney time is bracket time. There are a lot of good helpers out there these days to make your brackets that give you win predictions and whatnot. I’m not as cool or fancy as Bart Torvik (let’s be honest, you should be using Torvik) I like just having all of a ton of information in comparable form when I do it, so I make this little tool on Google Sheets that you can have too:
Most of the data are from Kenpom, though since last year I also included ThePowerRank.com. (You know Ed Feng from the MGoBlog Roundtable on WTKA and his wheelhouse is NCAA brackets (he wrote a book on it!). Ed’s TPR is an expected margin of victory over an average opponent, so like Michigan should beat the 160th-ish team by 15. Both he and Kenpom wound up pretty close, but it’s a bit more data when you’re deciding things like how soon should “1 seed” Xavier go out?
The Tool The Tool The Tool:
To use this you:
- Follow this link to make a copy of the spreadsheet.
- Select the two teams you want to compare.
The site will be pulled from Team 1, fyi, so if you pull a match that doesn’t exist you’ll still get the distance each team will have to travel to their real site.
Resources:
Kenpom, Torvik, Hoop-math, ThePowerRank, why Ohio State-Gonzaga returns a weird number, Printable Bracket with minimal ads, funky-ass bracket-making music