On the morning of Thursday March 16th, my wife and I were working on a bracket. She read the Evan Miya data definitions and designed a strategy and we hit print. The Championship Game:
FINAL:
(1) Houston beats (9) Florida Atlantic
We laughed and looked back at the code and started poking around. Ultimately, we decided to decrease the coefficient on a single stat, because it took a seemingly arbitrary 9-seed out of the Final Four (though it still had them upsetting 1-seed Purdue!). We committed that at 8:51am, and moved on to pretending to work for a couple hours before game time.
Then tonight, this happened. And we thought, "maybe we should dig up that original bracket..."
The Story
On the morning of Thursday March 16th, my wife and I were working on a bracket. She read the Evan Miya data definitions and designed a strategy and we hit print. The Championship Game:
We laughed and looked back at the code and started poking around. Ultimately, we decided to decrease the coefficient on a single stat, because it took a seemingly arbitrary 9-seed out of the Final Four (though it still had them upsetting 1-seed Purdue!). We committed that at 8:51am, and moved on to pretending to work for a couple hours before game time.
Then tonight, this happened. And we thought, "maybe we should dig up that original bracket..."
The Change
And that was it. The more visually pleasing diffs are below.
The Code Diff
The Bracket Diff
wouldn't even fit on a single screen shot!
The Full Bracket