The analysis and charts in this post were inspired by Scorigami, a website which tracks whether a certain final score has occurred in an NFL game. As an example, there has been one game that has ended with a score of 72-41 and no games that have ended with a score of 21-5.
In this post, I analyzed all the different matchups between different seeds at the NCAA tournament. All data in the below analyses are sourced from the Kaggle “March Machine Learning Mania 2023” datasets and incorporates results from 1985 to 2022.
Following the completion of the 2023 tournament, the charts will need to be updated, as, among others, this tournament has seen:
– The first 6 seed vs. 15 seed game (Creighton vs. Princeton)
– The first victory of a 6 seed over a 15 seed
– The first victory of a 9 seed over a 3 seed (FAU over Kansas State)
The one fewer 7 – 10 game is due to a forfeit.
Anything under the “N/A” line is an upset.
8 seeds have been particularly successful against lower seeds.
