Effectively that didn’t take lengthy. My bracket at all times will get busted, however this 12 months all of my Last 4 picks have been out rapidly leaving me with no hope of profitable my group. The Last 4 kicks off this weekend and we wished to verify in and have a look to see how the event has gone up to now. This 12 months was particularly filled with upsets–or was it? We’ve seen plenty of protection about how mad this March Insanity was so we determined to have a look utilizing our knowledge protecting ~40 years of the event. Under is a dashboard we created to assist us analyze the outcomes. We used Domo Variables to make the dashboard extra interactive. This 12 months is highlighted in orange. Within the dashboard we take a look at the upset knowledge in a couple of methods: Wanting on the knowledge, we will see that regardless that there are nonetheless three video games to play, this 12 months has had neither a traditionally giant variety of upsets, nor a excessive Upset Worth rating. Each are barely above the historic common, however nothing too far above the common. If all three remaining video games qualify as upsets, then we are going to tie for the second most upsets in a event. What we do see is that 2023 has the second highest common seeding for the Last 4 groups within the final 40 years. The one 12 months with a better common seeding was 2011, when #11 Virginia Commonwealth and #8 Butler each superior to the Last 4. Additionally it is attention-grabbing to notice that the 2 highest Upset Values occurred in 2021 and 2022. This implies that the magnitude of the upsets has been larger currently, giving us the kind of upsets that justifies the title March Insanity.
March Insanity Upset Evaluation Dashboard
