2026 March Madness

Beat Navy — XGBoost PRUNED-25 • Brier 0.1871 • Kaggle Competition
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Kaggle Rooting Interest

Live Brier score optimization — who to root for based on model advantage vs the field, with downstream bracket impact for men's and women's games.

BRIER TRACKING + DOWNSTREAM IMPACT
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2026 Bracket

Interactive men's and women's tournament brackets with model-predicted winners and head-to-head probabilities for every matchup.

MEN'S + WOMEN'S
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Model

PRUNED-25 feature importance, model evolution from 2024 to 2026, per-season backtests, and Kaggle placement history.

196 EXPERIMENTS
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Simulations

2 billion bracket simulations — championship odds, round-by-round advancement probabilities, and perfect bracket survival tracker.

2B BRACKETS + SURVIVAL
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Live Tracker

Game-by-game Brier score performance vs the field — chronological timeline with running cumulative advantage chart.

LIVE MODEL PERFORMANCE
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March Mathness

Bracket pool competition — cadets vs friends. Pick winners with confidence levels, track live scores, and climb the leaderboard.

BRACKET POOL + LEADERBOARD