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Friday, March 18, 2011
Inequitable NCAA Tournament Brackets -- Seeding by AP Rank
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One of the few things the 2011 NCAA tournament selection committee got right about seeding is that the top four seeds in each bracket do cor...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Are the NCAA Basketball Tournament seedings fair?
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Whatever the criticism of the 2011 Men's NCAA Tournament Selection Committee selections , the seedings are far worse. Any team with even...
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In a word, no . Like most years, the 2011 Men's NCAA Tournament Selection Committee selections are not awful: no slam-dunk team was excl...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
And the Olympics winner is … Jamaica!
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On a per capita basis, the best performing nation in the 2008 Olympics was – by far – Jamaica. Despite a population of only 2.7 million peop...
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Final 2008 Per Capita National Olympic Performance
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Rank Country Gold medal Silver medal Bronze medals 4-2-1 points pop (mil) 421 points /mil ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Per Capita National Olympic Performance
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Standard Olympic medal standings neglect obvious comparative inequities. The most glaring of these are vast differences in national populati...
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