Bing Predicting Teams for March Madness

Bing has launched a Web site predicting whether your favorite NCAA basketball team will make it to March Madness. I tested three teams: NCSU (maybe), Campbell University (No), and University of Richmond (No). PROVE ‘EM WRONG, FIGHTING CAMELS AND FIGHTING SPIDERS!

“The Bing Predicts team takes a look at historical statistics to see which factors contribute to strong teams who make the tournament either automatically or as an at-large bid. The Bing team then built their own power index model, updated daily, which takes in factors ranging from each team’s strength of schedule, opponents’ win/lose record, and even detailed statistical analysis regarding their on-court tendencies such as ball control, rebounding and field-goal percentage. Then, Bing Predicts adds web activity and social sentiment to tune the strengths, capturing real-time information like injuries and line-up changes.”