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Predicting the College Football Playoff

Counterpoints: The Sports Analytics Podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review

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Which teams make it to the college football playoffs isn’t as random as it sometimes seems, says University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Laura Albert. In this week’s Counterpoints podcast, we look at how Albert uses analytics to predict the brackets and how the football playoff selections compare to that other big college tournament, March Madness.

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