NCAA comparison

Comparison of 2006 NCAA Men's BB Tournament results as predicted by different ranking systems.

Each ranking system's predictions are compared using the standard office pool scoring (1 - 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32).

	Blue Ribbon	Greenfield	Massey Consensus	Massey Ratings	Pomeroy	RPI	Sagarin	Sagarin ELO	Sagarin Predictor	Simpson
Score (160 possible):	106	104	118	110	84	104	109	113	74	97
# correct (out of 63):	47	49	50	48	43	45	48	51	40	39
Predicted Final Four:	Ohio St. UCLA UNC Wisconsin	Kansas Ohio St. UNC Wisconsin	Florida Ohio St. UCLA UNC	Ohio St. UCLA UNC Wisconsin	Florida Kansas Ohio St. UNC	Ohio St. UCLA UNC Wisconsin	Florida Kansas Ohio St. UNC	Ohio St. UCLA UNC Wisconsin	Florida Kansas Texas A&M UNC	Florida Georgetown Kansas Memphis
Predicted Finalists:	Ohio St. UCLA	Ohio St. Wisconsin	Florida Ohio St.	Ohio St. Wisconsin	Kansas UNC	Ohio St. UCLA	Florida UNC	Ohio St. Wisconsin	Kansas UNC	Florida Georgetown
Predicted Champion:	Ohio St.	Ohio St.	Ohio St.	Ohio St.	UNC	UCLA	UNC	Ohio St.	UNC	Georgetown

White = High Score, Red = Incorrect Pick

(All values for the vaious ranking systems were collected before the NCAA tournament began.
Those sites that continue to update throughout the tournament may not still agree with the orginal data.)

Oh well. Back to the drawing board.