Comparison of 2008 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).

  Dance Card Sagarin
ELO		 Sagarin
Predictor		 Score Card
Score
(80 possible):
 53 54 55 54 60 52 52 52 50 49 47
# correct
(out of 52):
 36 37 37 37 39 35 35 35 34 34 34
Predicted
Final Four:
 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
Tennesse
UCLA		 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Texas
UCLA
UNC		 Drake
Kansas
Memphis
UNC
Predicted Finalists:
 UCLA
UNC		 UCLA
UNC		 Memphis
UNC		 Memphis
UNC		 Kansas
UCLA		 Memphis
Tennesse		 Kansas
UNC		 Memphis
UNC		 Kansas
UCLA		 UCLA
UNC		 Kansas
Memphis
Predicted Champion:
 UNC UNC UNC Memphis Kansas Tennesse UNC UNC Kansas UNC Kansas

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.)