NCAA comparison

Comparison of 2009 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	Greenfield	Massey Consensus	Massey Ratings	NCAA Selection Comittee	Pomeroy	RPI	Sagarin	Sagarin ELO	Sagarin Predictor	Simpson
# correct (out of 48):	35	35	36	35	36	35	33	36	33	33	35
Score (64 possible):	48	49	50	48	50	48	45	50	46	44	47
Predicted Final Four:	Duke Michigan St. Missouri UNC	Connecticut Louisville Pittsburgh UNC	Memphis Louisville Pittsburgh UNC	Connecticut Michigan St. Pittsburgh UNC	Connecticut Louisville Pittsburgh UNC	Louisville Memphis Pittsburgh UNC	Duke Louisville Memphis UNC	Connecticut Louisville Pittsburgh UNC	Connecticut Michigan St. Pittsburgh UNC	Louisville Memphis Pittsburgh UNC	Louisville Memphis Pittsburgh UNC
Predicted Finalists:	Duke Michigan St.	Connecticut Pittsburgh	Memphis UNC	Connecticut Pittsburgh	Louisville UNC	Memphis UNC	Duke Louisville	Connecticut UNC	Pittsburgh Connecticut	Memphis UNC	Memphis Pittsburgh
Predicted Champion:	Michigan St.	Pittsburgh	UNC	Connecticut	Louisville	Memphis	Duke	UNC	Connecticut	UNC	Memphis

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.)