About the Competition
Student teams will use team-level box score data from an entire regular season of women’s college basketball to rank teams after the regular season and then predict winning percentages of a subset of games in post-season play.
Students will receive a complete regular season of data that includes team statistics that inform decision-making. Based on the regular season game results, student teams will report two results:
- Rank the top 64 teams from high to low to inform the post-season tournament bracket.
- Predict the probabilities of Team A winning over Team B for a subset of post-season games.
The full competition will take part in 3 phases, as listed below:
Submission and Scoring
- Phase 1: Rankings and Probabilities will be auto-scored.
- Phase 2: 25 detailed submissions will be reviewed and scored by a defined rubric.
- Phase 3: The top 5 teams present via Zoom live to judges. Judges deliberate and announce 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.