What's up, guys, Rick Gaiman here with the fifth annual optimal March Madness bracket where we use math, logic, reason, game theory, and zero basketball knowledge to make the best possible lineup that we can.

This year's a little bit different.

Some of the tools that we've used in the past no longer exist.

That's okay.

I've got solutions there.

So I've got new tools to show you.

And I have a contest for all of us to get into as well, which I think will be fun.

We can use some math for and all that fun stuff.

If you're coming back from a previous year, welcome back.

Thank you.

Good to have you.

Appreciate the support.

If you are new here,

what took you so long. What we're going to do here is me, the guy who covers golf for a living and golf data, who knows nothing about basketball, is going to put a bunch of numbers into

a spreadsheet and try to pump out the best possible bracket that we can make.

It's been pretty successful over the last couple of years.

2019, we are in the 98th percentile.

2021 was 94th percentile, 22, 99th percentile, and 81 percentile in 2023 last year.

So we had Houston last year.

They did not win the championship.

It was still a bracket that was better than 81% of all other brackets that were made.

This concept is very simple.

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