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  <title><![CDATA[YouTube: Georgia Tech System Makes Best NCAA Picks]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>You don't need a crystal ball to create your own NCAA
basketball March Madness bracket pool this year. In a recent video posted on
YouTube, Joel Sokol, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of
Industrial and Systems Engineering, discusses how LRMC (Logistic Regression
Markov Chain), a computer ranking system, has predicted the outcomes of NCAA
tournament games more accurately than other competing ranking systems.&nbsp; </p><p>Watch this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LxeBZnVhQ&amp;context=C34b5259ADOEgsToPDskIaljKsd6kl9hkKjBiJeQdg">video</a>
to learn more about Sokol’s research and LRMC predictions.</p>]]></body>
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