Welcome to this year's March Madness® Men's Division I Tournament competition, in official partnership with Google Cloud & NCAA®. The Women's Division I Tournament competition is also available to enter separately.
\n\nTake a close look at the Timeline, Data & Evaluation pages, which explain how this ML competition works a bit differently from your standard bracket challenge.
\n\nUntil Selection Sunday®, the data for Stage 1 will be previous year's data, with which you can train your models on predicting prior years' results. These results are to help you enhance your models, and will reflect on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard will start fresh for this year's tournament. Once the bracket has been finalized, we will provide updated data and a sample submission file for you to predict this year's field, and we'll update the scores as the games conclude!
\n\nAlso this year, we're excited to challenge you with a new (separate) analytics challenge. Can you use data to predict the \"competitiveness\" of teams that often contribute to the madness? We're excited to see the Notebooks you come up with to demonstrate what this may look like, and how to articulate what keeps people on the edge of their seat. Click here for more details
\n\nEnjoy, and let the madness begin!
", "messages": [ { "id": 1201037, "postDate": "2021-02-15T05:58:17.920Z", "content": "Hi Addison! Any news on if there will be a competition like this for 2021? I saw that past years the data was released on Feb 14th
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi Addison! Any news on if there will be a competition like this for 2021? I saw that past years the data was released on Feb 14th", "votes": 7, "replies": [ { "id": 1205435, "postDate": "2021-02-16T17:07:24.567Z", "content": "We're working on it! The Google Cloud partnership with the NCAA ended last season, so we're working to prepare the dataset for this year as well.
", "rawMarkdown": "We're working on it! The Google Cloud partnership with the NCAA ended last season, so we're working to prepare the dataset for this year as well.", "votes": 6 }, { "id": 1205578, "postDate": "2021-02-16T19:34:52.017Z", "content": "Awesome! Thanks for getting back to me so quick. I am planning to some content around it and would be happy to spread the contest within my communities!
", "rawMarkdown": "Awesome! Thanks for getting back to me so quick. I am planning to some content around it and would be happy to spread the contest within my communities! ", "votes": 4 } ] }, { "id": 746438, "postDate": "2020-02-15T02:16:16.787Z", "content": "Welcome to this year's March Madness® Men's Division I Tournament competition, in official partnership with Google Cloud & NCAA®. The Women's Division I Tournament competition is also available to enter separately.
\n\nTake a close look at the Timeline, Data & Evaluation pages, which explain how this ML competition works a bit differently from your standard bracket challenge.
\n\nUntil Selection Sunday®, the data for Stage 1 will be previous year's data, with which you can train your models on predicting prior years' results. These results are to help you enhance your models, and will reflect on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard will start fresh for this year's tournament. Once the bracket has been finalized, we will provide updated data and a sample submission file for you to predict this year's field, and we'll update the scores as the games conclude!
\n\nAlso this year, we're excited to challenge you with a new (separate) analytics challenge. Can you use data to predict the \"competitiveness\" of teams that often contribute to the madness? We're excited to see the Notebooks you come up with to demonstrate what this may look like, and how to articulate what keeps people on the edge of their seat. Click here for more details
\n\nEnjoy, and let the madness begin!
", "rawMarkdown": "Welcome to this year's March Madness® Men's Division I Tournament competition, in official partnership with Google Cloud & NCAA®. The [Women's Division I Tournament competition][1] is also available to enter separately.\n\nTake a close look at the [Timeline][2], [Data][3] & [Evaluation][4] pages, which explain how this ML competition works a bit differently from your standard bracket challenge.\n\nUntil Selection Sunday®, the data for Stage 1 will be previous year's data, with which you can train your models on predicting prior years' results. These results are to help you enhance your models, and will reflect on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard will start fresh for this year's tournament. Once the bracket has been finalized, we will provide updated data and a sample submission file for you to predict this year's field, and we'll update the scores as the games conclude!\n\nAlso this year, we're excited to challenge you with a new (separate) analytics challenge. Can you use data to predict the \"competitiveness\" of teams that often contribute to the madness? We're excited to see the Notebooks you come up with to demonstrate what this may look like, and how to articulate what keeps people on the edge of their seat. Click [here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/march-madness-analytics-2020) for more details\n\nEnjoy, and let the madness begin!\n\n\n [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-womens-tournament/\n [2]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament#timeline\n [3]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament/data\n [4]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament#evaluation", "votes": 11 }, { "id": 758992, "postDate": "2020-02-28T12:37:47.770Z", "content": "\n\n> Sports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.
\n\nI totally agree and - despite not being a woman - really do empathize, as the setup in extremely unfair to women:
\n\n\"Women also exhibited about 40 percent less upper-body strength and 33 percent less lower-body strength, on average\"
\n\nSource: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.2000.89.1.81
\n\nTranslating this difference into athletics: do the math :-(
\n\n> Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?
\n\nGoogle is an extremely \"progressive\" organization, Kaggle is owned by Google: do the math :-(
", "rawMarkdown": "@domcastro \n\n> Sports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.\n\nI totally agree and - despite not being a woman - really do empathize, as the setup in extremely unfair to women:\n\n\"Women also exhibited about 40 percent less upper-body strength and 33 percent less lower-body strength, on average\"\n\nSource: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.2000.89.1.81\n\nTranslating this difference into athletics: do the math :-( \n\n> Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?\n\nGoogle is an extremely \"progressive\" organization, Kaggle is owned by Google: do the math :-( \n\n", "replies": [ { "id": 759029, "postDate": "2020-02-28T13:22:51.250Z", "content": "Thank you! I appreciate that. We all have to stand up to this and see it for what it is. Sexism is not Progressive.
", "rawMarkdown": "Thank you! I appreciate that. We all have to stand up to this and see it for what it is. Sexism is not Progressive. ", "votes": -1 }, { "id": 759042, "postDate": "2020-02-28T13:48:50.873Z", "content": "Due to the sensitive nature of the topic, I am channelling my inner Englishman and trying to be euphemistic. I will add quotation marks to avoid ambiguity.
", "rawMarkdown": "Due to the sensitive nature of the topic, I am channelling my inner Englishman and trying to be euphemistic. I will add quotation marks to avoid ambiguity." }, { "id": 759192, "postDate": "2020-02-28T17:42:52.940Z", "content": "Kaggle has a running tradition of bringing this competition to the platform.
\n\nTo be very frank (which I hope is appreciated here), if we stopped running competitions that anyone had a concern with, there would be far fewer competitions. (Some people thought PetFinder was unethical, for example.)
\n\nThere are established guidelines where we have a hard line in the sand. Pretty much everything else will have a multitude of opinions about the appropriateness of the competition. (Which is why Kaggle competitions continue be voluntary to enter.)
\n\nWe always appreciate the feedback, and will do our best to make decisions that often have competing factors.
", "rawMarkdown": "Kaggle has a running tradition of bringing this competition to the platform. \n\nTo be very frank (which I hope is appreciated here), if we stopped running competitions that anyone had a concern with, there would be far fewer competitions. (Some people thought PetFinder was unethical, for example.)\n\nThere are established guidelines where we have a hard line in the sand. Pretty much everything else will have a multitude of opinions about the appropriateness of the competition. (Which is why Kaggle competitions continue be voluntary to enter.)\n\nWe always appreciate the feedback, and will do our best to make decisions that often have competing factors. ", "votes": 4 }, { "id": 759238, "postDate": "2020-02-28T19:00:38.673Z", "content": "@inversion I was cynically sarcastic and you engaged my point instead of deleting my post or sth - so yes, the honesty is appreciated, at least by yours truly. I wish more people showed your level of civility.
", "rawMarkdown": "@inversion I was cynically sarcastic and you engaged my point instead of deleting my post or sth - so yes, the honesty is appreciated, at least by yours truly. I wish more people showed your level of civility.", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 760091, "postDate": "2020-02-29T21:17:02.407Z", "content": "There is a certain irony here, that an organization that actually allows transgender athletes to compete according to their gender identity can be accused of not being progressive enough.
", "rawMarkdown": "There is a certain irony here, that an organization that actually allows transgender athletes to compete according to their gender identity can be accused of not being progressive enough.\n", "votes": -1 }, { "id": 769831, "postDate": "2020-03-12T10:13:44.157Z", "content": "They are not progressive. They pretend to be progressive but when it is only MALES who benefit from \"Progression\" - it's not really \"progression\" is it. They are a disgusting female-hating organisation
", "rawMarkdown": "They are not progressive. They pretend to be progressive but when it is only MALES who benefit from \"Progression\" - it's not really \"progression\" is it. They are a disgusting female-hating organisation", "votes": -1 } ] }, { "id": 758932, "postDate": "2020-02-28T11:10:22.170Z", "content": "Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?\nSports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.
\n\nGoogle - you are batting for the wrong side. Us women will rise and we will take you all on.
\n\nDown with the NCAA. Down with Google. Down with female-haters.
", "rawMarkdown": "Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?\nSports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.\n\nGoogle - you are batting for the wrong side. Us women will rise and we will take you all on.\n\nDown with the NCAA. Down with Google. Down with female-haters.\n", "votes": -1 }, { "id": 1185999, "postDate": "2021-02-04T14:25:47.003Z", "content": "@addisonhoward do we have a competition this year?
", "rawMarkdown": "@addisonhoward do we have a competition this year?" }, { "id": 768173, "postDate": "2020-03-10T14:09:18.980Z", "content": "@addisonhoward Sorry if this is written somewhere, but do we need to sub before first deadline in order to make final sub before 19th?
", "rawMarkdown": "@addisonhoward Sorry if this is written somewhere, but do we need to sub before first deadline in order to make final sub before 19th?", "replies": [ { "id": 768275, "postDate": "2020-03-10T15:47:01.837Z", "content": "As long as you make a submission before the first game on Thursday, March 19, you're eligible!
\n\nNote: I'll extend the deadline to reflect the \"true\" competition end once submissions are locked.
", "rawMarkdown": "As long as you make a submission before the first game on Thursday, March 19, you're eligible!\n\nNote: I'll extend the deadline to reflect the \"true\" competition end once submissions are locked.", "votes": 1 } ] }, { "id": 758952, "postDate": "2020-02-28T11:44:27.070Z", "content": "I have another question concerning Stage 2. We have 68*67/2 predictions to make, for all possible games for the 68 teams. But there are matches which will not take place, because some teams will be eliminated during the first stages. I would like to know how these matches will be evaluated? Are they going to be simply ignored?
This is how we can keep the submission process reasonably sane, by asking for all possible outcomes once, rather than asking for smaller sets of additional submissions at the end of each round (once we know which teams won). It would be smaller submission files, but much crazier because of all the multiple submission deadlines, and people failing to qualify because there was one deadline where they couldn't submit. You are correct that games that didn't happen are simply ignored during the scoring. Only the games among the final 64 teams are scored, so there will be 63 different games that actually contribute to the evaluation score. and thus only 63 data rows in your submission file will actually matter.
", "rawMarkdown": "This is how we can keep the submission process reasonably sane, by asking for all possible outcomes once, rather than asking for smaller sets of additional submissions at the end of each round (once we know which teams won). It would be smaller submission files, but much crazier because of all the multiple submission deadlines, and people failing to qualify because there was one deadline where they couldn't submit. You are correct that games that didn't happen are simply ignored during the scoring. Only the games among the final 64 teams are scored, so there will be 63 different games that actually contribute to the evaluation score. and thus only 63 data rows in your submission file will actually matter.", "votes": 3 }, { "id": 759278, "postDate": "2020-02-28T20:48:52.707Z", "content": "OK, thank you, that sounds to be the best and most logical solution indeed.
", "rawMarkdown": "OK, thank you, that sounds to be the best and most logical solution indeed. " } ] }, { "id": 756207, "postDate": "2020-02-25T14:13:14.080Z", "content": "Hallo, I have a question concerning stage 2: are we going to get the seeds of the teams for 2020, in order to use them in our final prediction ? I noticed that the seeds are different every year for certain teams.
", "rawMarkdown": "Hallo, I have a question concerning stage 2: are we going to get the seeds of the teams for 2020, in order to use them in our final prediction ? I noticed that the seeds are different every year for certain teams.", "replies": [ { "id": 756472, "postDate": "2020-02-25T18:39:09.520Z", "content": "Yes! The 2020 data files (including seeds) will be updated the right after they announce seeding for the tournament. Might be useful to go look at last years comps to see the difference between what you can expect from stage 1 and stage 2.
\n\nExact dates are listed in the comp description, but I believe seeds are announced March 15th and the submissions will be due on the 18th so it's a bit of a tight window.
", "rawMarkdown": "Yes! The 2020 data files (including seeds) will be updated the right after they announce seeding for the tournament. Might be useful to go look at last years comps to see the difference between what you can expect from stage 1 and stage 2.\n\nExact dates are listed in the comp description, but I believe seeds are announced March 15th and the submissions will be due on the 18th so it's a bit of a tight window. ", "votes": 1 } ] }, { "id": 747578, "postDate": "2020-02-16T15:34:31.313Z", "content": "@addisonhoward: is it possible for you to publish the solution files of 2015, 2016 and 2017 NCAA tournaments? I think I saw those files last year but I can't find it. Many thanks
", "rawMarkdown": "@addisonhoward: is it possible for you to publish the solution files of 2015, 2016 and 2017 NCAA tournaments? I think I saw those files last year but I can't find it. Many thanks", "replies": [ { "id": 756325, "postDate": "2020-02-25T16:02:58.297Z", "content": "I suppose you are searching for THIS (click on it!)
", "rawMarkdown": "I suppose you are searching for [THIS](https://www.kaggle.com/c/mens-machine-learning-competition-2019/discussion/130624) (click on it!)\n" }, { "id": 756476, "postDate": "2020-02-25T18:42:16.650Z", "content": "If you are speaking of the files with with tourney results... I think those were posted in the discussion for either the men's or women's tourney (it had links to both). You might look there if you really need those for some reason, though they could easily be regenerated from the Stage 1 data files.
", "rawMarkdown": "If you are speaking of the files with with tourney results... I think those were posted in the discussion for either the men's or women's tourney (it had links to both). You might look there if you really need those for some reason, though they could easily be regenerated from the Stage 1 data files." }, { "id": 758939, "postDate": "2020-02-28T11:17:10.340Z", "content": "I'm referring to this kind of file: https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/2018-ncaa-solution-file-mens. 2018 & 2019 are already available in the dataset.
", "rawMarkdown": "I'm referring to this kind of file: https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/2018-ncaa-solution-file-mens. 2018 & 2019 are already available in the dataset." } ] }, { "id": 752962, "postDate": "2020-02-21T15:23:35.897Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true } ], "comments": [ { "id": 1201037, "author_name": "Ken Jee", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-02-15T05:58:17.920000", "content": "Hi Addison! Any news on if there will be a competition like this for 2021? I saw that past years the data was released on Feb 14th
", "votes": 7, "replies": [ { "id": 1205435, "author_name": "Addison Howard", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-02-16T17:07:24.567000", "content": "We're working on it! The Google Cloud partnership with the NCAA ended last season, so we're working to prepare the dataset for this year as well.
", "votes": 6, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1205578, "author_name": "Ken Jee", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-02-16T19:34:52.017000", "content": "Awesome! Thanks for getting back to me so quick. I am planning to some content around it and would be happy to spread the contest within my communities!
", "votes": 4, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 758992, "author_name": "Konrad Banachewicz", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T12:37:47.770000", "content": "\n\n> Sports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.
\n\nI totally agree and - despite not being a woman - really do empathize, as the setup in extremely unfair to women:
\n\n\"Women also exhibited about 40 percent less upper-body strength and 33 percent less lower-body strength, on average\"
\n\nSource: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.2000.89.1.81
\n\nTranslating this difference into athletics: do the math :-(
\n\n> Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?
\n\nGoogle is an extremely \"progressive\" organization, Kaggle is owned by Google: do the math :-(
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 759029, "author_name": "Bluefool", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T13:22:51.250000", "content": "Thank you! I appreciate that. We all have to stand up to this and see it for what it is. Sexism is not Progressive.
", "votes": -1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 759042, "author_name": "Konrad Banachewicz", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T13:48:50.873000", "content": "Due to the sensitive nature of the topic, I am channelling my inner Englishman and trying to be euphemistic. I will add quotation marks to avoid ambiguity.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 759192, "author_name": "inversion", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T17:42:52.940000", "content": "Kaggle has a running tradition of bringing this competition to the platform.
\n\nTo be very frank (which I hope is appreciated here), if we stopped running competitions that anyone had a concern with, there would be far fewer competitions. (Some people thought PetFinder was unethical, for example.)
\n\nThere are established guidelines where we have a hard line in the sand. Pretty much everything else will have a multitude of opinions about the appropriateness of the competition. (Which is why Kaggle competitions continue be voluntary to enter.)
\n\nWe always appreciate the feedback, and will do our best to make decisions that often have competing factors.
", "votes": 4, "replies": [] }, { "id": 759238, "author_name": "Konrad Banachewicz", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T19:00:38.673000", "content": "@inversion I was cynically sarcastic and you engaged my point instead of deleting my post or sth - so yes, the honesty is appreciated, at least by yours truly. I wish more people showed your level of civility.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 760091, "author_name": "Taffey Lewis", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-29T21:17:02.407000", "content": "There is a certain irony here, that an organization that actually allows transgender athletes to compete according to their gender identity can be accused of not being progressive enough.
", "votes": -1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 769831, "author_name": "Bluefool", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-03-12T10:13:44.157000", "content": "They are not progressive. They pretend to be progressive but when it is only MALES who benefit from \"Progression\" - it's not really \"progression\" is it. They are a disgusting female-hating organisation
", "votes": -1, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 758932, "author_name": "Bluefool", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T11:10:22.170000", "content": "Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?\nSports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.
\n\nGoogle - you are batting for the wrong side. Us women will rise and we will take you all on.
\n\nDown with the NCAA. Down with Google. Down with female-haters.
", "votes": -1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1185999, "author_name": "Punith P N", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-02-04T14:25:47.003000", "content": "@addisonhoward do we have a competition this year?
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 768173, "author_name": "Psi", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-03-10T14:09:18.980000", "content": "@addisonhoward Sorry if this is written somewhere, but do we need to sub before first deadline in order to make final sub before 19th?
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 768275, "author_name": "Addison Howard", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-03-10T15:47:01.837000", "content": "As long as you make a submission before the first game on Thursday, March 19, you're eligible!
\n\nNote: I'll extend the deadline to reflect the \"true\" competition end once submissions are locked.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 758952, "author_name": "Catadanna", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T11:44:27.070000", "content": "I have another question concerning Stage 2. We have 68*67/2 predictions to make, for all possible games for the 68 teams. But there are matches which will not take place, because some teams will be eliminated during the first stages. I would like to know how these matches will be evaluated? Are they going to be simply ignored?
This is how we can keep the submission process reasonably sane, by asking for all possible outcomes once, rather than asking for smaller sets of additional submissions at the end of each round (once we know which teams won). It would be smaller submission files, but much crazier because of all the multiple submission deadlines, and people failing to qualify because there was one deadline where they couldn't submit. You are correct that games that didn't happen are simply ignored during the scoring. Only the games among the final 64 teams are scored, so there will be 63 different games that actually contribute to the evaluation score. and thus only 63 data rows in your submission file will actually matter.
", "votes": 3, "replies": [] }, { "id": 759278, "author_name": "Catadanna", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T20:48:52.707000", "content": "OK, thank you, that sounds to be the best and most logical solution indeed.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 756207, "author_name": "Catadanna", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-25T14:13:14.080000", "content": "Hallo, I have a question concerning stage 2: are we going to get the seeds of the teams for 2020, in order to use them in our final prediction ? I noticed that the seeds are different every year for certain teams.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 756472, "author_name": "Ryan Armstrong", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-25T18:39:09.520000", "content": "Yes! The 2020 data files (including seeds) will be updated the right after they announce seeding for the tournament. Might be useful to go look at last years comps to see the difference between what you can expect from stage 1 and stage 2.
\n\nExact dates are listed in the comp description, but I believe seeds are announced March 15th and the submissions will be due on the 18th so it's a bit of a tight window.
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 747578, "author_name": "FGPC", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-16T15:34:31.313000", "content": "@addisonhoward: is it possible for you to publish the solution files of 2015, 2016 and 2017 NCAA tournaments? I think I saw those files last year but I can't find it. Many thanks
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 756325, "author_name": "Catadanna", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-25T16:02:58.297000", "content": "I suppose you are searching for THIS (click on it!)
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 756476, "author_name": "Ryan Armstrong", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-25T18:42:16.650000", "content": "If you are speaking of the files with with tourney results... I think those were posted in the discussion for either the men's or women's tourney (it had links to both). You might look there if you really need those for some reason, though they could easily be regenerated from the Stage 1 data files.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 758939, "author_name": "FGPC", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-28T11:17:10.340000", "content": "I'm referring to this kind of file: https://www.kaggle.com/kaggle/2018-ncaa-solution-file-mens. 2018 & 2019 are already available in the dataset.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 752962, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2020-02-21T15:23:35.897000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "1201037": "Hi Addison! Any news on if there will be a competition like this for 2021? I saw that past years the data was released on Feb 14th", "746438": "Welcome to this year's March Madness® Men's Division I Tournament competition, in official partnership with Google Cloud & NCAA®. The [Women's Division I Tournament competition][1] is also available to enter separately.\n\nTake a close look at the [Timeline][2], [Data][3] & [Evaluation][4] pages, which explain how this ML competition works a bit differently from your standard bracket challenge.\n\nUntil Selection Sunday®, the data for Stage 1 will be previous year's data, with which you can train your models on predicting prior years' results. These results are to help you enhance your models, and will reflect on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard will start fresh for this year's tournament. Once the bracket has been finalized, we will provide updated data and a sample submission file for you to predict this year's field, and we'll update the scores as the games conclude!\n\nAlso this year, we're excited to challenge you with a new (separate) analytics challenge. Can you use data to predict the \"competitiveness\" of teams that often contribute to the madness? We're excited to see the Notebooks you come up with to demonstrate what this may look like, and how to articulate what keeps people on the edge of their seat. Click [here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/march-madness-analytics-2020) for more details\n\nEnjoy, and let the madness begin!\n\n\n [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-womens-tournament/\n [2]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament#timeline\n [3]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament/data\n [4]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament#evaluation", "758992": "@domcastro \n\n> Sports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.\n\nI totally agree and - despite not being a woman - really do empathize, as the setup in extremely unfair to women:\n\n\"Women also exhibited about 40 percent less upper-body strength and 33 percent less lower-body strength, on average\"\n\nSource: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.2000.89.1.81\n\nTranslating this difference into athletics: do the math :-( \n\n> Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?\n\nGoogle is an extremely \"progressive\" organization, Kaggle is owned by Google: do the math :-( \n\n", "758932": "Why have Google teamed up with a misogynistic and sexist organisation like the NCAA?\nSports should be split by biology not how someone FEELS that morning.\n\nGoogle - you are batting for the wrong side. Us women will rise and we will take you all on.\n\nDown with the NCAA. Down with Google. Down with female-haters.\n", "1185999": "@addisonhoward do we have a competition this year?", "768173": "@addisonhoward Sorry if this is written somewhere, but do we need to sub before first deadline in order to make final sub before 19th?", "758952": "I have another question concerning Stage 2. We have `68*67/2` predictions to make, for all possible games for the 68 teams. But there are matches which will not take place, because some teams will be eliminated during the first stages. I would like to know how these matches will be evaluated? Are they going to be simply ignored? ", "756207": "Hallo, I have a question concerning stage 2: are we going to get the seeds of the teams for 2020, in order to use them in our final prediction ? I noticed that the seeds are different every year for certain teams.", "747578": "@addisonhoward: is it possible for you to publish the solution files of 2015, 2016 and 2017 NCAA tournaments? I think I saw those files last year but I can't find it. Many thanks", "752962": "" } }