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Pure Bracket Wisdom Episode 2: The one thing you must get right to win

A decade ago, Ed Feng was just a curious sports fan who wanted to win his bracket in March.&nbsp;He enjoyed&nbsp;books like Moneyball and Basketball on Paper but never put the ideas to use for winning a pool.&nbsp;That changed in 2008. After reading an academic paper on Google’s technology, Ed was inspired to apply his Stanford Ph.D. to the ranking of sports teams.&nbsp;&nbsp;From 2002 through 2018, his pre-tournament numbers predicted the winner of 71.2% of March Madness games (792-320).In this ten part podcast series Ed will explain how you can push all the right buttons and win your bracket.