The Bracket Project

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

The 2021 Bracket Matrix Links

These are all the links used in the 2021 Bracket Matrix.

Tier 1 (3+ years in the matrix, above average)

The Bracket Project

1-3-1 Sports
The 17th Seed
Bazinga Bracketology
Boiling the Bracket
Bracketball
Bracketology Corral - Bill Riccette
Bracket Bros
The Bracket Mensa
Brackonomics
Bracksketblogs
Bucky's Bracket
Busting Bracketologists - CJ
Drew's Bracketology
Graham Doeren Bracketology
Head vs. Gut
Heat Check CBB
Hoops HD - Jon Teitel
Inside the Hall
Ivar's Blog
Jabesblog
Jason Wells' Bracketology
KY Brackets
Kyle Foster's Bracketology
MAG
Making the Madness
March Madness 2020
M+J's Bracket Watch
Mondays are for Bracketology
No Perfect Bracket
Nothing but Nylon
Oak Creek's March Madness
Prime Time Bracketology - Grant Hansell
Random Bracket Blog
Razorbrackets
RFS Bracket Science
RSN Bracketology
Selje's Bracketology
Spidey's Bracket
Stuck in 1977
Syracusefan7's Bracketology
WNUR Sports

Best Damn Bracket Period
Bracketville
Bracket Brad's Big Board - @NoisyHuevos
Bracket Forecast - Rusty Tutton
Bracket WAG
Busting the Bracket - Jeff Borzello
The Catch and Shoot
CBS Sports - Jerry Palm
D Ratings
Delphi Bracketology
Elam Seeding Predictions (M-Sports Fans)
ESPN - Joe Lunardi
Facts and Bracks
Gade Pool
Haslametrics
Heat Check CBB - Lukas Harkins
Hindertology
Jason Lisk Bracketology (Team Rankings)
Lobofan2003's Bracketology
One Man Committee
Pulse on Sports - Kevin Pulsifer
RaleighWX Bracketology
Rocco Miller's Bracketology
RotoWire BracketZology - Adam Zdroik
Ruckles Bracketology
SB Nation - Chris Dobbertean
Sporting News - Ryan Fagan
Stadium - Tim Krueger
The Steelers n'at

Stewart SP Bracketology
Switch the Coverage
This Ain't Bracket Science
VTS Bracketmaker
Weber Sports

Tier 2 (1-2 years in the matrix, above average)

Bauertology
Bracket Beyond
Crazy Sports Dude
From the Rafters
Full Court Press
Hardwood and Hollywood
TheNightVenom
Seanny P Bracketology
seeding68
Sluder Bracketology
The Truth's Bracketology

AMA Bracketology
Anthony's Blog
Bracketometry
Cardinaldave's Bracketology
Connor Groel's Bracketology (Top Level Sports)
Devils Digest - Jeff Griffith (Formerly Sideline Intel)
DPI Bracketology
The Game Haus
Isaac Perrigo's Bracketology
NCAA.com - Andy Katz
Robo Macketology
Ryan Tures Bracketology
The Stats Guru

Tier 3 (3+ years in the matrix, below average)

Aidan's Bracketology
Beef's Bracketology
Blacketology
Bracket Predictions
Bracketville USA
Bracks on Bracks
Brad-ketology
Carolina Sports Thoughts
Deuce 2 Sports
Eye on the Tournament
G Money's Sports Page
HoopsHD
ncaabracketology
Regan NCAA Tournament Index

Bleacher Report - Kerry Miller

Bracket Odds
Bracket Research
Bracket Zac
The Coach and Crew Show
College Sports Madness
Crashing the Dance
Crimson Cast
Crotistics
Gators First
KPI Rankings
Numberfire
Real Time RPI
RTS Ratings
Schmolik 64
Seed Madness
T-Ranketology - Bart Torvik
Team Rankings
Washington Post - Patrick Stevens
Wilson Rankings

Tier 4 (1-2 years in the matrix, below average)

The BIG Heartland Bracketology (formerly JGood)
BracketBot
Bracket Prophet
Bracket Racket
Bracketology Busters
Busted Bracketology
CBB Review
Cracked Sidewalks
Heartbreak City
Let Me B-Frank
Logan's Sports Ratings
Made for March
The Pi-Rate Ratings

The Athletic - Brian Bennett
Bracket Bingo
Crossroads Sports
Deceptive Speed
The Geek's Bracketology
INCC Stats
Radio.com - Jordan Schwartz
Recspecs730 - Luke Benz (formerly YUSAG)
Streaking the Lawn

Tier 5 (New to the matrix)

801 Bracketology
Akey Bracket Composite
Bluegrass Bracketology
Bracket Doctor
Bracket Engineering

Bracketaday

Georgia Basketball Blog
Harrison Bracket
Jacob Larson's Bracketology
Last Word on Pro Basketball
Mad About March
Mark Stouffer's Bracketology
MRFSF68
Skarmory's Bracketology
Teacher Bracket

All Sports 256
Another Bracket
Advanced Projections Bracketology
The Barking Crow
Bub's Bracketology
Calm Yourself Bracketology
Clay Ramsey's Bracketology
Dubz on Hoops
Evan Miyakawa's Bracketology
FOX Sports - Mike DeCourcy
HerkyHopeful's Sports Blog
Jakesnake42 Bracketology
jMorr Bracketology
JNG Nitty Gritty Rankings

JS Bracket Update
Keith's Sports Bracketology
A Matter of Time
Mudville Analytics
The Neutral Site Podcast
Our Daily Bears
Paul Hageman's Bracketology
Picks and Bricks
The Spur Frick
T3 Bracketology
Top Tier Bracketology
YAGO Bracketology
Yahoo Sports - Michael Lazarus

Welcome Back! 2021 Edition

Welcome to yet another season of The Bracket Project. I really hope we can get to March (April? May?) Madness but a lot of things are fluid, so let's take it one day at a time.

If you want to contribute to the matrix, please read this:

1. You need to set up a place to post your bracket that will be consistent throughout the season. A blog will do. A web site will most definitely do. A bracket posted on a message board will generally not do. The link will change frequently and will get lost in various discussions, making it difficult for the average reader to find it. (Exception: A message board or Twitter feed devoted exclusively to bracketology or at least, a sticky post.) Also, you can't post it on Facebook or some other social networking site because not everyone can access it. In order to promote discussion, an email address or some comment platform should be provided so that readers can praise or criticize your bracket.

2. You have to tell me where your site is. I don't have a sixth sense when it comes to finding these things. I rely on you and readers like you to tell me what kind of sites to add to this page.

3. A seed list is good enough for the matrix but if you build a bracket, remember that the NCAA sets up procedures and principles for building a bracket. Read them! A seriously flawed bracket won't be posted. However, if your seedings are out of the norm, I'll still most likely post it provided that the principles are followed and you have an explanation as to why you've built the bracket like you did. I reserve the right to not post a bracket with something like a winless team as a #1 seed.

4. Brackets and seed lists should be your opinion only. Don't just copy another site's work (or the matrix) and call it your own.

5. Please date-stamp your bracket. Brackets of a certain age will be removed from the list, and if there's no date-stamp, obviously I can't tell when your bracket was updated.

6. To make it easier on me, please format your bracket so that at least half of it can be seen on the screen at any one time. Brackets must have at least 48 seeded teams to be listed in the matrix. Sites that merely list teams with no seeding can be linked to the page but will not be added to the matrix. To be listed in the final matrix of the season, you must have all 68 seeded teams.

7. No new sites will be added to the 2021 page after March 1, 2021 (subject to change based on when Selection Sunday takes place) unless you appear in the rankings page (linked to the side), in which case, you will be grandfathered in. In addition, no bracket will be accepted to the final matrix of the season after the beginning of the Selection Sunday show.

8. Link to my site! I've linked to yours!

9. I'm only one guy. If this could pay me what I get at my regular job, I'd update this site 24/7. That simply is not the case. If someone else can do this better, I'll gladly step aside, but from the looks of it after all these years, I'm still the only (crazy) one. So if you don't see your site on here, an update hasn't been done for a while or I don't respond to you, I hope you'll understand why.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Wrapping Up 2020

Around this time, there would be 200 brackets waiting to be processed into the final matrix of the year. Instead, it's all quiet as the NCAA announced earlier that they would not produce a final bracket for the season.

90 sites produced brackets after the last day of competition last week and all are featured on the matrix page. I created a bracket out of those.

Thanks to everyone who followed or contributed to the matrix this season. Stay safe and healthy.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Welcome Back! 2020 Edition

Welcome to yet another season of The Bracket Project.

If you want to contribute to the matrix, please read this:

1. You need to set up a place to post your bracket that will be consistent throughout the season. A blog will do. A web site will most definitely do. A bracket posted on a message board will generally not do. The link will change frequently and will get lost in various discussions, making it difficult for the average reader to find it. (Exception: A message board or Twitter feed devoted exclusively to bracketology or at least, a sticky post.) Also, you can't post it on Facebook or some other social networking site because not everyone can access it. In order to promote discussion, an email address or some comment platform should be provided so that readers can praise or criticize your bracket.

2. You have to tell me where your site is. I don't have a sixth sense when it comes to finding these things. I rely on you and readers like you to tell me what kind of sites to add to this page.

3. A seed list is good enough for the matrix but if you build a bracket, remember that the NCAA sets up procedures and principles for building a bracket. Read them! A seriously flawed bracket won't be posted. However, if your seedings are out of the norm, I'll still most likely post it provided that the principles are followed and you have an explanation as to why you've built the bracket like you did. I reserve the right to not post a bracket with something like a winless team as a #1 seed.

4. Brackets and seed lists should be your opinion only. Don't just copy another site's work (or the matrix) and call it your own.

5. Please date-stamp your bracket. Brackets of a certain age will be removed from the list, and if there's no date-stamp, obviously I can't tell when your bracket was updated.

6. To make it easier on me, please format your bracket so that at least half of it can be seen on the screen at any one time. Brackets must have at least 48 seeded teams to be listed in the matrix. Sites that merely list teams with no seeding can be linked to the page but will not be added to the matrix. To be listed in the final matrix of the season, you must have all 68 seeded teams.

7. No new sites will be added to the 2020 page after March 1, 2020 unless you appear in the rankings page (linked to the side), in which case, you will be grandfathered in. In addition, no bracket will be accepted to the final matrix of the season after the beginning of the Selection Sunday show.

8. Link to my site! I've linked to yours!

9. I'm only one guy. If this could pay me what I get at my regular job, I'd update this site 24/7. That simply is not the case. If someone else can do this better, I'll gladly step aside, but from the looks of it after all these years, I'm still the only (crazy) one. So if you don't see your site on here, an update hasn't been done for a while or I don't respond to you, I hope you'll understand why.

Monday, September 2, 2019

2020 Preseason Bracketology Tracker

Here's a list of sites that have gotten a jump start on the 2019-20 season. This list is frozen as of October 6. Next update will be the first matrix on November 5.

October 6 - Bracket Bingo

October 3 - ESPN - Joe Lunardi

September 16 - Andy Katz

September 4 - Making the Madness

August 1 - CBS Sports - Jerry Palm

August 1 - Busting Brackets

July 24 - Delphi Bracketology

July 23 - Bracket WAG

June 3 - Ivar's Blog

April 9 - Bracket Odds

April 9 - Isaac Perrigo Bracketology

April 9 - Three-Man-Weave

Countdown - College Sports Madness

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

2019 Prediction

My prediction for this year's tournament.