03-28-2017, 07:02 PM
(03-28-2017, 04:23 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:fivethiryeight's March Madness prediction algorithm gives us a 31% chance of beating South Carolina and then only a 4% chance of winning the final (87% chance that we would play UConn in that final).
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/201...ns/womens/
Here is the progression of their odds for Stanford reaching these levels. (so pre-tourney, their odds of us making the Final Four were 10%).
Interesting that they gave us only 25% odds of beating ND but now give us 31% odds of beating So. Carolina. I bet Dawn Staley wouldn't say that her team is more than twice as likely to beat Stanford.
| When | . . . . E8 | . . . FF | . NC game | . . Win |
| Pre-tourney | 36% | 10% | 5% | <1% |
| pre-Sweet 16 | 51% | 16% | 7% | <1% |
| pre-Elite 8 | 100% | 25% | 9% | <1% |
| pre-Final 4 | 100% | 100% | 31% | 4% |
