As a mathematician and the head of Centre College’s sports analytics initiative, Jeff Heath brings a number cruncher’s approach to correctly predicting NCAA Tournament games.
Heath, 41, has created a system that deploys various metrics to project how the NCAA tourney bracket will play out. Yet even a college professor of math and data science has learned a hard lesson about predicting March Madness.
“Randomness always wins,” Heath says. “We will come up with our best rating, we will be really excited, and in comes Saint Peter’s and screws up everything.”
