Dear Readers,

The models went 9-8 overall in the first round including an awesome 4-1 on our spread picks and a bad 5-7 on our Over/Unders.  I really blame myself for the Over/Under picks as the main culprit was my experiment of utilizing a classifier model to predict the odds of going over certain thresholds.  Gametime is not the time to experiment and I apologize.  For the Round of 32 I went solely back to last year's method of utilizing the predicted average score while adjusting for the model's issue with predictions for high scoring and low scoring games.  With all that said we still beat 50%, but that is not our goal.  Here are 4 picks for the Round of 32 looking to recover and drive to 60%!