Weighted Random Bracket Generator
I am a big fan of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. I like to fill out online brackets at ESPN.com for fun every year. Well, I noticed there was an option to randomly generate the bracket this year. For each game, each team had a 50/50 chance of winning. This can quickly turns into a bracket buster when a large amount of lower seeded teams advance. I also know ESPN has what they call their power index for each team and determine the odds of each team advancing to each round ( found here ). So I decided to make a weighted random bracket generator to actually make a more intelligent selection for each game based on these odds.
Feel free to give it a go!