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Same! Joke’s on them, I have to drive 0 miles! Neener neener.

"my bracket", as it's commonly known.

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must be basketball related, judging by them being on the chart. can't say i agree about pedo group. but "aggregate seed total" doesn't help 😂

Jesus christ and I thought I'd been on here too long.

They added insult to injury by having only a single frame at the end include all data.

am I too European to understand anything of this title?

be sure to include a picture of your white van in the ads.

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I know this is off topic but.. what is men's sweet 16? This sounds like a pedo group that targets 16 year old girls birthday parties but that can't possibly be what this is. Right?

Yeah, this type of info is so dataviz friendly. I’ve done some ncaa tourney charts about 5 years ago when I joined Reddit. I’m sure they sucked but I’m curious to dig them up anyways.

Why is it relevant to compare a stock (assets under management) to a flow (Swiss GDP)? Perhaps a more relevant comparison would be the assets of a large pension fund (eg Calpers).

that was my theory too watching college football in 2021 with so many upsets. The top teams still had their regular NFL attrition but the small teams retained all the 5th year guys they would’ve lost. Gap closed

You could then show the same view at different points in the tournament: sweet 16, elite 8, final four

That’s a good option.

But why not make it an average seed and make the scale start at zero… (0-8 scale)

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I'm really happy that you like it :)

About the same time as me old man.

I've asked this question of sports people for some time but have never been given a definitive answer. Why are teams and athletes ranked as "seed?"

Not 1st, 2nd, 5th, or 10th place ... not distinguished, but "seed."

Does anyone know where the term "seed" came from? Just curious ....

I liked it. Enjoyed it actually, it made me follow along the graph more

Maybe you should add that this is a sports ball statistic. I was confused for a while until I saw those were baseballs and googled it.

That's really awesome. I've been trying to learn R/ggplot myself as well lately and it can be tough but your graph looks really cool!

Yes. It’s basketball in the NCAA tournament specifically.

It’s easy when you see it but it sounds complicated to explain.

The tournament has 64 teams split into 4 regions. In each region, every team has a ranking between 1 and 16 and the teams play each other. A winning team advances to the next round and the losing team is eliminated.

This chart is examining the sum of the seed numbers of the teams that make it to the third round (called the sweet 16) each year in the tournament.

If better (lower) ranked teams beat the higher ranked teams, the sum of the seeds will be lower. This implies that there are fewer upsets.

Statistically, lower seeds are less likely to advance to the final stages. Still, in some years, higher seeds make it to the sweet sixteen and beyond. In such cases, the sum will be much higher and implies there were more upsets in the tournament that year.