Online Master of Science in Analytics Bracket Challenge

Joel Sokol, associate professor in Georgia Tech’s Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and director of the Online Master of Science in Analytics (OMS Analytics) degree program, turns his focus to college basketball every spring to beat the odds. He and Paul Kvam, an ISyE professor of statistics who was in the office next door, developed Georgia Tech’s Logistic Regression/Markov Chain (LRMC), a college basketball ranking system that has been making predictions for the last 15 years.