Dear Colleagues,

After a successful inaugural Statsketball competition last year where HS and undergrad students could apply their statistical skills to two contests associated with the NCAA men's basketball tournament, we are again sponsoring the contests through This is Statistics.

The information pasted below is from http://thisisstatistics.org/home-2/statsketball/. Please help spread the word!

6 rounds.

68 teams.

Thousands of possibilities.

One winner.

Statsketball Tournament 2018

Don't leave your NCAA College Basketball Tournament bracket predictions to chance-put your statistics skills to the test!

We already know statistics has the power to best predict a winner, and analytics careers in sports are booming. Whether you enter for fun or to jumpstart your future career as a statistician, you won't want to miss it.

This is Statistics and the American Statistical Association are challenging high school and undergraduate students to predict the outcome of the 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament using statistics rather than luck.

Get Started

Statsketball consists of two challenges, open to high school and undergraduate students:

"Pick 'Em": Upset Challenge - Submit a list of 32 winners to the first-round games.

"Build Your Own Bracket": Draft Challenge - You have 224 drafts points to assemble your cohort of teams from the seeded participants. 

Get the full details, rules and prizes for the challenges here. All submissions are due by March 14, 2018, at 12:00PM ET. 

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Thanks,
Rebecca

Rebecca Nichols 

Director of Education  

American Statistical Association
Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics®
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