So far the game simulator has done a good job at picking winners, picking 10 out of the 14 games since I created it. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to go back and simulate the entire NCAA tournament. I tweeted the results as I was simming, here are the resuls. If you would rather view the bracket see below or click here.
Here is my Twitter timeline that includes some more detailed notes about the games, including statistical highlights and keys of the game. You'll need to read from bottom to top.
* most definitely! RT @videnieks: @scacchoops Was your simulated One Shining Moment as awful as the real one too? 11 minutes ago
* I took one sim for each game, plain and simple, Duke was pretty darn good, and made the most of every possession, the sim shows that 12 minutes ago
* Duke over Kansas 69-66 for the National Championship, neither team shoots well Duke 38% Kansas 43%, Duke O Rebs the difference 14 minutes ago
* Kansas and Duke for the championship.... 18 minutes ago
* Duke beats Kentucky 73-72, Smith leads the way with 18 pts, Duke holds Cousins to just 12 & 8 and 3-9 FG, suspect miss FTs almost costs Duke 18 minutes ago
* Kansas beats Xavier 76-58, no Cinderella run from the West region, Crawford's 21 pts not enough as Morris steps up for Kansas with 20 pts 20 minutes ago
* The final 4 has Kansas vs Xavier and Kentucky vs Duke 21 minutes ago
* Duke defeats Baylor 63-49, neither team shoots well, but Mason Plumlee scores 11 pts to pick up Smith & Singler who combined to go 4-17 22 minutes ago
* Kentucky over West Virginia 72-63, Wall goes for 19 pts and 5 asts, and UK makes more 3 pointers than WVU 7-5, way it should've happened 23 minutes ago
* Xavier over Butler 61-52...Bulldogs shoot just 32% and 3-19 from 3 ending their virtual run 25 minutes ago
* Kansas over OK St 76-71, Sherron Collins with 25 pts 26 minutes ago
* on to the Elite 8, we have 5/8 right so far, matchups: Kansas/Ok St, Butler/Xavier, UK/WVU, Duke/Baylor 27 minutes ago
* Baylor over Richmond 78-58, about the same as the actual matchup with St. Mary's 28 minutes ago
* Duke beats Utah St 74-61, closer than I thought it would be 29 minutes ago
* West Virginia goes crazy and beats New Mexico 117-45 32 minutes ago
* Kentucky beats Temple 77-54 33 minutes ago
* Xavier over Florida 80-53 34 minutes ago
* in the battle of the mid-majors, Butler beats Gonzaga 79-67, Mack and Hayward combine for 45 pts 36 minutes ago
* OK St over Tennessee 66-54 37 minutes ago
* Kansas over Mich St 78-64 39 minutes ago
* just to recap the sweet 16 has Kansas/MSU, Tenn/Ok St, Zags/Butler, Xavier/Florida, UK/Temple, N. Mex/WVU, Duke/UT St, Baylor/Richmond 42 minutes ago
* now to the Sweet 16 and a bigtime Kansas/MSU matchup 43 minutes ago
* Richmond upsets Nova 76-70...same round Nova went down in real life 43 minutes ago
* Baylor over Notre Dame 89-87 44 minutes ago
* Utah St over Siena 67-54 about 1 hour ago
* Duke all over Louisville 90-43, Nolan Smith with 33 points including 6-10 from 3 pt range about 1 hour ago
* West Virginia over Mizzou 73-60, on to the South region about 1 hour ago
* New Mexico over Washington 77-68 about 1 hour ago
* Temple over Wisconsin 74-56 about 1 hour ago
* over to the East Region, UK beats Texas 80-75 about 1 hour ago
* Florida with the upset over K State 72-59 about 1 hour ago
* Xavier beats Pitt 59-53 about 1 hour ago
* Butler 81 Vandy 66, Veasley steps up and scores 20 pts making all 3 three pointers attempted about 1 hour ago
* Zags with an upset over Syracuse 84-63 about 1 hour ago
* OK St beats Ohio St 73-58, Anderson scores 20 and OK St hits 11-22 3's to key the upset about 1 hour ago
* Tennessee over Ohio 75-57 about 1 hour ago
* Mich St over Houston 73-57 about 1 hour ago
* Kansas wins 69-54 over UNI, prob should've been the result in real life about 1 hour ago
* starting the 2nd round in the Midwest, up first Kansas/UNI about 1 hour ago
* Nova over Bob Morris 109-47, Reynolds with 34 pts about 1 hour ago
* Richmond over St Mary's 66-53, no Cinderella here about 1 hour ago
* Baylor over Sam Houston St 89-66 about 1 hour ago
* Notre Dame 65 Old Dominion 61 about 1 hour ago
* Siena over Purdue 76-67 about 1 hour ago
* Utah St over Tex A&M 80-45, upset and a blowout about 1 hour ago
* Louisville over Cal 84-55 about 1 hour ago
* Duke 122 Ark PB 44, Scheyer with 33 points about 1 hour ago
* to the South Region about 1 hour ago
* West Virginia over Morgan St 92-27...ugly shooting stats for Morg St about 1 hour ago
* Mizzou beats Clemson 70-69, ACC 0-5 tough tourney about 1 hour ago
* New Mexico over Montana 98-54 about 1 hour ago
* Washington beats Marquette 71-62 about 1 hour ago
* Wisconsin beats Wofford 90-44 about 1 hour ago
* Temple beats Cornell 83-63, so much for that Cinderella about 1 hour ago
* Texas 73 Wake Forest 55, ACC 0-4 now about 1 hour ago
* Kentucky beats E Tenn St 105-39, Cousins with 17 pts 22 rebs about 1 hour ago
* on to the East Region about 1 hour ago
* KSU beats North Tex 98-52 about 1 hour ago
* Florida beats BYU 65-63 about 1 hour ago
* Pitt beats Oakland 84-69 about 1
