Bing Predicts returns to estimate where the best amateur basketball players will call home next season. Three of the largest market teams, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Boston, won the drawing for the top-three lottery slots for 2016. And each is rewarded with strong amateur talent to draw from, as we describe below.
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Bing Predicts kicked off the 2016 elections with the goal of providing user insight, starting with the primary season across all states and territories. Through all primaries, the model’s accuracy was 82 out of 98, or 84 percent. The following discussion analyzes more deeply how Bing Predicts did over the primary season. In addition to predicting a single winner for each state, Bing Predicts also estimated the delegate assignments and kept a...
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While 28 of the 30 pro basketball teams are thinking about future draft needs and other off-season plans, the Golden State and Cleveland teams are thinking about tonight’s rematch and the set of games in the coming weeks that will determine this year’s champions. And just like the rest of the season, Bing is following right along with predictions for who will take home the trophy.
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Today, we are launching a new Predicts experience for the upcoming spring trio of major horse races, starting with the Kentucky Derby this Saturday. The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports Thoroughbred racing is an exciting–and difficult–sport to predict. For example, the collective wisdom of the crowd captured by the betting markets only managed to correctly predict the winner in 37 percent of all races in the past 10 years.
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The annual football ‘job fair’ is upon us. So Bing Predicts is weighing in on which pro teams the elite college football players might sign on with. The Bing Predicts models use web and social data to algorithmically determine the most likely matches between players and team for a given position. This marks the second year we’ve predicted the football draft, and last year we were, on average, off by just one spot in the first...
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Is March NOT the best month of the year for basketball? Every year college hoops fans go into the NCAA® tournament with the high hope of creating a perfect bracket, and the more realistic aspiration that every game in the tournament will be a nail-biting thrill. This year, even more so than years past, the madness has delivered.
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The Round of 16 is upon us, and all four No. 1 seeds are still alive. Lost among the chatter of Michigan State’s upset is that the No. 1 seeded team in the Midwest is actually alive and well. Our finals prediction of Kansas over North Carolina remains intact and our 3rd NCAA® Final Four® entrant, Duke, is also still alive. We’ll preview the 2nd weekend of basketball, but first a quick summary of how we did in the initial weekend.
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Tomorrow is Super Tuesday and a big day for presidential candidates, with each party holding 11 state primaries and caucuses– the most on a single day during this campaign. This also concludes the initial phase of primaries. In the past 20 years, the victor of Super Tuesday eventually moved on to secure their respective party’s presidential nomination. So the pressure is on as candidates vie for votes. Bing Predicts has crunched the...
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Three weeks ago, we launched the site Are We In?, which gives you the latest status for whether your favorite college basketball team will or won’t make the tournament. Early feedback has been positive, and some users had questions around the insight for how probabilities match with our projections. In this blog we’ll describe in more detail the numbers and use visualizations from the newly-released Power BI “Publish to Web&rdquo...
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Earlier this week, Bing launched the Primaries 2016 experience to provide users a timeline, real-time results and predictions for state primaries and caucuses. The primaries tracker joins the Bing Political Index (BPI), Candidate Trends, and the other features of the Bing Elections experience to provide a simple yet powerful view of the candidates and issues. To complement our online experience, Bing Predicts analyzed public reaction to the fifth...
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