For many sports fans, March is an incredible time of year as millions of people try to create a perfect March Madness bracket. Because this task is close to impossible, statistical methods and artificial intelligence have been put to the test to see if they can help create the coveted perfect bracket. The article writes that "They have found that machine learning alone cannot quite solve the limited data and incalculable human elements of 'The Big Dance.'" Although there are certainly trends in statistics that can be used to help predict upsets, there is so much variance in the tournament that renders the perfect bracket basically impossible. As they say, "Anything can happen in March."
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