I've approached my bracket a little different this year.
I prefer ESPN's Tourney Challenge platform, but the "official" NCAA March Madness platform has a cool feature where you can create your own algorithmic analysis using a number of stats and metrics, and see picks using whatever analysis you create.
I created an analysis that, in my opinion, favors the most important stats historically in terms of tournament success:
Overall efficiency, effective FG%, 3PT%, offensive rebounding, second chance points, true shooting percentage, NET ranking (So SOS is taken into account), and a couple of other offensive stats.
My system really likes UConn over Purdue in the title game.
Some other notable outcomes:
- Colorado in the Sweet 16
- Alabama in the Elite 8
- UAB over SDSU
- James Madison over Houston
- Gonzaga in the Sweet 16
- Samford over Kansas
- UK to the Final Four
- Arizona to Final Four
Normally, I just go with my gut (and to be fair, some of the picks this generated do conflict with what my gut tells me) but I wanted to switch it up this season after I discovered this feature.