arXiv Open Access 2026

NCAA Bracket Prediction Using Machine Learning and Combinatorial Fusion Analysis

Yuanhong Wu Isaiah Smith Tushar Marwah Michael Schroeter Mohamed Rahouti +1 lainnya

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Machine learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in sports prediction in the past years, often treating sports prediction as a classification task within the field. This paper introduces new perspectives for analyzing sports data to predict outcomes more accurately. We leverage rankings to generate team rankings for the 2024 dataset using Combinatorial Fusion Analysis (CFA), a new paradigm for combining multiple scoring systems through the rank-score characteristic (RSC) function and cognitive diversity (CD). Our result based on rank combination with respect to team ranking has an accuracy rate of $74.60\%$, which is higher than the best of the ten popular public ranking systems ($73.02\%$). This exhibits the efficacy of CFA in enhancing the precision of sports prediction through different lens.

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Yuanhong Wu

Isaiah Smith

Tushar Marwah

Michael Schroeter

Mohamed Rahouti

D. Frank Hsu

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Wu, Y., Smith, I., Marwah, T., Schroeter, M., Rahouti, M., Hsu, D.F. (2026). NCAA Bracket Prediction Using Machine Learning and Combinatorial Fusion Analysis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10916

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Tahun Terbit: 2026
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓