{"id":48931,"date":"2015-03-20T03:54:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_dailyfix_the_madness_of_georgia_states_improbable_comeback_in_the_ncaa_\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T03:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:54:36","slug":"wsj_dailyfix_the_madness_of_georgia_states_improbable_comeback_in_the_ncaa_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48931","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ DailyFix) The Madness of Georgia State\u2019s Improbable Comeback in the NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how it happened. No. 3 seed Baylor was up 56-46 on No. 14 seed Georgia State with 1:54 left in their NCAA tournament opener Thursday. The upset was virtually impossible at that point. It\u2019s actually possible to put a number to it with a calculator on kenpom.com that controls for factors like time and possession and spits out win probabilities. It isn\u2019t perfect, but it\u2019s as close as college basketball comes to real-time odds.<\/p>\n<p>So how unlikely was the Georgia State win? This calculator had Baylor\u2019s win probability at 99.9%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/dailyfix\/2015\/03\/19\/the-madness-of-georgia-states-improbable-comeback\/?mod=e2tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how it happened. No. 3 seed Baylor was up 56-46 on No. 14 seed Georgia State with 1:54 left in their NCAA tournament opener Thursday. The upset was virtually impossible at that point. It\u2019s actually possible to put a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48931\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,125,128,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-men","category-sports","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}