Ep 79: All About Tournaments — History, Math, Chaos, and Memories

The Bufnagle Team takes on the topic of tournaments and all the fun and zany stuff inside them.  Join us for a discussion of some history of the NCAA college basketball tournament, combinatorics and victory probabilities, the importance and consequence of seedings, single- and dounle-elimination tournaments, and how all the drama and excitement in tournaments give us the memories that make us rich.(Oh, and Bob, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist, gets a call-out for a special historical astronomical event!)*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!