Wednesday, April 7, 2010

TeamRankings.com Rocked the NCAA Tournament

My friend Matt Koidin runs TeamRankings.com. It's a completely algorythmic take on picking games and boy did Matt and the crew do well in the NCAA Tournament. These results are crazy. Check it out below. Congrats Matt!

"Overall, we’re very happy with the stellar performance of our betting picks during the 2010 tourney and we hope our customers were able to profit handsomely from it. We did especially well in the big games this year, going on a 13-1 run from the Elite 8 onward.
In the end, $100 unit bettors would have finished up 25.9 units, or +$2,590 by playing all of our betting predictions (126 total bets) for the 2010 NCAA tournament. That represents a 20.6% return on total risked capital of $12,600 over three weeks, or an annualized return on investment of over 350%.
For comparison, the Dow Jones has risen about 2% since the NCAA tournament began. Even given a stock market rally, betting our predictions this year would still have provided 10x the returns of the Dow — although the risk profile of sports wagering is quite a bit different!"