March Madness vs Earthquakes

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By now you should know that we like to keep things fresh and topical so you must already know that the largest sports ball competition going on is the NCAA March Madness tournament. We filled out our own bracket and we’re admittedly feeling a little bad we didn’t post earlier to try to help out our fan base. Needless to say, we have some new insight to help predict the total score of the final championship game, regardless of who is playing! We’re glad to share that the total score of the NCAA Championship game has a negative 75% correlation with the number of worldwide earthquakes of magnitude over 6 that occur before noon local time! Because it’s a negative relationship, the more big earthquakes there are in the morning, the lower the total score of the Championship game will be. Now you might be thinking “Come on now, how could this possibly make any sense?!?”. Simple! College Basketball players are sensitive creatures so if there are a lot of large earthquakes in the morning, they won’t eat their Wheaties which will mess with their game causing both teams to have lower scoring games! DUH!

(At the time of publication, our bracket is #1 in our local competition and in the top 1% of all brackets on ncaa’s website. So yeah, we know what we’re doing.)

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