bracketology

noun

bracketology

noun

Etymology From bracket + -ology, coined by American sportswriter and commentator Joe Lunardi.

1

US The practice of predicting and analyzing sports tournament brackets.

  • The field of so-called bracketology has attracted mathematicians and statheads who endlessly tweak predictive models, researching new ways to gain any small edge.2023 March 12, Andrew Keh, “The Impossible Allure of the Perfect Bracket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023:
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