March Machine Learning Mania, 1st Place Winner's Interview: Andrew Landgraf

Kaggle's 2017 March Machine Learning Mania competition challenged Kagglers to do what millions of sports fans do every year–try to predict the winners and losers of the US men's college basketball tournament. In this winner's interview, 1st place winner, Andrew Landgraf, describes how he cleverly analyzed his competition to optimize his luck. I am interested in sports analytics and have followed the previous competitions on Kaggle. Reading last year's winner's interview, I realized that luck is a major component of winning this competition, just like all brackets. I wanted to see if there was a way of maximizing my luck.