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单词 bracketology
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Definition of bracketology in English:

bracketology

noun brakɪˈtɒlədʒiˌbrækəˈtɑlədʒi
mass nounUS
  • 1The activity of predicting the participants in and outcomes of the games in a sports tournament, especially the NCAA college basketball tournament.

    it's never too early for some bracketology
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The style that I implement, both in investing and in bracketology, is GARP, or growth at a reasonable price.
    • The most interesting bracketology debate, by the way, is Duke.
    • That's the magic of crowd-sourced bracketology: So long as your office pool is big enough to resemble a cross section of America, you're unlikely to finish in last place.
    • Right now, the consensus of the bracketology community has Baylor as an 8-9 seed.
    • Bracketology is an educated, statistically-driven guess at who will make the NCAA Tournament field come March.
    • So now the Wildcats will wait and follow bracketology like everyone else.
    • The unexpected developments and intrigue are why we love early bracketology and college basketball's offseason.
    • NCAA bracketology experts seem to remain baffled where Florida will end up.
    • Selection Sunday is the day we all claim to have majored in bracketology.
    • I can't believe it took this long for the 2013 bracketology predictions to come out.
    1. 1.1count noun A set of predictions about the participants in and outcomes of the games in a sports tournament, typically presented on a diagram representing the sequence of games.
      in our latest bracketology, we have Maryland as a #3 seed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • if you look at his bracketology there's a number of teams around an RPI of 63 that are in contention for the tourney.
      • There was a lot of movement in my bracketology this weekend.
      • This will be my 5th year to do an official bracketology.
      • To demonstrate how crazy college basketball is this year, his latest bracketology shows SIX Mountain West teams getting into the tourney.
      • ESPN's latest bracketology has swapped out the Aggies once again for Louisiana Tech, as the Bulldogs find equal success in WAC play.
      • Any other comments let me know, my next bracketology will have matchups and regions, but for this one I wanted to focus on the seeding process.
      • Hopefully, when I do my bracketology it will be at least 80% accurate on seedings and 75% accurate on who wins what games.
      • Most bracketologies (projection of the NCAA Tournament field) have them among the first four out before the big win last night.
      • St. Louis' slide late in the season has opened up the door for VCU, who I currently have as a five seed in my bracketology.
      • You had Rutgers listed in the "Next Four Out" on your latest bracketology printed Monday.

Origin

1990s: from bracket (sense 5 of the noun).

 
 

Definition of bracketology in US English:

bracketology

nounˌbrakəˈtäləjēˌbrækəˈtɑlədʒi
US
  • 1The activity of predicting the participants in and outcomes of the games in a sports tournament, especially the NCAA college basketball tournament.

    it's never too early for some bracketology
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bracketology is an educated, statistically-driven guess at who will make the NCAA Tournament field come March.
    • So now the Wildcats will wait and follow bracketology like everyone else.
    • Selection Sunday is the day we all claim to have majored in bracketology.
    • The unexpected developments and intrigue are why we love early bracketology and college basketball's offseason.
    • Right now, the consensus of the bracketology community has Baylor as an 8-9 seed.
    • NCAA bracketology experts seem to remain baffled where Florida will end up.
    • I can't believe it took this long for the 2013 bracketology predictions to come out.
    • The style that I implement, both in investing and in bracketology, is GARP, or growth at a reasonable price.
    • The most interesting bracketology debate, by the way, is Duke.
    • That's the magic of crowd-sourced bracketology: So long as your office pool is big enough to resemble a cross section of America, you're unlikely to finish in last place.
    1. 1.1 A set of predictions about the participants in and outcomes of the games in a sports tournament, typically presented on a diagram representing the sequence of games.
      in our latest bracketology, we have Maryland as a #3 seed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This will be my 5th year to do an official bracketology.
      • St. Louis' slide late in the season has opened up the door for VCU, who I currently have as a five seed in my bracketology.
      • To demonstrate how crazy college basketball is this year, his latest bracketology shows SIX Mountain West teams getting into the tourney.
      • Hopefully, when I do my bracketology it will be at least 80% accurate on seedings and 75% accurate on who wins what games.
      • There was a lot of movement in my bracketology this weekend.
      • You had Rutgers listed in the "Next Four Out" on your latest bracketology printed Monday.
      • Any other comments let me know, my next bracketology will have matchups and regions, but for this one I wanted to focus on the seeding process.
      • if you look at his bracketology there's a number of teams around an RPI of 63 that are in contention for the tourney.
      • ESPN's latest bracketology has swapped out the Aggies once again for Louisiana Tech, as the Bulldogs find equal success in WAC play.
      • Most bracketologies (projection of the NCAA Tournament field) have them among the first four out before the big win last night.

Origin

1990s: from bracket (sense 5 of the noun).

 
 
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