Quick-and-dirty network analysis of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball tournament.
The data were scraped from sports-reference.com.
Take-away hairball visualized in Gephi. Nodes are teams, connected by directed edges if i beat j. Edges are weighted by the cumulative point differential (adding the point differentials if i beat j more than once). Nodes are colored by Gephi's modularity-based community detection algorithm.