March Machine Learning Mania 2026
You will be forecasting the outcomes of both the men's and women's 2026 collegiate basketball tournaments, by submitting predictions for every possible tournament matchup.
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Another year, another chance to predict the upsets, call the probabilities, and put your bracketology skills to the leaderboard test. In our twelfth annual March Machine Learning Mania competition, Kagglers will once again join the millions of fans who attempt to predict the outcomes of this year's college basketball tournaments. Unlike most fans, you will pick the winners and losers using a combination of rich historical data and computing power, while the ground truth unfolds on television. You are provided data of historical NCAA games to forecast the outcomes of the Division 1 Men's and Women's basketball tournaments. This competition is the official 2026 edition, with points, medals, prizes, and basketball glory at stake. We are continuing the format from last year where you are making predictions about every possible matchup in the tournament, evaluated using the Brier score. See the Evaluation Page for full details. Prior to the start of the tournaments, the leaderboard of this competition will reflect scores from 2021-2025 only. Kaggle will periodically fill in the outcomes and rescore once the 2026 games begin. Good luck and happy forecasting!
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