March Madness Bracketology – New Year’s Eve Edition

As of the morning of December 31st, 2016, there have been a total of 2,394 games played by the 351 NCAA division I teams. This means that we are approximately 45% of the 2015-16 season completed. On December 29th, conference play started to take off across the 36 conferences as the American, ACC, Big East, Big…

Investigating Traditional Crime Rankings

Recently, Forbes posted America’s Most Dangerous Cities of 2015 which attempted to rank the most violent cities with populations over 200,000 persons. Despite urgings by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to refrain from making violent crime rankings, several groups such as the former Morgan Quitno and, presently, Forbes continue to put forth rankings. In this…