RIOT Sports

Better than Magic Numbers!

WELCOME

For those new to the site, here's what we do: RIOT, a project started at the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department of the University of California-Berkeley and subsequently moved to department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems of the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, provides users exclusive data for each team. For each team, we calculate and post the number remaining games that the team must win to:

  • Guarantee a first-place finish
  • Guarantee a postseason berth
  • Avoid elimination from first place
  • Avoid elimination from the postseason.
  • Information is updated daily, so be sure to return every day to check out who's on the fast track for the postseason, and who's already done for the year.

    This project was initially made possible by Professor Dorit S. Hochbaum's Office of Naval Research (ONR) research grant N00014-91-J-1241 and National Science Foundation (NSF) Award DMI-9713482.