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The office pool is almost as much a staple of spring planning as first-quarter financial results. Two university professors are applying predictive analytics to narrow the field of potential contenders for the so-called Big Dance.

The "Dance Card" began when Jay Coleman, professor of operations management at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., was surfing the Internet and came across a site listing the attributes of tournament teams and those that nearly qualified over a six-year period. Armed with that historical data, Coleman decided to model the future.

See the Dance Card at http://dancecard.unf.edu/

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