Ed Feng

Ed Feng is data scientist and writer who specializes in football and March Madness predictions. It all started in 2008 when he got inspired to apply his Stanford PhD to ranking sports teams. His friends like the resulting NFL rankings and encouraged him to do more. Now, hundreds of thousands of people each year visit his predictions at ThePowerRank.com. In 2012, SB Nation made a video on Ed's March Madness analytics. Later that year, his story predicting Alabama's win over Notre Dame in the college football title game appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Now, Ed contributes regular columns to Bleacher Report and the Detroit News. His numbers and predictions have also appeared on Deadspin, FiveThirtyEight, and Business Week.