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Bring it.

I am in, though despite watching more college basketball than 99% of people, I am notoriously bad at the bracket challenge. I've been picking brackets since 1983 and gotten the winner right only twice (though I did peg Butler for the Final Four two years ago).

I'm in. Haven't done a bracket in a few years, used to do a bunch. We'll see how rusty I am.

 

I'll have a go at it again.

Well... a man's got to defend his title.

I'm in although I haven't watched a single game that didn't involve an MVC team.

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When's the deadline? If I have the time I might join just to arbitrarily stick IU in teh final four because it's been too long since I did that.

When's the deadline? If I have the time I might join just to arbitrarily stick IU in teh final four because it's been too long since I did that.

Thursday the 15th at about 11.

Thursday the 15th at about 11.

So I can register any time prior to tipoff. Great. Just making sure there wasn't some crazy "Preregistration period".

Hey sweet, I am tied for first place!

Hey sweet, I am tied for first place!

Not for long.

Getting Gaged for a decade? That's a nice ring...

 

only 11 signed up. Come on, peeps!

Ill join when I get home. I haven't won this thing in 5 years, way to long of a drought. That will change this year.

I don't see on here what the point system is for this specific pool. How is the scoring done? Lots of ways to skin the cat, but how you do the scoring may dictate some of my picks.

 

I'm In

Edited March 12, 201214 yr by Athomeboy_2000

Honest question, why doesnt Yahoo let you pick the play-in games? Are they technically not part of the tournament?

Honest question, why doesnt Yahoo let you pick the play-in games? Are they technically not part of the tournament?

 

If picks were required to be in by 7pm on Tuesday as compared to Noon Thursday, you'd have a lot lower participation.

I am not doing it for the SoxTalk challenge, but I am going to create a "coin flip" bracket. I'll flip a coin for each match-up. Heads-the higher seed advances; tail-the lower seed advance.

 

Well, this didnt turn out well...

Edited March 12, 201214 yr by Athomeboy_2000

I am not doing it for the SoxTalk challenge, but I am going to create a "coin flip" bracket. I'll flip a coin for each match-up. Heads-the higher seed advances; tail-the lower seed advance.

 

I have done that before, but in a different way. For each game I did (x+y-1) coin flips, where x and y are the seeds of the teams. Team X needs to win x flips to advance and team Y needs to win y flips to advance.

I'm in. My bracket sucks. I spent at least 3 minutes on it, but I don't like it. I just don't see a final four team from the west bracket and I had to pick Kentucky to lose and I'm not a big believer in Duke, so the South got murky. I wish FSU was the 4 seed in the East, it would have been a perfect place to pick Syracuse to lose. I figured I would take on ridicule if I picked IU to beat Kentucky again so I picked UConn to beat them. I originally picked UConn to beat IU as well, but I figured they would be on too much of a high so I went one more game with IU, which is stretching them a bit. I just want to get them to the 2nd weekend because I want to go to Atlanta to see it!

 

Please feel free to question or criticize my picks.

I don't think I have ever seen a two point difference after Day one. That is really close. everyone either got 12, 13, or 14.

My Elite 8 is still completely intact. So far, I have 7 of the 11 Sweet 16 teams (soon to be 7 of 12 when Georgetown loses)

I'm not even checking the standings. If I'm not in last place, then somebody must really, really suck at this.