The Greatest Bracket Ever Filled
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39752102/march-…
Neuropsychologist Michigan fan living in Columbus. I'm picking him to go all the way in the bracket of people who read this site.
I’ve actually been pretty good at maintaining my ESPN boycott since the Wyld Stallyns affair. I’ve moved to CBS sports without issue and with many fewer “hot takes”. While tempting, I’m going to not give this one a click.
Is BTN really any better? Now they have a play-by-play guy by the name of Connor Onion. Everyone knows this is just a pseudo name for Connor Scallions.
TL:DR - He guessed 49 straight games and didn't even remember filling out the bracket.
I bet he would rather have won the power ball twice instead of getting 49/49 (same odds according to the article). I enjoyed the son’s favorite memory being Del Taco.
I've never liked that NCAA brackets do not reward for degree of difficulty. Picking a 13-seed over a 4-seed and getting it right should be worth a lot more than the inverse.
Someone must have come up with a reasonably good weighting system for brackets. Hopefully someone on this thread can point to one.
Agreed. My friend Dan (Chelsea MI native) has been running this cool pool for 20+ years. You get extra points for picking higher-numbered (lower) seeds to win. I think the weighting is perfect: it rewards upsets, but you still need to pick well in Final Four to win the pool.
A long time ago I tried to run one that multiplied the seed by the round but it did not work because getting the Final Four teams was worth very little. I never bothered to tinker with it, just gave up and went to the default system.
I started a pool over 30 years ago, based on an article by Bill Simmons. You pick ten teams, then accumulate points every time one your team wins. You get 3 points plus the team’s seed for each win.
The pool is still going strong at my workplace, 5 years after my retirement, with hundreds of entries annually.