Preferred Method for Filling out Your Bracket

I usually do it in one sitting on Sunday, and then look over it in the next couple days. I Susalla make just a few changes.

But I always have at least a 5 over a 12, don't put any 13+ seeds past the Sweet 16, and use KenPom as a tiebreak

Interestingly, I read this year that conference champs (esp for small schools) are more reliable to go deep than tournament champs

Flipping coins based solely on seed lines. For example, a 12 beats a 5 about 25% of the time, so flip two coins and if they are both tails, advance the 12. I realized I never pick a crazy enough bracket to win the huge pool I'm in, so maybe this will make me do it.

Freshly sharpened.

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with total disregard to the seedings, records, etc.  of course the wolverines win it all every year but the rest are up for discussion. 

a couple 4/13 and 5/12 upsets because they're fun.

After that, I browse Pomeroy for upsets that look pretty fun. My darling this year is Saint Mary's

I don't play unless extra points are assigned for picking upsets along the way. Otherwise it's boring. A bunch of saber nerds wasting hours researching and picking conservative chalk and getting rewarded for it.

Not sure if I will even bother this year. One thing I can't stand is the guy who fills out multiple brackets with multiple winners.

Heavily lean on Vegas lines and location proximity for the opening round and pick a few upsets to differentiate from common picks. In the second and third rounds, I value offensive rebound advantages and deep benches. Coaching experience is very important- no matter how many NBA players Matt Painter has, he will undoubtedly find a way to bonehead his way to a loss. I avoid niche teams after the Sweet 16, examples include teams who rely on full court press (WVU) or exclusively post play (Purdue). Almost all teams that make the Final 4 have excellent guard play, so that's paramount to a deep run.

as Mark Hollis. he's seems to be crazy smart on this stuff

Gut check mostly.  It's worked well for me.

Ask random hot chicks (i.e. Mabel) to come back to my place to pick teams based on their favorite colors and mascots.  Usually beats the dudes who spend 45 of the next 50 hrs on analyzing every player based on their history from the 7th grade...

The school whose city has the highest number of citizens-that-look-like-their-dogs, aka - Bowsers.

I went with a gut check for years and it never did much good. I would always join an online group bracket on yahoo with other Michigan fans. But my bracket was always on life support by the time of the Sweet 16. Only once did I correctly predict 3 Final Four teams, which was the year Florida won it all for the second straight year. Every other year, I almost always finish around 86th place out of 100 people.

Does anyone use the Ed Feng method whatever it is?

I'm going to let the new pup pick this year's tourney.

This year I'm in a competition where the bottom 2 finishers have to purchase beer for the top 2 finishers, so I might just chalk it up.  Predicting wrong upsets is what always dooms my bracket (like picking Villanova to lose in the round of 32 last year).

I'm already done with mine. I usually go with a competitive team with the best player as the winner, and then go with gut feelings for the rest. In the past 7 years, that strategy has got me 2 incredibly successful bracket pool years surrounded by a lot of duds.

Look for Michigan and if they are in the tournament I put the good guys in the sweet 16. Then I look for Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Notre Dame and if any of them are in the tournament I have them losing in the 1st round. I then have Duke and Kentucky losing at the first possible realistic chance. I do the rest of my bracket based on gut. Been doing it the past 20 years or so... mixed results but I always feel good about it. 

First rounds I rely heavily on what the Vegas sharps are thinking . The rounds after that , I guess I just mix the personal eye test and read some articles from "experts" I trust and see what they're thinking

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I don't know whether it's what I've seen the last few days but I just put Michigan in the Final Four. Can this team go that deep? 

Mine is done. The hardest part was setting up the dart board. Somehow I hit UCLA for the champs.