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Team EV
Florida 31.76
Syracuse 30.85
Wisconsin 29.19
Rutgers 25.49
Oregon St. 24.86
Villanova 22.85
North Texas 22.52
Oral Roberts 21.41
Texas Tech 21.36
Loyola-Chicago 20.06
Southern Cal 15.37
Connecticut 14.17
Maryland 13.58
Oklahoma St. 13.44
UCLA 13.43
Arkansas 13.17
Creighton 12.97
Florida St. 12.11
Houston 11.94
Colorado 11.78
LSU 11.56
Iowa 11.41
St. Bonaventure 11.01
Georgetown 10.51
BYU 10.51
West Virginia 10.05
Oregon 9.10
Virginia Commonwealth 9.01
Gonzaga 8.90
Virginia 8.77
Kansas 8.57
Texas 8.49
Alabama 8.44
Oklahoma 8.15
Illinois 7.61
Drake 7.47
Missouri 7.46
Ohio 7.27
Abilene Christian 6.33
Baylor 6.14
Michigan 5.94
UC-Santa Barbara 5.63
UNC-Greensboro 3.80
Eastern Washington 3.10
Grand Canyon 2.67
Iona 2.46
Texas Southern 0.39
Norfolk St. 0.22
Colgate 0.00
Tennessee 0.00
Virginia Tech 0.00
Purdue 0.00
North Carolina 0.00
Georgia Tech 0.00
San Diego St. 0.00
Ohio St. 0.00
Utah St. 0.00
Clemson 0.00
Michigan St. 0.00
Liberty 0.00
Winthrop 0.00
Wichita St. 0.00
Morehead St. 0.00
Cleveland St. 0.00
Drexel 0.00
Hartford 0.00
Mount St. Mary's 0.00
Appalachian St. 0.00

 

 

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#12 Georgetown (0, 10.51, Jack Straw - 35.34%) vs. #5 Colorado (0, 11.78, Wulaw Horn - 64.66%)
#13 UNC-Greensboro (0, 3.80, HornOnTheBayou - 18.71%) vs. #4 Florida St. (0, 12.11, BigOrange1 - 81.29%)
#14 Eastern Washington (0, 3.10, Prepuce of Doom - 15.06%) vs. #3 Kansas (0, 8.57, Jack Straw - 84.94%)
#9 St. Bonaventure (0, 11.01, HornOnTheBayou - 48.10%) vs. #8 LSU (0, 11.56, Prepuce of Doom - 51.90%)
#16 Texas Southern (0, 0.39, BigOrange1 - 2.19%) vs. #1 Michigan (0, 5.94, shadow_operative - 97.81%)
#12 UC-Santa Barbara (0, 5.63, joeycovers - 25.36%) vs. #5 Creighton (0, 12.97, Wulaw Horn - 74.64%)
#15 Iona (0, 2.46, Jack Straw - 12.33%) vs. #2 Alabama (0, 8.44, Prepuce of Doom - 87.67%)
#11 Drake (0, 7.47, Wulaw Horn - 30.88%) vs. #6 Southern Cal (0, 15.37, Wulaw Horn - 69.12%)
#15 Grand Canyon (0, 2.67, joeycovers - 10.45%) vs. #2 Iowa (0, 11.41, Huckleberry - 89.55%)
#10 Maryland (0, 13.58, joeycovers - 43.86%) vs. #7 Connecticut (0, 14.17, shadow_operative - 56.14%)
#13 Ohio (0, 7.27, Prepuce of Doom - 29.16%) vs. #4 Virginia (0, 8.77, shadow_operative - 70.84%)
#9 Missouri (0, 7.46, joeycovers - 46.90%) vs. #8 Oklahoma (0, 8.15, BigOrange1 - 53.10%)
#16 Norfolk St. (0, 0.22, shadow_operative - 1.12%) vs. #1 Gonzaga (0, 8.90, joeycovers - 98.88%)
#11 UCLA (0, 13.43, Prepuce of Doom - 44.36%) vs. #6 BYU (0, 10.51, HornOnTheBayou - 55.64%)
#14 Abilene Christian (0, 6.33, shadow_operative - 23.72%) vs. #3 Texas (0, 8.49, Jack Straw - 76.28%)
#10 Virginia Commonwealth (0, 9.01, Jack Straw - 43.67%) vs. #7 Oregon (0, 9.10, Prepuce of Doom - 56.33%)
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I’ve got the dreaded first round matchup with 2 for my teams. Hate that but maybe it will work out. 
I was bored in the shower so I calculated that minimum number of points possible for this thing and I got 282 points. Or maybe it was 288- I forgot already. 
my point is going forward we should start tracking how many total points were scored. The higher the number the wackier the tournament. Might be interesting as well to see how many points were needed to win each year. 
the strategy is obviously different if you need 50 points to win vs 110 or 120. 

2016 - 506
2017 - 454
2018 - 570
2019 - 414

I think minimum is 292.

Edited by Huckleberry

Yep, the minimum number of total points for a tournament is 292. The maximum is 1,748. I'll leave it to Huck to figure out what a normal distribution curve would look like for total points.

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I figured out seed multipliers

1st round x 1

2nd round x 3

3rd round x 6

4th round x10

5th round x 15

6th round x 21

I’m sure y’all had already calculated it- but now next year I know how I’m going to draft order I guess my top 32 teams anyway. I’ve never done any calculations and only went on hunches. 

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3-1 for me today. My only loss coming in the game where two of my teams played each other. 
 

next year- do we want to allow trades?  I fee like that might make this even more fun. But it’d be more complicated. 

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1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

I would vote no on trades

I want to collect all the one and two seeds one year. The only practical way I could do that is trading my highest value team with my 16 seed to someone else for a 1 and 2. I just want to see what that would look like to have nothing but chalk on my team. 
If I went 8-0 in round one how bad would I be behind. But I get why people wouldn’t want to see trades. 

5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I want to collect all the one and two seeds one year. The only practical way I could do that is trading my highest value team with my 16 seed to someone else for a 1 and 2. I just want to see what that would look like to have nothing but chalk on my team. 
If I went 8-0 in round one how bad would I be behind. But I get why people wouldn’t want to see trades. 

We have a guy who drafted all top 3 seeds until the late rounds when they were all gone and he had to start taking lower picks. He has Baylor, Illinois, Iowa, WVU, and Arky. It's probably a decent strategy to make sure you're in the hunt, especially if it's a chalky year. Nothing you can do to defend against someone drafting Loyola the year they went deep and getting a bazillion points. But there's not always a Loyola.

Edited by BradInATX

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1 minute ago, BradInATX said:

We have a guy who drafted all top 3 seeds until the late rounds when they were all gone and he had to start taking lower picks. He has Baylor, Illinois, Iowa, WVU, and Arky. It's probably a decent strategy to make sure you're in the hunt, especially if it's a chalky year. Nothing you can do to defend against someone drafting Loyola the year they went deep and getting a bazillion points. But there's not always a Loyola.

Yeah the only way you could get all chalk is to take the popular 6,7 or 10 seed everyone wants in round 1, then take 1’s and 2’s in rounds 2-7 and then trade your first round pick and your last round pick for a 1 and 2. That would probably be a fair value trade. 

31 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

 Nothing you can do to defend against someone drafting Loyola the year they went deep and getting a bazillion points. But there's not always a Loyola.

This is exactly why I took Ohio with my first pick. 

UVA always being ripe for an upset, the possibility of a C19 cancelation, they nearly beat Illinois in the nonconference, and the fact that their PG has a story perfect for a Cinderella story. 

5 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

This is exactly why I took Ohio with my first pick. 

UVA always being ripe for an upset, the possibility of a C19 cancelation, they nearly beat Illinois in the nonconference, and the fact that their PG has a story perfect for a Cinderella story. 

Yeah, and those seeds are nicer than the 8/9/10 seeds oftentimes because they draw better second round matchups than the higher seeds. I wanted Syracuse bad because they get a vulnerable WVU team and a beatable Houston team in the next rounds. Three wins is worth like 66 points, which is close to enough to win it some years (I won last time around with 80). Got snaked one pick before me though. 

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1 hour ago, BradInATX said:

Yeah, and those seeds are nicer than the 8/9/10 seeds oftentimes because they draw better second round matchups than the higher seeds. I wanted Syracuse bad because they get a vulnerable WVU team and a beatable Houston team in the next rounds. Three wins is worth like 66 points, which is close to enough to win it some years (I won last time around with 80). Got snaked one pick before me though. 

I took WVU early ish because I looked at the bracket and have them in the final 4 which is worth 30 points. Even if it’s only the elite 8 that’s still with 18 points which is a pretty solid pick. That’s the equivalent of a 6 seed going to the sweet 16. 
I wanted Florida. Had them in the sweet 16 in my bracket. 
I took creighton bc I though VA was vulnerable. I’m not too terribly upset about Ohio winning and giving me a likely 10 points with creighton I’m the next round. 
I took USC first bc I thought Kansas was going to get bounced and if that happened I wasn’t really impressed with the 2 seed on that side of the bracket. 

Scores after first round:

41 Prepuce 

36 HornOnTheBayou 

35 Huck

24 Joey

23 Big Orange 

20 Wulaw 

20 Derka 

11 Jack Straw 

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Ha, it's running again. I really have to fix this spreadsheet.

I'll have the daily update but it won't be out until after Illinois loses, which sucks.

Poster, Current Score, EV
HornOnTheBayou, 36, 105.22
Huckleberry, 35, 93.42
Prepuce of Doom, 30, 108.54
joeycovers, 24, 61.44
BigOrange1, 23, 71.52
Wulaw Horn, 20, 73.45
shadow_operative, 20, 58.73
Jack Straw, 11, 29.11

 

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1. UCLA, 39.40 - Prepuce of Doom
2. Florida, 31.76 - HornOnTheBayou
3. Syracuse, 30.85 - Huckleberry
4. Maryland, 30.17 - joeycovers
5. Wisconsin, 29.19 - HornOnTheBayou
6. Abilene Christian, 27.79 - shadow_operative
7. Rutgers, 25.49 - Huckleberry
8. Oregon St., 24.86 - Huckleberry
9. Ohio, 22.98 - Prepuce of Doom
10. Villanova, 22.85 - HornOnTheBayou
11. North Texas, 22.52 - joeycovers
12. Oral Roberts, 21.41 - HornOnTheBayou
13. LSU, 21.39 - Prepuce of Doom
14. Texas Tech, 21.36 - BigOrange1
15. Southern Cal, 20.38 - Wulaw Horn
16. Creighton, 20.07 - Wulaw Horn
17. Loyola-Chicago, 20.06 - Jack Straw
18. Colorado, 16.82 - Wulaw Horn
19. Oklahoma, 15.10 - BigOrange1
20. Oregon, 14.27 - Prepuce of Doom
21. Florida St., 14.01 - BigOrange1
22. Oklahoma St., 13.44 - BigOrange1
23. Arkansas, 13.17 - shadow_operative
24. Iowa, 12.21 - Huckleberry
25. Houston, 11.94 - shadow_operative
26. Alabama, 10.51 - Prepuce of Doom
27. West Virginia, 10.05 - Wulaw Horn
28. Kansas, 9.05 - Jack Straw
29. Gonzaga, 8.75 - joeycovers
30. Illinois, 7.60 - BigOrange1
31. Baylor, 6.14 - Wulaw Horn
32. Michigan, 5.83 - shadow_operative
33. BYU, 0.00 - HornOnTheBayou
34. Clemson, 0.00 - BigOrange1
35. Cleveland St., 0.00 - Prepuce of Doom
36. Colgate, 0.00 - Huckleberry
37. Connecticut, 0.00 - shadow_operative
38. Drake, 0.00 - Wulaw Horn
39. Drexel, 0.00 - Wulaw Horn
40. Eastern Washington, 0.00 - Prepuce of Doom
41. Georgetown, 0.00 - Jack Straw
42. Georgia Tech, 0.00 - Huckleberry
43. Grand Canyon, 0.00 - joeycovers
44. Hartford, 0.00 - Huckleberry
45. Iona, 0.00 - Jack Straw
46. Liberty, 0.00 - Prepuce of Doom
47. Missouri, 0.00 - joeycovers
48. Morehead St., 0.00 - Jack Straw
49. Norfolk St., 0.00 - shadow_operative
50. North Carolina, 0.00 - Jack Straw
51. Ohio St., 0.00 - BigOrange1
52. Purdue, 0.00 - shadow_operative
53. San Diego St., 0.00 - HornOnTheBayou
54. St. Bonaventure, 0.00 - HornOnTheBayou
55. Tennessee, 0.00 - Wulaw Horn
56. Texas, 0.00 - Jack Straw
57. Texas Southern, 0.00 - BigOrange1
58. UC-Santa Barbara, 0.00 - joeycovers
59. UNC-Greensboro, 0.00 - HornOnTheBayou
60. Utah St., 0.00 - joeycovers
61. Virginia, 0.00 - shadow_operative
62. Virginia Commonwealth, 0.00 - Jack Straw
63. Virginia Tech, 0.00 - Huckleberry
64. Winthrop, 0.00 - joeycovers

 

 

 

 

#8 Loyola-Chicago (8, 20.06, Jack Straw - 28.19%) vs. #1 Illinois (1, 7.60, BigOrange1 - 71.81%)
#9 Wisconsin (9, 29.19, HornOnTheBayou - 37.06%) vs. #1 Baylor (1, 6.14, Wulaw Horn - 62.94%)
#11 Syracuse (11, 30.85, Huckleberry - 44.70%) vs. #3 West Virginia (3, 10.05, Wulaw Horn - 55.30%)
#6 Texas Tech (6, 21.36, BigOrange1 - 45.19%) vs. #3 Arkansas (3, 13.17, shadow_operative - 54.81%)
#10 Rutgers (10, 25.49, Huckleberry - 32.52%) vs. #2 Houston (2, 11.94, shadow_operative - 67.48%)
#15 Oral Roberts (15, 21.41, HornOnTheBayou - 17.78%) vs. #7 Florida (7, 31.76, HornOnTheBayou - 82.22%)
#13 North Texas (13, 22.52, joeycovers - 25.94%) vs. #5 Villanova (5, 22.85, HornOnTheBayou - 74.06%)
#12 Oregon St. (12, 24.86, Huckleberry - 35.24%) vs. #4 Oklahoma St. (4, 13.44, BigOrange1 - 64.76%)

Sorry I missed getting in this year. Ballsy pick of Ohio in the 1st round is rewarded

Through first two games of the second round:

Poster, Current Score, EV
HornOnTheBayou, 36, 84.13
Huckleberry, 35, 98.67
Prepuce of Doom, 30, 108.65
Jack Straw, 27, 59.55
joeycovers, 24, 61.05
BigOrange1, 23, 67.34
Wulaw Horn, 22, 77.54
shadow_operative, 20, 59.73

Edited by Huckleberry

After Syracuse win:

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 57, 125.71
HornOnTheBayou, 36, 84.19
Prepuce of Doom, 30, 108.66
Jack Straw, 27, 59.86
joeycovers, 24, 61.07
BigOrange1, 23, 67.48
Wulaw Horn, 22, 69.84
shadow_operative, 20, 59.78

Rutgers win would be huge as it would guarantee me 30 or 33 points in a Rutgers/Cuse Sweet 16 matchup.

After Arkansas win:

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 57, 125.68
HornOnTheBayou, 36, 83.77
Prepuce of Doom, 30, 108.66
Jack Straw, 27, 59.84
shadow_operative, 26, 68.14
joeycovers, 24, 61.07
BigOrange1, 23, 52.16
Wulaw Horn, 22, 69.70

After Houston and Oral Roberts(!!!) wins:

Poster, Current Score, EV
HornOnTheBayou, 66, 89.55
Huckleberry, 57, 104.17
Prepuce of Doom, 30, 108.59
shadow_operative, 30, 77.57
Jack Straw, 27, 58.54
joeycovers, 24, 61.06
BigOrange1, 23, 51.76
Wulaw Horn, 22, 69.54
16 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

After Houston and Oral Roberts(!!!) wins:

Poster, Current Score, EV
HornOnTheBayou, 66, 89.55
Huckleberry, 57, 104.17
Prepuce of Doom, 30, 108.59
shadow_operative, 30, 77.57
Jack Straw, 27, 58.54
joeycovers, 24, 61.06
BigOrange1, 23, 51.76
Wulaw Horn, 22, 69.54

I think your current scores are goofed up.

I should have 41 points as of yesterday, not 30. And after Syracuse winning, shouldn't you have 57?

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Just now, Prepuce of Doom said:

I think your current scores are goofed up.

I should have 41 points as of yesterday, not 30. And after Syracuse winning, shouldn't you have 57?

They looked a little low with this much carnage to me....

4 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I think your current scores are goofed up.

I should have 41 points as of yesterday, not 30. And after Syracuse winning, shouldn't you have 57?

It says I have 57.

I've got you with 

UCLA 39.41 0
Ohio 22.98 13
LSU 21.40 8
Oregon 14.27 7
Alabama 10.52 2
Eastern Washington 0.00 0
Michigan St. 0.00 0
Liberty 0.00 0
Cleveland St. 0.00 0

 

So there's the issue, working on it

Edited by Huckleberry

Had a zero on the UCLA line instead of a formula, I'm assuming from something in a previous tournament.

Poster, Current Score, EV
HornOnTheBayou, 66, 89.55
Huckleberry, 57, 104.17
Prepuce of Doom, 41, 108.59
shadow_operative, 30, 77.57
Jack Straw, 27, 58.54
joeycovers, 24, 61.06
BigOrange1, 23, 51.76
Wulaw Horn, 22, 69.54

Through today's games:

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 132.73
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 95.49
Prepuce of Doom, 41, 108.60
shadow_operative, 30, 77.73
Jack Straw, 27, 62.12
joeycovers, 24, 51.95
BigOrange1, 23, 40.13
Wulaw Horn, 22, 69.05

 

Will post another update tomorrow morning based on updated ratings.

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 132.87
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.19
Prepuce of Doom, 41, 113.84
shadow_operative, 30, 76.22
Jack Straw, 27, 61.98
joeycovers, 24, 52.05
BigOrange1, 23, 38.57
Wulaw Horn, 22, 72.17

 

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Team EV
Oregon St. 56.94
Syracuse 54.71
Loyola-Chicago 53.46
Oral Roberts 52.29
UCLA 42.32
Maryland 29.64
Villanova 27.90
Abilene Christian 27.41
Arkansas 25.47
Ohio 23.69
Southern Cal 22.50
LSU 22.32
Colorado 19.18
Creighton 18.70
Houston 17.97
Oregon 15.37
Oklahoma 14.53
Florida St. 13.04
North Texas 13.00
Iowa 11.23
Alabama 10.14
Rutgers 10.00
Gonzaga 9.41
Wisconsin 9.00
Baylor 8.78
Kansas 8.52
Florida 7.00
Texas Tech 6.00
Michigan 5.36
Oklahoma St. 4.00
West Virginia 3.00
Illinois 1.00
BYU 0.00
Texas 0.00
Connecticut 0.00
Virginia Commonwealth 0.00
Virginia 0.00
Missouri 0.00
Grand Canyon 0.00
Norfolk St. 0.00
St. Bonaventure 0.00
Georgetown 0.00
Drake 0.00
UC-Santa Barbara 0.00
UNC-Greensboro 0.00
Eastern Washington 0.00
Iona 0.00
Texas Southern 0.00
Colgate 0.00
Tennessee 0.00
Virginia Tech 0.00
Purdue 0.00
North Carolina 0.00
Georgia Tech 0.00
San Diego St. 0.00
Ohio St. 0.00
Utah St. 0.00
Clemson 0.00
Michigan St. 0.00
Liberty 0.00
Winthrop 0.00
Wichita St. 0.00
Morehead St. 0.00
Cleveland St. 0.00
Drexel 0.00
Hartford 0.00
Mount St. Mary's 0.00
Appalachian St. 0.00

 

 

#7 Oregon (7, 15.37, Prepuce of Doom - 29.25%) vs. #2 Iowa (2, 11.23, Huckleberry - 70.75%)
#8 Oklahoma (8, 14.53, BigOrange1 - 17.34%) vs. #1 Gonzaga (1, 9.41, joeycovers - 82.66%)
#14 Abilene Christian (14, 27.41, shadow_operative - 31.10%) vs. #11 UCLA (11, 42.32, Prepuce of Doom - 68.90%)
#13 Ohio (13, 23.69, Prepuce of Doom - 30.15%) vs. #5 Creighton (5, 18.70, Wulaw Horn - 69.85%)
#8 LSU (8, 22.32, Prepuce of Doom - 36.68%) vs. #1 Michigan (1, 5.36, shadow_operative - 63.32%)
#5 Colorado (5, 19.18, Wulaw Horn - 53.65%) vs. #4 Florida St. (4, 13.04, BigOrange1 - 46.35%)
#10 Maryland (10, 29.64, joeycovers - 38.37%) vs. #2 Alabama (2, 10.14, Prepuce of Doom - 61.63%)
#6 Southern Cal (6, 22.50, Wulaw Horn - 56.27%) vs. #3 Kansas (3, 8.52, Jack Straw - 43.73%)

My position looks good but the reality is that I probably need at least one of Syracuse and Oregon State to make the Elite Eight. The Rutgers choke job really hurt.

An all chalk Monday would eliminate joeycovers. That implies that he needs a Maryland upset over Alabama to stay alive. Just noticed this while preparing the Sweet 16 forecast.

What it would look like if all higher seeds win today so we can compare after actual results:

Poster - Win Probability (# Paths)
Huckleberry - 58.93% (15,744)
HornOnTheBayou - 17.06% (10,421)
Jack Straw - 11.40% (3,055)
Prepuce of Doom - 5.96% (2,665)
shadow_operative - 4.33% (401)
Wulaw Horn - 0.97% (277)
Tie - 0.91% (109)
BigOrange1 - 0.44% (96)
joeycovers - 0.00% (0)

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After Oregon win:

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 123.69
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.21
Prepuce of Doom, 55, 134.58
shadow_operative, 30, 76.34
Jack Straw, 27, 63.02
joeycovers, 24, 52.71
BigOrange1, 23, 38.96
Wulaw Horn, 22, 75.79

Sweet 16 forecast assuming higher seeds win remaining games today (we see how long that lasted):

Poster - Win Probability (# Paths)
Huckleberry - 42.61% (13,210)
Prepuce of Doom - 21.20% (6,511)
HornOnTheBayou - 16.95% (9,622)
Jack Straw - 12.76% (2,712)
shadow_operative - 4.04% (285)
Wulaw Horn - 1.12% (243)
Tie - 0.84% (107)
BigOrange1 - 0.47% (78)
joeycovers - 0.00% (0)

After Gonzaga win. Obviously no change to the Sweet 16 "if all higher seeds win" forecast from above.

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 123.58
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.15
Prepuce of Doom, 55, 132.36
shadow_operative, 30, 76.11
Jack Straw, 27, 62.68
joeycovers, 26, 54.39
BigOrange1, 23, 32.01
Wulaw Horn, 22, 73.53
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I’m coming for you punk ass bitches tonight. When my 2 5 seeds and 6 seed win I’m putting up 32 points. That will bring me all the way up to the middle of the pack!  

27 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I’m coming for you punk ass bitches tonight. When my 2 5 seeds and 6 seed win I’m putting up 32 points. That will bring me all the way up to the middle of the pack!  

My level of concern will be dictated by the next 17 minutes of the Ohio game. 

Currently getting boat raced by Creighton... 

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Oregon state was collectively a big miss by the group going in the 7th round- but other than that I’d have to say I’m pretty proud of the job the group did in picking teams. 
it will kind of suck if someone getting Oral Roberts as the obvious last 15 seed wins the tournament. 
suggested tweak for next year- what about a 6 round draft?  That would get  rid of some of the dumbass luck in the contest. 
Of course maybe I should just say how can we give Huck a greater handicap?  

Through UCLA win:

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 123.59
Prepuce of Doom, 77, 146.03
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.15
shadow_operative, 30, 62.70
Jack Straw, 27, 62.68
joeycovers, 26, 53.24
BigOrange1, 23, 31.96
Wulaw Horn, 22, 73.46

Through Creighton win:

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 123.61
Prepuce of Doom, 77, 136.02
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.17
Wulaw Horn, 32, 79.14
shadow_operative, 30, 62.74
Jack Straw, 27, 62.71
joeycovers, 26, 52.85
BigOrange1, 23, 31.98

That Creighton win over Ohio took a lot of wind out of my sails - I really thought they would make the S16...

After Michigan win

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 123.58
Prepuce of Doom, 77, 120.75
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.15
Wulaw Horn, 32, 77.94
shadow_operative, 32, 65.21
Jack Straw, 27, 62.66
joeycovers, 26, 52.38
BigOrange1, 23, 31.36

Through Florida St. win

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 123.59
Prepuce of Doom, 77, 121.02
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.15
shadow_operative, 32, 65.34
Wulaw Horn, 32, 64.89
BigOrange1, 31, 41.04
Jack Straw, 27, 62.67
joeycovers, 26, 52.49
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If usc wins I had the best evening group of 4. 
so far it’s chalet tonight with the 1 and 4 moving on, and I’d be shocked if the 2 doesn’t move on. 
what’d we have today so far- 1 upset and that was Oregon taking down a shitty Iowa team?  Similarly I think if USC beats Kansas that’s no real upset either. 

in a tournament with the highest collection of seeds ever in the sweet 16 this is a pretty standard and boring day. 

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Also- fucking Gonzaga is going to ruin me. Take out my 5 seed in the sweet 16 and my 6 seed in the elite 8 and then my 1 seed in the finals. I think, next time, I should look at a bracket before I make my picks. 

Through Alabama win (is this close, this seems close):

Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 123.58
Prepuce of Doom, 81, 123.31
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.15
shadow_operative, 32, 65.17
Wulaw Horn, 32, 64.78
BigOrange1, 31, 40.74
Jack Straw, 27, 62.65
joeycovers, 26, 34.25
Poster, Current Score, EV
Huckleberry, 81, 124.93
Prepuce of Doom, 81, 124.44
HornOnTheBayou, 76, 96.24
Wulaw Horn, 44, 79.70
shadow_operative, 32, 64.92
BigOrange1, 31, 41.61
Jack Straw, 27, 55.59
joeycovers, 26, 33.96

 

Poster - Win Probability (# Paths)
Prepuce of Doom - 35.18% (8,922)
Huckleberry - 33.36% (11,669)
HornOnTheBayou - 12.14% (8,528)
Wulaw Horn - 10.01% (1,776)
Jack Straw - 6.37% (1,484)
Tie - 1.59% (297)
shadow_operative - 1.14% (65)
BigOrange1 - 0.22% (27)
joeycovers - 0.00% (0)

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