March 10, 20223 yr Friend of mine used to run this back in the day and it was super fun, so I'm gonna fire it off this year. Here's how it works, you pick one team from each seed line (so a 1 seed, a 2 seed, a 3 seed, all the way down to a 16 seed) and then a wild card team of any seed you want. The play-in games don't count, so for example if Indiana vs Virginia Tech is a 12 seed play-in game, you could pick the winner of Indy/Va Tech, but can't pick one of those teams and earn points for the play-in win. For scoring, you get 1 point for 1st round wins, 3 points for second round wins, 5 for S16 wins, 7 for E8 wins, 9 for FF wins, and 11 for national title win PLUS you get the seed value of the winning team for each win. So a 1 seed that gets to the elite 8 would earn 12 total points (1+1, 1+3, 1+5). A 10 seed that gets to the sweet 16 would earn 24 (10+1, 10+3). Can PM your picks or post them here. PM or post your email if you want standings updates. PM for payment info. $25 per entry. Selections and payment must be received by 11am Thu March 17.
March 11, 20223 yr I'm in. I guess I'll send you back $25 of the $50 you sent me for the other contest. We should have coordinated better, but oh well!
March 11, 20223 yr Author ha yeah I wasn't sure at the time that I was going to run this one. I've thought about doing it for the last few years since he doesn't anymore and it's a fun game, but finally decided to just run it.
March 14, 20223 yr Author Haha! I will have some other entries offline. I’ll email everyone the list when it’s set.
March 14, 20223 yr Author For transparency, here are my selections, so everyone knows I'm not trying to game my entry around other selections: 1 Zaga 2 Tucky 3 Tenn 4 UCLA 5 Iowa 6 Bama 7 Murray 8 SDSU 9 Memphis 10 Loyola 11 VT 12 UAB 13 SDSU 14 Yale 15 Delaware 16 Ga State WC TX Tech
March 14, 20223 yr I will post mine also: 1 Arizona 2 Auburn 3 Tenn 4 UCLA 5 Iowa 6 Texas 7 Murray State 8 Seton Hall 9 Creighton 10 Loyola 11 Michigan 12 UAB 13 South Dakota St 14 Yale 15 Delaware 16 TX Southern/TXA&MCC winner lol WC 11 Va Tech
March 15, 20223 yr I'll join with these picks: 1 Gonzaga 2 Villanova 3 Purdue 4 UCLA 5 UConn 6 Alabama 7 USC 8 UNC 9 Marquette 10 Miami 11 Iowa State 12 UAB 13 Vermont 14 Colgate 15 Jacksonville St 16 Norfolk State WC (6) Saint Mary's
March 15, 20223 yr Author St marys is a 5 cheater lolOur crack security system wasn’t going to be fooled by such shenanigans.
March 16, 20223 yr 1 AZ 2 Villanova 3 Purdon't 4 UCLA 5 Iowa 6 Colorado St 7 USC 8 San Diego State 9 TCU 10 Davidson 11 Rutgers/ND 12 New Mexico St 13 Vermont 14 Longwood 15 Delaware 16 Norfolk St Wildcard: Texas Tech Edited March 16, 20223 yr by Prepuce of Doom
March 16, 20223 yr 11 hours ago, Scraps said: St marys is a 5 cheater lol I printed out the worst quality bracket I could find for some reason. Lucky I can read any of the numbers
March 16, 20223 yr 1 Arizona 2 Auburn 3 Texas Tech 4 UCLA 5 Houston 6 Bama 7 Mich St 8 SDSU 9 Memphis 10 Loyola 11 Michigan 12 Indiana 13 Vermont 14 Montana St 15 Cal St Fullerton 16 Bryant (or I guess Wright St if they win) Wild card - Arkansas
March 16, 20223 yr In and Paid 1. Kansas 2. Nova 3. Texas Tech 4. Illinois 5. Iowa 6. Texas 7. Miich St 8. UNC 9. TCU 10. Loyola Chicago 11. VT 12. Indiana 13. Chatanooga 14. Colgate 15. Delaware 16. Wrightst /BRyant
March 17, 20223 yr 1. Gonzaga 2. Kentucky 3. Purdue 4. UCLA 5. Iowa 6. Texas 7. Michigan State 8. North Carolina 9. Marquette 10. Loyola-Chicago 11. Michigan 12. Indiana 13. South Dakota State 14. Colgate 15. Saint Peter’s 16. Norfolk State Wildcard: Kansas
March 17, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, joeycovers said: In and Paid 1. Kansas 2. Nova 3. Texas Tech 4. Illinois 5. Iowa 6. Texas 7. Miich St 8. UNC 9. TCU 10. Loyola Chicago 11. VT 12. Indiana 13. Chatanooga 14. Colgate 15. Delaware 16. Wrightst /BRyant Dude. You picked Illinois AND Chattanooga
March 17, 20223 yr 1 Gonzaga 2 Auburn 3 Texas Tech 4 Providence 5 Houston 6 LSU 7 USC 8 San Diego St 9 Creighton 10 Davidson 11 Notre Dame 12 New Mexico St. 13 Akron 14 Longwood 15 St. Peters 16 Wright St. WIldcard Texas Tech
March 17, 20223 yr Author Up to 13 total entries now, with hopefully a few more coming tomorrow. Will pay top 2, 70%/30% unless we get to 20 entries, then pay top 3, 50/30/20%. I'm making a Google Sheet (I kinda suck at it, am learning though, but had invested too much time in a mediocre way of doing it, ha). I will share the sheet in the thread at some point tomorrow, though I will be a bit slow updating, I am teaching a class 830-1230 then playing some golf then driving from Gladewater to Cedar Park. GL all!
March 17, 20223 yr Author 31 minutes ago, deac_tracy said: 1 Gonzaga 2 Auburn 3 Texas Tech 4 Providence 5 Houston 6 LSU 7 USC 8 San Diego St 9 Creighton 10 Davidson 11 Notre Dame 12 New Mexico St. 13 Akron 14 Longwood 15 St. Peters 16 Wright St. WIldcard Texas Tech The wildcard needs to be a team not in your original 16. I know it's confusing since that's different than Wulaw's free contest. The wild card here is a bonus team, not just a tiebreak.
March 17, 20223 yr Author BTW, so far 58 of the 64 teams have been taken on at least one entry. Edited March 17, 20223 yr by TXSooner518
March 17, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, Wade said: Dude. You picked Illinois AND Chattanooga Tell me you have never hedged without telling me you have never hedged.
March 17, 20223 yr Tell me you have never hedged without telling me you have never hedged. Lol yeah i laughed at his comment especially when to my knowledge he isn't even in this. I picked Texas and Va Tech....I am getting some pts fuckers. Plus I think both have a shot going a couple rds....just not sure which one
March 17, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, TXSooner518 said: The wildcard needs to be a team not in your original 16. I know it's confusing since that's different than Wulaw's free contest. The wild card here is a bonus team, not just a tiebreak. WC: Illinois 4
March 17, 20223 yr 1 - Baylor 2 - auburn 3 - Texas tech 4 - ucla 5 - Houston 6 - Colorado St 7 - Murray st 8 - San Diego st 9 - Marquette 10 - Davidson 11 - notre dame 12 - Richmond 13 - South Dakota st 14 - Colgate 15 - Delaware 16 - wright St bonus - Tennessee
March 17, 20223 yr 17 hours ago, Wade said: Dude. You picked Illinois AND Chattanooga Which means he's guaranteed to get at least 4 points from those picks. If he picked teams who weren't facing each other then there's a probability he'd get zero points from his 4 and 13 picks. This is what makes this game interesting. I thought about just picking all the teams from one quadrant and hoping for a bunch of upsets like the South Regional in 2018. Edited March 17, 20223 yr by deac_tracy
March 17, 20223 yr Author Which means he's guaranteed to get at least 4 points from those picks. If he picked teams who weren't facing each other then there's a probability he'd get zero points from his 4 and 13 picks. This is what makes this game interesting. I thought about just picking all the teams from one quadrant and hoping for a bunch of upsets like the South Regional in 2018. Yeah I really like the various strategies which is why I got tired of missing this contest and decided to run it myself. In the original group there was always solid debate on the best 8/9 strat, to take opponents to guarantee at least 9 points or risk zero to try to get 19.
March 17, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, deac_tracy said: Which means he's guaranteed to get at least 4 points from those picks. If he picked teams who weren't facing each other then there's a probability he'd get zero points from his 4 and 13 picks. This is what makes this game interesting. I thought about just picking all the teams from one quadrant and hoping for a bunch of upsets like the South Regional in 2018. Yeah, I should have kept my mouth shut on a game I didn't really understand. Especially on someone named joeycovers. Thanks for the explanation. Seems like a cool game, I'll follow from afar..
March 18, 20223 yr Author JESUS FUCKING FUCK What an absolute travesty of a day in every Tourney-related contest I'm in. I'm sure UCLA is on their way to anally raping my mother while pouring sugar in my gas tank in survivor. I'm home now so finishing up the spreadsheet which is super fun to do now that I'm already dead in the water. I'll have the link shortly. Several of my friends pussed out disappointingly, so 14 total entries. Prize pool of TREE FITTY, so $245 to winner, $105 to runner up. GL all.
March 18, 20223 yr Author Here is the link to the sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kmKM0eXjBdaLYFhS-Y1ZroWsDGzaSMRvkCDAtVCCsGk/edit?usp=sharing I'm apparently too dumb or tilted to figure out to make the leaderboard automatically sort once new data is entered that changes scores, so currently I'm "re-sorting" after each wave, but if anyone can tell me how to easily do that, I can do that.
March 18, 20223 yr @TXSooner518 standings still are not correct sir. Creighton pickers are down 10 pts at the moment still.
March 18, 20223 yr Author Fixed! I thought your original post was just pointing out that I am fucked b/c Creighton won, which, yes, the accuracy.
March 20, 20223 yr Author highlighting teams that have made it through to the S16 in green on the google sheet to help people see who everyone has alive
March 21, 20223 yr 15 hours ago, TXSooner518 said: highlighting teams that have made it through to the S16 in green on the google sheet to help people see who everyone has alive Forgot to highlight and award points to Tech.
March 21, 20223 yr Author 3 hours ago, deac_tracy said: Forgot to highlight and award points to Tech. I had the Tech link borked on some of the users, b/c of my dumbass way I set it up, which I realized 2/3 of the way into building it but was pot committed. Everything should be good now.
March 25, 20223 yr Author This has been updated through last night. Hilarious that no entries had Dook who obvz goes ona run. Remaining contenders with teams remaining in paren: Deadhead Faja 131 (Nova, UCLA, UNC, Miami, Iowa St) HornPhD 129 (Kansas, Purdue, UCLA, UNC, St. Pete) JoshK 127 (UCLA, Houston, Iowa St, St. Pete) Blotto 120 (UCLA, Houston, Arkansas) Deac Tracy 119 (Prov, Houston, St. Pete) Bartles 119 (Nova, Purdue, UCLA, UNC, Miami, Iowa State)
March 27, 20223 yr Author Looks like HornPhD and my dad (Deadhead Faja) have locked the money spots. If Kansas beats Nova, PhD wins and if Nova wins, pops wins. GG all!
March 27, 20223 yr 23 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said: Looks like HornPhD and my dad (Deadhead Faja) have locked the money spots. If Kansas beats Nova, PhD wins and if Nova wins, pops wins. GG all! does that mean your dad will give you a refund for being the first out?
March 27, 20223 yr Author does that mean your dad will give you a refund for being the first out?I mean, that seems fair.
March 28, 20223 yr Author 16 hours ago, TXSooner518 said: Looks like HornPhD and my dad (Deadhead Faja) have locked the money spots. If Kansas beats Nova, PhD wins and if Nova wins, pops wins. GG all! This is not accurate. Deadhead has locked a money spot. HornPhD will get the other unless Villanova wins the natty in which case Bartles would be in 2nd place over him.
March 28, 20223 yr Author Nope, Deadhead has 183, Bartles 171, and you 138 and they both also have UNC and Nova. You getting 0 from the 10-15 seed range was a killer. Spreadsheet with leaderboard: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kmKM0eXjBdaLYFhS-Y1ZroWsDGzaSMRvkCDAtVCCsGk/edit#gid=282997126
April 5, 20223 yr Author Congrats to @HornPhD for winning this! $245 headed your way, let me know if the PayPal you paid with is where you want it. My pops Deadhead Faja got 2nd. I was impressed that I got less than 25% of the winning score.
April 5, 20223 yr 16 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said: Congrats to @HornPhD for winning this! $245 headed your way, let me know if the PayPal you paid with is where you want it. My pops Deadhead Faja got 2nd. I was impressed that I got less than 25% of the winning score. Thank you, sir! And thanks again for setting this up. The PayPal I used to pay will work.
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