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We've done this the last couple of years and it's worked out well. It's definitely a fun wrinkle to a NCAA tournament pool. You pick one team each day of the tournament to win straight-up. If they win, you advance. If you lose, you're out. You can only pick a team once so you may not want to use a #1 seed on the first day. The only exception to the "one pick per day" rule is in the Elite 8 round where you will still have to pick two teams, but you can pick both the Saturday games, both the Sunday games, or one of each.

The pool is at https://www.tournamentpools.com/pools.cfm?poolid=182847&p=2&pwd=p9nrt5. If it asks for a password, use p9nrt5.

It's $50 to join, but tournamentpools.com does charge $1/entry, so please send me $51. PM me for paypal or venmo details.

Edited by HornOnTheBayou

I’m in. Came in 2nd last year but would have won if not for AZ late second escape on TCU which kept the eventual winner alive. Plan on pulling it down this year. 

i'm in!  won this the first year on the first week.  was out after day 2 or 3 last year lol.

count me in - entry fee sent via Venmo

 

Edited by Jack Straw
payment

I’m in for redemption. I think I made fun of BigOrange for going out on day two last year then I went out hours later.

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Alright, the pool is open now to make your Thursday and Friday picks. We've got 8 people signed up and I'm sure we'll get several more over the next couple of days.

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1 minute ago, TXSooner518 said:

In! I'll send you $26 and then you are paid up for my seed picks contest also. 

Got it!

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Alright, we've got 12 people signed up. Hopefully we can get a few more today. I am missing payment from 3 entries, so PM for details if you're one of those three.

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I've got three entries who haven't paid and I don't know who they belong to. Let me know if joeyfreshwater, joshkomarek, or ffusaro1 belong to you.

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Alright, everyone is registered and paid. 14 entries so $700 to the last one standing. Good luck, everybody!

Everyone made it through day 1....seems like that doesn't normally happen lol

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I know. Well done, everyone. And we did have one more entry come through right before the late games, so we're up to 15 participants now. Good luck in Day 2!

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Good luck to the three of you who put your faith in Shaka Smart winning a tournament game.

1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Good luck to the three of you who put your faith in Shaka Smart winning a tournament game.

4D chess dude. A Shaka and Barnes won’t be around to be used in a later day. And even Shaka is good enough to win as a 2. 

Good luck to the three of you who put your faith in Shaka Smart winning a tournament game.
Sometimes I like to dance with the devil

I’m thru to Sunday and my picks are the fighting Barneses, shakablah and SDSU. 
That’s got to have me in best position imaginable, right? 

I’m low key shocked nobody had Duke today (or else the pool is really slow on updating picks) 

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I hope all of you FAU pickers are puckering like all of us Mizzou pickers did yesterday.

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Congrats to everyone that is going on to the second weekend. I would have joined y'all if Missouri hadn't choked against a bunch of trust-fund nepo babies.

Just remember that you have to pick a winner for both Thursday and Friday. If you make it to the weekend, you still have to pick two Elite Eight games, but you can do the two Saturday games, the two Sunday games, or one of each.

Point of clarification- I assume it's not last person eliminated and the winner has to win the entire round (i.E. if someone gets eliminated with a pick on Saturday and I get eliminated on my pick Sunday that doesn't make me the winner- right?)

Second question- if nobody is left standing after a round what happens- split the pot equally?
 

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Yes, in order to win, you have to pick correctly while everyone else picks wrong. If everyone left gets knocked out in the same round, it resets and everyone who was alive in that round moves on to the next round.

The only thing I'm not sure about is what happens if two people are left standing for the weekend and one person goes 0-2 on Saturday/Sunday and the other goes 1-1. I'll look at the official rules when I get home tonight.

 

From the site.....still don't really know what happens if someone goes 1-1 and other goes 0-2.

I don't think we have ever gotten that far lmao


REVIVE ALL
When all the remaining survivors get eliminated on the same day, they will be revived to keep the game going. For example, say the pool had 20 players to begin with. Say by Day 7 there were only 3 players remaining and they all lost that day. Those 3 people would be revived to continue on to Day 8.

POINT SPREADS
This pool does not use point spreads. Wins are determined on a straight-up basis.

DAILY PICKS
You will make 1 pick per day of the tournament.

ELITE 8 SPECIAL RULE
In the Elite 8 Round, when there are 2 games on Saturday and 2 games on Sunday, you will pick any 2 teams from either day. You may pick 1 Elite 8 team from each day, 2 teams from Saturday, or 2 teams from Sunday. The deadline for making your 2 picks is at the regularly scheduled time on SUNDAY. However, you will not be able to pick a team from a game that has already started. All picks get LOCKED at the scheduled tipoff time.

TIEBREAKERS
There are no tiebreakers. If more than one player makes it to the championship and wins, they will split the pot.

When a player makes a winning pick (technically advancing to the next day) but doesn't have any teams left to pick, that player is still in the running and will only be knocked out when someone else in the pool makes another winning pick. It is the eventual number of winning picks that determines who wins the pool.

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1 hour ago, Scraps said:

When a player makes a winning pick (technically advancing to the next day) but doesn't have any teams left to pick, that player is still in the running and will only be knocked out when someone else in the pool makes another winning pick. It is the eventual number of winning picks that determines who wins the pool.

To me, that last sentence sums up the 1-1 vs 0-2 decision. If that happens, the 1-1 person wins the whole thing because they have more wins. If anyone has thoughts on it, feel free to share, but if I don't hear any complaints, that's the ruling we'll go with.

And, @Scraps, you're right, we've never gotten this far before. So I guess it's one of those good problems to have.

Edited by HornOnTheBayou

4 of yall have a tough pick

3 of us have an easy pick, but will our boy blow it?

Tbd

6 minutes ago, Scraps said:

4 of yall have a tough pick

3 of us have an easy pick, but will our boy blow it?

Tbd

Oh I disagree man- Tenn isn’t an easy pick over FAU and I LOVE the Ricktator. 
there’s actually a pretty easy pick on the board tonight I just want don’t want to make it bc I will need to make that pick again in the final 4 if it’s still going on. 
Fuck it. Play for today and deal with tomorrow tomorrow. If I get knocked out without making a losing pick so be it I guess. 

On 3/20/2023 at 3:26 PM, HornOnTheBayou said:

To me, that last sentence sums up the 1-1 vs 0-2 decision. If that happens, the 1-1 person wins the whole thing because they have more wins. If anyone has thoughts on it, feel free to share, but if I don't hear any complaints, that's the ruling we'll go with.

 

i'm good with that.

11 minutes ago, Scraps said:

4 of yall have a tough pick

3 of us have an easy pick, but will our boy blow it?

Tbd

Wanted to take KSU but just couldn’t. Fired away on UCONN even though I like them to the final 4 and would have taken them over either Zags or a banged up UCLA. 
Me taking UConn was a bet against y’all. 

Just now, BigOrange1 said:

i'm good with that.

Me too. 
I’d also be good with a split pot to whoever all loses in the same round but I guess that’s not an option. 

Tenn is the easy pick...don't mean they will win

oh i definitely agree that it should be split between all remaining contestants who lose in the same round if it comes to that.  ie if we all lose tonight it's split between all of us who are still alive right now.

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The official rules do say that if everyone goes out at once, you get reset for the next round. However, if everyone who is still alive agrees to split the pot, it's cool with me if y'all split. 

maybe we reset if everyone goes out in the sweet 16 but split the pot if its elite 8 or later?

Well lets go Arkansas and Mich State lol

1 hour ago, BigOrange1 said:

going bold tonight!  probably dumb but we'll find out soon.

I wanted to do that. I even had them tee’d up bc I really wanted to be able to take UCONN later on in the tourney, and then wimped out and decided to win today and let tomorrow take care of itself. 
I imagine we will all be on the same team tomorrow. 

ugh i may be fucked as the reason i made that pick is on the bench with a foot injury.

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