Page 1 of 2
fill out your ncaa tournament bracket yet?
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:55 pm
by Dr_Watson
i personally couldn't give a shit about college basketball... but its always fun to gamble on.
feel free to hit up the espn tourney challenge and make some picks, its free.
20 hours left until the brackets are locked
http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage
after your done filing out the bracket you can join a group.. i made this one:
group = Quake3World
password = q3w
join up and get owned by my random picking skills.
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:56 pm
by Fender
Funny story about NCAA brackets.
http://newmarksdoor.typepad.com/mainblo ... orkpl.html
March 27, 2003
My wife's workplace runs an NCAA tournament pool. She wanted to participate but since she doesn't follow college basketball, she asked me to fill out a bracket. I did. I asked how much money we were going to win. She told me what the pot was but noted that the top scorer only received half the pot. Half was awarded to the worst entry.
Two generalizations about my wife's coworkers are relevant to what I did then. First, they are very nice people. They probably decided to award half the money to the worst entry because they were trying to compensate the loser for his shame and embarrassment Second, my wife's coworkers are not economists. They don't think like economists. Many of them, I'd bet, even dislike the way economists think.
So I, a practicing economist, filled out a second bracket, a bracket deliberately intended to lose. It was easy and fun. No sixteenth seed has ever won a game, so I picked the sixteenth seeds for the Final Four. (Vermont clobbers Arizona! IUPUI rolls!)
The result was that even though only two rounds have been played, that entry is locked into last. We have seven points, but the next lowest score is twenty-nine. And we can't score any more!
One of my wife's co-workers sought to console her for her extremely poor performance. She said it was done deliberately. Her co-worker said, "WHAT?" My wife explained that half the pot was a nice amount and that economists predict that people respond to incentives.
Her co-worker was shocked. My wife stands accused of "impropriety." She has been banned from the pool for one year and the pool will have different rules next year.
The moral of the story is that thinking like an economist may make you unpopular but can make you some money.
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:02 pm
by Dr_Watson
yeah, thats a silly rule... its much easier to pick a looser than a winner. i've heard of rules where the toilet entry gets their entry fee back... but nothing like giving last the same money as first... that makes no sense at all.
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:21 pm
by Maiden
UW all the way bitches
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:21 am
by tnf
It is pretty much Illinois tournament to lose. I just want to see Gonzaga beat Bobby Knight's team in the second round...so hopefully the cards will fall that way.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:02 am
by Chupacabra
looks like im only the second person to join :icon32:
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:23 am
by bitWISE
i originally had illinois beating duke just based on numbers but after seeing the experts pics i changed it to wf beating duke. i care fuckall about basketball...
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:43 pm
by Dr_Watson
Chupacabra wrote:looks like im only the second person to join :icon32:
:icon14:
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:10 am
by tnf
Well, after the morning games...
I picked the UW Milwaukee upset. Only game I've lost so far was Oklahoma and Niagra...picked Niagra as a big upset. Didn't happen.
So right now I am 7-1.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:55 am
by tnf
21-3 as of now.
Lost the LSU vs. UAB game, and lost St.Mary's vs. S. Illinois.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:40 am
by Dr_Watson
i'm like 20-8 ...
dude... syracuse lost
that hurt... i actually like that school... its the only *good* div1 school anywhere near me.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:58 am
by -Replicant-
oh FUCK OFF tim! GO VERMONT!!!!!!!
haha, sorry but as a BC fan i have to hate on cuse :P
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:08 am
by -Replicant-
haha, DOWN WITH KANSAS too!!!!!
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:36 am
by tnf
Bucknell. :lol:
Awesome, though, that Vermont and Bucknell won. I really thought Bucknell was done when they had the turnover and intentional foul near the end. That bank shot jump hook they made was lucky as hell.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:17 pm
by Maiden
buh bye zags
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:29 pm
by -Replicant-
zags were so overrated :/
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:34 pm
by Maiden
so you think washington is overrated too?
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:20 pm
by eepberries
I put down Florida for the bracket winnar. Why? Cause florida has lots of blacks.
GO FLORIDA!
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:39 pm
by 4g3nt_Smith
eepberries wrote:I put down Florida for the bracket winnar. Why? Cause florida has lots of blacks.
GO FLORIDA!
Theres a reson its called African Handball...
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:57 pm
by Dr_Watson
-Replicant- wrote:oh FUCK OFF tim! GO VERMONT!!!!!!!
haha, sorry but as a BC fan i have to hate on cuse :P
you're closer to syracuse than boston ... traitor :P
heh... well, after today my bracket is shot to hell.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:00 pm
by eepberries
In all seriousness though, I don't really care about basketball nor the NCAA tournament. I just filled out a bracket and paid 5$ to help out my friend's pool for the peple who actually do care
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:03 pm
by tnf
-Replicant- wrote:zags were so overrated :/
No, they just decided not to shoot free throws today.
I wouldn't say they were overrated at all, its been shown all season that every high ranked team can fall to a nobody.
The zags weakness was their ability to adjust.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:21 pm
by Dr_Watson
who the fuck are the zags?
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:23 pm
by tnf
Gonzaga.
The ones that just fucked themselves out of the sweet 16 by shooting about 60 percent from the free throw line...
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:24 pm
by tnf
You don't follow college basketball much, do you?