How am I doing well? 2nd place currently and more potential overall points than anyone else? My bracket is in the top 3% of all of Yahoo March Madness?
I made my picks based on who was showing the most teeth in the pictures Yahoo showed me. This includes both the logo/mascot teeth - if any - and those of the players when a player image was shown. In the case of a tie, the one showing their teeth in a more threatening manner won.
Anyone I am beating that is actually familiar with this sport and these teams should feel bad.
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2013 March Madness
It's a tournament TPR, not a season. The best teams in the country finished at the top of their divisions based on 20-30 games played.
Getting upset by a single team that gets hot in a tournament format makes for exciting TV, but doesn't mean the winning team is "better".
Years like this one, where entire brackets were blown up with freak upsets, those with little knowledge of the sport and teams SHOULD do better...
Getting upset by a single team that gets hot in a tournament format makes for exciting TV, but doesn't mean the winning team is "better".
Years like this one, where entire brackets were blown up with freak upsets, those with little knowledge of the sport and teams SHOULD do better...
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Isn't EVERY year a year with freak upsets? When have there ever not been unpredictable upsets? That's why almost everyone has an equal shot at winning. We are told how good the teams are on paper (rankings). And then we just have to try to guess where the upsets are going to happen. Who ever guesses best, wins.Leisher wrote:It's a tournament TPR, not a season. The best teams in the country finished at the top of their divisions based on 20-30 games played.
Getting upset by a single team that gets hot in a tournament format makes for exciting TV, but doesn't mean the winning team is "better".
Years like this one, where entire brackets were blown up with freak upsets, those with little knowledge of the sport and teams SHOULD do better...
Isn't EVERY year a year with freak upsets?
No. There are years where it plays almost exactly to seeds, years with a single day of upsets, years where everything is wild (this year), etc.
The numbers show that typically, the higher seeds win.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Yes, the higher seeds have a better chance of winning. But building your bracket on the seeds means you may do well, but it's not a guaranteed win. You MUST guess the upsets that happen every single year. Some years there are more than others. But there are always upsets.
Is there a website that archives the brackets so we can actually see?
Is there a website that archives the brackets so we can actually see?
List of upsets since 1985
The WSJ had an article about average # of above 8 seeds in the Sweet 16 or something, and this year was slightly lower on upsets, or such, can't remember the exact stat.
From another place:
So 2007 was pretty true to form apparently.
At any rate, upsets are not that rare.
The WSJ had an article about average # of above 8 seeds in the Sweet 16 or something, and this year was slightly lower on upsets, or such, can't remember the exact stat.
From another place:
It's only when you get a gap of at least four seed positions between opponents that a game has upset potential.
Surprisingly, two-thirds of tourney games meet this condition. Of the 1,449 games that have been played in the last 23 years, 967 of them have pitted longshots against favorites—and the underdog has won about 20 percent of the time. That's an average of 8.5 upsets per tourney, or roughly one in every seven games. (Now you know why 2007’s total of three upsets was so unusual.)
So 2007 was pretty true to form apparently.
At any rate, upsets are not that rare.
It's not me, it's someone else.
And it's "fuck Michigan" coming in first place.Malcolm wrote:Man, much as I'd like to see a non-sports dude win the bracket, I hates me some Michigan.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."