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Bracket Boycott

By Robby Wellington – Staff Writer

I was already griping about March Madness brackets before the tournament started, and now that I’m sitting in the cellar (30th percentile) of all my pools, during one of the most predictable postseasons in recent memory, I’m going to go ahead and gripe some more. First and foremost, I really can’t stand the standard format where picks double each round. The first weekend of the tournament is basically rendered moot. How about a scoring format of 10 points for first round games, 20 for second, 30 for third, up to 60 for the champ? Another wrinkle to add is the concept of upset points. For any correct upset pick where the seeds differ by five or more, you receive the difference in the seeds added to your score. For example, correctly picking VCU over Duke would net a total of 15 points. Anyway, this is how I’m going to run my own damn pool next year, so go ahead and let me know if you want to join. Thanks.

Another highly recommended alternative to the typical bracket is to draft individual players, gaining points based on your actual player’s points (seven of my eight guys were on Kansas/Texas/A&M this year, whoops). This way you can enjoy March Madness with more of a fantasy spin.

Since I’ve been so spot on this postseason, I’ll go ahead and offer up some fearless predictions for everyone…

UCLA 68 Florida 64
Georgetown 66 Ohio St. 61

UCLA 63 Georgetown 59

Umm, yeah, I have no idea in any of these games. Whatever, here’s to the start of baseball season and my man Barry Bonds making history!

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7 responses to “Bracket Boycott”

  1. Tim Avatar
    Tim

    For the last five years I haven’t done a regualr bracket. I get three other guys and we each draft 16 teams. You get 1 pt for each first round win, 2 pts for the second, etc.
    It’s interesting because you get rewarded for both the big guns and sleepers and even if you pick the winner, you’re not guaranteed to win the whole thing.
    In fact, this year the team with Florida already has been eliminated because he only got one other team to the Sweet 16 (Texas A&M) which didn’t get him any additional points.

  2. Jason Avatar
    Jason

    my wife does that as well and she likes it. I do the standard bracket. But we don’t do so many points. It’s 1 point for each 1st round win, and you add one for each round, however, picking the champ nets you 10 points, so you could have a so-so bracket but still be in contention if you pick the champ.

  3. MaddenDude Avatar
    MaddenDude

    When everyone is going the normal brackets where the points double, I feel like theres no other option. The whole bracket/scoring is now a tradition, its something that we can’t change, and personally I wouldn’t want to.

    Anywhoo, if it were to change, I would say do something with spreads. I don’t know HOW, but that would be a good place to start in my opinion.

  4. Dalton Avatar
    Dalton

    I like those ideas.

    The sad thing is my bracket makes Robby’s look good.

  5. Keith Avatar
    Keith

    I was sure Texas and A&M were going to make stronger showings…at least I had the Wisconsin and Duke losses; those bonus upset points sure would have helped me out!

  6. Robby Avatar
    Robby

    Good suggestions guys; thanks for the feedback.

  7. sir boss hog outlaw III Avatar
    sir boss hog outlaw III

    rawb i want to be in ur league..i hate all these people picking the chalk and winning it makes me sick

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