Comments on: The Simple Dollar Extra Edition: Your Local NCAA Tournament Pool

By: Don

Don — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:02:00 +0000

How do you factor tie-breakers?

I have UNC and Texas with both 11-4 records in the sweet sixteen. Who wins? The higher seed?

And I too had 15-0 for OSU and Memphis. Georgetown and Kansas are 14-1. My beloved Wisconsin Badgers are only 11-4, losing to behated Florida in the sweet sixteen. It’ll hurt but I’ll stay with the system (especially with B. Butch out).

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:40:05 +0000

This method really is only made to combat the office pool players who are already be going to be choosing based on seed and whether or not the name sounds good. I can see this method doing alright, but the reality is that the final rounds get you so many points, it might be better to just go to espn and completely copy one of the analyst’s picks. This year is a particularly strange year for seeding, lots of unexplained teams getting bumped up or down so I’m curious to see how it does.

If you want to risk it, but for big payoffs in the end, you could use some other steadfast “rules” and pick at least one 12 seed over a 5, make sure you have a team in the finals that isn’t a 1 or 2, and make sure your final four doesn’t have all 1s and 2s as well. Also, if history is any indication don’t pick a team to repeat as champions.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:27:47 +0000

I figured I would keep track of this just to see what would happen. By my figures, Ohio St and Memphis were both 15-0 if you count the tournaments as part of the 15 games. Which means one of them would be the winner as they are both in the San Antonio regional.

Also, do you go with the higher seeded team if they have the same 15 game record?

By: nsb

nsb — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:36:13 +0000

Also, I’m fully planning on using this technique….

By: nsb

nsb — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:35:30 +0000

I had a question about listing my home as a negative value presented by the remaining mortgage or as a positive value on as presented by Zillow.com, for example. I think the right answer is to be consistent across the board. Really, I just wanted to make sure I can post on this site…. Thanks!