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The seeds have been announced and I'm rolling out my 11th annual March Madness Bracket Challenge. This year, the big deal is that there is a women's bracketball contest, too! Entry: Free! 1st prize for each bracket: One of these $25 Amazon gift cards I found while cleaning out my kitchen. Now when a heavily-accented man calls to tell you he is from the IRS and you will go to jail, you can be ready! To enter, either: A. Sign up here and fill out an online bracket https://fantasy.espn.com/tc/sharer?...7d-59bcb202cead Password: rentsdue B. Fill out this bracket by hand and post it in here. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/printable-men/ While I'm typing this out, I'm watching Selection Sunday to find the best team names. Who will be this year's Saint Peter's Peacocks? It could be the 16th-seeded Stetson Hatters  Or will it be the Longwood Lancers?  Perhaps the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers won't need to cut off their toes to fit the glass slipper. What the gently caress is this thing:  I swear to God there is a team in this tournament named McCheese  Cats are marrying dogs out here, folks. Deadline is tipoff for the Thursday games (not the Tuesday & Wednesday play-in games)
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Women's Bracketball Link https://fantasy.espn.com/tc/sharer?...7d-59bcb202cead Password: rentsdue or Printable Bracket https://www.cbssports.com/womens-college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/printable-women/ Who will make it far enough to get their corpses feasted upon by South Carolina and/or Caitlin Clark? Will it be Stanford?  Or will it be the Kent State, um, Golden Flashes  There is apparently a second team named the Lancers. Will the women of Cal Baptist and the men of Longwood make this a double Lancer title?  Fairfield has made it to their fifth NCAA tournament. While the men's team is called the Stags (a male deer), the women's team is called  Well, they're also called the Stags. Deadline is tipoff on Thursday (not the first-four games on Tuesday and Wednesday). All hail Queen Caitlin, Iowa is the only basketball I've watched all year. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Mar 18, 2024 00:03
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Let's go
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Mar 18, 2024 01:13
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Rooting for CT, AZ, Purdue, and ASU if they made it
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Mar 18, 2024 01:17
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This is my year goddamnit! (Not likely)
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Mar 18, 2024 01:47
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The women's bracketball challenge is out. Check the second post of this thread for the deets
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Mar 18, 2024 02:31
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I don't know anything about sport so have a bracket completely based on how much I liked (or even hated) a mascot to victory.  Women's coming soon.
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Mar 18, 2024 02:42
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Grey Cat posted:I don't know anything about sport so have a bracket completely based on how much I liked (or even hated) a mascot to victory. Personally I'm hoping for a Mayor McNeese vs. WKU whose mascot looks like a purple Grimace showdown.
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Mar 18, 2024 02:45
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sad we don't get Cream Abdul Jabaar and Indiana State
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Mar 18, 2024 04:32
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I’m in. Let’s loving go
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Mar 18, 2024 13:51
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Rocky top bitch
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Mar 18, 2024 15:11
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I have submitted my bracket! Go AZ and Purdue!!
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Mar 18, 2024 18:45
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Bump I'll sticky
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Just a heads up, if you sign in with ESPN, it will display your real life name. Just go to the ESPN profile and change your name to something else if you don't want online people to have access to that. Go UCONN! Otherwise we will feel a similar feeling of ennui as Ennui Husky does.  Yes, that was their real logo for a bit. Anderson Koopa fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Mar 20, 2024 19:33
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Ground floor. Go Horns! (The Horns will not go anywhere in the Men's tournament. They will probably go Sweet 16 or higher in the Women's.)
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Mar 20, 2024 19:50
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Theres something wrong with your poll op
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Bump I'll sticky Thanks! Tournament officially starts tomorrow, get your entries in!
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I made a Men's bracket but I still gotta make a Women's one. And a lot more Men's ones.Grey Cat posted:I don't know anything about sport so have a bracket completely based on how much I liked (or even hated) a mascot to victory. Peacocks are cool, why you gotta hate on peacock birds?
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5 years ago some guy fell ill and got hopped up on cold meds. He made a bracket, fell asleep, and didn't remember making the bracket at all... until a few days later when the NCAA called. He had gotten all 48 games of the first two rounds right https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39752102/march-madness-perfect-bracket-gregg-nigl-ncaa-history
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Drunk Nerds posted:5 years ago some guy fell ill and got hopped up on cold meds. He made a bracket, fell asleep, and didn't remember making the bracket at all... until a few days later when the NCAA called. The odds of getting a perfect bracket are really, really astoundingly loving small. Depending on how predictably the games go based on poo poo like team stats and season records, they can range anywhere from about one in 120 billion to one in 9.2 quintillion. This is why so many people win bracket contests by just picking teams at random; there are so many random unpredictable factors that go into March Madness games that just looking at stats on paper is almost worthless. Someone did the math in one of the SAS threads last year and you have a better chance of correctly guessing a working 16-digit debit card number AND the card's 3-digit security code out of thin air (assuming you somehow already know the exp date and PIN), using that card number to buy one Powerball ticket, and winning the Powerball jackpot with that ticket than you have of getting a perfect March Madness bracket.
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I. M. Gei posted:The odds of getting a perfect bracket are really, really astoundingly loving small. Depending on how predictably the games go based on poo poo like team stats and season records, they can range anywhere from about one in 120 billion to one in 9.2 quintillion. This is why so many people win bracket contests by just picking teams at random; there are so many random unpredictable factors that go into March Madness games that just looking at stats on paper is almost worthless. Tomorrow, if I have a free minute, I'm going to figure out the odds of a chalk bracket going perfect based on the % of times each seed has been upset.
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I. M. Gei posted:The odds of getting a perfect bracket are really, really astoundingly loving small. Depending on how predictably the games go based on poo poo like team stats and season records, they can range anywhere from about one in 120 billion to one in 9.2 quintillion. This is why so many people win bracket contests by just picking teams at random; there are so many random unpredictable factors that go into March Madness games that just looking at stats on paper is almost worthless. So you're saying there's a chance. *Rubs hands
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redshirt posted:So you're saying there's a chance. It's not impossible, just improbable 
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For transparency: I'm creating multiple entries for my account right now. This is to enter all the hand-submitted brackets, like Grey Cat's. Each one will have the submitter's name on it, even though it may be attributed to my main account. Please don't submit a second bracket during this period, it will be deleted.
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Mar 21, 2024 13:59
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Drunk Nerds posted:For transparency: I'm creating multiple entries for my account right now. This is to enter all the hand-submitted brackets, like Grey Cat's. Each one will have the submitter's name on it, even though it may be attributed to my main account. Please don't submit a second bracket during this period, it will be deleted. Does that mean I should hold off on the women's bracket?
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Grey Cat posted:Does that mean I should hold off on the women's bracket? No, post it as soon as you can please. I phrased that poorly, I meant don't enter the same contest twice.
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Mar 21, 2024 14:48
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I used to work in college sports and lost my natty champ in the first round more often than I picked the champ right, so please take all your betting advice from me tia
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Games are on!
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i submitted my bracket in this group, just for fun. i dont want a prize in the OP, so if i win it, please give to the second place or something lol
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 I might have made a couple mistakes I tried to get it in quick before games started. If I goofed just put me down for a random team. Grey Cat fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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I joined the Women’s bracket as well 
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:I joined the Women’s bracket as well Same. This is Maine's year!!!!
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Grey Cat posted:I don't know anything about sport so have a bracket completely based on how much I liked (or even hated) a mascot to victory. I know nothing about basketball and I won our office March Madness pool one year by picking teams based on whether I had heard of them or not. Kentucky? OK I've heard of Kentucky. Gonzaga? Where the gently caress is Gonzaga? Out!
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Presto posted:I know nothing about basketball and I won our office March Madness pool one year by picking teams based on whether I had heard of them or not. Kentucky? OK I've heard of Kentucky. Gonzaga? Where the gently caress is Gonzaga? Out! My son's strategy of auto picking any team with a weird name just helped him nail that Duquesne upset
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Sittin' pretty in 1st place (tied with many others, but it counts!)
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Welp my first two teams lost (I loving knew BYU/Duquesne was gonna be a coin-toss), but I had them both losing in the next round anyway. I need a Morehead State upset so bad. I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Yeah other than Duquesne I’m looking good so far if these scores hold.
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3 for 3 here, but so is my son who just picks randomly so not gonna victory lap.
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Was my women's not entered in time? Also I am not dead last so I count that as a win so far. Presto posted:I know nothing about basketball and I won our office March Madness pool one year by picking teams based on whether I had heard of them or not. Kentucky? OK I've heard of Kentucky. Gonzaga? Where the gently caress is Gonzaga? Out! I know Gonzaga just because I lived like an hour from them at one point, but as far as hearing about 99% of the teams, nope. I also didn't vote for them because I was sick of the fact that a dozen teams have pitbulls for mascots.
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