In the first round, I had 27 correct. I just watched Ohio State keep me in it. Last year I won the office brackets. This year I employed the same technique: watch no games during the regular season, pay no attention to the "experts" and go with gut feel. So far so good.
I have a bracket just for my own fun, no pools or anything. 22 correct in the first round, Only miss that hurt me was Villanova....apparently I was smoking something and I picked them to win 3 games including a second round win over Kansas?! Stoopid. The other losses were minor gambles that I only had picked for one win. All my final 4 picks are still in and all but one in the final 8.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Mar 17 2007, 12:54 PM) [snapback]407530[/snapback]</div> 26 here. Good enough for second place in the office pool.
I've only missed 6 games so far. Although I haven't checked the scores today since the end of the OSU win. That one would have hurt.
So far (half way through round 2), I have 35 of 40 games right. I applied a similar technique mentioned here. Skip the regular season, watch no predictions, just pick based on the sound of the name as I spent 3 minutes to fill out the bracket. I have Ohio losing the championship. They almost sank my whole boat yesterday if not for their little miracle at the end.
Ok, so I pay attention, listen to the pundits, consider myself a fan of the college game...and am getting my nice person handed to me. Just dropped one of my final 4 picks today.... My point is you guys suck....but dang I LOVE March Madness!
i didn't get into the office pool this year, unfortunately, just watching with interest. i know my team isn't going far. wasn't that last-minute ohio tie up a killer? i was amazed! second that, i LOVE march madness
I'm currently tied for third in the office brackets. First Round: 27 / 32 Second: 12 / 16 Total Points: 51 My final four is still intact. I noticed that I am the only one in the office with my final four. That might be the deciding factor.
How you guys doing with your brackets? Right now, I'm in 232nd place in the CNNSI bracket challenge, 45 of the 52 games correct so far. It's my best ever showing so I'm pretty excited about that, and as soon as one of my teams takes a dive (maybe tonight), then I zip back into 7800th place never to recover. I put my bracket snapshots here Anyone else having a banner year with this?
29/32 first round 11/16 second round and 4/4 so far in the third round I'm doing mine through ESPN with a bunch of friends from school - everyone gets 5 brackets for free. The above is from the bracket i have hanging on my cube wall. I also currently hold 4 of the top 5 positions in the pool.
I have tried several words to describe my bracket, but they're all banned by PC..... I've still got 3 of 4 of my final 4 teams, and 6 of 8 great 8, but it's not looking good at all. I really blew it picking KS to be upset in the 2nd round. Other 'misses' were small individually, but too many to make a strong bracket.
Pitt was my differentiator. Since so few people picked them, they were going to win me enough points to practically guarantee a victory in the brackets. Well, poop. I'm done.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Mar 23 2007, 01:14 PM) [snapback]411001[/snapback]</div> :lol: Me too.
As of this morning, seven of my eight picks for the regional finals games are still in the running, as are all of my final four picks. Unfortunately, with 43 correct selections thus far, I am in fourth place, two picks and three points behind the leader (the seed numbers were added as bonus in scoring the first round). Comparing my choices of the winners of the rest of the games with ones of those who are ahead and just behind me in the standings, I can finish no higher than second place. Oh, well.
Current standing: 29/32 first round 12/16 second round 7/8 third round 4/4 fourth round Currently ranked 1st, and everyone within range of me has Ohio State beating Florida by 5 (i'm 75-70, 2nd place is 76-71, third is 65-60) for the final, so i'm pretty much locked in for my winnings
UCLA winning was that sound of my glass bracket hitting the floor. Georgetown winning was the sound of a guy named Thompson grinding my shattered glass into a fine powder. Maybe Florida and Ohio meet in the final to recover a bit of my losses..
I've got 3/4, had picked Wisconsin to have a big streak getting into the final 4 but then losing. I've got the other 3 w/ UCLA winning the championship. rest of the bracket looks like hell though.
I miscalculated the value of correctly picking all four regional finalists. That was good enough to move me into first place with a total of 47 correct selections. I have Ohio State and Florida in the championship game with Ohio State winning it all. So do the second to fourth place holders, so they cannot overtake me. The two who are tied for fifth place must be correct and I must be wrong in all the remaining picks in order for either one of them to take the lead. However, I have one choice in common with each one of them. The seventh place holder has been mathematically eliminated. The third place holder has just congratulated me on winning the pool. To make things better, a win by my alma matter, UCLA, will not affect my chances of winning the pool.
