Warden's Bracket Challenge
by Warden11 on Mar 17, 2010 3:46 PM CDT
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One last front page push for Warden's Bracket Challenge. Check it out, it's a pretty fun variation on picking teams. All you need is about 10 minutes, a little bit of strategery and perhaps an affinity to risk. On your mark, get set, GO!! Tourney starts tomorrow, don't miss out on.
It's time for the 2nd Annual Warden's Bracket Challenge! For this Bracket Challenge, you're not going to fill out a bracket or try to pick every game. Very simple rules and explanation. From last year's post:
There are a few problems I have with the typical bracket games. For example, lets say someone picks Syracuse to win it all. Syracuse is upset in the Sweet 16, you are now down an automatic 60 points! Thanks for playing, we'll see ya later! The other problem is early round scoring, 1 point for picking the first round games correct. You can pick 3/4 of the games wrong and be fine, as long as you correctly pick the Final Four and Championship.
Here's how the Wardens Bracket Challenge works:
- Pick 10 teams
- You are awarded points equal to that teams seed for every win.
- Most points win.
For example, if you pick Missouri as one of your teams and they beat Clemson, you get 10 points. If they win in the 2nd round, you get 10 more points. Or you could pick Villanova and get 2 points for every game they win, with a maximum of 12 points. Strategy is yours to decide, high seed teams and hope for 1 or 2 wins or lower seeded teams and hope for a run to the Elite 8.
Pick your teams in the comments and I'll keep track of the results. We can't let Hunter S. Royal win again!
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I'm in as always...one of my favorite variations btw...
1. Cornell
2. Texas
3. Northern Iowa
4. Richmond
5. San Diego State
6. Siena
7. UTEP
8. Texas A&M
9. Oklahoma State
10. Xavier
53 Conference Championships!! and now 6 IN A ROW!!! Holy Hell...Good Luck with That!!
I wish I had discovered this last year
1. Cornell
2. Kansas State
3. Baylor
4. San Diego St
5. Marquette
6. Texas
7. Missouri
8. Xavier
9. Butler
10. BYU
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Teams I want to lose slower than others
1. Butler
2. Clemson
3. GA Tech
4. Marquette
5. Michigan St.
6. Minnesota
7. Temple
8. Tennessee
9. Texas A&M
10. Richmond
could pay off big...
or take you out of the running early…either way you’ll know soon.
53 Conference Championships!! and now 6 IN A ROW!!! Holy Hell...Good Luck with That!!
True, I did go for an "upsets are overrated" set
I have to say I like this style of pickem. It seems to add more fun to first round games than a full bracket, and is much less tedious and capricious. Also seems easier to compute via spreadsheet (yeah, I entered everyone’s picks in Excel, so what?)
I haven't gotten that far yet,
wanna be the official scorekeeper?
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Sure!
Man, right as a bunch of new scores are added.
by sax solo on Mar 17, 2010 6:38 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
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Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Thats a good idea
Try balance out top seeds and Cinderellas who have a shot to make noise. I’ll say:
1. San Diego State
2. Minnesota
3. UTEP –
4. Baylor
5. Wisconsin
6. Marquette
7. Butler
8. Siena
9. Florida
10. Cornell
Shit happens when you win championships
My silly picks.
1) UTEP
2) Sienna
3) Cornell
4) Mizzou
5) Louisville
6) St. Mary’s
7) Baylor
8) Marquette
9) Texas
10) Kansas (gotta at least get 6 points right?)
Man crush. Sherron.
Mizzou?
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Labbadabba; True KU fan or
Undercover agent for the evil Missouri empire?
by hunter s. royal on Mar 18, 2010 8:40 PM CDT up reply actions
my turn
1. Northern Iowa
2. San Diego State
3. Oklahoma State
4. UTEP
5. Gonzaga
6. Texas A&M
7. Siena
8. Baylor
9. Cornell
10. Washington
Mine
1. Cornell
2. Sienna
3. Murray St.
4. UTEP
5. Gonzaga
6. Michigan St.
7. Baylor
8. Saint Mary’s
9. Texas
10. Clemson
And last year's luckiest man picks:
1.Gonzaga
2. UTEP
3. Minnesota
4. St. Mary’s
5. Notre Dame
6. Siena
7. Georgia Tech
8. N. Iowa
9. Texas
10. Marquette.
by hunter s. royal on Mar 15, 2010 5:32 PM CDT reply actions
don't you mean
smartest man?
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I'll give this a go.
1. Tex A&M
2. Butler
3. Cornell
4. Richmond
5. Washington
6. Minnesota
7. Murray St.
8. Louisville
9. Gonzaga
10. Kansas — Yeah I’m a Homer!
by MichiganJayHawk on Mar 15, 2010 8:53 PM CDT reply actions
my ten are
1. Cornell
2. UTEP
3. Murray St
4. Baylor
5. Texas A&M
6. Gonzaga
7. Missouri
8. Old Dominion
9. Xavier
10. Siena
Just realized I didn't put my picks in the post.
1. Cornell
2. G. Tech
3. BYU
4. St. Mary’s
5. Texas A&M
6. Washington
7. Wisconsin
8. Baylor
9. Florida St
10. UTEP
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
What the hell
1. Washington
2. Cornell
3. Baylor
4. Old Dominion
5. Texas A&M
6. Florida State
7. University of Texas-El Paso
8. California
9. Northern Iowa
10. San Diego State
Oh my dear lord...this is RETARDED boss...
by tequilaprophet on Mar 16, 2010 10:38 PM CDT reply actions
You sound like my father
Oh my dear lord...this is RETARDED boss...
by tequilaprophet on Mar 17, 2010 5:05 PM CDT up reply actions
.
1. UTEP
2. San Diego State
3. Cornell
4. BYU
5. Louisville
6. Texas
7. Murray State
8. Siena
9. Minnesota
10. St. Mary’s
Slow Ride
1. Murray St
2. Cornell
3. Louisville
4. Siena
5. BYU
6. Texas A&M
7. St Mary’s
8. Xavier
9. Gonzaga
10. Maryland
Def a winner
1. Kansas (gotta do it)
2. Tex A&M
3. Baylor (Yea so I’m a big 12 homer)
4. Cornell
5. BYU
6. Old Dominion
7. Butler
8. Siena
9. Florida St.
10. ARKANSAS PINE BLUFF!!! (lol maybe just a throw away pick, but wouldn’t it be sweet?)
You better snap the effing ball Cassel.... Todd has beaten small children for less... Just ask Whitlock....
1. Richmond
2. G. Tech
3. BYU
4. Butler
5. Minnesota
6. Washington
7. Wisconsin
8. Old Dominion
9. Florida St
10. Utah St (In honor of Johnny Utah)
by Slim Intoxicado on Mar 17, 2010 4:41 PM CDT reply actions
Now that I've finally got my bracket filled out,
1. Murray State
2. Minnesota
3. Cornell
4. Washington
5. Utah State
6. St. Mary’s
7. BYU
8. UTEP
9. Old Dominion
10. Gonzaga
"Not to be cliché or anything, but I’m Jayhawk born and Jayhawk bred and when I die I’ll be Jayhawk dead." - Ovechwin
Picks
1. UTEP
2. Cornell
3. Siena
4. BYU
5. Murray State
6. San Diego St.
7. Old Dominion
8. Richmond
9. Louisville
10. Xavier
Picks
1. Marquette
2. Wisconsin
3. Baylor
4. Utah St.
5. BYU
6. Xavier
7. Butler
8. Georgetown
9. Maryland
10. Old Dominion
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 17, 2010 8:29 PM CDT reply actions
Huge fan of this.
1. Siena
2. Temple
3. Xavier
4. Texas A&M
5. Murray St.
6. Baylor
7. Louisville
8. Washington
9. San Diego St.
10. Gonzaga
I like
Siena
Cornell
Texas
Missouri
St. Marys
BYU
Pitt
T A&M
Baylor
Mich St
It's not that I'm lazy; it's that I just don't care.
Good Idea
1. Washington
2. Missouri
3. Siena
4. Cornell
5. Vanderbilt
6. Florida State
7. Tennessee
8. Baylor
9. Texas A&M
10. Notre Dame
by DreamersProphecy on Mar 18, 2010 11:00 AM CDT reply actions
And closed for business!
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
End of Round 1 Scoring Update
I’ll say it again here. “Groupthink” is a fake pick group made up of the 10 most popular picked teams, and “waynewinston.com” is a fake group made from the results of Sagarin simulations done in this post that I saw on the internet. I just added them in for fun. Please ignore them if all you care about is how you do vs. the other humans.
the good news is
last place gets his/her money back
Zapp Brannigan/Dayton Moore quote of the day: "[my most important sabermetric stats are] runs scored and runs driven in"
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 22, 2010 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions
If Wisconsin and Baylor can get a few more wins each,
I’m going to like my picks a lot.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I'm also going to predict a fall from the top by KC.
Feasted on the upsets and those points will stop coming starting today.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
St. Mary's over Nova really supports that theory, eh?
"Not to be cliché or anything, but I’m Jayhawk born and Jayhawk bred and when I die I’ll be Jayhawk dead." - Ovechwin
by Andy Edwards on Mar 20, 2010 2:15 PM CDT up reply actions
except quite a few of us have St Mary's
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
St. Mary's for the MFW
seriously how crap was nova this tournament? Nearly lost opening game to a 15 seed then lose to a ten seed. Puke might cruise to the final 4 the way that bracket is going…
Shit happens when you win championships
Sweet Sixteen Score Update
16 of the lesser teams in the land are still playing basketball for some reason—-perhaps to decide who’s second best.
KCSince88 still leads, but it’s not sewn up yet. There’s still an outside chance that Warden11, tequilaprophet, or TKELuke can pass him.
Also rockchalk grabs the dubious honor of having all teams out first, which means that KU Grad 08 and I are locked in a race to not finish last.
New rule
person with the most teams left at this point gets 50 bonus points
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