Talking Poker NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge

[PShabi]

Setting one up for us right now on CBS.com. Couple of decisions:

1) Weighting:

Default is :

1st round = 1
2nd round = 2
3rd round = 4
4th round = 8
Semis = 16
Finals = 32

Do we want weigted games or just leave them all worth 1.

2) Bonus

You can add the seed. For example: If you pick a 12 seed the first round and they win. It's weighted at 1, and you add the 12 to the total to get 13.

You can also multiple the seed. Same example above but you multiply.. It would only impact if you were doing it in multiple rounds. Say that 12 seed wins a 2nd round game and you picked them. Weight = 2, seed = 12. That's 24 points.

* I'm in favor of adding the seed for the first round games only. I'm not sure how I feel about weighting. I'd be down for default or just making all the weights 1 with adding the seed for first round games only. What do you think?

3) Entry fee????? I'm down for $10-$20.


Lemme know and I'll get it drawn up and get a link out.

[Talking Poker]

1. Weighted, for sure.

2. I don't like the weighted thing, but whatever.

3. Whatever. $10-20 is friendly. Feel free to have people ship to TalkingPoker on Stars.

[melioris]

1) the only time I played a bracket without weighting was when you filled it out each week. So this week we filled out only for opening weekend, then after the first and second round you fill it out again, etc. This way all the games were worth equal value. Otherwise, weighting is better.

2). I think this is a mandatory for the first round, or first weekend. It benefits those that follow hoops (not me this year ) and makes the #4-#8 seeded games much more interesting.

3). whatever price sounds good.

[Kurn]

1. Standard

2. Round weight * seed differential is my favorite way. But I don't follow college hoops, so that's why I like it.

3. $10 - $20 sounds fine.

[PShabi]

I've done some research on weighting the rounds. From what I've read the following weighting seems to work well:

1-2-3-5-8-13

I don't like the default 1-2-4-8-16-32 because it renders the first round pretty much useless. From what I gathered, the fibonacci (super nerd time) sequence of 1-2-3-5-8-13 is a better method. Sooooo, let's go with that.

Last year, the pool I did gave points added for the seed picked, but only in Round 1. So, as stated above, a #12 wins and you pick 'em, you've got 13 points for that win in the first round. It was really fun, so we're going to go with that as well for first round only.

I'm sure $10 would get more people in, so we'll keep it at $10. I'm going to finish setting this up now. I don't THINK anyone would be a big enough douchebag to go to the contest and fill out a bracket without paying, but if they did, it would fuck up the contest, so I'll collect money through my Stars account and ship the pw once the entry is received. I'm off all week for Spring Break so I'll be around enough to keep this flowing easily.

The only thing left to discuss is payouts. Winner take all is fine with me. We could also pay the top 3 or just give #2 their money back and winner takes rest. We'll decide this by tonight.

I'm gonna finish setting up the scoring and get the pw for the contest. Should be fun and I will most definitely win, so yeah, it's gonna be awesomer.

[PShabi]

Okay, it's setup. We can make changes until the tourney starts, if anyone is really opposed to what's setup.

To register:

1) Ship the $10 to PShabi on Stars
2) PM with an email addy
3) I will invite you via the email function on CBS.com and you will be sent the URL

This way it is all but guaranteed that there will be no crashers (where's Chip?)

[MAYHEM45]

Def never set up any brackets ever, its prob just a sign im gonna win!

[PShabi]

Ever set up fantasy football or anything over on CBS? The "TPF" abbreviation was unavailable as well.

[PShabi]

FYI: CBS must have the bracket submitted by 8AM est, on Thursday.


Hope to get at least a few more gambooolers in on this. Come on fellas!

[PShabi]

Ship it.

Memphis beating UCLA just guaranteed the victory for me. Don't even have to sweat the rest of it. Fucking rad bro.

[melioris]

gg Shabi, by one point. Although I did pick more games than you. Not a bad showing considering I haven't seen fuck-all of NCAA BB this year.