March 19, 2010
NCAA Bracket Smacktalk OK Since I have no leg to stand on, success-of-bracket-wise, I'll simply point out that 37.5% of PhD recipients in our sample aren't smart enough to sucessfully complete and hit "Save" on their brackets.
Insert Smack below
It does however open the door for me to be the first person to fill out a bracket aiming for the most-correct prize to take the OMGJavelinaBBQMemorial chumpstick prize.
Also I would love to say that Wisconsin is going to absolutely destroy mrflip's beloved Big Red, but I think we both know that isn't going to happen. The best I will give them is that they will probably sneak by playing some classic Big 10 ball (first team to 50 wins).
The Obama picks aren't me this year. I went with an "always pick the higher ranked team; referencing Obama's picks would take longer than I want to spend on this" strategy. I am, therefore, also screwed.
Er, I'll be damned. Figured I was further out of the possible than I am :)
GO BIG RED
They're taking out your Kentuck next, Jonthegeek
Scroll to the right to see winning scenarios.
gmcd -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky -- | -- ky | -- 60 k st, wva, duke don't advance; ky doesn't win flip -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky duke | -- ky | -- 55 ky, duke advance; ky doesn't win jarvis -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- k st ky -- | -- ky | -- 55 kst advances, duke and wva don't, ky doesn't win jtgeek -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky duke | -- ky | ky 54 ky gets to finals carl -- -- -- -- ky -- duke -- | -- -- ky duke | -- duke | -- 48 duke gets to finals jason -- -- -- -- ky wva -- -- | -- -- WVa -- | -- wva | -- 46 wva gets to finals soku -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky -- | -- ky | -- 58 nano -- -- -- -- ky wva -- -- | -- -- ky -- | -- -- | -- 48 nate -- -- -- k st ky wva -- -- | -- -- ky -- | -- -- | -- 46 | | | actual niowa tenn butl k st ky wva duke bayl | ?? ?? ?? ?? | ?? ?? | ?? 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 8 8 8 8 16 16 32 mist butl ky duke tenn kans wva baylor
Allo there. Right now I'm tied with Carl for the OMGJavelinaBBQMemorial prize. He's probably going to get points still, but in the event he doesn't, how is that tie breaker decided? Is it closest to the finals score, or furthest away from it?
Super excited,
Cindy
This is mayhem. Go bears!
No tiebreaker necessary. Congrats, Cindy! In a year of everyone sucking at NCAA picks, you sucked exactly enough!
For those who can't or won't look at the standings, here is the summary as of the timestamp:
-If Duke wins their next game doncarlo wins
-If Duke loses but West Virginia wins their next game, habcous wins
-If both lose the next game, mrflip wins
Also, I really feel like I deserve a commendation for being the worst of the truly awful bunch. In a year that didn't feature a beckto- or javelina-style "I'm just picking whoever, whoopee!" bracket I managed to come in dead last and that is a really special feeling. Moreover, since I either watched or kept my eye on almost every game that would have gone toward improving my score, I got to see more crushing and disappointing defeats than the average bear. This culminated in the 2-day stretch where it came down to something like me only needing (Ohio St. to lose OR Syracuse to win OR Duke to lose OR Kentucky to win) to not be in last place and every single damn one of those things naturally had to happen. Here's to you, 2010 March Madness! (Since you can't hear, I'm making a raspberry noise in time with the raising of my hand in a knuckle-first V-sign).
I'm pretty interested in this possibility where both Duke and WVU lose. Tell me more.
Hey, I see what I did there! mrflip is a loser!
Woo!
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How those table do turn! Suddenly mrflip and jonthegeek are flying high at the top of the (potential) standings after Kansas's stunning upset.
As the inevitable bottom dweller, I have already begun to calculate how I can claw my way into the always coveted next-to-last place position. Looks like the important matches where I differ from my neighbors are Syracuse-K State and A&M-Purdue. Go Fightin' One-of-those-teams-but-not-too-many-I-want-next-to-last.
posted by natedogg at 08:41PM CST on March 20