2022 March Madness Tournament

[The Nth Doctor]

Selection Sunday is complete and it's time to reactivate the TrekBBS Bracket Group (password: startrek)! I just hope we have more participation this year. I can't lose to just digits. Again!

It's been a bumpy year for Duke but this is Coach K's final season. Here's hoping he can bring home one last championship on his way out! Duke all the way!

 

[1001001]

Thanks for setting this up.

As the TrekBBS Champion the last three years in a row, I welcome all challengers.

 

[Danny99]

Selection Sunday is complete and it's time to reactivate the TrekBBS Bracket Group (password: startrek)! I just hope we have more participation this year. I can't lose to just digits. Again!

It's been a bumpy year for Duke but this is Coach K's final season. Here's hoping he can bring home one last championship on his way out! Duke all the way!

The link just gives me an error. Is there an ID to use?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Oops, sorry about that. I did fuck up the link. I changed it now. The ID# is 43945 if it still doesn't work.

 

[Spider]

Houston has two teams going into this year's run, but I don't think either of them will last very long.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, I'm having Houston lose to UAB in the first round. Not sure about the other one...yet.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I filled out a bracket on ESPN, I have Gonzaga over Villanova.

I didn't follow much so my picks are fairly arbitrary, mosty picking favorites with some upsets thrown in.

I've been also wondering whether the optimal strategy, if your goal is not just to maximize expected points, but to maximize the odds of winning a competition with millions of brackets, is to pick a handful of low probability upsets toward the end, so if they do happen, you have slightly more fault tolerance in the early rounds.

Whereas if you just pick all the favorites and they win, somebody else probably already picked them and did better in the early rounds. But if you pick the upsets and they win, far fewer people picked them so you can get more of the early rounds wrong.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Feel free to join us! More the merrier!

The deadline is 12:15 EDT tomorrow, so get your brackets in, everyone!

I've been also wondering whether the optimal strategy, if your goal is not just to maximize expected points, but to maximize the odds of winning a competition with millions of brackets, is to pick a handful of low probability upsets toward the end, so if they do happen, you have slightly more fault tolerance in the early rounds.

Whereas if you just pick all the favorites and they win, somebody else probably already picked them and did better in the early rounds. But if you pick the upsets and they win, far fewer people picked them so you can get more of the early rounds wrong.

Everyone has their own strategies. I go by how difficult each team's schedule is and how difficult their conference is. Plus gut instincts (often wrong, sometimes right on the money). And I always make sure I have at least one 12 win over a 5.

I'm also biased heavily for Duke but especially this year since Coach K is retiring after this season.

 

[1001001]

Fucking Iowa…

 

[Aragorn]

So how about those Kentucky Wildcats?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Fucking Iowa…

Right? Damnit!

So how about those Kentucky Wildcats?

I can hear a lot of brackets getting shredded right now!

...although, come to think of it, that makes my mad choice of St. Mary's in the Final Four a bit easier. Of course, they still have to beat Baylor like I predict...

 

[1001001]

So how about those Kentucky Wildcats?

Goddamnit!



I had Kentucky in the Finals.

We each have different champions, so that’s good.

 

[Starbreaker]

WHUP THE EAGLE TIGERS

 

[Danny99]

Frankly, Alabama burned me more than Iowa.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Frankly, Alabama burned me more than Iowa.

Funny thing about that one. I always set my brackets before the play-ins go through and I had Rutgers beating Notre Dame...and then beating Alabama. I left it in place even after Notre Dame beat Rutgers and worked out for me!

 

[Thestral]

I didn't do a bracket but Kentucky went down in the first round so all is right with the world. Take that, unearned 2-seed.

 

[1001001]

I didn't do a bracket but Kentucky went down in the first round so all is right with the world. Take that, unearned 2-seed.

Yeah I screwed the pooch on that one.

Basically my only hope is for Arizona to win it all.

 

[Spider]

Houston Cougars made it past round one.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And the first number one seed falls!

Normally, I'm against Carolina all the way but I'm actually thankful because this makes St. Mary's path to the Final Four that much easier!

 

[1001001]

And the first number one falls.

That’s one I actually called correctly.