Friday, March 27, 2015

March Madness: How to Dominate the Brackets

Here are my rules for how to fill out an NCAA bracket, listed in order of priority:


  1. Always choose Duke to be the champion.
  2. Pick Nebraska teams to upset and to go as far as reasonably possible.
  3. Pick Nevada to upset and to go as far as reasonably possible.  (And by Nevada, I do not mean UNLV.)
  4. Pick ACC teams, but --
  5. Always choose to have UNC lose awkwardly early, preferably in the first round.  
  6. Feel some cognitive dissonance, but choose Ivy League teams as upset teams for at least two rounds.
  7. In the first round, choose at least half of the 10, 11, and 12 seeds to upset as this is the best place to balance gaining in the points with a reasonable probability of success. 
  8. At this point, if you have any choices left, maybe take a minute to learn about the current college basketball season and make some picks accordingly.  
What's your system for filling out NCAA Brackets?

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