Even though the NCAA Tournament has one more game to determine the National Champion, the First Annual Vigilante Sports NCAA Bracket Challenge crowned it’s champion last night when Florida defeated, the Cinderella, George Mason. I’m happy to report that the winner was… me. I know that I previously posted that my brackets were busted, but I was wrong. Florida was my saving grace. Heading into the Final Four I was the only person who had a team who could score more points.
There has been talk that the reward for picking a Final Four team or a team that wins it’s National Semi-Final game is too high. But, I don’t agree with that line of thinking. When people ask about your picks in the tournament they don’t ask “Who do you have winning in the first round?” They ask “Who’s your Final Four?” and “Who do you have winning it all?” So in my mind those picks are the most important ones, and should reflect that importance in the point value awarded for correct picks in that round. Thanks to all that participated in the First Annual Vigilante Sports NCAA Bracket Challenge. I would love to see if we can’t get a bunch more people for the Second Annual Vigilante Sports NCAA Bracket Challenge next year.
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Kendall, I call Shenanigans! Everyone get your pitchforks and brooms!
More points should be given for the near picks in the first round. Points should be given for picking a team that almost upsets it’s first round opponent. People shouldn’t be penalized for being stupid enough to have Pacific make the sweet 16. If an underdog takes a team to double ot, then that’s almost as good as a win…give that pick .75 points instead of none. Heck, it’s harder to pick all 32 first round games than pick 4 teams to get to the final four. Think about it. If you want LSU, UCLA, FLA and GMason as your final four all you need to do is pick those four teams to win 4 times…it doesn’t matter who they beat as long as they make the final four…what a crock! Every upset should be worth 10 pts if right, 7.5 if they almost one, and 5 pts even if they were blown out….or better yet, they points you get correlate to the seed of the team. That way your nefarious tactics of sliding in to the championship won’t be able to help!
Mike Bourke is a math teacher and basketball coach, and hence should know better. Ignore everything he just wrote because the only time he won anything in the bracket pool is when he won his money back for coming in dead last.