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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Basketball is hard => Topic started by: Stevesie60 on March 19, 2015, 11:14:20 AM
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Do you guys have a strategy you use when filling them out? This year I used three different strategies and I'm going to see which one scores the most points then use that strategy going forward.
1. Fill it out the second the bracket is released using the info you know.
2. Fill it out after the play-in games after you've heard everyone vomit up their talking points about the tournament.
3. Fill it out right before the tournament starts without thinking. Basically just using free flow.
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i used the last minute stream of consciousness method.
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All of those strategies sound about the same. :Ugh:
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I filled my bracket out as soon as it came out. Then switched to Ole Miss beating Xavier after the play in games.
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I just guess and try to have some upsets but not too many upsets.
CF3's FINAL FOUR:
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Michigan State <----- wow a 7 seed
Iowa State <--------- This team has "it"
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I feel out one bracket for all the groups I join in on. Also, I make my picks right away and I never make changes. I don't listen to the experts, I let my own eyes do the talking throughout the year. :gocho: <------- (we found the glasses!)
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I just do kenpom ratings every year
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I just guess and try to have some upsets but not too many upsets.
CF3's FINAL FOUR:
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Michigan State <----- wow a 7 seed
Iowa State <--------- This team has "it"
This is my Final Four as well. Wisky vs Iowa St. in the champ game for you?
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What I think will happen. What I want to happen. Four factors. It's a combo. All brackets are exactly the same.
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I feel out one bracket for all the groups I join in on. Also, I make my picks right away and I never make changes. I don't listen to the experts, I let my own eyes do the talking throughout the year. :gocho: <------- (we found the glasses!)
How does that make you fill?
Gonna win 'em all!
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I feel out one bracket for all the groups I join in on. Also, I make my picks right away and I never make changes. I don't listen to the experts, I let my own eyes do the talking throughout the year. :gocho: <------- (we found the glasses!)
How does that make you fill?
Gonna win 'em all!
Pretty great! :)
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Should have went with "Pretty grate"
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I just guess and try to have some upsets but not too many upsets.
CF3's FINAL FOUR:
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Michigan State <----- wow a 7 seed
Iowa State <--------- This team has "it"
This is my Final Four as well. Wisky vs Iowa St. in the champ game for you?
nope. ISU vs. Kentucky with Kentucky as champ. I just have a hunch its Kentucky's year!
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Iowa State can't even beat UAB in one half of college basketball omg you idiots :lol:
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Iowa State can't even beat UAB in one half of college basketball omg you idiots :lol:
I basically just guess
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Some brackets I just Kenpom it, and others I Kenpom (or some other 'expert') auto-fill and then tweak.
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I say I'm going to do this every year once by brackets totally suck after the first (second) round. I should just fill out my brackets going with "the gut". Then once it's done, go back and switch every single pick except 16-1 and 15-2, then continue filling it out like before. I swear one day this will work for me because I'll miss like 60% of the first round sometimes. Didn't do it again this year. We'll see how it turns out
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it would be helpful if you guys that are sharing your strategy would also share if you've ever won your bracket pool with your strategy, because wgaf about your losing strategy, not me
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it would be helpful if you guys that are sharing your strategy would also share if you've ever won your bracket pool with your strategy, because wgaf about your losing strategy, not me
process of elimination
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I've won a bracket using sagarin before kenpom was going
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New bracket strategy.......
#BURNITDOWN
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Wait, people actually use strategies to fill these out? :confused:
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Wait, people actually use strategies to fill these out? :confused:
My strategy is usually trying not to be BIGXII biased, failing, and like this year, paying for it.
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Wait, people actually use strategies to fill these out? :confused:
My strategy is usually trying not to be BIGXII biased, failing, and like this year, paying for it.
Same :(
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Wait, people actually use strategies to fill these out? :confused:
My strategy is usually trying not to be BIGXII biased, failing, and like this year, paying for it.
Same :(
Yes.
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I use to pick teams that made big runs in their conference tourney, cause they're usually hot at the time. However, that can back fire a lot. Because some of those teams are burned out. See Iowa State.
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There is no system that works year to year for upsets. It's almost completely random.
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I pick early upsets against teams that I think just aren't good enough to make the elite 8.
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Don't pick Villanova
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Welp
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:sdeek:
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:tsc:
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There is no system that works year to year for upsets. It's almost completely random.
I pick early upsets against teams that I think just aren't good enough to make the elite 8.
I do my bracket inside out and pick low seeds that I think are not going to the sweet 16 to get upset. If I don't think the high seed will win the pod I usually don't pick them to win the first game because why bother? This usually leads to poor scores in the round of 64 but like in our contest this season I have a very high points possible beyond the round of 64
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Wut? I couldn't have been the only person that got a notification from the ESPN bracket app this afternoon that stated the only perfect bracket picked Duke to win the championship.
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These could both be true?
Yes, KU would meet UK in the e8
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Wut? I couldn't have been the only person that got a notification from the ESPN bracket app this afternoon that stated the only perfect bracket picked Duke to win the championship.
He picked Duke to beat KU in the championship, 58-0 or something like that.
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Wut? I couldn't have been the only person that got a notification from the ESPN bracket app this afternoon that stated the only perfect bracket picked Duke to win the championship.
Wow. I can't believe I was considering your strategy to pick my bracket next year. Then I read this and have to say I am going to do the opposite.
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:facepalm: oof
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Welp, I'm done. I had Virginia in the 'ship.
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You should never fill out more than one bracket.
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You should never fill out more than one bracket.
Cheapens the bracket
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dobberjr erased and made changes and then looked at me like, :what: !!!
I love that kid.
Gonna win 'em all!