Thursday, April 03, 2008

Oh yeah...

I hadn't mentioned it before now, but I guess it should be pretty obvious that my advice regarding finishing out your NCAA bracket was exceedingly sound, it just didn't go far enough to be dreadfully useful in this crazy historic year.

To review:
Pick a Final Four that consists of 4 teams whose seeds add up to 10 or less
Well, 4 is definitely less than than 10. Within this piece of advice, I also advised picking 2 1 seeds to go to the Final Four. If you followed this advice, you got at least 2 Final Four teams right, which is a pretty solid showing. Of course, if you only picked 2 1 seeds, you ONLY got two Final Four teams correct. Chances are good there was someone in your pool who took at least 3 of the 1 seeds.

Don't pick a team seeded worse than 4th to make the Final Four
Again, words to live by, but this year, you needed to not pick anyone seeded worse than 1st

Pick a #1 seed to win the title
Clearly a 1 seed will win the title, so the only question is if you picked the right one.

So, all in all, I'm very comfortable with the framework I laid out for picking your bracket. Next year's edition will likely include a bit more emphasis on picking the favorites through the 2nd round, and will have the benefit of a more complete analysis of past results.



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