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SkilletHead2

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Hey Guys,

I'm in a pool where you get to pick 10 teams. Each time one of your teams wins, you get the number of points as that team's seed.

Thus, if you pick a 12 and they win their first two games and then lose, you get 24 points.

Picking #1 or #2 seeds gets you very little. The key here is to pick lower teams that will win a couple.

So, who is out there who is a lower seed that could win a couple? Even a #7 winning two games is worth picking.

Any thoughts?

Skillet
 
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RutgHoops

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SkilletHead2 said:
Hey Guys,

I'm in a pool where you get to pick 10 teams. Each time one of your teams wins, you get the number of points as that team's seed.

Thus, if you pick a 12 and they win their first two games and then lose, you get 24 points.

Picking #1 or #2 seeds gets you very little. The key here is to pick lower teams that will win a couple.

So, who is out there who is a lower seed that could win a couple? Even a #7 winning two games is worth picking.

Any thoughts?

Skillet
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I have St Mary’s, Iowa State and Syracuse in my Sweet 16
 
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ruready4somefootball_rivals

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The pool I'm in is setup like a Super Bowl Box. You get a winning team # and a losing team #, and those are your numbers for all 63 games plus a 64 th chance with the Final game 1/2 time score. You can win multiple times as many do every year. Makes every game exciting. This year I have 3 boxes, Winning team 3,losing team 1, winning team 2 losing team 4, and winning team 1 losing team 9. Example final score of any game played is 83-81 or 63-51 I'd win in that box. So many games your sitting there hoping for the frontend of a 1 and 1 or you need a 3 and hope the other team makes 2 on the backend,just crazy watching games in this pool!!!
 
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ruready4somefootball said:
The pool I'm in is setup like a Super Bowl Box. You get a winning team # and a losing team #, and those are your numbers for all 63 games plus a 64 th chance with the Final game 1/2 time score. You can win multiple times as many do every year. Makes every game exciting. This year I have 3 boxes, Winning team 3,losing team 1, winning team 2 losing team 4, and winning team 1 losing team 9. Example final score of any game played is 83-81 or 63-51 I'd win in that box. So many games your sitting there hoping for the frontend of a 1 and 1 or you need a 3 and hope the other team makes 2 on the backend,just crazy watching games in this pool!!!
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I’ve been in this type of pool for years. Best thing is once my bracket is busted I still have a way to win
 
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SkilletHead2 said:
Hey Guys,

I'm in a pool where you get to pick 10 teams. Each time one of your teams wins, you get the number of points as that team's seed.

Thus, if you pick a 12 and they win their first two games and then lose, you get 24 points.

Picking #1 or #2 seeds gets you very little. The key here is to pick lower teams that will win a couple.

So, who is out there who is a lower seed that could win a couple? Even a #7 winning two games is worth picking.

Any thoughts?

Skillet
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Uc Irvine, Murray State,Florida, Oregon, New Mexico State can win a game. Heck even Yale can win one .Good luck.
 
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ruready4somefootball said:
The pool I'm in is setup like a Super Bowl Box. You get a winning team # and a losing team #, and those are your numbers for all 63 games plus a 64 th chance with the Final game 1/2 time score. You can win multiple times as many do every year. Makes every game exciting. This year I have 3 boxes, Winning team 3,losing team 1, winning team 2 losing team 4, and winning team 1 losing team 9. Example final score of any game played is 83-81 or 63-51 I'd win in that box. So many games your sitting there hoping for the frontend of a 1 and 1 or you need a 3 and hope the other team makes 2 on the backend,just crazy watching games in this pool!!!
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I am also in a similar pool for about 5 years. It is a lot of fun.

It started as a $50 box pool and was very successful so he added a $100 box pool. That one filled quickly so now he runs a $200 pool too. Our numbers suck this year. $200 is 2-2, $100 is 1-0, $50 is 3-3 ......sheesh. Obviously, there are a bunch of us that split the boxes......that's a lot of $$$$$.
 
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Greene Rice FIG

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Instead of weighting them 1 thru 16 why don't they just make it like 3 thru 18 or 4 thru 19. Silly to take 1 and 2 seeds and throw them out...

Just take seed +2 or seed +3 for every win.
 
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ruready4somefootball said:
The pool I'm in is setup like a Super Bowl Box. You get a winning team # and a losing team #, and those are your numbers for all 63 games plus a 64 th chance with the Final game 1/2 time score. You can win multiple times as many do every year. Makes every game exciting. This year I have 3 boxes, Winning team 3,losing team 1, winning team 2 losing team 4, and winning team 1 losing team 9. Example final score of any game played is 83-81 or 63-51 I'd win in that box. So many games your sitting there hoping for the frontend of a 1 and 1 or you need a 3 and hope the other team makes 2 on the backend,just crazy watching games in this pool!!!
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I know a guy that runs same type of pool from Freehold
 
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If you have a Reddit account, check this contest out:

Goal is to come up with correct answers to questions like "Name a player who will record a double-double during the tournament" but you score more points if fewer people also select your answer. So you can take Zion and he'll do it but probably a lot of others will too.
 
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SkilletHead2

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RutgHoops said:
If you know which two that would help! :sunglasses:
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Actually, in the pool I'm in, it doesn't matter. I get to pick 10 teams. Other people can pick these teams as well. You just have to have a unique set of 10 (first person in with that set gets it -- don't believe there has ever been identical sets and we've been doing this for about 6-8 years).

As for the top teams not getting picked (another post), who cares? This is about picking the teams that are underrated in the pool.

And THANKS for the help. I did this last year and followed the suggestions that were made. Finished 18th out of 22.
 
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I'm in a similar pool, accumulating points based on seed number. You pick one team in each of the four brackets plus one wildcard team. Also a final championship game point total for the tiebreaker.

For the heck of it, I'll post my picks in a bit.

Edit... Here goes. Two "pending" entries:

#1. Maryland 6; Washington 9; Murray St. 12; Oklahoma 9; WC: Louisville 7

#2. Miss St. 5; Ohio St. 11; Syracuse 8; Oregon 12; WC: Cincinnati 7.
 
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RUinPinehurst said:
I'm in a similar pool, accumulating points based on seed number. You pick one team in each of the four brackets plus one wildcard team. Also a final championship game point total for the tiebreaker.

For the heck of it, I'll post my picks in a bit.

Edit... Here goes. Two "pending" entries:

#1. Maryland 6; Washington 9; Murray St. 12; Oklahoma 9; WC: Louisville 7

#2. Miss St. 5; Ohio St. 11; Syracuse 8; Oregon 12; WC: Cincinnati 7.
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So... after further analysis and careful "strategerification," here is what I submitted to a "Seed Pool":

Entry #1:
Eastern: Maryland (6)
Midwest: Washington (9)
West: Murray State (12)
South: UC-Irvine (13)
Wildcard: Oregon (12)
Tiebreaker: 141

Entry #2:
Eastern: Belmont (11)
Midwest: New Mexico St. (12)
West: Syracuse (8)
South: Oregon (12)
Wildcard: Florida State (4)
Tiebreaker: 142
 
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RUinPinehurst

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RUinPinehurst said:
So... after further analysis and careful "strategerification," here is what I submitted to a "Seed Pool":

Entry #1:
Eastern: Maryland (6)
Midwest: Washington (9)
West: Murray State (12)
South: UC-Irvine (13)
Wildcard: Oregon (12)
Tiebreaker: 141

Entry #2:
Eastern: Belmont (11)
Midwest: New Mexico St. (12)
West: Syracuse (8)
South: Oregon (12)
Wildcard: Florida State (4)
Tiebreaker: 142
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Entry #1 is in First Place and looking good. All teams won! Woooo Hoooooo!!!
 
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RUinPinehurst

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RUtrumpet92 said:
Congrats! I think Washington is done now but the others all have a chance to add to your score.
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The lifeguard tells me the only threat to me is if Liberty wins another game, and even then, next closest entry needs some additional "help."

Go Terps!
 
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RUinPinehurst

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Hah! Auburn beating Kentucky busted me. "If" UK won, I would have taken the pool. Damn those Tigers!
 
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goru7

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goru7 said:
Uc Irvine, Murray State,Florida, Oregon, New Mexico State can win a game. Heck even Yale can win one .Good luck.
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Skillethead? Did you take my suggestions ? If so, how did you do?
 
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