Bracket scoring system

[JBHolmesfan]

I'm curious as to which method you guys use/like the most. The one I'm in has 1 point for the first round, 2 points for 2nd round and upset bonus for those two rounds. For example, in the Georgia State game someone picked that and got 1 point plus an additional 11 point. (Lower seed-higher seed, 14-3=11). The points double each round. So correct picks get 1,2,4,8,16, and 32 points. I hate this scoring system. One guy figured it out and took his 8 Elite 8 teams and picked upsets in every single game. He's only gotten 8 picks correct and is up by 9 points.

I would be fine with either most correct picks, meaning each win is 1 point or do the escalating point system with no adding bonus. So my question is, what system do you like guys like/use?

 

[ColonelCatFan_rivals377704]

When I conducted the brackets at my work a few years ago, I used 1 pt for first rd, 2 pts for 2nd, etc, up to 6 pts for correctly picking the final game. In case of a tie, the total points scored in the final game would be used as I would have each person give a final pt total.

I guess you could make it as elaborate as you want to, but this system seemed to award the brackets which had the most game winners picked correctly, and would reward a bracket for having picked which teams advanced deeper into the tournament.

Best thing? NOBODY complained...ever

 

[mjj_2K]

Originally posted by ColonelCatFan:
When I conducted the brackets at my work a few years ago, I used 1 pt for first rd, 2 pts for 2nd, etc, up to 6 pts for correctly picking the final game. In case of a tie, the total points scored in the final game would be used as I would have each person give a final pt total.

I guess you could make it as elaborate as you want to, but this system seemed to award the brackets which had the most game winners picked correctly, and would reward a bracket for having picked which teams advanced deeper into the tournament.

Best thing? NOBODY complained...ever

I like that, but I would make it 1,2,3,4,6,8. You're still rewarding people for picking a lot of games correctly (32 points available in each of the 1st two rounds), but it's a little more balanced out by what's available in later rounds (24 for the Sweet 16 games, 16 for the Elite 8, 12 for the FF, 8 for picking the champ).

 

[JBHolmesfan]

Originally posted by mj2k10:

Originally posted by ColonelCatFan:
When I conducted the brackets at my work a few years ago, I used 1 pt for first rd, 2 pts for 2nd, etc, up to 6 pts for correctly picking the final game. In case of a tie, the total points scored in the final game would be used as I would have each person give a final pt total.

I guess you could make it as elaborate as you want to, but this system seemed to award the brackets which had the most game winners picked correctly, and would reward a bracket for having picked which teams advanced deeper into the tournament.

Best thing? NOBODY complained...ever

I like that, but I would make it 1,2,3,4,6,8. You're still rewarding people for picking a lot of games correctly (32 points available in each of the 1st two rounds), but it's a little more balanced out by what's available in later rounds (24 for the Sweet 16 games, 16 for the Elite 8, 12 for the FF, 8 for picking the champ).

I like both of those scoring systems. The ultimate goal of the brackets is to pick the perfect bracket. The scoring should reflect the person who was the closest to picking the perfect bracket, not who picked the most upsets.

 

[ColonelCatFan_rivals377704]

Agree JB. That's kinda the way I was thinking when I did it that way. Gave a reward for picking a team farther into the bracket, but took into account the fact that one had decent early picks as well.

But I can see mj's scoring system also. Not a bad way to do it...
This post was edited on 3/20 5:36 PM by ColonelCatFan