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Soooooo....May/June Madness contest anyone?

DawgatAuburn

DawgatAuburn

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Everything is more fun when there's a little action on it, right? I've never seen a baseball bracket contest before although I'm sure it's widely done. If there is any interest, I'll put a little game together. Here's what I am thinking. Suggestions welcome.

10 pts for regional winner (160 max)
5 pts for regional runner up (80 max)
REGIONAL MAX: 240

30 points for Super Regional winner
SUPER REGIONAL MAX: 240

CWS Bracket 1 winner 80
CWS Bracket 2 winner 80
CWS Bracket 1 runner up 40
CWS Bracket 2 runner up 40
BRACKET PLAY (or whatever its called) MAX: 240

CWS Champion: 160
CWS Runner up: 80
CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND MAX: 240

OVERALL 960 MAX

If at least 10 people reply to this and want to play, I'll set something up in google forms for you to enter picks. All money would need to be sent to me, preferably via paypal, before games start. All picks close when the first game starts. Tiebreaker is most points earned in latest rounds and working backwards (Champion, runner up, pool play, etc). Winner take all unless there are maybe 20-25 entries, then 75/25.
 
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DawgatAuburn

DawgatAuburn

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OK I think it's ready. (link)

Here's the link: http://goo.gl/forms/Xrk3jSAy542Nh8Xw1

You should be able to go through here and select your winners. It's not a traditional bracket setup - just a bunch of dropdowns. For the Regionals and Super Regionals you have every team listed as an option. When you get into CWS play, the only listed options are all the 1 and 2 seeds from that side of the bracket. If you have a 3 or 4 seed in the CWS and want to advance them, just enter their name in the "Other" block. On the final form where you pick your champion and runner up, you will have to manually enter those two teams. I was tired of typing names, so sue me. Obviously you would use the two teams you picked from the previous form. Perhaps a different survey product would have let me narrow down the choices as you went along. But Google forms was easy enough to set up. Also forgive the plain looking setup. You get what you pay for.

A few ground rules.
1. I think games start at 11 on Friday so picks must be in by then. I'm turning it off at that time.

2. Payment should also be made by then. Ten bucks to my paypal - dawgatauburn @ gmail .com. Please make sure you use the link that says Send money to Friends and Family. If you don't, then PayPal thinks you are buying something and takes out fees. If that happens, I will reject your payment and you will have to do it the other way. Then the rejected payment is tied up in your account for a while. SO DO IT RIGHT. If you don't have paypal, find a friend who does or in special cases (meaning that I am feeling nice), I would let you send me a check.
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3. Since I have the ability to see all picks as they come in, I will post all my picks today and won't edit them unless major news breaks (Puk and Shore suspended! Boomer White missing with Manziel! Something like that.). You will have the ability to edit your picks until I turn the form off on Friday morning. Sometime on Friday I will post everyone's picks.
******The alternative to this is I will investigate giving everyone the ability to see picks as they come in.

4. In the unlikely event of a tie, the tiebreaker is picking the correct champion, then the highest number of finalists, then the highest number of "Final Four", then the number of CWS teams, then Super Regional Participants. Basically working backwards.

5. For 10 or fewer entries, winner take all. For 11 or more, 75/25.


Please let me know in this thread if you encounter any problems and I will try to fix them as time allows.
 
dawgstudent

dawgstudent

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D1 Baseball has a bracket challenge. I don't know if you can make private groups.
 
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fishwater99

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Better get the $$ upfront..

I never got paid all that I won from that SEC basketball tourney contest years ago..

GL
 
dawgstudent

dawgstudent

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We always have a rule when I used to do a college football pick'em - if you didn't pay by day 1 - you were kicked out.
 
DawgatAuburn

DawgatAuburn

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Nine brackets are in, seven have paid. You have until around 11 to get your entry submitted.
 
DawgatAuburn

DawgatAuburn

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Not sure. Send me your changes via email and I will make them. Timestamp on the email before 11:30 please.
 
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Hump4Hoops

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You have my money and my terrible picks.

I chose to "edit" right after I submitted, then when I went though (and changed nothing) it resubmitted.. so, if you got mine twice, sorry.
 
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