Brent Nyitray
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Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
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ScottC
yellojktAnybody interested in doing an ATiM pool for the NCAA basketball tourney (men’s, women’s, or both)? If so, what rules would you propose? What procedures? Money involved?
Funny, I’m not sure how many basketball fans are on this board. But I do know that lots of folks who aren’t particularly even fans enjoy entering a tourney pool. There’s something enticing about filling out that bracket.
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All Things in Moderation 
I’m in–Michigan State for the win. This is our year (again); just tell me where to send the $$$$$.
Or is this part of MsJS’s get-away? Even better!!!!
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I usually enter either the CBS or the Yahoo online poos and the let people form their own pools. I would love to take a chance.
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I’m in, but I need to study first otherwise I’ll just be the mark as I’m not a basketball fan. No advice please, I don’t trust any of you with my money…….period.
And it’s our little guys 6th birthday today………Happy Birthday buddy…………….
[Edit]…..I forgot to tell y’all that I sent him a link to this and told him he made the daily news and a lot of really important people saw his picture………….haaaaaahaaaaaa.
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Cute kid, LMS. Happy Birthday.
I’m in – men only for me, unless women’s bracket is mandatory. I can pick the women’s winner.
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I’m in.
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I’m in. And since we’re on a sports topic: Good win for the men’s US Soccer team versus Italy!
Here’s the goal by Clint Dempsey.
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Basketball? Is that a ball shaped like a basket or a basket shaped like a ball?
And why isn’t a football shaped like a foot? Is a baseball really base? Curious minds want to know.
I’m in. My preference is men’s hoops only. I’d be willing to:
1) Set up the group in Yahoo!
2) Design an ATiM plaque for the winner.
Let me know.
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What a cutie, lms!
I’d also say limit it to men’s hoops (MSU! MSU! MSU!).
Do pets get to play? My cat picked a bracket one year (through a long and drawn-out process that I’m not going to repeat again) that really PO-ed one of the *ahem* serious members of our pool because she won. He refused to participate the next year if any “non-primates” (as he put it) were allowed to pick brackets… that year we ended up with about six dogs and two cats in the pool. 🙂
We aren’t terribly serious about our brackets in that pool.
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ashot:
Unbelievable win for the US MNT at Italy. Did you watch? Michael Bradley was a beast. And that was a sweet play by Jozy setting up Deuce.
Can’t wait for the start of World Cup qualifying — first match is here in Tampa against Antigua. June, baby.
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Mike:
Sadly I only saw highlights But both Bradley and Edu were beasts. Fabian Johnson was a pleasant surprise, too.
I need to look at the qualifying schedule and see if they are going to be in Chicago or Columbus. I saw the US beat Honduras at soldier field a few years ago and it was a blast. It paled in comparison to seeing US v. Switzerland at the Silverdome in the 1994 World Cup, but I’ll take it.
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ashot:
The two home matches after Antigua are Jamaica (9/11) and Guatemala (10/16), but the venues haven’t been selected yet.
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I was born in Emporia, Kansas, and my parents met at KU. I bleed Jayhawk blue in the spring (and Cornhusker red in the fall). I’m in.
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fb:
Ah, the Jayhawks featured prominently in my favorite NCAA moment of all time.
(I bleed orange all year round.)
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I was at Buck Mulligan’s in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, watching that game. Hurt almost as much as Nebraska missing the 2 point conversion against Miami in 1984.
Fortunately, Kansas won the title in 2009, beating Roy Williams’ (traitor!) North Carolina team and having an improbable comeback against Memphis that they couldn’t quite do against Syracuse. My future office mate as a CUSE03 plate on his car.
Tom Osborne had to wait another 11 years for his national title. It was gratifying that it came against a Miami team.
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fb:
Hurt almost as much as Nebraska missing the 2 point conversion against Miami in 1984.
I feel your pain.
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OK, looks like it’s a go.
Anyone mind if I set up the group in Yahoo! ?? I will then post the link in a separate post here at ATiM on March 12, with instructions on how to set up your picks.
The bracket will cover just the ‘final 64’ men’s teams. None of the pre-qualifying nonsense. You fill in the entire bracket, including your thoughts on the score of the final game, before tip-off on March 15.
Unless folks reeeeeeeeally want $$$ involved, I’ll make a nice plaque for the winner.
Contest open to ATiM’ers and their families. I’ll leave it to you to determine whether non-humans are part of your family.
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OK, looks like it’s a go.
Great! I look forward to losing to someone’s dog or cat.
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ashot, DogJS is glad to hear it.
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ashot, DogJS is glad to hear it.
Ha…I wouldn’t write off ThoroughbredAshot, though. He has a keen basketball mind.
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Game on!
PS – we don’t fill in the brackets until after the teams have been selected. Filling in empty brackets would be the real challenge, now, wouldn’t it? – Mark
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msjs, a HUGE “thank you” from me for doing this.
I haven’t played on yahoo before, so I poked around looking at their rules, scoring, etc. On scoring, they apparently have a couple of types of bonus points for underdog picks that win — “Upset Pick Bonus” and “Seed Difference Bonus.” See scoring rules here. I would be interested in using the Upset Pick Bonus but not sure I understand the Seed Difference Bonus (at a glance it looks like it might allow for a really big swing in results). Anybody else on board with any bonus scoring? Actually, I’m good with whatever msjs sets up.
And I’m all for as many entries as anybody wants to take the time to do, primate or not. Unfortunately, my boy dog is not the sharpest crayon so I am not looking to him for any help here. But I have three other nonprimates in my household and they’re pretty smart.
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My preferred scoring in Yahoo! is the default scoring with a Seed Difference Bonus multiplier of 2.
Default scoring:
1st round: 1 pt. for each correct pick.
2nd round: 2 pts.
Regional Semis: 4 pts.
Regional Finals: 8 pts.
Semis: 16 pts.
Final: 32 pts.
In addition to this, the Seed Difference Bonus awards more points for upsets. If the winner is lower-ranked than the loser, the formula is:
(seed of winner – seed of loser) x multiplier
So if a number 11 seed beats a number 6 seed, you get (11-6)x2=10 extra points.
This system awards riskier players.
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Ah, Scott, sorry i missed that one. My office mate at NRL has a license plate reading Cuse 04.
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