You know, EVERYONE loves the NCAA Tournament. The pageantry, the “anyone can beat anyone”
aspect, the 15 million times The Neon Trees needed to tell us that it did
indeed start with a whisper, etc etc etc.
All that means the REAL best week in basketball, Conference Tournament
Week or “Championship Week,” gets lost in the shuffle. Seriously, there’s no better week to go to Las
Vegas if you ask me, but I digress.
Here at Tourney Pools (using a business-type name makes this
sound official, right?), we have set a precedent of creating better ways to
“flex your college basketball acumen” than that lame old bracket pool in the
tournament itself. So it’s time to expand
to the next logical place – Championship Week!
Aren’t you excited?! No?! I don’t care, you will be.
The Rules
- · Participants each pick one team from each of the 8 conference tournaments specified below. Who you can pick will be based on seed in the tournament. Participants can pick only one 1 seed, 1 2 seed, 1 3 seed, 1… you get the idea. Here’s the conference tourneys we will be choosing from:
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ACC
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Big Ten (which has 12 teams)
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Big 12 (which has 10 teams – huh???)
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Big East
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SEC (had to throw a mid-major in right?)
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Pac-12
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A-10
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Mountain West
- · You may replace a better seeded team w/ a worse seeded team in your 8 team entry if you so choose. For example, if you do not like any 3 seeds in any conference tournament, you can replace your “3 seed” slot with any other team seeded 4 or higher. Likewise, this also means that teams higher than an 8 seed are eligible to be used in any slots. You wanna pick South Florida in the Big East? Go nuts.
- · If a conference has silly division rules where the seeding is based on those divisions, then Ken Pomeroy’s kenpom.com ratings (just go to www.kenpom.com) as of the start of the tournament will be used to determine who the better or worse seed is. For example, the SEC seeds East and West. This year, Florida will likely be the 1 seed in the east & Mizzou will likely be the 1 seed in the west. Since Florida is currently #1 in the KenPom ratings and Mizzou is #19, Florida will be considered the 1 seed & Mizzou will be considered the 2 seed. The contest moderators will post a list to the website (tourneypools.blogspot.com) to determine seedings like this for any of the counference tournaments with this format.
- · Scoring will be as follows:
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Championship win – 4 points
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Semifinal win – 3 points
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Quarterfinal win – 2 points
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“Quarterquarterfinal”? win – 1 point
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This scoring means that only four games maximum
will be counted. Sorry Big East, your
stupid Tuesday games don’t count. Only the
final four rounds of games of will count toward your point total.
Entry Fees &
Payouts
- · Buy-in price is $10
- · Multiple entries are allowed
- · Pool will be paid out 100%. The only way the moderators make money is if we are smart enough to beat you fools down. Which we aren’t. Seriously, we’ve never won money in any of our pools. I have no idea why we do this.
- · The number of places to be paid out and the allocation of the prize pool in those paid out places will be determined by the moderators once numbers are final and published before the end of the first day of the contest.
- · If you refer one or more friends/co-workers/hobos on the corner to the game, you will be entered in a side “referral” pot which is winner take all. The total in this pot will be equal to 25% of all the “referred” entry fees.
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Hey guys, if I buy two or more entries for
myself, it’ll be like I “referred myself”!
Does that get me in the referral pool too? Ugh, I guess you crazy bastard. But there’s a catch. If you have multiple entries, you must
designate one entry as your “referral pool entry” for its scoring. Sorry, you don’t get to overwhelm the
referral pool and buy yourself a better shot at it too.
- · In the event of a tie, participants will split any winnings evenly. I know I’m famous for my obtrusive tiebreaker rules – I’m taking the lazy way out until someone complains and I fix it next year.
Deadlines
- · All entries & $$$ must be submitted by Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 at 12 PM EDT
- · All entries should be emailed to tourneypools@gmail.com
- · $$$ can be sent in one of two ways
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You hand it to a moderator in cash or check form
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Send it via paypal to my account at pc30@evansville.edu – this is by far the
easiest method for all involved. If you
don’t have a paypal account, sign up for one.
I set up an experiment where I asked a dimwitted chimpanzee to sign up
for a paypal account, and it took the chimp 2 minutes and 28 seconds. I bet you can easily finish under 3
minutes. Or are you dumber than a
dimwitted chimpanzee? I don’t know, I guess
it’s possible.
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No IOU’s will be accepted. This isn’t a charity. Maybe when UNICEF gets into the tournament
pool business, you can go there and give them your IOU. Until then, we’re the guys to talk to.
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