I-mockery Bracket Bunch 2011

[Colonel Flagg]

I fucking hate the Big 10.

[Colonel Flagg]

Losers.

[Esuohlim]

I sure am looking forward to dipping below 100 possible points before the second round is even over

[WhiteRat]

Originally Posted by WhiteRat

That's how it goes for me whenever I pick Syracuse to go far. They always lose in the first or second round.
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Every year I suffer. Why, Orange, why?

[Colonel Flagg]

Big East sucks too.

[Esuohlim]

Good GOD the Big East 11 teams and only Marquette and UConn are left after one goddamn weekend?

H8 MARCH MADNESS

[Babs]

VCU?

[WhiteRat]

How the fuck does FSU upset Notre Dame? Good god I go from having a pretty decent bracket to having my NC runner up losing, thus leaving me with only 1 Final Four team and one hell of a colossal nosedive in possible points. The pain won't end!

[Colonel Flagg]

I hereby announce I will never participate in March effing Madness again.

Ever.

Never ever EVER.

(until next year)

[Pentegarn]

At least you're honest

[Babs]

Purdue is always a bad choice, especially in the national

[Pentegarn]

They made it to the sweet sixteen the last 2 years running though. Not this year though

[Esuohlim]

Oh look there's more basketball going on today :whocares

[Tadao]

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose?

[executioneer]

guys why am i in first place

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Tadao

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose?

If you did we'd all be in a tie for first

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by executioneer

guys why am i in first place

You mean why is the randomizer you used for those picks winning?

[Pentegarn]

At least Duke bit it

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by MailCall

Okay. 'Bro fixed me up and I'm in. Then he made fun of my Duke prediction.

See why I stood by this?

Also, since you were the only living soul to know I originally picked Arizona in the Final Four then got cold feet about it, how much to you think I am kicking myself for changing it now?

[Colonel Flagg]

And now for something completely different ... I currently have no teams in the elite 8.

If you feel stupid, Pent, how the hell do you think I feel right about now?

[Colonel Flagg]

Now, if Kansas, OSU and UNC win tonight, then I still have a pulse.

[Colonel Flagg]

And UConn sucks ass. Although Lamb certainly has established himself as the "go to" guy in the clutch.

[Tadao]

Originally Posted by Tadao

Do I get points for predicting a team will lose?

Originally Posted by Pentegarn

If you did we'd all be in a tie for first

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by Tadao

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

Your last statement is correct - it doesn't count.

If you picked the losers instead of the winners, then you'd have to pick ALL the losers from the very beginning, and this would be an entirely different pool altogether. It might be fun to try it once (as a separate bracktbunch bracket?), to see who could come closest to obtaining zero points. Maybe next year ....

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Tadao

What I mean is that I predicted Florida to lose to Utah, instead it will be Florida vrs. Butler. If Florida loses to Butler I should still get points because I predicted that game is where the will be off the bracket. I doubt that counts though.

Oh serious question. I see.

No you have to have the winning team picked, so if you picked someone else to knock off Florida in that round, but they lost previously, you can't score points for the team that beat them doing so because you did not predict them getting there in the first place. That's why the further along your predictions are correct, the more points they are worth.